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Definition of Action painting
1. Noun. A New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles.
Definition of Action painting
1. Noun. (arts) A genre of modern art in which the paint is dribbled, splashed or poured onto the canvas to obtain a spontaneous and totally abstract image ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Action Painting
Literary usage of Action painting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artworks for Kids: Grades 1-6 by Evans Joy (2001)
"What is the best part of action painting? Discuss how feelings can be expressed
... Vocabulary abstract action painting contrast Materials • large paper at ..."
2. Herder's Relation to the Aesthetic Theory of His Time: A Contribution Based by Malcolm Howard Dewey (1920)
"Because it could express action, painting, which was practically ignored by
Lessing, was given a large place. "It (painting) has a drama of figures; ..."
3. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"... though not equal to that of theatrical action. Painting seems to possess a
middle place between reading and acting: in making an impression of ideal ..."
4. The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application by Adams Sherman Hill (1891)
"... but cannot represent action. Painting and sculpture, as they address the eye
only, are subject to the limitations to which the eye is subject, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Sometimes the artisan was satisfied to use a cement or superficial action, painting
the surface of silver in gold or the surface of copper in silver, ..."
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