Painting action

The Action Painting represents “painting of action literally” or “gestural painting”, indicates as well a technique as a pictorial movement. It is an art abstait. This term was proposed in 1952 by the critic American, Harold Rosenberg, to characterize the importance of the gestuality in the work of certain artists abstract expressionnists.

Characteristics

This artistic attitude privileges the physical act to paint , all suggestions figurative are then isolated: the artists carry out these abstract works by painting, draining or projecting color on the fabric. The structure of the table results from the intuition of the artist but also of the various behaviors of the color (run-outs…) Vital energy and psyché which animates the body of the painter constitute the engine, the resource and the direction of work. To paint then seems a moment of existence unwise and instinctual. Work is a testimony of the alive body, in action and in the moment.

Kline uses fragments of its own drawings which it increases and defers on large sizes. It privileges with its broad brushes the contrast of the black and of the white creating of monumental and constructed works bands of painting which cross and intersect.

De Kooning, as for him, demolishes traditional reasons in a chamarée environment, exploiting the opposition melts/form.

Pollock works with a pasted painting where the signs, the symbols reabsorb in an impetuous matter. Pollock is famous for its drippings: it spreads out the fabrics with same the ground to project painting with perforated sticks or pots. Work then does not have any more a privileged center or points.

The fabric becomes “an arena where to act”, where the field of unconscious plays a crucial role.

Its artists

The most outstanding painters of this movement were:

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is certainly the principal figure of this artistic movement. It uses a form of the Action Painting, the technique of the “Dripping”, technique in which the color is égoutée in a random way on a fabric posed with very the ground.
Willem De Kooning (1904-1997) painter par excellence of the abstracted expressionnism, will walk some of the way like Pollock its short period of way in the Painting Action.
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Elaine Hamilton (1920)
Grégory Berben, known as Gébé (1974-)

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