Bradley's layers of color and
abstract fields of paint feel consistent throughout the show but still experimental with each new painting.
In other pieces, Kim draws the architecture of the space into
the abstract field of the painting, installing two - part works across the corner of a room as with Stanza (dal nulla all «infinito)(2006) and Tension (2008).
Not exact matches
In much
Abstract Expressionist
painting of the 50s, notably
paintings by Rothko and Newman, expanded
abstract visual
fields reflect the viewer's gaze, conjuring an awareness
of self.
By pairing the first - an
abstract painting whose flat forms are schematic and derived from markings observed on a soccer
field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical
painting photographed at an angle, Uglow creates a visual experience charged with the potential
of both abstraction and representation.
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.
The origins
of Color
Field — one
of the more intriguing forms
of contemporary
abstract painting — seem to lie in 19th - century Romanticism, particularly in a few radically reductive...
Some
of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to
abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge
painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color
Field.
Additionally, Tyler's
paintings are reminiscent
of the work from past artists such as the simplified geometric grids
of Piet Mondrian's later work, color
field paintings of Mark Rothko and the early
abstract expressionistic work by Philip Guston.
Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative
painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his
paintings,
abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in
fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style
of painting.
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With encouragement from Greenberg, Bush became closely tied to two movements that grew out
of the efforts
of the
abstract expressionists: Color
Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
That year he made new dot
paintings on white
fields that introduced an
abstract and new compositional awareness to his dot
paintings that emphasized the unique character
of each picture.
During the early to mid-1960s Color
Field painting was the term for the work
of artists like Anne Truitt, John McLaughlin, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, Friedel Dzubas, Jack Bush, Howard Mehring, Gene Davis, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Goodnough, Ray Parker, Al Held, Emerson Woelffer, David Simpson, and others whose works were formerly related to second generation
abstract expressionism; and also to younger artists like Larry Poons, Ronald Davis, Larry Zox, John Hoyland, Walter Darby Bannard and Frank Stella.
The colour
fields are inextricably linked to her black and white canvases, the subjects
of the latter — sparingly
painted so as to retain the appearance
of the canvas weave — resulting from internet searches that occur to her whilst working on the
abstracts.
That same year Peter Young
painted a series
of large
abstract paintings that were tight clusters
of primary colored dots on white
fields.
Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the
paintings on view relate to Color
Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use
of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking
abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
Her work — which she describes as «futurist
abstract paintings in three dimensions» — playfully transforms conventional signifiers
of femininity into genderless,
abstract color
fields.
Figuratively, many near -
abstract photographers merge the clarity
of photography and
of color -
field painting.
John Plumb was an English
abstract painter who produced
paintings with large
fields of a single color and narrow strips on the edge
of different colors.
Within the
paintings simple
abstract structures alluding to architecture coexist with simple but vast
fields of marks, drips and staining.
Jaime Gili's bright screen - printed design recalls the history
of modernism and
painting in the twentieth century with its bold, distinct color
fields and
abstract shapes.
His automatic
paintings and use
of color inspired the surrealists,
abstract expressionists, Dadaists, and color
field painters.
But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative
painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that
abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one
of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective
field».
Through the incorporation
of materials culled from the everyday, she is able to address numerous artistic traditions including
abstract expressionism, minimalism, and color
field painting.
Among the second group
of abstract paintings at Firestone are works such as «Thunderbird» (1970), where a geometric cluster
of blue lines, each about the width
of standard masking tape, floats on a vibrant, flat red
field.
Pollock's energetic «action
paintings», with their «busy» feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series
of Willem de Kooning's figurative
paintings and the rectangles
of color in Mark Rothko's Color
Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were
abstract).
Well, like all good
abstract art, the masters
of color -
field painting have made it appear simple and effortless.
He liked the effect, and made it his own, combining the wiped marks with sprayed loops to create complex
abstract fields that began to look, squinted at from a distance, like black and white reproductions
of paintings by Franz Kline or de Kooning.
Umbach's
abstract paintings reveal his classical training in the juxtaposition
of people or objects rendered in realism in
fields of abstraction
of both color and texture.
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.
Halkin's most recent
paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph - like shapes and mottled
fields of muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less
abstract.
A fascinating 1972 documentary, directed by Emile de Antonio, examines the development
of abstract expressionism through Hard Edge and Color
Field painting to Pop Art.
Langsam will feature a site - specific
painting on the gallery walls based on the original blueprints
of the Neuberger Museum, layered and transformed by
abstract color
fields, selected randomly by chance.
She was eminent among the second generation
of postwar American
abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from
Abstract Expressionism to Color
Field painting.
This aesthetic,
of individuated parts and segments organized across a
field, is recurrent in the
abstract painting and sculpture on view.
Gilliam (born 1933) is a color
field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist associated with the Washington Color School, a group
of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form
of abstract art from color
field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.
In sculpture, video and photographic prints, Rana transforms snapshots
of shop signs in Lahore into
abstracted cityscapes or renders reproductions
of Old Master
paintings as digital
fields of colour.
The continuation
of abstract expressionism, color
field painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism,
abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and other late 20th - century Modernist movements in both
painting and sculpture continued through the first decade
of the 21st century and constitute radical new directions in those mediums.
Powerful impressionist
painting of abstract color
fields, titled «Moments Remembered» by Marie (Meinke) Sarni (American, b. 1931), circa 1970.
Recent
abstract paintings by Andy Collins and Stuart Netsky in the exhibition play off
of Abstract Expressionism as well as Color
Field and Finish Fetish
painting of the 1960s.
His large - scale
abstract paintings feature
fields of solid color with little depth or perspective, created by pouring, spraying, and sponging
paints and dyes onto the canvas.
A variety
of abstract styles ranging from geometric abstraction, lyrical abstraction, hard - edge
painting and color
field painting are linked with the work
of Ronald Davis.
Powerful
abstract expressionist
painting of color
fields, titled «Shifting Memories» by Marie (Meinke) Sarni (American, b. 1931), circa 1980.
The Columbus Museum
of Art and Denver Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major exhibition tracing the evolution
of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced, figurative compositions
of the early 40s to the
abstract, color
field paintings for which he is best known.
One
of the pioneers
of Color
Field Painting, Rothko's
abstract arrangements
of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.
Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core
of a group known as the colour
field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one
of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces
of the
abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based
paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage
of art's march to absolute abstraction.
In this new work, introduction to his upcoming exhibition in the fall, a discarded umbrella alters our perception
of an otherwise
abstract color -
field painting.
Helen Frankenthaler was eminent among the second generation
of postwar American
abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from
Abstract Expressionism to Color
Field painting.
Influenced by New York
abstract expressionism and
abstract colour -
field painting, Robert Scott has developed a style
of drawing with his fingers through the top layer
of paint to expose the underpainted colours.
Fire In The
Field Feu Dans Les Champs is an original, one -
of - a-kind
abstract painting signed by artist Nathalie Gribinski.