Sentences with phrase «leading abstract painters who»

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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.

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.

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.

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 1960s.

Julian Stanczak, a Polish - born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

After many difficulties and the refusal of some leading British abstract artists to join (including Victor Pasmore), she was successful in forming a small group of painters, sculptors and architects who held an exhibition in the Royal Festival Hall in 1955 which anticipated many elements of the much better known 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, «This is Tomorrow».

John Walker has led a resurgence of abstract painters who look to nature, emotion, and, especially, place.

The inaugural exhibition in the series features a new, architecturally scaled installation by Stephen Bram who, alongside his practice as a leading abstract painter, has achieved recognition in Australia and Europe for distinguished art projects and commissions developed in relation to architecture.

Among the artists included in the exhibition is Stanton Macdonald - Wright, who was one of America's leading modernist painters and an early pioneer of abstract art.