Sentences with phrase «known as an abstract painter»

Hoyland preferred not to be known as an abstract painter.

In the latest example of the Nasher Sculpture Center's foray into contemporary art, Mark Grotjahn Sculpture is the first museum exhibition to focus on a body of work in this discipline from an artist primarily known as an abstract painter.

David Clarkson Shirley, you're known as an abstract painter but besides painting, you've written regularly for BOMB Magazine, among others.

Barnett Newman, best known as an abstract painter, conceived of Broken Obelisk years before King's death.

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Gene Davis also was a painter known especially for paintings of vertical stripes of color, like Black Grey Beat, 1964, and he also was a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s known as the Washington Color School.

One of the standard - bearers of the polarizing, hard - to - categorize group of contemporary painters that includes such artists as Mark Grotjahn, Nicole Eisenmann, Richard Aldrich, Josh Smith and Michael Williams, Joe Bradley (born 1975) is widely known for his bright abstract paintings and glyph - like drawings.

Harold Cohen (1928 — 2016) Harold Cohen, an abstract painter best known as a pioneer of computer - generated art, has died at home in California aged 87.

Just as Ms. Blaine was becoming known as a promising abstract painter, and gaining the admiration of such critics as Clement Greenberg, she started to shift back to representation.

Artists I know personally, such as Christian Haub and other abstract painters, do not often get a show for me to review, but just as well.

A possible correction: I don't know abstract painters or surrealists but I do know photographers: Ernst's other woman «Dorothea» is likely not Dorothea Lange as stated in the first part of the article but the Dorothea Tanning mentioned in the second.

Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage of art's march to absolute abstraction.

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

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.

He became known as an early, articulate champion of American abstract painters Jackson Pollock and Adolph Gottlieb and sculptor David Smith.

Alexandra Luke was one of two female founding members of the Ontario - based group of abstract artists known as Painters Eleven.

Known primarily as a landscape painter, David Deutsch's latest paintings are representational, abstract, wildly painterly and idiosyncratic.

But among the things they had in common was a rejection of the gestural painting favoured by the abstract expressionists and other abstract painters, and the personal agonising associated with Auerbach, Bacon and what would come to be known as the School of London.

One of the pioneers of the West Coast «Light and Space» movement, Irwin started out as an abstract painter but is now known for his architectural interventions made with translucent scrims, light tubes, and natural light (one of which, Excursus: Homage to the Square ³, is currently on view at Dia: Beacon).

While Mike Kelley is best known for his content - heavy installations and lowbrow aesthetic, for this exhibition he seemingly returned to his roots as an abstract painter.

Despite not being as widely known as some of his New York School contemporaries, Clyfford Still was the initial painter to break through to a different and radically abstract style devoid of any obvious subject matter.

And although the next generation of American artists, notably Robert Rauschenberg, reacted against the «nature painters» with work that saw the spectacle of the mediated world itself as a form of second nature, they knew that the stage on which they stood had been created by the abstract expressionist painters.

Lena Krassner, known professionally as Lee Krasner, was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century.

One of Britain's most respected and best - loved painters, Gillian Ayres is celebrated as one of the pioneering English abstract artists and, as well as the vibrant, heavily worked canvases for which she is best known, she is also a dedicated printmaker.

Works on view will celebrate seminal artists such as Ana Mendieta and Lygia Pape while highlighting lesser - known artists such as Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, Argentine mixed - media artist Margarita Paksa and Cuban - born abstract painter Zilia Sánchez.

While Jackson Pollock is considered as the most well - known painter who created his abstract pieces by dripping paint onto a flat canvas, many before him experimented with this method as well.

The abstract painters» art world was homophobic, as we know.

38,000 BC - Puente Viesgo, Spain In a cave later known as El Castillo, middle Paleolithic painters develop a style of pre-post-painterly abstraction using vibrant colors and abstract shapes heavily influenced by the Ganzfeld effect.

Johns is known — too narrowly — by the public as an originator of pop art, while Kelly is an abstract painter whose work is often misperceived as oblivious to the issues of contemporary life.

Considered one of the foremost postwar abstract painters in the Southern California scene, working alongside a generation of artists known as the «cool school,» Ed Moses has been engaged in what he sees as a continual process of discovery for more than half a century.

Beginning as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor, his motivation grew from an interest in chroma and psychophysical effects of these stimuli acting upon his five known senses.

This spontaneous practice has predecessors in the painters known as abstract expressionists or what Harold Rosenburg called action painters: the most exemplary of them being Jackson Pollock.

The prominent abstract painter has seven new canvases on view at this new Boyle Heights space, which explore aspects of landscape and the female figure, as well as one of the early «stroke» paintings for which she is well known.

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 — June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.

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.

The «conversation» of abstract painting is no longer bound here by chronology so that, as Deleuze and Guattari might have put it, the art of these painters is released into a «smooth space», no longer striated by the sequential plotting of time.

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...

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.

Meanwhile, he became known as one of the most promising young abstract painters in his home country, Germany.

Professor Evertz, a noted abstract painter, knew Mr. Wells first as his teaching assistant at Hunter, where he was a full professor, then as a colleague and, until the end of his life, as a close friend.

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

The Obamas» taste in art is as broad as abstract canvases by Josef Albers, American Indian scenes by George Catlin and paintings by little - known figures like Alma Thomas, the African - American Expressionist painter.

• WILLEM DE KOONING (1904 - 97) Dutch - born American abstract expressionist painter, member of the New York School, best - known for his style of gestural painting, as exemplified by his semi-abstract images of women.

In addition to those Vorticist members mentioned above, certain other artists were closely associated with the movement including the much underrated painter David Bomberg (1890 - 1957), the US - born sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959), who settled in Londin in 1905, and the American - born British photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966) noted for his avant - garde black - and - white abstract photographs, known as Vortographs.

«We have major monumental triptychs by both Joan Mitchell, who is well known but still underappreciated, and Jean - Paul Riopelle, who is rightly lauded as among the 20th century's greatest abstract painters in his native Canada and in France, where he worked for many years, but for whom recognition in the United States is still lagging.

, known for her idiosyncratic projects such as the wearable Menstruation Machine — Takashi's Take (2010); New York - based Iranian abstract painter Ali Banisadr, whose paintings often reference growing up during the 1978 — 79 Islamic Revolution; London - based Faiza Butt, who taps into Pakistani artistic traditions while creating work that questions gender and sexuality; and Australian artist Robert Andrew, whose kinetic machines explore his Indigenous heritage.

known mostly as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.

Jeff Kellar known mostly as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.

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.

AMERICAN ABSTRACT PAINTER Artist James Rizzi, better known as JMR, has roots in Abstract Expressionism, yet favors a Neo Contemporary flare.