Abstract part 2, a spirited show of small, colorful work at Marcia Wood Gallery through January 18, continues the conversation
about abstract painting begun with its predecessor, abstract part 1.
Not exact matches
We
began talking
about it, and they were astounded because they had been
painting abstract art, so I had twenty years they didn't remember, they didn't realize anybody remembered that they made collages with matchsticks and tried to look like Picabia.
Since he already knew
about abstract expressionist
painting (Willem de Kooning had had his first show) he
began painting in that tradition, informed with what Hofmann had taught
about forming.
Ryman was intrigued by the
abstract expressionist works of Rothko, de Kooning, Still and Pollock and became curious
about the act of
painting and
began experimenting in 1955.
The recent debate on Abcrit
about Howard Hodgkin made it pretty clear to me that many
abstract painters
begin with light, and are attempting to
paint the effects of light.
After the first Gulf War started, I concluded that visual art wasn't the place for political change and
began to learn
about abstract geometric
painting in earnest.
Bois worked directly with Kelly on the book and will share insights
about the artist's years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he
began painting his signature
abstract forms.
Bois, who worked directly with Kelly on the book, will share insights
about the artist's years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he
began painting the
abstract forms that would later define his career.
(1) Christie
began doing
abstract painting about 1931.
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.
Nevertheless, during the period 1935 - 1943, he took part in the Federal Art Project and
began to learn something
about modern European
painting, both
abstract and Surrealist.