He arrived
as an abstract painter with a particular interest in color, or how colors changed in intensity and mood when one was put next to another.
As an abstract painter there are so many ways to explore the act of picture making and that journey makes creating art a very exciting and rewarding experience.
He
trained as an abstract painter with the influential Al Held at Yale University in the early 1960s, but says he left school after getting his MFA and «wanted a world without heroes and with transitions — not juxtapositions.»
Known as an abstract painter for his bold use of gridded color swatches, Stanley Whitney crowds his drawings with an abundance of line, as seen in his September - October exhibition of drawings at Lisson Gallery in Chelsea.
Martin is sometimes
described as an abstract painter, and he has written insightfully and humorously about abstraction here in the Brooklyn Rail, in particular «Everything is Finished Nothing is Dead: An Article About Abstract Painting.»
The aesthetic of the late 1960s counterculture, with its bubble lettering, op art graphics, unjustified margins and collage effects, drew on the work of art nouveau artists Aubrey Beardsley and Alphonse Mucha, as
well as abstract painters Bridget Riley and Josef Albers.
Obama's presidency was marked by a broadening of the collection and the addition of some 20th - century works of art, including by African Americans
such as the abstract painter Alma Thomas.
One could argue that this exhibition, one that pairs luminous, warm abstractions and coldly machined industrial fixtures, provides a liminal art historical space between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, recalling Flavin's beginnings
as an abstract painter identified within the locus of Brooks's generation.
Willem De Kooning is often thought
of as an abstract painter, one of the greatest of the abstract expressionists who made New York painting famous after the second world war.
Under former executive director Bonnie Clearwater, who ran the museum from 1997 to 2013, MOCA built an international reputation, showcasing such well - known
artists as abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler, Miami - based sculptor Mark Handforth and Bill Viola, godfather of video art.
A professor of painting at the University of Fine Arts (HBK) in Essen, the artist already looks back on a 20 - year career in which she established herself
primarily as an abstract painter.
Artists such as Peter Campus (b. 1937) explored effects that could be uniquely generated through video, just
as abstract painters did earlier in the century with their medium.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia, Britt opened up
shop as an abstract painter — a talent she discovered with less than a year and a half left at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
«In the future, I hope when people talk about me, it's
not as an abstract painter, but that I came to abstraction through the study of very concrete objects,» Zhang said.
While he
created as an abstract painter, Guston achieved critical success, while his paintings were lauded for their luminous, ethereal, and tactile fields of bold gesture and color.
Irwin began his career in the
1950s as an abstract painter; however, he turned his attention to sculptural installations by the early 1970s.
Their influence has extended to artists as
diverse as abstract painter Jack Bush and the Painters Eleven, as well as contemporary Scottish (and former Montréaler) figurative painter Peter Doig.
William Klein, Gun 1, New York, 1954 Klein had originally studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger, enjoying some early success in
Europe as an abstract painter before switching to photography.
Freilicher started out
as an abstract painter after studying with Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s, but turned somewhat abruptly to representational painting, Russeth wrote for ARTnews, after seeing the Museum of Modern Art's 1948 Bonnard retrospective.
He studied at the Academy of Art in SF,
first as an abstract painter and later transitioned into more figurative classes inspired by his teachers, Mark Tennant and John Wentz.
While Mike Kelley is best known for his content - heavy installations and lowbrow aesthetic, for this exhibition he seemingly returned to his
roots as an abstract painter.
A new show explores links between Ad Reinhardt's
identity as abstract painter and as cartoonist, satirist, crusader, explicator, and slide - show maker Read More