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Art Glossary: Action Painting

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Definition: 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.
Also Known As: tachisme

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