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  2. Jackson Pollock - Wikipedia

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    Paul Jackson Pollock (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə k /; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter.A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.

  3. Action painting - Wikipedia

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    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 often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.

  4. Drip painting - Wikipedia

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    Drip painting is a form of art, often abstract art, in which paint is dripped or poured on to the canvas. [1] This style of action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as Francis Picabia , André Masson and Max Ernst , who employed drip painting in his works The Bewildered Planet , and Young ...

  5. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) - Wikipedia

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    Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is a 1950 abstract expressionist painting by American artist Jackson Pollock in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [1] The work is a distinguished example of Pollock's 1947-52 poured-painting style, and is often considered one of his most notable works. [1] [2]

  6. Spray painting - Wikipedia

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    Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface. The most common types employ compressed gas—usually air —to atomize and direct the paint particles.

  7. Wet-on-wet - Wikipedia

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    Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), direct painting or au premier coup, [1] is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint.

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    The other color was orange, and we went with orange because green is a keyable color," Nash says, explaining that green-screens often used for backgrounds at that time were blue or, well, green ...

  9. All-over painting - Wikipedia

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    All-over painting refers to the non-differential treatment of the surface of a work of two-dimensional art, for instance a painting. This concept is most popularly thought of as emerging in relation to the so-called "drip" paintings of Jackson Pollock and the "automatic writing" or "abstract calligraphy" of Mark Tobey in the 1950s, though the applicability of the term all-over painting would ...