The Role of the Audience in Action Painting

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Pushpakanthan PakkiyarajahFollow

Document Type

Poster

Language

English

Date

Summer 8-7-2020

Keywords

action painting, gestural-abstraction, Jackson Pollack

Description/Abstract

This poster explores the role of the audience in 'action painting', examining how this painting style's emphasizes the artist's movement and the spectator's engagement with it destabilizes the work of art itself.

Disciplines

Art Practice | Arts and Humanities

Funder(s)

Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State

Funding ID

S-ECAGD-20-CA-0009

Acknowledgements

Instructors: Deborah McGraw, Jacqueline Schneider

Recommended Citation

Pakkiyarajah, Pushpakanthan, "The Role of the Audience in Action Painting" (2020). International Programs. 107.
https://surface.syr.edu/eli/107

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Additional Information

This work has been created with support from the Institute of International Education (IIE)/Fulbright - English for Graduate Students Program.

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