Influenced by an unusual combination
of abstract expressionist painting and classical music, he fuses the two mediums together into a unique body of artwork.
The collection encompasses works from 1945 to the present, including major holdings
of abstract expressionist painting, minimalist sculpture, media and installation works, large - scale and conceptually driven photographs, and an impressive representation of works by emerging artists.
The retrospective at Allan Stone shows a painter taking up an intimate and lyrical tradition
of abstract expressionist painting and making it his own.
Although I'm not a passionate lover
of abstract expressionist paintings, I always give any painting its due when I stand in front of it.
The individual curls and ripples of paper echo the contours of traditional brushstrokes, in some passages even taking on the gestural quality
of abstract expressionist paintings.
With the artist's subtle use of different shades of paint, as well as his careful attention to the variegated surface of the canvas, the painting stands as a successful intervention into the terrain
of abstract expressionist painting.
In the final phase of his career, Philip Guston, once described as the «high priest
of the abstract expressionist painting cult», returned, outrageously, to representation.
While the two schools
of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.
Transferred to video and projected on a scale reminiscent
of abstract expressionist painting, the resulting films become a hallucinogenic kaleidoscope of references.
Pressure came from the dominance
of abstract expressionist painting and from a growing interest in reality, in the potential for using objects and events that existed outside art that was already evident in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
The gallery had long lacked cohesion, being composed overwhelmingly
of abstract expressionist paintings, but with just enough individual works from other movements or periods to frustrate any attempt to make sense of it.
Tamarind was founded in the absence of an American print shop dedicated to serving artists, and during a period when American artists tended to reject lithography and collaborative printing in favor of the more «direct... immediate» possibilities
of abstract expressionist painting.
In 1955, living in Berkeley, CA, Diebenkorn began working figuratively, drawing from the model, painting still lifes, landscapes and interiors, much to the surprise of those who were familiar with his earlier Berkeley series
of abstract expressionist paintings leading up to that point.
This is the thing that impresses me most about the field
of abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.
Gottlieb became one of the first exponents
of abstract expressionist painting to be collected by a major arts institution when, in 1945, New York's Guggenheim Museum bought 11 of his works, followed, in 1946, by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, who purchased a single work.
More than 20
of her abstract expressionist paintings, mostly from 1949 through 1954, will be displayed through June 6 at the Hollis Taggart Galleries on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Within the genre
of abstract expressionist painting the purest form of gestural art can be seen in Jackson Pollock's Action Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash» method.
The Washington artists, including Reed, often followed a strict geometric approach in their work, as they sought to move away from the «gestural» manner
of abstract expressionist painting, in which the movement of the artist's hand across the canvas was evident in every brushstroke or drip.
True to the parameters
of abstract expressionist painting, you will find a lot of gestural paint strokes and thickly applied paint, usually favoring line over shape, but each artist represented here is more than a token of the movement, and worthy of inclusion.
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Europe's answer to the New York school
of abstract expressionist painting was Art Informel, a movement that was - like its American counterpart - a rather general umbrella term for a new style of abstract painting which did not have any intellectual baggage or methodology.
Moreover, there seems no doubt that her own drip painting technique - in her Little Image paintings - stimulated Pollock to adopt his own drip - style
of abstract expressionist painting, which eventually made him a superstar.
By the 1950s this multiform style had evolved into his signature style
of abstract expressionist painting, known as «Colour Field Painting».
Rothko looked like one of the survivors, and was even insidiously caricatured as a careerist, a bit of a fraud, who had turned the rigour and extremism
of abstract expressionist painting into something luscious, colourful, decorative and profitable - until that morning in 1970.
Rail: As much as you had reduced your «Big Nude» to black and white while adapting the monumental scale
of abstract expressionist painting, did you think you were going against the grain of what was happening at the time?
The mural - like scale
of abstract expressionist painting goes along with a suggestive, turbulent, «expressive» release of colour that is so much more moving than Mondrian's impersonal blues, reds and yellows.
After experimenting with Tachisme, a gestural form
of abstract expressionist painting which he thought shallow, he developed another technique about 1950 - 1, which he called «controlled drops» (egoutture dirigee), as in his Composition (1950 - 1).
Other exponents
of abstract expressionist painting, notably Kline and De Kooning, used similar methods although not to the same extent as Pollock.
From the early 1960s onwards, his work began gradually to be represented in several important exhibitions
of abstract expressionist painting, although he was particularly sensitive about the correct meaning given to his work, an attribute which caused him to decline an offer to participate in the 1962 exhibition on Geometric Abstraction at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art.
As early as 1942, Jackson Pollock was working at the cutting edge
of abstract expressionist painting.
(For an explanation
of abstract expressionist paintings, like those produced by Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko, please see: Analysis of Modern Paintings: 1800 - 2000.)
All the above individual styles emerged out of the dominant school
of abstract expressionist painting during the late 1950s, early 1960s, and in some ways reacted against it - or at least were precipitated by it.
Not exact matches
Born next to the saloon that has been in his family for one hundred years, Sunny has over the years partied with Andy Warhol, spent time in India at the feet
of a guru, and
painted abstract expressionist originals.
The results resemble
abstract expressionist paintings and Platonic idealist visions
of subjects ranging from night skies to reflective glass objects to the rooftops
of Manhattan.
The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging
abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful,
abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto -
expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs
abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness»
painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair
of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.
In much
Abstract Expressionist painting of the 50s, notably
paintings by Rothko and Newman, expanded
abstract visual fields reflect the viewer's gaze, conjuring an awareness
of self.
Looking closer, Everhart began to see echoes
of Chinese ink
paintings and the black - and - white
paintings of abstract expressionists of the»40s and»50s, such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell.
To recap: Marguerite Hoffman sued David Martinez in 2010 after a big red
painting by the
abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko turned up on an auction block not long after she sold the piece to Martinez at a discount
of $ 17.6 million (he eventually got $ 31.4 million for it at auction).
Beginning in 1960 Schapiro gradually eliminated the
abstract expressionist brushwork from her
paintings, introducing a variety
of geometric forms.
Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the
abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style
of drip
painting.
«It is the excitements
of this conjunction between a Romantic nineteenth - century Briton and an
abstract expressionist twentieth - century American that the exhibition seeks to evoke, revealing the fellowship that the two artists share in
paint across their temporal divide, and the vibrant correspondences which uncover something
of the timeless cerebral foundations
of landscape art.
With encouragement from Greenberg, Bush became closely tied to two movements that grew out
of the efforts
of the
abstract expressionists: Color Field
Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Another
abstract expressionist whose works in the 1940s call to mind the stain
paintings of the 1960s and the 1970s is James Brooks.
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At the risk
of being redundant where are the major 1960s - 1970s
Abstract Expressionist, Colorfield, Hard - edge, or Lyrical Abstractionist
paintings of Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Adolph Gottlieb, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Sam Francis, Larry Poons, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Stella, Ron Davis, Gene Davis, Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, Friedel Dzubas, Al Held, Ray Parker, Neil Williams, John Mclaughlin, Jack Bush, Ed Moses, Walter Darby Bannard, Sam Gilliam, Ronnie Landfield, Peter Young, Dan Christensen, Joan Snyder, Pat Lipsky, Stephen Mueller, Stanley Boxer, Joe Goode, Larry Zox, Jack Whitten, Lee Lozano, Charles Hinman, Robert Natkin, Thomas Downing, John Griefen, Doug Ohlson, Tom Holland, Jack Youngerman, Sandi Slone, Edward Avedisian, David Novros, David Prentice, Joanna Pousette - Dart, Chuck Arnoldi, Laddie Dill, Dennis Ashbaugh, Kikuo Saito, Carol Sutton, Frances Barth, Harriet Korman, Ralph Humphrey, William Pettet, Lawrence Stafford, Jake Berthot, Paul Feeley, Al Loving, Ludwig Sander, Nassos Daphnis, Paul Jenkins, David Diao, Frank Bowling, Harvey Quaytman, Katherine Porter, Ed Ruda, Alan Cote, David Budd, Leo Valledor, Alan Shields, Natvar Bhavsar, Francine Tint, John Seery, Carol Haerer, Philip Wofford, Thornton Willis, Carl Glicko, Dorothea Rockburne, Bill Jensen, David Reed, Gary Stephen, and where is
abstract sculpture?
«In that first
painting, I was wrestling with what I originally thought
of as the coldness
of Minimalism and the more emotional,
abstract expressionist painting style I'd grown up with.
His gestural
paintings of the 1950's along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline formed the basis for the
abstract expressionist movement in the United States.
Are the Asian - American artists inspired by
abstract expressionists, or are they drawn to the Asian elements
of the style, in turn appropriated from Chinese, Japanese and other non-western art and culture, from calligraphy, Sung
painting and Zen Buddhism, from John Cage and DT Suzuki, from the Gutai artists and Sung
painting?
Organized by VMFA in partnership with the Munch Museum in Oslo, Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch examines how Johns (born 1930), one
of America's preeminent artists, mined the work
of the Norwegian
Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade
of abstract painting towards a more open expression
of love, sex, loss and death.
# New York school:
abstract expressionists: artists choice by artists: a complete documentation
of the New York
painting and sculpture annuals, 1951 - 1957