Works from the era of Abstract Expressionism counter the idea of gesturalism as being an innately masculine language to reveal how, equally, it has been employed to engage with female sensibility and experience — in, for example, the work of Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler. (galleriesnow.net)
The American painter Kenneth Noland is associated with a number of American abstract art movements, including: the Washington Colour Painters, a mini school of Abstract Expressionism, whose paintings focus above all on the relationship between colour and structure; Colour Field Painting - the reaction against gesturalism - and Hard Edge Painting, the geometric offshoot; and Minimalism. (visual-arts-cork.com)
A rare colour painting by the artist who was noted for his black and white gesturalism. (visual-arts-cork.com)