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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

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

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