In 1953, he joined the Parisian constructivist group Groupe Espace, which encouraged a synthetic relationship between art and architecture, leading Arcay to
abandon easel painting for mural painting a few years later.
This transition from figuration to abstraction was accompanied by new working methods: his paintings became larger and
he abandoned the easel, often pinning his canvases to his studio walls or floor.
Here, between 1947 and 1951, Pollock made his famous drip paintings,
abandoning the easel, laying canvases horizontally on the floor and applying ordinary enamel house paint with the sweep of his arm.
Varvara Stepanova and Alexandre Exter and others
abandoned easel painting and diverted their energies to theatre design and graphic works.
He abandoned the easel and tried various methods of staining unprimed, unstretched canvas in his tiny 12 x 14» studio.
Not exact matches
He was the drip painter who never
abandoned the brush or the
easel, the portrait painter who could not resist a joke, the landscape artist who could not resist flesh, and the survivor with Alzheimer's who still tried to capture form and pleasure.
Artist
abandoned the conventions of brush and
easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands.This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of Abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser - known figures who made equally significant abstract contributions, including Antoni Tàs; pies, K.O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber - Arp.
Accompanied by archival materials from the still active Atelier Arcay, the exhibition includes twelve works that document his progression from
easel painting, which he
abandoned in 1956, to the wood reliefs that facilitated the expansion of his practice into architectural space.