Sentences with phrase «many of his abstract expressionist paintings»

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.

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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
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