See Also: Grasset's sign(medicine)
Grasset(medicine)
Grasset's law(medicine)
Landouzy-Grasset law(medicine)
Grasset's phenomenon(medicine)
Grasset-Gaussel phenomenon(medicine)
Action (or Office Action)(law)
Action Man(dictionary)
Action(casino)
action(dictionary)

action painting (sh) and Grasset's sign (medicine)


action painting (sh)




Direct, instinctual, dynamic style of painting that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brush strokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.

The term characterizes the work of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. The "automatic" techniques developed in Europe by the Surrealists in the 1920s and '30s had great influence on U.S. artists, who regarded a picture not merely as a finished product but as a record of the process of its creation. It was a major force in Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. See also automatism, Tachism.


Grasset's sign (medicine)


Grasset's sign
<clinical sign> Normal contraction of the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the paralysed side in cases of hemiplegia.