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They have made him one of the leading abstract painters of the last 40 years and have been the subject of much discussion, yet a cogent, plausible understanding of them is still needed.

From the 1960s are Charles Green Shaw's Black on White against Yellow (1968), in which Shaw revived the polygon from his art of the 1930s to create a new minimalist statement, Leon Berkowitz's Cathedral, No. 11 (1968), a work by the Washington Color School artist in which imperceptible shifts of color and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th Street.

Important Informel Artists Leading abstract painters of the Art Informel movement included Jean Fautrier (1898 - 1964), Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Sculze)(1913 - 51), Hans Hartung (1904 - 89).

Hofmann taught many of the leading abstract painters of the 20th Century, and directly or indirectly posed the question to them of what the word landscape could potentially come to mean.

Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility of so many of his contemporaries.

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John Hoyland (b. 1934, Sheffiled, United Kingdom; d. 2011) was one of Britain's leading abstract painters, renowned for his bold use of color and inventive forms.

Welcome to the website of the late John Hoyland (1934 - 2011), one of Britain's leading abstract painters.

The justification for the term, «abstract expressionist,» lies in the fact that most of the painters covered by it took their lead from German, Russian, or Jewish expressionism in breaking away from late Cubist abstract art.

John Hoyland (1934 — 2011) is one of Britain's leading abstract painters.

John Hoyland (b. 1934, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2011) was one of Britain's leading abstract painters, renowned for his bold use of colour and inventive forms.

One of Britain's leading abstract painters, John Hoyland was born and educated in Sheffield before moving to London at 22 to study at the Royal Academy.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

Richter's technical aptitude has led to his reputation as one of the outstanding painters of our era and Abstraktes Bild, which lays testament to his relentless technical explorations in the field of abstract art and to the painterly and intellectual elasticity unique in his work, is estimated at # 500,000 - 700,000.

CHICAGO — Congratulations to artist Magalie Guérin on being awarded a Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant.The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Dickinson opens with a statement about abstraction, which leads to a discussion about different definitions, Grosse saying» I am not an abstract painter any more» where abstraction is understood to be «abstracting from or generating a residue of something seen».

Mark Bradford, a leading abstract painter, was selected to represent the U.S. at the 57th Venice Biennale, in a new commission presented by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Charles Hall finds a dazzling new freedom in the work of one of England's leading abstract painters.

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch abstract painter and a leading figure of De Stijl, along with Theo van Doesburg.

John Hoyland: Stain Paintings 1964 — 1966 Sep 15, 2017 — Oct 21, 2017 Pace Gallery 32 E 57th St, New York, NY 10022 Pace Gallery is pleased to present the gallery's first solo exhibition of works by leading British abstract painter John Hoyland (1934 — 2011).

Through his use of gestural brushstrokes, Paul created inherent motion within his works, leading many art historians to name him the first action painter and a precursor to the abstract expressionists of the 1950s.

In 1959, at the instigation of Bloore and fellow teachers A. F. MCKAY and Roy KIYOOKA, the American abstract painter Barnett Newman was invited to lead an Emma Lake Workshop.

In the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfaces.

As a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract art.

It also brings the 50th anniversary of Movement in Squares (1961), the break - through black and white painting that marked her out as one of the world's leading abstract painters.

Marvellously exuberant abstract paintings by Albert Irvin, who died last year, frame the entrance, facing a spectacular painting by honorary academician Anselm Kiefer, featuring one of the German painter's trademark lead books, at the far end of the room.

Damien Hirst's much anticipated new private museum opens on Tomorrow with a solo exhibition of works by John Hoyland (1934 — 2011)-- one of Britain's leading abstract painters — will inaugurate Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, which opens in Vauxhall, south London on 8th October 2015.

For this exhibition Gorman continues this evolutionary refinement with a series of paintings that confirm his position as one of Irelands leading abstract painters.

Born in Dublin, Sean Scully is one of the world's leading abstract painters.

«As the leading American abstract painter of his generation and a vigorous advocate for the interests of under - represented urban communities in the U.S. and beyond, Bradford creates work that embodies art's capacity to both inspire wonder and catalyze enduring social change.

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn., her nephew said.

Ellsworth Kelly, (born May 31, 1923, Newburgh, New York, U.S. — died December 27, 2015, Spencertown, New York), American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was a leading exponent of the hard - edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined.

Marden, who became famous overnight in the mid -»60s and is now regarded as one of the world's leading abstract painters, was in town recently as a guest of SFMOMA's Director's Circle.

Sadamasa Motonaga was a Japanese abstract painter, and one of the leading members of the Gutai group.

Now acknowledged as one of the world's leading abstract painters, the 67 - year - old artist has been the subject of major shows at venues from the Metropolitan Museum New York to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Remi Rough has gradually evolved into one of the UK's leading «post-graffiti» abstract painters.

This ambitious exhibition will encompass the informalists and abstract painters of the «50s and «60s such as K.O. Götz, Emil Schumacher, and Peter Brüning; the»70s Fluxus and neo-Expressionists such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Markus Lüpertz and Georg Baselitz; important photographers such as Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, and Candida Höfer; and leading emerging and mid-career contemporary artists such as Katharina Grosse, Hito Steyerl, or Michael Sailstorfer.

Russian painter and designer Kasimir Malevich was born in Kiev in 1878 and became a leading pioneer of abstract art.

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...

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

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.

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut, her nephew said.

Sadly, Van Doesburg passed away a year after issuing his manifesto, but his ideas were continued and developed by the Abstraction - Creation group - led by the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965) and the French painters Jean Helion (1904 - 87) and Auguste Herbin (1882 - 1960)- whose members included the cream of European abstract sculptors, such as Jean Arp (1886 - 1966), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941), Antoine Pevsner (1886 - 1962), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982).

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).

Of equally lasting importance, it was at the institute that Truitt met Kenneth Noland, the brilliant young painter who would go on to become one of the leading lights of the Washington Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1960Of equally lasting importance, it was at the institute that Truitt met Kenneth Noland, the brilliant young painter who would go on to become one of the leading lights of the Washington Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1960of the leading lights of the Washington Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1960of the Washington Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1960s.

A pioneer of abstract art, the North Dakota - born American painter Clyfford Still was one of the leading figures in the New York School of avant - garde Abstract Expressionism, which took root in the 1940s and became the predominant style of painting until its replacement by Pop art during the mid-1960s.

Sean Scully is generally considered to be one of the world's leading abstract painters.

There's a brilliant, improvisational range of approaches to composition that is more often associated with the inventiveness and power of the leading 20th - century abstract painters than it is with textile - making,» says Alvia Wardlaw, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts.

In 1952, Rosenberg published his first major article on art - an essay entitled «The American Action Painters,» in the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movement.