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Schüttbild by Hermann Nitsch

A splatter painting is by performance artists by pouring paint on an image carrier produced. One of the best known artists who works with this technique is Hermann Nitsch . This form of art arose from Viennese Actionism . It is a subgroup or an increase in drip paintings , for which u. a. Jackson Pollock is very well known.

In contrast to drip painting, the paint is not only allowed to drip onto the picture carrier or drip in small amounts, and no object is dipped into the paint so that it can then be distributed on the picture carrier. When creating bulk pictures, the paint is distributed in larger quantities on the picture carrier directly from their container, which means that the artist has less control over the result than with drip painting.

The Viennese actionism that emerged in the 1960s was inspired by the concept of happening / fluxus art , but took this concept and increased it in a provocative, taboo-breaking way. This has been brought about, for example, by integrating physical materials such as blood, milk or viscera in the works.

A representative of this working method is the action artist Hermann Nitsch , who continued his original work, the " Orgies-Mysteries-Theater ", with this pouring technique . He provoked intense, sensual experiences by spilling and smearing mostly red paint on large surfaces. This should free the viewer from fears and aggression and release his inhibitions.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Viennese Actionism Movement Overview. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  3. ^ Viennese Actionism. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (English).
  4. ^ Eva Badura-Triska, Petra Schönfelder, Maximilian Wahlich, Jörg Wolfert: My body is the event - Viennese actionism and international performance . Vienna 2015.
  5. ↑ Ernst Fischer, Georg Jäger: The Austrian Literature - Your Profile from the Turn of the Century to the Present (1880-1980) . Academic printing and Publishing house, 1990, ISBN 3-201-01499-0 .
  6. ↑ Action painting. In: nitsch.org. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  7. ^ Art and Culture: The Twentieth Century . In: Brockhaus . tape 6 , p. 143 .