By freeing figures from conventional associations, Baselitz concentrates attention on
the abstract elements of the painting, such as the hatched network of lines that surrounds, defines and penetrates the figure in the linocuts and woodcuts on view.
The figurative and
abstract elements of his paintings reinterpret the visual information of the world, through the use of sharp lines that create ominous compositions.
Not exact matches
And like the stratification
of art imposed by some in varying orders to describe the proximity
of each to the inexpressibility
of their souls (prose to dance to
painting to poesy to music, for me), when film aspires to combine the more
abstract elements of human expression in its mélange, the results, always mixed, at least have the potential to be grand.
But that was just one small
element of his long career producing
abstract paintings and print work for the likes
of the ICI, the Arts Council, the Institute
of Contemporary Arts and the Robert Fraser Gallery.
Sultan writes: «used the
elements of cartooning ---- bold colors, simple shapes, black outlines ---- to create vivid and inventive
abstract paintings.
Among a new generation
of abstract painters who emerged combining color field
painting with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new
elements of complex space and surface into their works.
And that's the one thing that's always missing for me in
abstract painting, that I don't have this kind
of dialogue between something that can be,
elements that can be wildly different and can be at war, in, or in extreme conflict.
Alongside letter - based graffiti, Myne
paints abstract images that fuse
elements of the organic, natural world and the rigidity
of man - made structures and architecture.
So a kind
of hierarchy
of importance as to the various
elements of a picture, that's something that I've struggled to somehow bring into
abstract painting.
Meg Lipke's work brings textiles into the sculptural realm while incorporating
elements of abstract painting.
It should be noted that while the overall effect
of Murray's work is one
of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an
abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational
elements and references in her
paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized
abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.
Are the Asian - American artists inspired by
abstract expressionists, or are they drawn to the Asian
elements of the style, in turn appropriated from Chinese, Japanese and other non-western art and culture, from calligraphy, Sung
painting and Zen Buddhism, from John Cage and DT Suzuki, from the Gutai artists and Sung
painting?
I partnered decorative
elements with really destructive agents to create large
abstract paintings out
of textiles.»
Known for his playful integration
of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles —
Abstract Expressionism and Representational
Painting.
At one point as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set
of blue
paintings with some subtle white
abstract elements on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.
He later invented his Texturologies —
abstract paintings which adapted the traditional Tyrolean technique used by plasterers: Dubuffet covered his canvas in layers
of tiny droplets
of paint, and combined it with materials including collaged
elements and sand.
Vernon Fisher's series
of abstract paintings titled Zombies, bring an
element of surprise with their addition
of hand
painted faux flies.
Lerma uses layers
of figurative as well as
abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges
of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.
The Last
Painting of the Century (1999) and Ultrazoomazipzamapopdeluxa (1998), two large acrylic, oil, and spray
paint works, use figurative and
abstract elements to represent energy, motion, and the relationship between reality and imagination, freedom and control.
Scher's larger works (and groupings
of multiple works) provide fields where some
of these
elements convene, where countless drawings — which often get loose into otherwise
abstract paintings — are funny conundrums that outlast their own laugh lines.
In this
abstract painting entitled «Wald Bau, Forest Construction,» there are references to an evergreen forest intermingled with gridded
elements suggestive
of walls and paths.
Liliane Tomasko's
abstract paintings are «Inscapes»
of everyday life — the terrain
of an unmade bed, the columns
of closed curtains, or the vagarious composition
of scattered cushions; quotidian
elements we rarely contemplate but make up the fabric
of our realities.
Deeply aware
of the historical precedents
of abstract painting, he sometimes evokes images and memories, while at other times uses the
elements of painting to their own ends.
Adolf Gottlieb, the
Abstract Expressionist, used bursts
of red pigment as image and as structural
element, while Josh Smith now churns out messy
abstract paintings like child's play — or like an emerging artist's assembly - line product.
She often works from models,
painting still lifes that are not depictions
of reality but increasingly
abstract transformations
of shapes and the relationships between various
elements.
What you'll see instead, all around the space, is the recent work where I have composed
abstract paintings, done in the last two years, with three - dimensional
elements that show the scars
of time.
Laura Jane Scott's vividly
abstract compositions embrace not only the two essential
elements of Abstract Hard Edge
Painting, colour and structure, but also principles
of Conceptual Art.
I am an
abstract artist and almost always put the «heavier» or more «active»
elements of the
painting at the «top».
The
paintings and drawings
of Los Angeles artist Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) collide
abstract and figurative
elements into spider - webbed splinters that skew traditional perspective and dazzle the eye.
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.
Born from a substratum
of abstract expressive
paint, the figural
elements of Huey's work hail from a multiplicity
of styles and eras.
Cy Twombly's highly celebrated large - scale
paintings incorporate
abstract, expressive ingredients, including his signature scrawled and scribbled lines, cheeky representational
elements, such as penises, and textual components, e.g. passages from the poetry
of Rainer Maria Rilke.
His methods contain notable convergences with
abstract painting, and increasingly
abstract elements are evident within the tree
paintings that have been a consistent focus
of his practice in recent years.
The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres
of figurative or
abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the other limiting binaries
of interpretation to be both volatile and conservative, soulful and austere, containing
elements that appeal to both sides in these
paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»
Unlike van Gogh, who in the Nineteenth Century could not yet imagine a wholly
abstract art, Mitchell mobilized her artistic will to liberate the constituent
elements of painting — line and color, composition and gesture — from their servitude to the fleeting appearances
of the material world.
Yet it is the integration
of all
elements that generated an experience outside
of the typical appreciation for
abstract paintings.
Jackson's often large - scale
paintings blend figural
elements of bodies pointing, kneeling, drawing, and playing instruments with colorful
abstract compositions and vigorously worked surfaces.
An early 20th - century school
of painting and sculpture in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing
abstract form at the expense
of other pictorial
elements largely by use
of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones.
She often compares the rhythm
of her
painting as akin to weaving in which she uses representational
elements made
of paint, textiles or plastics to build
abstract paintings where each
element is recognizable but does not behave as it should.
Watercolors on paper related to sculpture; tabletop sculptures; a series
of mixed media
paintings that incorporate collaged
elements and his newest work:
abstract acrylic
paintings on canvas or watercolor paper.
So do Dannielle Tegeder and Melissa Kretschmer, who incorporate
elements of sculpture to disrupt the border between
abstract painting and architecture.
His
painted photographic prints combine airbrushed acrylic
paint and
abstract photographs while cleverly incorporating external
elements such as variations
of light, space, and time, with the intention to raise questions about perception and how we relate to various media.
The
abstract qualities
of these
paintings don't directly compete with the representational
elements but work together to create a vibrant tension.
Indeed, there is an
element of the famous Whistler v. Ruskin dispute in these criticisms
of current
abstract painters — a sense
of resentment towards the market for celebrating work that has not taken long enough to
paint.
Highlights included the pairing
of Botticelli's 1485 Portrait
of a Woman with Jef Verheyen's 1962 Four
Elements Air, and a new
abstract painting by Dutch artist, Jean - Marie Bytebier.
Painter and printmaker Jennifer Bartlett is known for her experimentations into color and pattern, and her propensity for combining
elements of abstract minimalism and representational
painting.
Much
of Cy Twombly's more
abstract art was based on language and the process
of writing, and he would often write narratives that lurked just beneath the surface
elements of his
paintings.
Her
paintings, often
of reduced,
abstracted compositions in drenching colors, involve the interplay
of elements.
Today, nearly two centuries since Turner's visits to Margate, see first - hand how his dynamic concept
of landscape, unconventional use
of colour and near
abstract watercolours and
paintings secured his place as the artist
of the
elements and the founder
of modern landscape
painting.
Frequently used in the past by major
Abstract Expressionist artists, such as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, this
element, in most cases, also defines the contemporary
abstract painting production
of our time.