Painting a heart or multiple hearts in the style of Jim Dine is an excellent place to start experimenting with
abstract painting techniques, particularly if you have a fear of abstract painting.
His paintings use the by - now venerable
abstract painting technique of pouring to risk a certain loss of control, and yet by using blown - up stencils to interrupt these random flows with fragments of words, images, or hand - me - down decorative motifs, he constantly keeps a discursive, referential function in play.
Through his partially
abstract painting technique, Wood uses overlapping colour and form to flatten out interludes of space within his intricate compositions.
Not exact matches
Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose
abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century
painting than that of any other artist.
The sudden fusion of these disparate schools of thought and
technique would birth a wide body of new works and approaches to
painting and sculpture, with artists like Klee and Miró driving forward radical new ideologies in the creation of
abstract works.»
(This was a decade before Gerhard Richter began his heralded
abstract paintings using a similar
technique.)
Rothko to Richter explores how changes in process and
technique, specifically in mark - making, signal broader changes to
abstract painting.
Perfecting his computer - based
technique into what he calls «frictionless drawing», blue monochromatic works on display demonstrate how these
abstract and vector - like gestures are meticulously transposed onto canvas using acrylic, tape, UV ink and spray
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.
Paul Jenkins was a prolific American
abstract artist, known for his unusual chance - based,
paint - pouring and fate - tempting
painting technique.
Under their influence, Kline began to move away from the figuration, exploring the new
abstract gestural
technique on the large scale
paintings.
For them, the debate around
abstract painting largely concerned process and
technique, specifically the artistic gesture and mark - making.
These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its
painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previo
painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary
Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previo
Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary
painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previo
painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary
abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the
techniques of painters from previous eras.
Characterized by intuitive and loose
paint handling, spontaneous expression, illusionist space, acrylic staining, process, occasional imagery, and other painterly
techniques, the
abstract works included in this exhibition sing with rich fluid color and quiet energy.
Having built a diverse body of work since her early career ranging from portraits to
abstract paintings of the universe, today Cindy's works exhibit a more impressionistic
technique.
Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with
technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential of
abstract painting... read more... «Joan Snyder receives MacArthur genius award»
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.
A
technique in which
paint, or another liquid medium, is poured to create a flowing, (most often)
abstract composition.
Martin Basher works in a variety of different media — from photo - realist
paintings, large - scale
abstract canvases, and assemblage sculptures to collage
techniques.
At Wharf Road, Hernández is showing
abstract paintings that continue his investigation into gesture and form while extending the innovative
techniques of accumulation and...
The choice of playful titles permits viewers to read some content into the
abstract and
technique - focused
paintings, making his work quite approachable.
California - based painters Greg Gong and Jon Pestoni have, through unifying
abstract forms over a variety of ground materials and
techniques, developed complementary methods that result in layered, petrified
paint.
Drawing inspiration from the rawness and decay of the urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large - scale
abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials — tar, bitumen, aluminum sheeting and oxidized steel plates — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing
techniques.
Over the last thirty years, Wool has explored many different methods for creating
abstract images, often utilizing printmaking
techniques in combination with
painting.
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.
Tom seamlessly fuses academically realistic
painting techniques with looser, more
abstract marks.
The artist uses the
technique of automatic drawing to create the small
painting, which is an
abstract drawing made in a short period of time and in a spontaneous manner.
Hugo McCloud (b1980, Palo Alto, California) is known for his large - scale
abstract paintings that use materials such as tar paper and metal, and engage with traditional woodblock printing
techniques.
Panel II: Digital Abstraction This panel will hone in on
abstract painting influenced by digital imaging
techniques, digital technologies, and new / post media theory.
Other shock tactics are used: emptiness (large canvases
painted a solid color, with a thin line running down the side), pornography and scatology, lack of
painting technique, or
abstract non-representation carried to an extreme (see page 57).
Four of the
paintings in the show are encaustic on newspaper; Johns revives the ancient
technique of wax -
painting in a way that again calls attention to the surface, which is both veined and suave, almost like skin over membrane, rather than harsh and rough like the surfaces of the
abstract expressionists (or for that matter, Rauschenberg's surfaces).
In her series, De Luca was invoking the tenants of modernist art history and employing her own
abstract techniques to the
paintings.
This print translates Abts's characteristically precise, meditative, and
abstract painting style into a new medium, employing multiple printmaking
techniques to create a complex, layered composition that balances linear, geometric elements with fluid, sinuous strokes.
For his first solo exhibition with Sean Kelly, McCloud has created eleven new,
abstract works, mixing unconventional industrial materials — aluminum sheeting, silver aluminum butane
paint, and black liquid tar — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing
techniques.
The aesthetic of Flip Art is recognizable and can be summed up to three principles:
abstract composition, cheap -
painting techniques and mass - production.
Chronicling an
abstract personal account of his relationships, studio practice, and his sense of history through a spectrum of
techniques, New York - based artist Richard Aldrich has in recent years placed himself at the forefront of a new approach to the medium that re-thinks how a
painting is made, how it is experienced, and ultimately what it all means.
Ahn Hyun - Ju is a Korean
abstract artist, who takes an experimental approach in her research of
painting techniques and colour associations.
Peter Schjeldahl writes in the October 9th, 2017 issue of The New Yorker, «The happiest surprise in Trigger is a trend in
painting that takes inspiration from ideas of indeterminate sexuality for revived formal invention... Christina Quarles... rhymes ambiguous imagery of gyrating bodies with dynamics of disparate pictorial
techniques... The wholes and parts of bodies in Quarles's cheerfully orgiastic pictures entangle in alternating styles of line, stroke, stain, and smear... called to mind early nineteen - forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the way to physically engaging abstraction... Quarles playing that process in reverse, adapting
abstract aesthetics to carnal representation.
March 2013 - Since 1997, Jeff Elrod has been using basic software programs to create
abstract paintings with a
technique he calls «frictionless drawing.»
Chinese artist Sherman Lin discusses his style,
technique, and inspiration from humanity and nature in his
abstract paintings.
This exhibition consists of illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging
techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as
abstract paintings.
Learning from Monet's masterful
techniques and somehow using them would need a new structure and organisation within an
abstract painting to take the place of objects.
On view in PC — G's Reilly Gallery, this group exhibition consists of illusionistic compositions — rendered somewhere between meticulous staging
techniques, analog processes and digital alterations — manipulate perceptions of space and reality to create photographs that appear as
abstract paintings.
Hiroshi Senju's sublime, large - scale
paintings of waterfalls and cliffs are renowned for combining the
techniques of
abstract expressionism with Japan's centuries - old nihonga style of
painting.
Taking this premise as his point of departure, Rondinone creates mixed - media installations that run the gamut of artistic genres and
techniques — including landscape drawing,
abstract painting, photographic portraiture, realist sculpture, and video — and reflect the belief that
The
paintings created between 1989 and 1994 are widely considered to represent the purest articulation of Richter's
abstract technique, and represent the culmination of a rigorous investigation into the possibilities of
painting.
Anne Russinof seems to use a wet - on - wet
painting technique in which she — from what I have gleaned from her web page — uses gestural,
abstract expressionist
techniques accompanied with a more minimalist concern for structure.
Her
painting styles itself add texture too, especially in her
abstract canvases, combining older silkscreen
techniques with digital imaging technologies like Microsoft
paint, impasto brushwork with newspaper ads.
This print translates Abts's characteristically precise, meditative, and
abstract painting style into a new medium, employing multiple printmaking
techniques to create a complex, layered composition that balances dynamic linear elements with loose, jagged forms.
Abstracted womb - like forms open out beneath a relatively realistic moorland landscape — echoing both mining tunnels and the birth of Lanyon's first child — the brooding reds and blues given an incised, sculptural quality by the scraping away of wet
paint with a razor, a
technique learned from Nicholson.