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Action painting

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Action painting is a term first used by the American critic Harold ROSENBERG in an article in 1952. He had the painting of Willem DE KOONING especially in mind, with the idea that the work was itself a permanent record of the action, or process, of painting. Soon the term was used more or less interchangeably with abstract EXPRESSIONISM, although usually linked with the "gestural" abstract expressionists, such as Jackson POLLOCK and Hans HOFMANN, as well as de Kooning.

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