Abstract Painting Styles

Spontaneous : Jackson Pollock

Gestural : Franz Kline

Color-field : Mark Rothko

Minimalism : Agnes Martin

Geometric : Piet Mondrian

Poetic : Paul Klee

Spiritual : Wassily Kandinsky

Painting Terms

pentimento - revisions made where the vestiges of the previous image faintly appears, as in this Richard Dienbenkorn;

alla prima - direct, all over, completed in one sitting;

impasto - thick, gestural;

scumbling - paint applied in a brushy manner so that lower layers colors show through.