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Gutai art was first started in Japan by Jiro Yoshihara. “The kangi used to write ‘gu’ means tool, measures, and a way of doing something, while ‘tai’ means body”. This style of art focused on the beauty of destruction and gave it a deeper meaning to life. It was really important to become one with the tools and because of this, you would get a final product.

 

In Japanese culture they incorporate art in many different ways. For example, Kabuki, which is the art of performing by singing and dancing. Their style of art is aggressive but has a much deeper meaning to it. With Kabuki theater, every single movement tells a story. The costumes used and the way the make up is applied adds to portraying the story.      Geishas symbolize their style of art. They use specific brushes and tools to apply their make up. When they apply their make up, they compare their face to a canvas and they are creating art when the make up if applied. Because of the brushes they use, theres art. 

Action Painting was a unique style of painting because of how it was applied to the canvas. Everyone was use to witnessing artists paint with caution while they applied the paint delicately on the canvas. The term Action painting came about from Harold Rosenberg who was a famous critic. “It emphasizes the process of making art, often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint onto the surface of the canvas”.

 This Action Painting was created by Jackson Pollock. Pollock played a major role   in the Abstract Expressionist Movement. His style consisted of dripping the  paint onto the canvas.This style of painting allowed the painter to express  themselves on another level. “To Greenberg, it was the physicality of the  paintings’ clotted and oil-caked surfaces that was the key to understanding them.  ‘Some of the labels that became attached to Abstract Expressionism, like  “informal” and “Action Painting,’ definitely implied this; one was given to  understand that what was involved was an utterly new kind of art that was no  longer art in any accepted sense”.