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Thursday, May 11, 2006

DEFINITION: ACTION ART


An Abstract Expressionist style of painting, widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, where paint is dripped, dropped, smeared, spattered, or thrown on the canvas. The term was first used about Jackson Pollock's work.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_painting


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