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action painter

  • a word derived from action painting.
    action painting
    noun
    a style of American abstract expressionist painting typified especially in the works of Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s, in which the furiously energetic and free application of the paint is seen as being expressive of the psychological and emotional state of the artist at the moment of creation.

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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

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

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

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