Sentences with phrase «expressionist painting movement»

He died in 1991, one of the last remaining members of the great American abstract expressionist painting movement.

The show established him as one of the leaders, along with Jackson Pollock, of the gesturalist wing of the Abstract Expressionist Painting movement.

The painterly style also emerges from expressionist painting movements of the time, including CoBrA Group and Art Informel, important movements in art in Europe near the time Golub lived in Paris, and abstract expressionism lurks in the strokes and the scrapes too.

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For Resnick, who first became famous during the Abstract Expressionist movement, the works were ways of making painting look like dirtied streets — they better reflected everyday life.

Many artists in the Abstract Expressionist movement were technically not painting abstracts.

L&M Arts in Venice Beach presents Willem de Kooning: Figure & Light, a collection of drawings and paintings spanning the artist's first involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1950s to the end of his career in the 1980s.

AT THE HEIGHT of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction of the natural world could make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member of the New York School and is regarded as one of the great artists, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Clifford Still, whose gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

With encouragement from Greenberg, Bush became closely tied to two movements that grew out of the efforts of the abstract expressionists: Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.

A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov is regarded as one of its defining figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, whose gestural paintings and dramatic strokes defined the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

His gestural paintings of the 1950's along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline formed the basis for the abstract expressionist movement in the United States.

Martin was a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and identified her work with the movement, but her painting also presaged the arrival of Minimalism.

Instead, Abstract Expressionism led to all manner of variations and reactions: second - generation Ab - Exers who lyrically rounded off the movement's epic impulses; minimalists who discarded turgid gestures for visions of epic materiality; the faux - expressionist paintings by Gerhardt Richter and Sigmar Polke that undermined Ab - Ex's very aspirations for the epic.

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

Right from the very start, he reacted against the popular expressive use of paint by most artists of the abstract expressionist movement, instead claiming that opting for flatter surfaces normally found in the arsenal of Barnett Newman or Jasper Johns.

In 1949, just as the Abstract Expressionist movement was establishing itself as the up - and - coming force in New York, Pepi went to Rome for two years to study at the American Academy and immerse himself in the art historical tradition to which he pointedly related his painting, giving rise to later critical accounts of his work as «academic» at heart.

On the plane returning to Denver, I kept coming back to some female Abstract Expressionists whose paintings challenge the predominantly male - centric definition of the movement.

With his signature energetic black and white gestural paintings, Franz Kline by 1958, had become one of the rising stars of the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

This period coincided with the blossoming of the abstract expressionist movement and the pinnacle of Still's 20 - year quest to redefine painting in which «space and figure,» the artist wrote, «had been resolved into a total psychic entity.»

Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the «flatter» surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the «target» paintings of Jasper Johns.

While Jackson Pollock's leading role in the Abstract Expressionist movement has been widely discussed, less attention has been devoted to his black paintings period.

You don't need to be an art insider to hear the term «Abstract Expressionists» used to describe the inspiration behind all manner of contemporary painting, but what was the original movement all about?

Painting's last big hurrah was 30 - plus years ago with the ascension of the so - called Neo - expressionist / New Romantic «movement.»

Unlike with some other movements, there are no formulas for making an abstract expressionist painting.

A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov (1900 — 1982) is regarded as one of the great American artists of the 20th century, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, whose gestural painting of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

Looking instead to the Post-Impressionists, the Abstract Expressionists, and the De Stijl movement, Ding painted Taboo (1986) out of a limited palette of muted tones and bold, long brushstrokes depicting a dynamic combination of marks, its anxious, forceful energy seeming to mirror the turmoil of state and self in the aftermath of the revolution.

His painting took an enormous leap when he came into contact with the American abstract expressionist movement, attending their exhibitions and meeting their members - artists such as Franz Kline.

David Park and Milton Avery — who bucked the trend and painted the human figure in abstract - expressionist times — receive deserved attention in a gallery show highlighting their substantial influence on two major postwar art movements.

Grimes» large - scale paintings of the wooded landscape evoke the majesty of the American landscape tradition with all the fervor of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

The oil paintings presented include Untitled (1988) by Joan Mitchell — an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement and Black (2007) by award winning artist Pat Steir whose work can be found in various public collections including those at MoMA, Tate and the Guggenheim Museum.

During the aesthetic upheavals of the modernist movement, Neel, mostly on her own as a single mother in Spanish Harlem in New York, insistently kept at her unfashionable, Expressionist style of figure painting, doing portraits of her friends and lovers.

Zeng draws on both Chinese traditional painting and Western art movements in his work, and Mask Series 1996 No. 6 is a synthesis of the techniques learned in his homeland and the expressionist and existentialist art he saw from the West in reproduction.

In his opinion, the revived concept of abstract art is a combination of formalist methods in painting and the zombielike return of the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg, art critic responsible for the promotion of the American abstract expressionist movement.

The Abstract Expressionist movement served as an important antecedent for process artists — the paintings of Jackson Pollock, a leader of that movement, made the very act of painting and the movements of the artist visible on their surfaces.

And at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the late 1940s he could be found painting a monumental series whose subject was Women, albeit women painted on a scale and with an intensity unlike anything else in the history of art.

Investigations by art historians and conservators have since revealed new insights into the artists» lives, their paintings, and the Abstract Expressionist movement.

By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

The idea of movement — whether it is the physical movement the artist uses to make a painting, or the sense of movement created in a composition — is an influential element in the work of the Abstract Expressionists.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Join us as we explore the work of Jackson Pollock, an American artist known for his major role in the abstract expressionist movement and his unique style of drip painting.

In a blatant statement against the popular Abstract Expressionist movement dominating the NYC art scene at the time, Rauschenberg exhibited his 1951 White Paintings at Stable Gallery in 1953.

«Joan has been recognised as a significant participant in the Abstract Expressionist movement since the 1950s,» he says, «but the value of her paintings has risen dramatically in the last ten years.

Beginning with his earliest work, Diebenkorn sustained virtuosity in not one, but many different styles, from the gestural Abstract Expressionist paintings of his Sausalito, Albuquerque and Berkeley series, to the Bay Area Figurative movement, and finally, the consummate splendor of Ocean Park.

She spent a year in Mexico painting before returning to New York and falling in with many of the young artists who were to be in the vanguard of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

In 1970 he authored an important memoir / history of the abstract expressionist movement, The Triumph of American Painting.

These paintings suggest a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco.

He distinguished his views against the defined movement expressing, ``... I wanted to get away from the extremely subjective focus of Abstract - Expressionist painting.

And the whole abstract expressionist movement — the title even is so bread and it takes in so many different kinds of paintings that it's almost impossible to even think of it without beginning to speak of certain artists.