William Green Action Painter

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The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist. Other artists produced action paintings often employing quite unconventional techniques. The british painter william green for example rode a bicycle over his canvas while one of the gutai group in japan painted with his feet as he hung from a rope. William green 1934 28 january 2001 was an artist who achieved attention in the late 1950s as a practitioner of action painting his work became known following a documentary film featuring his creation paintings by riding a bicycle over a surface saturated with bitumen from about 1965 green withdrew from the art scene as a reaction to negative publicity.

Each weekend book tv features 48 hours of nonfiction books from saturday 8am et to monday 8am et. Filmed by ken russell and pathé news while still a student at the royal college of art green was seen making action paintings by hurling bitumen and paraffin at a primed sheet of board before cycling across the picture skidding over it in plimsolls and finally scorching the surface with fire. William green was described in 1958 as our beat painter who became a world wide scoop. We invite your comments about our web site our television programming and any books you want to.

He is sat at a desk in his studio with various paint pots and cans. M s of 23 year old artist william green a student at the royal college of art. He follows the school of action painting where anything can be used to create a picture. His actions were filmed by ken russell for the bbc establishing him as a pioneer of auto destructive art.

He pours some liquid paraffin into a pot of black bitumen and stirs it with a stick. Action painting sometimes called gestural abstraction is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled splashed or smeared onto the canvas rather than being carefully applied. Critics were divided over the worth and purpose of this movement as for every pollock there. He is sat at a desk in his.

He follows the school of action painting where anything can be used to create a picture.