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We are very pleased with the beautiful Exterior Paint Job that Az Action Painting Co. Did on our home in July!! Workers arrived early as expected and went right to work and did a great job! Their process, involved splashing, using gestural brushstrokes and dripping paint onto canvas rather than carefully applying it. The term 'action painting' was coined by Harold Rosenberg in his groundbreaking article The American Action Painters published in ARTnews in December 1952. Rosenberg was referring to artists such as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Our website provides a free download of Action Painting Pro 1.0 for Mac. Commonly, this program's installer has the following filename: actionpaintingpromacv1.zip. The most popular version among Action Painting Pro for Mac users is 1.0. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is Ian MacLarty.

The Action Painters

The technique utilized by action painters was to work instinctively and quickly, using intuitive gestures to make bold marks on the canvas. Often their gestures resulted in drips, sprays and seemingly extraneous applications of medium to the surface. Though some called those extra marks accidents, the Action painters rejected the idea of accidents, asserting that their actions and their choices resulted in every mark made.

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Rosenberg believed that for Action Painters, their canvases were recordings of moments that occurred in their lives. He believed the creative acts of these painters were existential struggles and that the painted canvases were not the story. The existential struggle was the story. The action was the story. The painting was a beautiful relic. Rosenberg successfully argued that their intensely physical gestures and primal connection to subconscious vicissitudes simultaneously expressed individuality and universal humanity.

Jackson Pollock - Number 32, 1950, Oil on canvas, 457.5 x 269 cm, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, © Jackson Polllock

Different Strokes

The biggest names in first generation Action Painting each developed a unique aesthetic voice, resulting from a highly individualized way of connecting with the canvas. The most famous was Jackson Pollock’s drip technique, in which he would not make direct contact with the canvas, but would rather hover his painting tool just above the surface, directing the paint through momentum and gravity rather than contact.

Driven by the same instinctive approach, the painter Franz Kline developed a much different Action Painting technique, utilizing large house-painting brushes and cheap house paint to make wide, confident marks across the surfaces of his works. Kline’s technique resulted in bold, confident, gestural statements unlike anything his contemporaries were making. His works are iconic of the method, and expressive of a fantastic range of energy and emotion.

Franz Kline - The Ballantine, 1958-1960, Oil on canvas, 72 × 72 in. (182.88 × 182.88 cm), © Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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The legacy of Action Painting continues to influence contemporary artists, who continue using the methodologies of instinct and physicality in order to express their individuality as it relates to the common humanity of our times. One particularly successful example of which would be Jaanika Peerna. Peerna’s medium is graphite and her surface is Mylar. The work she makes is instinctive, fast, and incorporates her entire body in a fluid gesture.

Peerna likens the movements she makes in the creation of her paintings to the motion of water, in particular evoking a storm surge. To execute her works, she holds a bunch of pencils in each hand and then connects the tips of the pencils to the surface of the Mylar. Then in a fluid, sweeping motion of her entire body, she executes a gesture across the surface. The movement results in a confident, intuitive mark across the surface that is a recording of a single natural event in time.

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Expectations imprison artists. Perhaps that’s why among artists, action painters seem to be the most liberated. They benefit from Abstraction’s destruction of all expectations of what painters should paint, and as such are safe from the prison of content. And they further freed themselves from the limitations of what a painting is, by expanding the concept of a painting from a surface on which something is painted to a realm in which something occurs and is recorded in marks.

All images used for illustrative purposes only