Fugue paintings, observed from a distance, appear airy and atmospheric, a hazy veil of color suspended somewhere just before the picture plane.
Also, Claude Monet inevitably comes to mind when Bernadet's paintings (
the Fugue paintings) get closely inspected, not simply because of the appearance, but rather the inherent ability of the works to envelop the viewers into their own visual universe.
Not exact matches
-- Rauschenberg's pieces are an amalgamation of blotches of
paint, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a variety of miscellaneous objects that together form associative
fugues of elusive meaning.
Celan's poem Death
Fugue (1948) gives the titles and themes to Kiefer's
paintings Margarethe (1981) and Sulamith (1983).
In a
fugue of abstraction and representation, depth and surface, micro and macro, the remarkable slippage between gestural waves of
paint and fantastically rendered figures, creatures and objects, these epically scaled
paintings evolve Cooke's fundamental interest in the theory and practice of
painting to a compelling hybrid state of generation and destruction.
During the 1912 Salon de la Section d'Or, where František Kupka exhibited the abstract
painting Amorpha,
Fugue en deux couleurs (
Fugue in Two Colors)(1912), the poet Guillaume Apollinaire named the work of several artists including Robert, Orphism.
From 1909 to 1913 many experimental works in the search for this «pure art» had been created by a number of artists: Francis Picabia
painted Caoutchouc, 1909, [20] The Spring, 1912, [21] Dances at the Spring [22] and The Procession, Seville, 1912; [23] Wassily Kandinsky
painted Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor), 1910, [24] Improvisation 21A, the Impression series, and Picture with a Circle (1911); [25] František Kupka had
painted the Orphist works, Discs of Newton (Study for
Fugue in Two Colors), 1912 [26] and Amorpha,
Fugue en deux couleurs (
Fugue in Two Colors), 1912; Robert Delaunay
painted a series entitled Simultaneous Windows and Formes Circulaires, Soleil n ° 2 (1912 — 13); [27] Léopold Survage created Colored Rhythm (Study for the film), 1913; [28] Piet Mondrian,
painted Tableau No. 1 and Composition No. 11, 1913.
His latest solo exhibition at Valentin Paris, Solarium, opened on May 19th; fresh off a series of
paintings called
Fugue shown almost back - to - back at Alon Segev in Tel - Aviv and Rod Barton in London (who first displayed the series back in 2014 at NADA NY).
Paul Pagk's Minuit
Fugue, a pink abstract
painting is pretty much the definition of painterly surface effect; I really love the contrast between the large areas of thick glossy
paint, and the crustiness that occurred as the
paint approached the whiteish lines.
The abstract expressionists were fond of titles that didn't help viewers out much — the recent «Abstract Expressionist New York» exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art included Ad Reinhardt's 1963 «Abstract
Painting,» for instance, or Richard Pousette - Dart's 1943 «
Fugue Number 2» or Barnett Newman's 1946 «Untitled» or Mark Rothko's 1945 - 6 «Untitled» or Clyfford Still's 1944 «1944 - N No. 2.»
Thomas Micchelli: As I was thinking of ways to approach the works in
Fugue State, I found that my questions addressed them as «these
paintings» instead of «your
paintings» — a false but telling distinction --
Kandinsky entitled a 1912
painting Fugue (Controlled Improvisation), and by the 1920s lots of artists were doing it, Paul Klee and Josef Albers, amongst them.
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Fugues, Westminster Library
Each
painting places decades of work into dialogue within singular canvases, the exhibition progressing like 30 variations on a
fugue, from Kusama's «Infinity Nets» of the late 1950s that spread like Spanish moss, to her zoetic polka dots, saturated chromatic fantasias, and obsessive reproductions of single shapes.