Action Paintings

Action Painting is where the paint is dabbled, splashed, or smeared onto the canvas spontaneously. This kind of painting is sometimes called gestural abstraction. Most Art is carefully applied to the canvas or what ever the art might be, but this special type of art doesn't.

Some of these Painters who are action painters, don't even use brushes. Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese artist, used animals or insects to as his tools to apply the paint. In the bottome picture was one of them. He used a maggot and covered him in paint placed them on the canvas and he watched them crawl around.

Action Painting in itself emphazises the point of the physical act of painting and that, that is the essential part of the artists concern and the end result.

Action Painting was very popluar in the 1940s until the early 1960s. It was mostly a product of World War II because of expressionism when all the quantum mechanics started to arise.

Some of the most well known of these action painters are Jackson Pollock, Jack Tworkov, Franz Cline, Albert Kotin, and many others.




Through these Action Paintings we see the most expression. The Expression and art from the mind.