Not exact matches
These are impressively adept paintings with a confident sense of scale, but they
do not have a distinctive character compared to contemporary works by artists such
as Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, or Joan Mitchell, to reference only the most noted women
abstract painters of Schapiro's generation.
Artists I know personally, such
as Christian Haub and other
abstract painters,
do not often get a show for me to review, but just
as well.
Many
abstract painters also
do realistic sketches
as part of their process.
A possible correction: I don't know
abstract painters or surrealists but I
do know photographers: Ernst's other woman «Dorothea» is likely not Dorothea Lange
as stated in the first part of the article but the Dorothea Tanning mentioned in the second.
While he
did not switch completely over to
abstract techniques until 1910, he is regarded
as one of the first
abstract painters of modern times.
On the other hand, both parts of Black in the
Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction —
as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «
abstract painter» —
does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.
She was unswerving in her devotion to the
abstract cause, refusing, for example, to exhibit the voguish
painter Yves Klein (who coated his naked models in paint and then wielded them
as «living brushes») because his canvases «
did not spring from any
abstract impulse» and to display them would have been «to deviate from my programme».
How
do you interpret depth and perspective
as an
abstract painter?
As revelatory and satisfying as this effort will undoubtedly be, I wish the museum would do something completely strange, like mounting a thorough, Modern - style retrospective of the artist - healer Hilma af Klint, someone completely outside its carefully elaborated narrative who was nonetheless one of Europe's earliest abstract painter
As revelatory and satisfying
as this effort will undoubtedly be, I wish the museum would do something completely strange, like mounting a thorough, Modern - style retrospective of the artist - healer Hilma af Klint, someone completely outside its carefully elaborated narrative who was nonetheless one of Europe's earliest abstract painter
as this effort will undoubtedly be, I wish the museum would
do something completely strange, like mounting a thorough, Modern - style retrospective of the artist - healer Hilma af Klint, someone completely outside its carefully elaborated narrative who was nonetheless one of Europe's earliest
abstract painters.
Seldom, however,
does one get the opportunity to view the work of those
abstract painters on the West Coast whose work was every bit
as strong, and every bit
as compelling
as their East Coast contemporaries.
After a few moments amongst the paintings in his recent exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery it becomes clear that Gabriel Orozco doesn't intend to take up a dialogue with the history and medium of painting; he is painting not
as a
painter, but rather employs the format of
abstract painting
as a possibility for depicting his geometrical thought.
«They weren't
doing this
as a hobby,» Garrels reflects
as he sits on a bench on the fourth floor, which is divided between figurative and
abstract art by Warhol, portraitist Chuck Close,
abstract expressionist
painters Joan Mitchell, Phillip Guston and others.
It's an unusual outing, to say the least, for the world's most celebrated living
painter, because the works aren't paintings per se but rather painting-esque things: what he
did was take a digital image of a single one of his 1990
abstract canvases and then run it through a mathematical process to isolate its chromatic DNA
as a series of eye - boggling, colored «STRIPS.»
The drip -
painter Jackson Pollock had his first museum exhibition at SFMOMA,
as too
did abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still.
How
do you balance your relationship with the 20th century painting
as an
abstract painter?
Condo started making «drawing - paintings», where you can't distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: «There's no real difference between figurative painting or
abstract painting, «cause it's all painting to begin with... You don't» have to follow any rules
as a
painter.
The Other nominees for the inaugural year included sculptor Richard Deacon, the collaborative duo Gilbert & George,
abstract painter Howard Hodgkin and sculpture and installation artist Richard Long — but unlike his fellow nominees Morley just
did not fit into any one particular genealogy; with his connection to Photorealism, or Super-realism —
as he named it — later being discarded by the artist in favour of a more expressive method of painting — that critics deemed a kind of Neo-expressionism.
Anyway, I
did a painting for the show titled Fuck de koning, Hail De Kooning
as a tribute to the
abstract painter.
Rail:
Do you think that your previous experience
as an
abstract painter, which requires a much more visual and unorthodox painting process, affects the way you paint representationally?
Now seen
as one of the most original
abstract painters - indeed one of the most innovative of all 20th century
painters - his style of concrete art, unfortunately,
did not begin to be properly understood until a retrospective of his career was staged at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1958 a year after his death.
NS Philip Guston was totally accepted
as an
abstract painter, and then stopped being an
abstract painter and then
did these almost cartoon - like paintings.
Ryman withheld the same level of praise for other
abstract painters, particularly Barnett Newman, who,
as far
as Ryman was concerned,
did not achieve the same strict nonrepresentation.
DT:
Does your training
as an
abstract painter still influence your work at all today, or
do you feel you've moved away from that style entirely?
As an
abstract painter, I
do the same thing: I leave bits of the conversation.»
The term new spirit painting became used particularly in Britain and is useful in that it also embraces aspects of new painting at that time that
do not fit quite comfortably into the category of neo-expressionism, such
as the American
painters David Salle and Eric Fischl and in Britain Paula Rego, Stephen McKenna, Steven Campbell and the
abstract painter Sean Scully.
Paying attention to not - quite - household names -
abstract expressionists such
as Theodoros Stamos and Grace Hartigan, Bay Area figurative
painter Paul Wonner and Stephen Greene, who didn't fit into a particular movement but fused color - field painting with biomorphism to intriguing effect - is another way the McNay sheds «new light» on postwar art.
Very few contemporary
abstract painters — and among them I count Thomas Nozkowski, whose work enjoys wide exposure, and Gary Stephan, a Mary Boone artist twenty years ago and now inexplicably underrepresented in New York — excite and bewilder
as Masullo
does.
I see it
as a double challenge; to, all at once, question the hegemony of
abstract painting's «post painterly» inheritance and, at the same time, move on from the empty rhetoric and theatricality of much gesturally driven painting - and
do all this in original and surprising ways...... It will be very interesting to read the Brancaster crits coming up on the
painters Patrick Jones and Nick Moore in all these respects...........
In what way
did his work influence your path
as an
abstract painter?