Art: Action Painting

From Wikipedia:

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work emphasizes the physical act of painting itself.

The preceding art of Kandinsky and Mondrian had attempted to detract itself from the portrayal of objects and instead tried to tingle and tantalize the emotions of the viewer. Action Art took this a step further, using Freud’s ideas of the subconscious as its underlying foundations.

Category: Art