Usually means: Expressive, spontaneous brushwork; emotional intensity.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word action painting:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. action painting: Merriam-Webster
  2. action painting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. action painting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. action painting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. action painting: Vocabulary.com
  6. action painting: Wiktionary
  7. action painting: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. action painting: Dictionary.com
  9. Action Painting, Action painting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Action painting: Rhymezone
  11. action painting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. action painting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. action painting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. action painting: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Action Painting: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. action painting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (action painting)

noun:  (art, uncountable) 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.
noun:  (art, countable) A painting produced in this style.

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