Relationship between avant-garde art and American pop culture brush strokes and in techniques partially dictated by chance, such as dripping or spilling the paint directly onto the canvas. Examples of this include Jackson Pollock dripping commercial paints on raw canvas to build up complex and tangled skeins of paint into exciting and suggestive linear patterns and Willem de Kooning used extremely vigorous and expressive brush strokes to build up richly colored and textured images. The second category of Abstract Expressionism is represented by a variety of styles ranging from Color field, to Lyrical abstraction; delicate imagery and fluid shapes and fields of color included in works by Clyfford
Robert Katona Robert Katona Robert Katona is an American artist and innovator of the Flow Painting Technique. His method uses liquid acrylic paint poured onto the canvas, creating a dynamic flowing composition. When the paint is dry, he studies the free form color field, and looks for abstract shapes and images that suggest a theme. He then paints these visions into the background with startling precision. When viewing his work it may take several minutes, or even several viewings to find the hidden images and overall impact of the work. Based in New York City for seven years, he created a form