KnowraAction paintingLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Action painting, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 4Related 4Compared with 4Abstract ExpressionismBroader topic: It names the gestural approach associated with Pollock and de Kooning.Color field paintingCompared with: It emphasizes painterly gesture where color field painting often minimizes it.Jackson PollockRelated: Pollock’s energetic process became a defining example of painting as bodily action.Hard-edge paintingCompared with: Its energetic marks foreground process, while hard-edge painting suppresses the trace of the hand.Gestural abstractionBroader topic: It makes the act of painting itself the central subject.Color fieldCompared with: Its visible brushwork contrasts with color-field painting’s emphasis on broad expanses of color.Surrealist automatismRelated: Its visible bodily spontaneity resembles automatist drawing, though its aims and context differ.Non-objective artBroader topic: It turns the making of a non-objective image into part of its content.Willem de KooningRelated: De Kooning’s forceful strokes make the act of painting visible in the finished work.Harold RosenbergBroader topic: Rosenberg coined this term for the event-like painting practiced by postwar American artists.Allan KaprowRelated: Kaprow connected the bodily energy of action painting to events beyond the canvas.Post-painterly abstractionCompared with: Its dramatic brushwork exemplifies the approach post-painterly artists sought to avoid.