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This 16-word action painting word search covers the art movement and key figures for Grades 9–12. Hidden words span Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, expressionism, dripping, and canvas, tracing the movement's defining characteristics and artists. Use it as an art-history unit warm-up, a vocabulary review for a painting or modern-art class, or adapt it for similar modernism themes.

Subject:
Art
Topic:
Painting
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated November 2016

Word List

  • ABSTRACT
  • COLOURFIELD
  • EXPRESSIONISM
  • ACTIONPAINTING
  • JACKSONPOLLOCK
  • CANVAS
  • DYNAMIC
  • WILLIAMDEKOONING
  • SPLASH
  • ACTION
  • IMAGISTS
  • DRIPPING
  • BITUMEN
  • SPONTANEOUS
  • SURREALISTS
  • WOMAN

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