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::" Some of these artists were doubtlessly influenced by Pollock's example ...

But the same year brought independent experiments: Lucio Fontana, for example, was in Argentina ( or Italy ), making images by repeatedly puncturing or slashing painted canvases with knives.

And in Japan, Shozo Shimamoto was symbolically penetrating the sacrosanct picture plane of painting by throwing himself through several layers of rice paper, leaving traces of the event -- the hole surrounded by jagged shards of paper -- as the work of art.