The unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color
Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn apart.
The unique blend of Realism and formal discipline of Color
Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn apart.
Not exact matches
On command of the voices in her head, she spirited her two daughters to the family cottage on the Virginia Peninsula,
painted the windows black, and
set up the house as a
field hospital.
And the earliest work in the exhibition, Vija Celmins's 1964
painting Heater,
sets the glowing red center of an electric space heater amid a
field of deep grays — reminding us of the constant, ever - shifting dialogue between hot and cool, color and shadow.
In 2014 they
set up two exhibition spaces, Art House in Santa Fe and Orange Door in Chicago, where they display the four distinct areas of their collection: Spanish Colonial, Japanese Bamboo, Post-War
Painting and Sculpture (notably color
field and hard - edge abstraction), and Digital and Electronic Art, which is the focus of this article.
Jaclyn's artwork consists of
paintings and drawings that blend together aspects of prevalent
settings found in sports culture, such as athletic arenas,
fields, courts, and gymnasiums.
One of the pioneers of Color
Field Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled
setting.
Scharf himself has stated, «My ambition as a professional artist is to maintain the course that I
set nearly 30 years ago by establishing my work in the
fields of
painting, sculpture, and performance.
Ms. Yuskavage, age 53, gained an international reputation in the 1990s for using Renaissance - era techniques to
paint cryptic images of women, often nude and
set within epic landscapes or saturated color
fields.
The experience inspired a series of drawings, watercolors, and
paintings in which the image of a bull is sometimes indicated directly, other times by abstract vertices of dark brushstrokes
set against a brightly colored
field.
The school focuses on the tradition of figurative
painting, drawing, and sculpture, and so invites the vanguard of these
fields to speak in an intimate
setting to current students and the general public.
Picking out the two lines of the joke in a deep blue, anonymous sans serif font, and
setting it within a vast
field of flatly
painted cardinal red, Prince has created a work that resounds on abstract, conceptual and prosaic levels.
Farmed
fields are depicted as patterned rectangles, slices or squares
set against each other in vivid colours such as in the recent
painting Fall
Fields (2017).
Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly
painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color
Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to
set the stage and create the mood.
He then applies it to canvas, often
setting the dry acrylic pieces into a
field of wet
paint, essentially creating inlaid
paintings where the sense of spatial relations is not readily apparent.
Mark Rothkoâ $ ™ s search to express profound emotion through
painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled
painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color
Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled
Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled
setting.
First endowed in 2005, the FALKENROT PRIZE pays tribute to artists at home and abroad whose work seems likely to
set new standards in contemporary
painting as well as adjacent
fields.
It is presented to international artists whose work is considered likely to
set new standards in contemporary
painting and interrelated
fields.
While this term is often associated with American
painting, specifically Abstract Expressionism and Color
Field painting, Declaring Space addresses this concept from an international viewpoint, blurring national labels for a
set of spatial themes that were evoked in abstract art in the latter half of the twentieth century, where the boundaries of traditional pictorial space were crossed and a new realm of abstract theater was engaged.
They are staggering because they move back the invention of abstraction from circa 1910, when Kandinsky was said to have
set art on a new path with his first «non-representative»
paintings, to 1861, when Houghton produced The Holy Trinity, a dark crisscrossing of red and blue lines up and down the paper that then go left to right, then down again in twists and spirals, and up once more in energetic slashes, a working and reworking of energy
fields so layered and physical that it can accurately be described as action
painting.
Kikuo Saito, known for his abstract, color -
field paintings, Butoh - influenced
set designs and wordless performance - plays, died on February 15, at age 76, in New York City, where he had lived for 50 years.
Particularly with the colour: the vibration that Hoyland
sets up between an orange bar and its green
field is dazzling: colours float, disembodied, off one another, but their apparent position in space is contradicted by a smoky dark edge of washed
paint that pulls them back again, turning a veil of pigment into a solid object.
With the recognizable emblem
set against carefully
painted patterned or color
field backgrounds, Bengston's Chevron
paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, refusing to settle exclusively as either.
One such tarp has been repurposed for this show as a backhanded
painting, and its accumulated marks and splotches have been stained and
set in relief by a thick
field of silver spray
paint.
Seven shapes are in each
painting (one
field; six chevrons - three each
set opposite in confrontation).
In the second building, a more traditional
set of gallery spaces shows a
field of dreams: installations, objects, drawings,
paintings, and snippets of Jonas» recent performance at the Venice Biennale.
Reductive
fields of color focusing on surface and light
set off
paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski.
Altered States: A Psychedelic Legacy, features contemporary artists who explore psychedelic art — mostly
painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery — against a back drop of 1960s Optical Art, figurative and Color
Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues, which
sets the stage and creates the mood.
This is particularly true here where the archetypal black eruption is
set against a
field of black
paint.
Whether visitors basked in the virtual warmth of Olafur Eliasson's fake sun in his «Weather Project,» or laid themselves upon Ai Weiwei's
field of 100 million hand -
painted porcelain sunflower seeds (until the dust stirred up was decreed a health hazard), the collective, interactive experience of these artworks has generated its own momentum and a new
set of norms for the museum - going experience.
I'm especially excited to see Something I Can Feel, the exhibition - within - the - fair curated by Derrick Adams, as well as booths of recent
paintings by Kent Monkman (Pierre - François Ouellette art contemporain), new textile pieces by Robin Kang (
Field Projects), miniature
set - like sculptures by Linda Lopez (Mindy Solomon Gallery), and Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir's whimsical and fuzzy disk sculptures (Hverfisgalleri).
Painters who
set up color problems in their
paintings are considered avant - garde; they are often referred to as «color painters» or «color -
field painters.»
It is important to note that, by 1962, the art world was quickly absorbing the early waves of Pop art and Color
Field painting, both of which
set the fashion compass to intense and unadulterated color.
From the outset, Hopper had a basic sense of the composition's main components, with the grass
field occupying the
painting's lower half, the house
set in the upper right quadrant, and the locust grove in the upper left quadrant.
This continues to be true of her more recent, smaller
paintings, though the figures have vanished, leaving only symbolic - looking objects
set in shimmering
fields of rich color.