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
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
Pierre Bonnard called himself "the last impressionist," but in the throes of creation he was more like the first action painter.
From Time Magazine Archive
To recapture timelessness in a modern idiom, Samant works spontaneously like an action painter, performing with his passionate pastel colors in such fast-drying media as spackle and plastic wood.
From Time Magazine Archive
