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WD_160/ 2005
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 2 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 25 x 19.9 | | Size (mm): | 640 x 510 | | Catalog #: | WD_0160 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Action drawing:
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Action painting:
In abstract art, a form of abstract expressionism that emphasized the importance of the physical act of painting. It became widespread in the 1950s and 1960s. Jackson Pollock, the leading exponent, threw, dripped, and dribbled paint onto canvases fastened to the floor. He was known to attack his canvas with knives and trowels and bicycle over it. Another principal action artist was Willem de Kooning.
The term ‘action painting’ was first used by US art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952. Tachisme, another term for action painting, comes from the French tacher, meaning ‘to stain’ or ‘to spot’.
Tachisme:
French style of abstract painting current in the 1940s and 1950s, the European equivalent to abstract expressionism. Breaking free from the restraints of cubism, the Tachistes adopted a novel, spontaneous approach to brushwork, typified by all-over blotches of impastoed colour and dribbled paint, or swirling calligraphy applied straight from the tube, as in the work of Georges Mathieu. The terms L’Art Informel, meaning gestural or action painting, and abstraction lyrique (‘lyrical abstraction’) are also used to describe the style.
Other prominent Tachistes were the German-born painters Hans Hartung (1904–1989) and A O Wolfgang Schulze Wols (1913–1951). The US abstract painter Sam Francis was greatly influenced by the style.
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Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978), Author, critic.
The most vocal proponent of the Abstract Expressionist movement and the originator of the term "action painting," Harold Rosenberg was renowned for his fiercely intellectual criticism on art, politics, and society. He considered Abstract Expressionism "the most vigorous and original movement in art in the history of this nation." Locating the work of art's supreme value in the act of creation, Rosenberg positioned himself squarely opposite the formalist critic Clement Greenberg. His 1952 article for ARTnews, entitled "The American Action Painters," was adopted as Abstract Expressionism's manifesto and had a profound effect on the artistic landscape of 1950s New York.
Rosenberg was a lifelong friend of Abstract Expressionists Willem and Elaine de Kooning. If Willem was "the king of art" for Rosenberg the singular genius against whom all others were measured then Elaine was his educator, the person who taught him how to develop his eye. Rosenberg and Elaine de Kooning shared a relationship that was stimulated by involved intellectual conversations and debates on artistic theory. Her energetically painted portrait of him merges portraiture's demand for likeness with Abstract Expressionism's demand for intuitively created surfaces.
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Color-field painting, abstract art movement that originated in the 1960s.
Coming after the abstract expressionism of the 1950s, color-field painting represents a sharp change from the earlier movement. The production of the abstract expressionists involved a strong personal emotionalism, a painterly quality, and occasionally, as in the works of Willem de Kooning, elements of cubism. Color-field artists moved toward a more impersonal and austerely intellectual aesthetic. In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal elements of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas of color; flat, two-dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape of the canvas itself. Painters associated with the movement include Ellsworth Kelly, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, and Morris Louis.
*From Encyclopedia/ The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/
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