His style can be defined
as abstract painting in which there is no subject, only shapes and colors.
I don't think of
them as abstract paintings in the landscape, I think of bringing color to the landscape and making marks that would be gestures in relation to the space around me.
Not exact matches
In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make pain
In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such
abstract art
in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make pain
in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used
as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make
paint.
The front features a pastel
abstract painting of sorts that is particularly lovely when paired
in contrast against the more bold and graphic design of the bottoms,
as modeled on the webpage.
Characteristic for his position
in American art
in the 1940 - 50's was that De Kooning had an
abstract,
as well
as a representational side
in his
painting art and both were present and visible.
Illustrated with a mix of portrait photos and a few
paintings in childlike or
abstract styles, and capped by suggestions for related classroom activities and a short resource list, this book will serve
as both an effective consciousness raiser for middle - grade students and a strong lead -
in to Deborah Ellis» powerful Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees (2009).
There are important works
in the permanent collection (almost always on view) by Mondrian, Chagall, Picasso, and Warhol,
as well
as a large number of
abstract paintings by Makevich, which are well - worth seeing if you have an interest
in Russian avant - garde.
BP: I also heard a story that when John Currin was a grad student at Yale, you went
as a visiting artist and, during the studio critiques, you told him that his work (he was making
abstract paintings at the time) had something hard to find
in painting: they had poverty.
In 1965 he
painted thin plywood reliefs, with stretched canvas
as surface, and three years ago he used plywood, minus canvas, with a
painted abstract surface.
Tons of
paintings both oil, & acrylic,
abstract, landscapes, sculptures
in stone, cement, polymer clay, 3D canvas art, rock sculptures, fairies, fairy house lamps and stash jars,
as well
as handcrafted soaps, lotions, candles, bath salts to die for and it's all natural ingredients!!
Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted
paint, a range of his smaller
abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work
as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement
as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work
as based
in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.
3 Clyfford Still
painted a traditional portrait of his mother (PH - 420)
in 1946, the same year
as his breakthrough exhibition of completely
abstract paintings at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery.
Abstracting her natural surroundings — from the plantings
in her own yard to the vast displays at the nearby U.S. National Arboretum — Thomas
painted flower beds and gardens, horticultural landscapes
as if they were being viewed from an aerial perspective.
As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintin
As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest
in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer
as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintin
as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged
abstract, geometric
painting.
In his
abstract expressionism, each canvas is filled edge to edge with grand strokes, creating a simplistic portrait with a deeper texture,
as the dry
paint occasionally adds a physical dimension to what can be considered a flat surface.
As his work has developed over four decades he has created an enormous variety of series of
abstract paintings in an articulate, elegant and personal language.
These elements are found
in his earlier, more formal,
abstract work
as well
as in his recent subtle landscape
paintings.
Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out
as particularly impressive
in this context, with a selection of small skewed and
abstracted figure -
in - landscape
paintings.
In his paintings he reflected abstract - minimalist trends in 20th century art as were manifest, say, in the Russian avant - garde, American color field painting or Minimal Ar
In his
paintings he reflected
abstract - minimalist trends
in 20th century art as were manifest, say, in the Russian avant - garde, American color field painting or Minimal Ar
in 20th century art
as were manifest, say,
in the Russian avant - garde, American color field painting or Minimal Ar
in the Russian avant - garde, American color field
painting or Minimal Art.
Behind the black gate was a world of color, hundreds of
abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start
as a painter
in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to
paint.
In addition to her widely popular Infinity Rooms, such
as LOVE IS CALLING, Kusama creates vibrant
paintings, works on paper, and sculpture with
abstract imagery.
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.
The essay «
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
Painting and Countenance» is,
as is much of my writing on
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around
painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, especially
abstract painting in this
painting in this country.
The Chicago - based artist is expanding upon his series of
abstract DNA
paintings, a group of works
in which he embeds copies of his most personal documents such
as his birth certificate.
Forty - five years of
abstract color
painting, defined rather reductively by Phillips
as stain
painting, is inadequately represented by four lonely works, that span a mere six - year period: Helen Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea, (1952), Sam Francis's, Black
in Red, (1953), Morris Louis's Iris, (1954) and Kenneth Noland's Song, (1958).
The light
in the
paintings acts
as phenomenon, and at the same time the
abstract color creates an experience of light and place.
In abstract painting one can't deal with a kind of entity, entity like an object or person, a concentration of psychology which a person is as opposed to what, where the figure isn't in the paintin
In abstract painting one can't deal with a kind of entity, entity like an object or person, a concentration of psychology which a person is
as opposed to what, where the figure isn't
in the paintin
in the
painting.
As he told the MoMA curator William Rubin
in 1969: «My main interest has been to make what is popularly called decorative
painting» — decorative being the ultimate insult
in western modernism, though no bad thing
in other traditions — «truly viable
in unequivocal
abstract terms».
The results alternately emphasized or suppressed traces of the artist's hand and,
as Museum director James Steward notes, «afford the viewer a remarkable opportunity to simply revel
in the sheer beauty and freedom of
abstract painting.»
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.
In her recent show with the Beijing satellite gallery of New York's Chambers Fine Art, she has concentrated on what she calls landscape paintings, which don't present landscapes so much as a kind of floating abstract world reminiscent of the work of the Chilean modernist, Roberto Matta, in their atmospheric effec
In her recent show with the Beijing satellite gallery of New York's Chambers Fine Art, she has concentrated on what she calls landscape
paintings, which don't present landscapes so much
as a kind of floating
abstract world reminiscent of the work of the Chilean modernist, Roberto Matta,
in their atmospheric effec
in their atmospheric effect.
KAWS redrew his sketches
in Adobe Illustrator — «Frankenstein» - ing them together,
as he commented
in a recent ARTINFO interview, into deliriously complex,
abstract arrangements — and projected the results onto canvas before
painting them.
His earlier works, produced
in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged
paintings that acted
as metaphors for the way
in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating
abstract nature of the technological world we now live
in -
as prisons or cells.
As an
abstract expressionist, West often used hard edged and bold brushstrokes
in her
paintings.
In Liliane Tomasko's latest abstract paintings her examination of domesticity, such as the unmade bed, has become more urgent and fragmented, perhaps in accordance with the time
In Liliane Tomasko's latest
abstract paintings her examination of domesticity, such
as the unmade bed, has become more urgent and fragmented, perhaps
in accordance with the time
in accordance with the times.
Of the dozen or so
paintings of Ryder's
in the 1913 Armory Show it was said by critic Charles Caffin: In his unobtrusive sincerity he, in fact, anticipated that abstract expression toward which painting is returning and may almost be said to take his place as an old master in the modern movemen
in the 1913 Armory Show it was said by critic Charles Caffin:
In his unobtrusive sincerity he, in fact, anticipated that abstract expression toward which painting is returning and may almost be said to take his place as an old master in the modern movemen
In his unobtrusive sincerity he,
in fact, anticipated that abstract expression toward which painting is returning and may almost be said to take his place as an old master in the modern movemen
in fact, anticipated that
abstract expression toward which
painting is returning and may almost be said to take his place
as an old master
in the modern movemen
in the modern movement.
But
in her work, and that of other
abstract painters I've mentioned, the issue of whether there is anything already
in such
paintings,
as opposed to what we might «read» into them, is often raised.
It's a taboo that goes all the way back to Georgia O'Keefe, who gave up trying to beat down that door
in the early 20th century when her radically
abstract, viscous
paintings were described
as «great painful, ecstatic climaxes,» «an outpouring of sexual juices,» «loamy hungers of the flesh,» «the very essence of woman
as Life Giver.»
As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazi
As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such
as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazi
as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto
painted totally
abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues
in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes
in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.
Just
as the Suprematist
paintings anticipate most developments
in abstract painting throughout the rest of the twentieth century, so these startling medleys of words and images anticipate much of subsequent conceptual art.
This November, VMFA presents a groundbreaking exhibition that examines how Johns mined Munch's work
in the late 1970s and early 1980s
as he moved away from
abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss, and death.
His most recent works come
in a variety of mediums, including a mix of calligraphic and
abstract paintings,
as well
as landscape photography.
Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career
as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments
in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.
Painted in 1966, this majestic
painting anticipates at once his large scale photo -
paintings and abstract works, such as Vierwaldstätter See (Lake Lucerne), 1969, and his monochrome Graue Bilder (Grey Paintings) from t
paintings and
abstract works, such
as Vierwaldstätter See (Lake Lucerne), 1969, and his monochrome Graue Bilder (Grey
Paintings) from t
Paintings) from the 1970s.
This marriage of the
abstract and the socio - political is most evident
in her third large
painting, «Melting Down,»
in which the forms of the
painting itself seem to be pulled down, constricted to a point of release that expresses itself
in appearing
as the
painting's entrails poured out onto the floor.
Steeped
in Hofmann's modernist theories, Kahn nonetheless developed a style of landscape
painting that owes
as much to the impressionists
as it does to
abstract expressionism.
«Among the wildly disparate features of today's art - world landscape, two modes of pictorial thought with venerable lineages have recently re-emerged: materials - oriented
abstract painting, and a linear approach to the investigation of the third dimension that may conveniently be referred to
as «drawing
in space.»
Housed
in the Empire State Plaza's underground Concourse gallery, this sprawling bunker of generic hard - edged
abstract painting and minimal sculpture was regarded by students and faculty alike
as something of an embarrassment of riches, the last vestiges of overblown Greenbergian dictates on advanced art.
«
In that first
painting, I was wrestling with what I originally thought of
as the coldness of Minimalism and the more emotional,
abstract expressionist
painting style I'd grown up with.
It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist described herself
as an
abstract painter
in an interview included
in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references
in her
paintings,
in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti
as well
as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized
abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.