Sentences with phrase «abstract drip paintings»

It is generally recognized that Jackson Pollock's abstract drip paintings, executed from 1947, opened the way to the bolder, gestural techniques that characterize Action painting.

Pollock's name has become synonymous with the abstract drip paintings that he famously created on the floor of his studio.

Of course, one school of thought says that Pollock always saw even his great abstract drip paintings as figurative.

Yet the American painter is actually best known for his abstract drip paintings.

The gathering reveals an ambitious, sometimes awkward painter devoted to working in the open air who felt compelled to respond to Jackson Pollock and the radical allover compositions of his abstract drip paintings.

The abstract drip paintings were made during the climax of his career and pushed Pollock to the forefront of Abstract Expressionism — the first American art movement to wield international influence.

It was during this period that Pollock abandoned his iconic abstract drip paintings and produced the Black Pourings, a series of «drawings» on unprimed cotton duck using mostly black industrial paint.

It is generally recognized that Jackson Pollock's abstract drip paintings, executed from 1947, opened the way to the bolder, gestural techniques that characterize Action Painting.

Not exact matches

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

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.

The way the paint was applied to the canvas, or dripped on it, gave his abstract expressionism a level of distinctiveness in the similar way his personal life was different from other artists.

Tucked away in the back galleries are some of the exhibition's greatest showstoppers, including a mesmerizing painting by Ukraine - born Shimon Okshteyn; two red - drip paintings by Israeli - born, East Hampton - based poet, musician and painter Haim Mizrahi; and an abstract painting by another East End musician and artist, David Demers.

Starting from an abstracted image of a waterfall — paint which has been left to literally drip down across the painting's surface — Steir's paintings borrow from the vertical compositions of Chinese landscape painting and reference the metaphysical power of the waterfall as a symbol connecting heaven and earth.

Within the paintings simple abstract structures alluding to architecture coexist with simple but vast fields of marks, drips and staining.

Number 7 represents a shift in Pollock's style: rather than dripping, the artist used turkey basters to apply black paint in both abstract and figural forms.

Extending the post-painterly abstract techniques of pouring and staining, Saccoccio creates skeins of crisscrossing drip lines, often adding pure dry pigment to the wet paint, imbuing them with colors not normally seen in daily life.

The expressionistic, abstract gestures that motivate many paintings take new form in works such as Norman Bluhm's drawing that combines the physical properties of ink and gouache to show the drips, stains, and flow of abstract - expressionist gesture.

This abstract creation features strips of newspaper, fabric samples, scraps of wood and metal, and smeared, dripping oil paints on a six - and - a-half foot tall, eight foot wide canvas.

That Rauschenberg is acutely aware of the ironies of his situation is clear in his duplicated «action paintings» Factum I and Factum II, in which he proves the lie of abstract expressionist spontaneity by accurately reproducing every drip and splatter.

Scribbled paint strokes blur the punchlines of comics, drips of white paint collide with a thick red line squeezed right from the paint tube, and bits of headlines such as «Dandruff may be the beginning of baldness» jump out amid abstract patches of pink, red, and yellow.

He purchased an abstract painting for MoMA, a drip painting — and another for himself.

The abstract expressionist is known for dripping and pouring paint across large canvases.

The Parrish show also includes one of Dubuffet's great «texturologies» from the mid»50s: a painting that, like Pollock's drip paintings from a few years earlier, appears to be completely abstract.

Although Bluhm lived an ocean away from the epicenter of abstract expressionism, his works of the early 1950s share its gestural brushstrokes, visible paint drips, and pulsating color.

A gorgeous flood of lilac splats hedonistically across «Kumari»; the painting's surround configuration of expressively handled discs of green, aquamarine and red, all on a volatile stained ground of yellow, places it in a well - established tradition of abstract paintings that read as cosmic metaphors (Pollock's drip paintings that were meant to mirror universal flux or more recently Julian Schnabel's blue splurge titled, tongue - in - cheek, «Portrait of God»).

Just like Jackson Pollock in his drip paintings or Gerhard Richter in his abstract canvases produced with a squeegee, Bradford employs methods of chance in his work.

The lines that she draws out of crocheted fiber drip down like running paint, turning the rooms into an abstract painting that the public can move through, sit in, or even crawl under.

Drip is an abstract acrylic painting inspired by the expressionist works of Jackson Pollock.

Cheim & Reid, who have done more than any other major New York gallery to bring women's art to the fore, are exhibiting the last painting ever made by Joan Mitchell — a ravishing mess of blue and yellow squiggles indebted to Monet — alongside first - rate sculptures by Jenny Holzer and Lynda Benglis and a new abstract painting by Pat Steir dripping in silver and gold.

Ash Almonte Bringing me Closer 48 «x48» Mixed Media on Canvas Vibrant blue abstract painting filled with red flowers, numerous sketches and the artist's signature drip...

Newman's zips or the drips in a Pollock announce an abstract painting's material fact, including its scale, refusing to be either larger than life or dwarfed by nature.

She has never stopped painting, always abstracting from fruit stands or saints or museum masterpieces, trying out thin washes, sweeping brushstrokes, expressive drawing masked by repetitive drips.

For all the surprise it caused over the Atlantic, abstract expressionism was not the start of something, but rather a beautiful ending, the epic finale of a long tradition of Romantic nature painting, gone up in the fireworks of Newman's zips, Pollock's drips and the smoky miasma of Rothko's colour fields.

These works were a riposte to abstract - expressionist pictures, such as Jackson Pollock's «drip» paintings; the compositions were more radical and the process of producing them more intense.

Join us as we explore the work of Jackson Pollock, an American artist known for his major role in the abstract expressionist movement and his unique style of drip painting.

This abstract painting was created by pouring paint into puddles on the canvas and letting the paint drip down.

In NAWER's unique atmospheric presentation, refined geometric lines and abstract expressions such as paint drippings effortlessly co-exist.

In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock used the drip painting method as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of what became known as abstract expressionism.

These works follow on from Pollock's abstract action paintings which saw the artist drip brightly coloured paint onto canvases laid flat on the studio floor, and are far lesser known yet just as intriguing as these early, pioneering works.

Think abstract artists and beatniks in downtown Manhattan, Peggy Guggenheim and her new gallery Art of this Century, cocktail parties on the Upper East Side, Pollock's drip paintings, jazz, beat poetry, dancing the jitterbug and sipping Martinis at the Savoy as we celebrate the era when New York overtook Paris as the capital of the art world.

Throughout the decades, these artists experimented with different materials and printmaking techniques, producing highly conceptual prints that gave a definitive nod to contemporary developments in European and American painting, from the abstract aesthetics of Wassily Kandinsky (1866 — 1944) to the expressionist drip paintings of Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956).

At 7» 7» x 6» 7», it is the scale of New York abstract painting at that time, and it bears the signature flecks and drips of the period.

While Jackson Pollock is considered as the most well - known painter who created his abstract pieces by dripping paint onto a flat canvas, many before him experimented with this method as well.

The outfits evoke the work of abstract expressionist Jason Pollock and his trademark drip painting, breaking the line between traditional tailoring and sportswear.

In the early 1970s the precise forms of his abstracts — the L - shapes, the lozenges, rectangles, ovals, trapezoids — began to be scumbled and overlaid with dripped or poured paint.

Having a workspace of his own, Pollock was able to lie out raw sheets of canvas and had the chance to let his abstract paint - dripping technique take flight.

Sean Scully's stripe painting are surely as recognizable as Jackson Pollock's drips, yet in absolute terms Scully is still a somewhat under - discovered abstract painter who deserves a much wider recognition.

Bonnie Maygarden's almost photographic abstract texture is painted with enamel on leather, while Ashley Teamer's painting shows a young artist approaching abstract space using a variety of methods: Paint is poured, dripped, brushed and spread with a palette knife.

Her abstract warm colored painted backgrounds, with runs and drips contrast with the figurative aspect of the printed material.

Steir is probably best known for large - scale abstract canvases that suggest cascading waterfalls, each the consequence of a calculated system of brushing, dripping, and splattering paint.