Other abstract artists whose works were grounded in nature include Manoucher Yektai, who absorbed the ideas of abstract expressionism and the School of Paris; Sohrab Sepehri whose semi-abstract compositions drew on imagery of desert landscapes from his native Kashanor; and Abolghassem Saidi known for his lyrical and sensuous style.
Not exact matches
Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso,
whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any
other artist.
Included in the collection are specially commissioned works by portraitist Gilbert Stuart, contemporary
abstract painter Maggi Brown, Martha Lloyd, Joe Greene, Tony Evanko, Ben Freeman, and
other artists whose works are featured in guestrooms and throughout the hotel.
During the early to mid-1960s Color Field painting was the term for the work of
artists like Anne Truitt, John McLaughlin, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, Friedel Dzubas, Jack Bush, Howard Mehring, Gene Davis, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Goodnough, Ray Parker, Al Held, Emerson Woelffer, David Simpson, and
others whose works were formerly related to second generation
abstract expressionism; and also to younger
artists like Larry Poons, Ronald Davis, Larry Zox, John Hoyland, Walter Darby Bannard and Frank Stella.
From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American
abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider
artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (
whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and
others (
whose work
Unlike
other artists working at the time
whose work shifted gradually away from the representational, Malevich's leap into the
abstract was sudden, conceptual and entirely premeditated.
Such were the concerns at the heart of the Spiral Group,
whose only exhibition, the 1965 First Group Showing: Works in Black and White, is represented by works by Emma Amos, Reginald Gammon, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, and
others — along with additional works by these
artists, including Woodruff's large
abstract painting Blue Intrusion (1958).
As an internationally recognized
artist whose work spanned five decades, Allan D'Arcangelo began painting at a pivotal moment when
artists, critics, and dealers were challenging the dominance of
abstract expressionism and
other modernist doctrines and hotly contesting new criteria in defining the creation and interpretation of art in society.
In a late interview he stressed that his reviews for the Nation and Partisan Review sometimes praised
artists such as Edward Hopper and Arnold Friedman, and
others whose work was far from
abstract.
On the
other hand, both parts of Black in the
Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black
artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «
abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of
other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.
Bridging the Harlem Renaissance,
abstract expressionism, and
other movements, Lewis is a crucial figure in American art
whose reinsertion into the discourse further opens the field for recognition of the contributions of
artists of color.
She attended the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where, like
other artists of her generation, she encountered the instructor and
abstract painter Elizabeth McIntosh,
whose fresh and expansive approach to
abstract painting has played a critical role in Mouton's art.
Abstract Expressionism also provoked avant - garde responses from several
other artists including Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011),
whose calligraphic scribbling is part - drawing, part - graffiti; and the Californian
abstract sculptor Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933) noted for his large scale iron / steel sculptures.
The show addresses how
artists departed from
abstract expressionism with in - depth concentrations of works by Ellsworth Kelly,
whose Tablet series documents how he
abstracts everyday forms to create the shapes found in his paintings; Cy Twombly,
whose strangely elegant paintings are sometimes built up with scribbles and scrawls,
other times scratched out with a screwdriver dragged across a painted surface; and the twin pillars of neo-Dada, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an
artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his
abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).
Color and gesture are central concerns of this
artist,
whose works are at once challenging and whimsical, and her current exhibition departs from Grosse's typical method of large - scale sculptural installation, turning her
abstract style instead towards work in which movement and color is tidily contained to the canvas instead of imposed onto walls and
other three dimensional forms.