We all know
about abstract painting in which color and line are each other's best friend.
Jennie Jieun Lee is known for her evocative, visceral ceramics composed of organic freely thrown forms, encased in layers of oozing glaze; often times bringing forth conversations
about abstract painting in relationship to the history of ceramics.
Not exact matches
And
in their talk
about an
abstract show, called The
Painted World, the students are concerned with how the art — and the world — makes them simultaneously laugh and learn.
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abstract artist specializing
in large oversized and commissioned
paintings.
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paints representational and
abstract landscapes
in oil.
Think
about Mad Men — the
abstract painting that is installed up
in the executive's office.
The essay «
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak
about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around
painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, especially
abstract painting in this
painting in this country.
-LSB-...] «
Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health
Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows
about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health
painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is
in rude good health».
Through Aug. 16, 2014 Mark Bradford at White Cube Hong Kong Known for his
abstract, layered collage
paintings, Los Angeles - based Mark Bradford is presenting «a series of new works
about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning,
in the world's most densely populated city.»
In previous shows, I was loosely alluding to those things but primarily talking
about abstract painting.
In my mind, that's still
abstract painting; it's not really
about....
And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war
abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced
in a brief «manifesto» of the rising movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times
in response to a negative review of the new style: «There is no such thing as good
painting about nothing.
The first solo show
in an Italian museum of Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of
about forty
paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most important
abstract painter
in contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present day to the public.
I think the skeptics, at least over the past five years or so, were proven right with regard to the artists who are making
abstract paintings that are perfect for the way they are consumed: They make a lot of them, there's a green one and a blue one and a pink one, and you can collect them all like toys
in a Cracker Jack box, which is what they're all
about.
About five years ago, the artist Gabriel Orozco started printing colorful stickers that mimic the geometry of his
abstract paintings: semicircles and quarter - circles
in red, gold, white and blue.
We can say that it is
abstract, non-objective,
about colour and form and our perception of those things, but we live
in an age of plastic, so much more baggage to look at
paintings with.
The disappointment
about the exhibition is that it was very quiet and if you don't have a real interest
in abstract painting you would lose interest really easily.
As our eyes wander
about in one of her
paintings, we become aware of the breadth and depth of Bates» vision, and of her bold attempt at designing a new, non-art-historical,
abstract painting.
In the little temporal space in - between celebrating the success of Truth to Power and the stress of the upcoming new projects, I speak to the artist about abstract painting and traum
In the little temporal space
in - between celebrating the success of Truth to Power and the stress of the upcoming new projects, I speak to the artist about abstract painting and traum
in - between celebrating the success of Truth to Power and the stress of the upcoming new projects, I speak to the artist
about abstract painting and trauma.
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.
We wondered, not just
about the choice to
paint the figure and landscape
in the face of the
abstract expressionist juggernaut, but, considering this crew, the essence of masculinity at this time
in history.
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.
Furthermore, although his
paintings are emphatically
abstract (
in fact, he believes
in the historic inevitability of abstraction), they are not
about the relationships of formal elements such as color, shape and line.
He wants to subvert the standards of judgment integral to our understanding of
abstract painting, while being committed to the act of making... He is interested
in — to use his own words — perversely cultivating the tenuous relationship between «creative seeing» and the randomness of nature without becoming explicit... By finding ways to foreground his conflicts
about painting, while also expanding its definition, Burckhardt has become one of the most interesting artists of his generation.»
Talking
about his latest works McDermott said, «
In the Sonnet
Paintings, I have tried to depict the abstract with clarity... The paintings possess a photographic quality but what they depict is not ever obviou
Paintings, I have tried to depict the
abstract with clarity... The
paintings possess a photographic quality but what they depict is not ever obviou
paintings possess a photographic quality but what they depict is not ever obvious.»
This insecurity
about cultural signifiers filters through into much of our «
abstract»
painting as well, which feels compelled to reference the Australian landscape
in order to deliver meaning.
There have been persistent murmurs
in the art world
about the imminent (market) demise of the so - called Zombie Formalism movement, a kind of colorful, undemanding type of
abstract painting that's commanded astronomical prices for the past few years.
Assuming that my perceptions of Anne Smart and John Pollard's
paintings have any accuracy, a comparison between my account of their work and Pollock's reveals that an enormous shift
in thinking
about abstract art has taken place.
Simultaneously cynical and sincere
about the role of
painting in society, I cull marks from many histories
in abstract painting.
enamel
paint and metallic powders on archival paper 10.5 x 8.5 inches
in 20 x 16 inch matte
abstract work on paper, small
abstract, colorful
abstract work on paper, soft colors, light blue, purple
About the artist: Bruce Weldon Murphy was born and raised
in Tyler, Texas.
THIS PAST NOVEMBER, to kick off a panel discussion
about the exhibition «Oranges and Sardines,» curator Gary Garrels asked Amy Sillman — one of the six artists participating
in the show — to «describe the situation of
abstract painting today.»
«When I
paint an
abstract picture,» Gerhard Richter has said, «I neither know
in advance what it is meant to look like, nor, during the
painting process, what I am aiming at and what to do
about getting there.
Whatever you may think
about this critique of current tendencies
in abstract painting, it seems that all is not well
in the world -LSB-.....]
AMCDThinking
about your work
in its entirety, it is very interesting to me that you work simultaneously on both the portraits and your more
abstract works,
in the case of this exhibition that would be the Dome
paintings.
Pablo Aravena shot a this short film
about painting letter and
abstract graffiti
in an abandoned factory near Barcelona.
Asserting that abstraction «is always
about something... what it is
about is beyond confines of language,» Sarah Braman creates
abstract geometric sculptures and
paintings on pieced - together plywood panels,
in which she simultaneously foregrounds the formal qualities of her materials while referencing home, family life, and nature.
Now, as the latest
in our series of interviews around Phaidon's new Vitamin P3 compendium of contemporary
painting, Artspace's Loney Abrams spoke with the ambitious curator — and P3 nominator —
about the political and economic dimensions of
abstract painting, the pre-digital canvases of Thomas Bayrle, and what he's discovering
about the medium's direction while assembling the 2018 Triennial with fellow curator Gary Carrion - Murayari.
Although she doesn't
paint abstracts Audrewy Kawasaki always strikes me as very effeminate,
in part because of her subject matter, but it's also how she goes
about presenting and rendering things.
In this excerpt, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies, such as his belief that true abstract painting is nothing more than «lyrical, charming and decorative»
In this excerpt, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon
about his contemporaries
in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies, such as his belief that true abstract painting is nothing more than «lyrical, charming and decorative»
in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies, such as his belief that true
abstract painting is nothing more than «lyrical, charming and decorative».
I think
abstract paintings are always confrontational
in the sense that people have to make sense of them, so while you can see it on just a formal level and appreciate the colors and the shapes and so forth, at the same time you have to think
about what they may signify, which always makes the audience ill at ease.
Speaking of the figurative aspect of works that largely appear
abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good
abstract painting, but I'm often not interested
in what people talk
about when they talk
about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»
Based on the thoroughness of these class notes, and also on the syllabuses for the Asian art courses that Reinhardt took from Alfred Salmony at the IFA
in the late 1940s, the essentializing of Reinhardt's published essays was intentional, part of a larger strategy to promote his own ideas
about contemporary
abstract painting by means of
paintings from a foreign past.
Something
about aluminum as a
painting surface is suited to the kind of
abstract painting Solomon does: energetic, hastily applied brushwork that is thick
in some places and as thin as a wash
in others.
I'm thinking
about artists like Jack Whitten, who is now being recognized for his pioneering investigations
in abstract painting or Carmen Herrera, who is having her first show at the Whitney this fall at the age of 101.
KSWithout belaboring that «end of
painting,» I guess one of the things that interest me
about that work of David's, and it's the same thing I see
in yours, is that it holds together the
abstract and the pictorial, the process and the image,
in a way that I also see
in Georg Baselitz and other people.
Their fractured, planar,
abstract approach to depicting 3 - dimensional subject matter on a 2 - dimensional canvas ushered
in new ideas
about representation and vision, irrevocably altering what
painting could be.
(Photograph of the artist
in his studio in New York City, c. 1960) About the Artist: In the 1960's, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract paintin
in his studio
in New York City, c. 1960) About the Artist: In the 1960's, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract paintin
in New York City, c. 1960)
About the Artist:
In the 1960's, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract paintin
In the 1960's, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new
abstract painting.
In Forms 1, irregular, roughly geometric forms in four loose columns situate themselves on a grey ground, which looks as though it may be comprised of many layers of other colours in order to arrive at the richness of the final colour... Here, Parsons does not take some real world starting point and abstract from it in the process of representation, rather she invents by pushing the paint about on the canvas until forms suggest themselve
In Forms 1, irregular, roughly geometric forms
in four loose columns situate themselves on a grey ground, which looks as though it may be comprised of many layers of other colours in order to arrive at the richness of the final colour... Here, Parsons does not take some real world starting point and abstract from it in the process of representation, rather she invents by pushing the paint about on the canvas until forms suggest themselve
in four loose columns situate themselves on a grey ground, which looks as though it may be comprised of many layers of other colours
in order to arrive at the richness of the final colour... Here, Parsons does not take some real world starting point and abstract from it in the process of representation, rather she invents by pushing the paint about on the canvas until forms suggest themselve
in order to arrive at the richness of the final colour... Here, Parsons does not take some real world starting point and
abstract from it
in the process of representation, rather she invents by pushing the paint about on the canvas until forms suggest themselve
in the process of representation, rather she invents by pushing the
paint about on the canvas until forms suggest themselves.
Ann Knickerbocker blogs
about abstract paintings seen recently
in San Francisco including works by Indira Martina Morre, Teo Gonzalez, Judith Foosaner, Patrick Wilson, Marilyn Levin, Lora Fosberg, and Reed Anderson.
With each brushstroke, she pushes back against the status quo, inserting herself into a larger dialogue
about signification
in contemporary
abstract painting.