Editing Performance art (section)

===Action painting===
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the action painting technique or movement gave artists the possibility of interpreting the canvas as an area to act in, rendering the paintings as traces of the artist's performance in the studio <ref name="cork" /> According to art critic [[Harold Rosenberg]], it was one of the initiating processes of performance art, along with abstract expressionism. [[Jackson Pollock]] is the action painter par excellence, who carried out many of his actions live.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jackson Pollock, el artista de acción|url=https://totenart.com/noticias/jackson-pollock-accion/|access-date=May 20, 2020|work=Totenart|date=2019}}</ref> In Europe [[Yves Klein]] did his Anthropométries using (female) bodies to paint canvasses as a public action.  Names to be highlighted are [[Willem de Kooning]] and [[Franz Kline]], whose work include abstract and action painting.<ref name=cork>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/action-painting.htm|title=Action Painting Technique: Definition, Characteristics |access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.aspid=9798|title=''The American Action Painters''|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Harold|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name=artsy>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/gene/action-painting|title=Action Painting Artsy|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref>