Sentences with phrase «as abstract expressionism»

Postwar Modern Art and the Rejection of Modernism The development of a new American art movement was held in abeyance until after World War II, when the United States took the lead in the formation of a vigorous new art known as abstract expressionism with the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning.
This major survey of Freud's prolific output spans 7 decades, and demonstrates his dogged determination to stick to what he believed in, going against the grain in the early stages of his career with a commitment to figurative painting in a predominantly Modernist era, and ignoring ground breaking movements such as the abstract expressionism of the 40s and 50s.
Gruppe Rot - Blau and Gruppe 33) as well as abstract expressionism, informal art and contemporary art from Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
Her vivid, playful patchwork of lines and shapes resist simple definition, recalling styles as diverse as abstract expressionism, graffiti, Pop, and Feminist craft.
The BORF series still resonates with today's society and though may not be classified as abstract expressionism, the series is both expressive and abstract in its own way.
But color - field painting by the likes of Olitski and Kenneth Noland never swept the art world as abstract expressionism had.
He created collages and assemblages incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera in an effort to make images as powerful as the abstract expressionism he admired.
So, here was something I could actually exploit and make my own, and make drawings as big as abstract expressionism, and, using glass, make them objects with a heaviness, a weight.
I don't think there is any one group now unifying the country in an aesthetic way as abstract expressionism did.
«The first is a painting known as 1944 (image above)-- probably the first largest radical statement of tendencies that would later be hallmarked as abstract expressionism.
I see the abstract art development of the 30s and 40s, as far as abstract expressionism is concerned, going always toward form significance, and Surrealism goes toward literary significance.
Albert Alcalay (1917 Paris - March 29, 2008 Boston) was an American abstract artist, also known as an abstract expressionism artist.
As abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Bloom became disenchanted with it, calling it «emotional catharsis, with no intellectual basis.»
Eventually performance came to link tendencies as disparate as abstract expressionism, pop art, Fluxus and Arte Povera.
Moreover, Alfred Barr, pertained to masterpieces by the artist Wassily Kandinsky as abstract expressionism, which was noted to have been in 1929.
This trend strengthened further after World War II, as abstract expressionism took hold in New York - the new capital of world art.
Critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg emerged as abstract expressionism's most articulate champions.
Her commitment to truth and dedication to figuration — unfashionable during her lifetime — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde movements such as abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism.
Twombly's signature style of abstract art is a blend of drawing and painting, which combines elements of calligraphy and graffiti as well as abstract expressionism, with references to Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance.
He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism.
Produced by the Department of Exhibition Programs, the film follows the career of Virginia Dwan, who opened her first art gallery in Los Angeles in 1959 and went on to organize dozens of exhibitions of remarkable range, representing movements as diverse as abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, and land art.
His art would quickly begin to morph into a style that would become known as abstract expressionism.
Still's art would quickly morph into a style later known as abstract expressionism, as evident in this 1937 piece titled «PH - 343.»
With its strong formal presence, Boyer's art reflected his awareness of contemporary trends in Western art such as abstract expressionism and colour field painting.
Thereafter, the discourse develops around some of the avant - garde movements that staged an aesthetic explosion from mid-century onward, such as abstract expressionism, minimalism or post-minimalism; a choice, however, that does not imply the possibility of defining a unique direction in the artistic experience of our time.
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.
Playful, rigorous, and spontaneous, his works are rich in their connection to art movements, such as abstract expressionism and pop art, while pulsating in a distinct maximalist style all their own.
In one last inward recognition of the Lineaist origins in fine art, one of the prominent styles of Lineaism started in 2001 and is referred to as abstract expressionism.
The style became known as abstract expressionism, or «action» painting, because it frequently resulted from a direct and unpremeditated relationship between an artist and his medium.
He was referring to a loose association of fellow artists in New York City in the 1940s whose radical new artwork became known as abstract expressionism.
The Modern ranges from mid-20th-century movements such as abstract expressionism and color field painting to contemporary works, photography and the latest in video and digital imagery.
One example would be an exhibition that traces the emergence of and shows the interrelationship between important movements such as abstract expressionism, hard - edge painting, lyrical abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art.
This is what was defined by Oswald Herzog in Der Sturm, in 1919, as abstract expressionism.
Featuring previously unseen pieces, with the majority of the paintings displayed at Oxford House, James contends that during the 1930s and»60s this associate of rather better known artists, such as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters and Fernand Léger, was producing experimental and uniquely creative works that anticipated key art movements such as abstract expressionism.
«Shiraga's and Motonaga's work expands our understanding of the global evolution of modernism, dispelling notions that movements such as abstract expressionism and the participatory and process - driven elements of so much contemporary practice are purely Western inventions,» said Ritter.
The most celebrated of these is known as abstract expressionism — abstract, because most of the new art eschewed all traces of visible reality; expressionism, because it appeared to have been created through uncontrolled and sometimes violent painterly gestures.
His explorations of personal symbology as well as abstract expressionism that brings to mind painters that continue to influence his work such as Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Georg Baselitz, and Joan Mitchell.
Douaihy's work demonstrates the artist's deep understanding of the minimalist aesthetic as well as abstract expressionism.
Do you classify this as abstract expressionism?
Impressionism, cubism, and «pop art,» as well as abstract expressionism, serve as examples.)
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