action painter
- a word derived from action painting.
Example Sentences
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She even flicked on the wrinkly tights like an action painter.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2020
Thursday’s program will celebrate the action painter and festival fixture Jeff Schlanger, with musicians including the multireedist Peter Brötzmann with William Parker on bass and Hamid Drake on drums.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
Freckle-faced Joyce Treiman hurls herself at canvas with the intuitive abandon of an action painter, piling on pigment in swooshes and swirls.
From Time Magazine Archive
His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Convinced that "art school makes you think rather than feel," Chadwick taught himself, and approaches his art much as an action painter would.
From Time Magazine Archive
