Sentences with phrase «1950s as an abstract painter»

Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter; however, he turned his attention to sculptural installations by the early 1970s.

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Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt and Arshile Gorky (in his last works) were among the prominent abstract expressionist painters that Greenberg identified as being connected to Color Field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.

Guston achieved fame in the 1950s as a part of the first generation of abstract expressionists, although the painter himself preferred the term New York School.

As with many abstract painters of the 1940's and 1950's, think Rothko and his Subway Series, the path to abstraction for Richard Diebenkorn lay in taking familiar objects and views and finding new ways of interpreting them.

Works by the earlier generation of artists represented in the show can be loosely situated within geometric abstraction and abstract constructivism, influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and groups such as De Stijl (founded 1917) and the ZERO movement of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the American Colour Field painters.

Here Robertson, the curator of two previous Hoyland shows, questions the artist about the new work and his development as an abstract painter since the 1950s.

Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Click to purchase on Amazon.com As a concrete - abstract painter during the 1950s and 60s, Olle Baetling (1911 - 1981) developed a personal pictorial universe, while also occupying a firm position among the «Salon des Realites Nouvelles» and Galerie Denise Rene in Paris.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

His early landscapes, portraits and still lifes were characteristic for their dark palette, but soon his style became distinguished from pictorial elements and by 1950 he considered himself as an abstract painter.

Following her education at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between 1941 and 1944, Lassnig played a key role in the emergence of art informer in Austria, and in the early 1950s she exhibited in Vienna with abstract painters such as Arnu lf Rainer and Josef Mikl.

Albert Irvin, the painter, who has died aged 92, started out in the 1950s as a figurative artist of the kitchen sink school, but after discovering Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko at a famous Tate exhibition in 1956 he reinvented himself as an exponent of a dazzlingly vigorous abstract expressionism, becoming one of Britain's most respected abstract artists.

As Matthew Israel writes in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings seem like they could have been made by a current young abstract painter.

As Matthew Israel writes in the full - color catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings seem like they could have been made by a current young abstract painter.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been...

As a concrete - abstract painter during the 1950s and 60s, Olle Baetling (1911 - 1981) developed a personal pictorial universe, while also occupying a firm position among the «Salon des Realites Nouvelles» and Galerie Denise Rene in Paris.

Biography: A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.

The exhibition also features abstract German painters who were active in the 1950s, such as Karl - Otto Götz.

Jean Fautrier was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor, considered as one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme, a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Born in 1950, he was a student of Philip Guston, the great postwar painter who made his various shifts between figurative and abstract styles feel as consequential as the shifting of tectonic plates.

As a concrete - abstract painter during the 1950s and 60s, Olle Bærtling (1911 - 1981) developed a personal pictorial universe, while also occupying a firm position among the «Salon des Realités Nouvelles» and Galerie Denise René in Paris.

Purchase on Amazon.com As a concrete - abstract painter during the 1950s and 60s, Olle Bærtling (1911 - 1981) developed a personal pictorial universe, while also occupying a firm position among the «Salon des Realités Nouvelles» and Galerie Denise René in Paris.

He was one of the best - known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter.

Kounellis began his career as a painter, inspired in part by the work of American abstract artists of the 1950s.

The 90 - minute, two - character play chronicles the relationship between the great abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko and a (fictitious) assistant as the artist struggles in the late 1950s and early 1960s with a prominent and lucrative commission: murals for the walls of the luxurious Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan.

In the 1950s, she took weekend studio classes at American University, working briefly with Jacob Kainen, one of a group of abstract painters — Gene Davis, Morris Louis, and Kenneth Noland were others — gaining national attention as the Washington Color School.

Both artists started as abstract expressionist painters in the 1950s, Coplans in London and Semmel in New York.