By the early 1960s Minimalism had emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in
the arena of Action painting.
By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in
the arena of Action painting.
Minimal art rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in
the arena of action painting.
Not exact matches
The canvas as the
arena became a credo
of Action painting, while the integrity
of the picture plane became a credo
of the Color field painters.
In the late 1940s, Motherwell embraced the tenets associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement: the canvas as an
arena in which the artist engages spontaneously and passionately in the physical and mental
action of painting; the composition, often monumental in size, charged with feeling; the abstract forms suggesting deep, open - ended meanings.
In the postwar period
painting became an
arena for
action, as Harold Rosenberg explicated in his essay, «The American Action Painters,» published in ARTnews in December of
action, as Harold Rosenberg explicated in his essay, «The American
Action Painters,» published in ARTnews in December of
Action Painters,» published in ARTnews in December
of 1952.
(1) In this Flack echoes one
of the central tenants
of Harold Rosenberg's theory
of action painting, in which the canvas is an
arena where the artist enacts his or her own psychic drama.
In the work Up to and Including Her Limits (1973 - 77), Schneemann literally enters an «
arena of painting» to engage with, extend, and critique the legacy
of Jackson Pollock,
action painting, and Abstract Expressionism.