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Action painting Moderate

Action painting has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles

2

A genre of modern art in which the paint is dribbled, splashed or poured onto the canvas to obtain a spontaneous and totally abstract image.

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artistic movement
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