Begun essentially by the Rothko, Newman, Still wing of Abstract Expressionism (Pollock's drip paintings are crossovers between this and gestural abstraction), it continued on in Colorfield painting, and in later large - scale monochrome and minimalist painting (another important addition to the map, although not with as much breadth
as the Gestural.)
What counts
as gestural abstraction?
Many are as large as her better - known paintings, and every bit
as gestural.
As gestural interactions with moments in a particular location, Neill's works serve almost as surrogate memories, visceral relics of a moment in space and time.
Abstract Expressionist painting, with its expressive brushwork, is often described
as gestural.
One can see influences of Mark Tobey's intricate and orderly composition as well
as the gestural strength of Franz Kline.
For many years, Motherwell has been neglected, perhaps because he can't be pigeonholed
as gestural (like Pollock & de Kooning) or color - field (like Rothko & Newman).
These works also speak to the artist's perception of automotive and locomotive industry products
as gestural markers and carriers of poetic, political resonances — as figurations emblematic of the Black modernity and futurism inscribed within the epic practices of the road tripping troubadours who created and propagated the soundtrack to Delta's mobile blues culture.
Automatism, also known
as gestural painting or free association, would become a central tenet to mid-century Abstract Expressionism.
McLaughlin began to paint just
as its gestural extravagances and emotionally fraught chromatics began to coalesce into the New York School.
(28) What might it be like to teach a survey of art history and, instead of rehearsing the traditional examples of Pollock
as a gestural painter and Mark Rothko as a Color Field artist, use Krasner and Fine as the primary examples of the style?
This show provides a platform for their work that features precise, powerful lines, as well
as gestural patterns.
The theme is examined in works by Spanish painter Antonio Saura, such
as a gestural 1962 ink and oil on paper, alongside pieces by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Zoran Mušič.
The artist's unconventional methods and close collaborations with printers allowed her to create prints with the same dynamism and sophistication
as her gestural paintings.
Multiple temporalities of memory - making and recording are overlaid in the gallery,
as gestural painting rubs up against the television support surface of the delayed playback of home VHS tapes, whose magnetic particles have become significantly unstable.
Emerging in mid-1950s Paris
as a gestural abstractionist, Barré went against the grain by working with thin paint.
Kogelnik began her career
as a gestural painter, showing in Vienna with the likes of Arnulf Rainer.
Not exact matches
It is based on the conception of humanity
as homo performans, that is, creatures who define themselves to themselves and others through verbal and
gestural, individual and communal, ritual and aesthetic acts.
Only the groups in which
gestural or verbal teaching was allowed performed significantly above the reverse engineering baseline on several indicators of toolmaking skill, such
as the total number of flakes produced that were long enough and sharp enough to be viable and the proportion of hits that resulted in a viable flake.
In doing so, they have created a thriving community testing the limits of what it could really do, such
as helping mobile robots respond to
gestural commands and creating interactive public art exhibits.
However, pectoral appendages also function in social communication for the purposes of making sounds that we simply refer to
as non-vocal sonic signals, and for
gestural signalling.»
He hinted that
gestural theory could clear up another mystery about this period
as well: why the stone tools of these early hominids show little evolution for almost two million years, despite increases in brain size.
This research often lies in emerging use modalities, such
as wearable computing, touch interfaces and
gestural interaction.
The images, lucid and confrontational, exude an almost
gestural quality
as they cut from interior and exterior spaces, with Yorke waltzing in a sleep - like torpor toward a hole — or spacious studio igloo?
Graffiti meets
gestural painting, hip hop infects rock and roll and visa versa, heroin comes and never quite goes, night swallows day, and everybody looms
as large
as they feel like looming on the crumbling streets of the Lower East Side.
These means may include written or oral language
as well
as visual audio, tactile,
gestural, or spatial representation (Cope & Kalantiz, 2009; Kress, 2003).
Radunsky's
gestural watercolor - and - ink illustrations capture the spirit of young Albert,
as he turned one and two and three and «hardly said a word at all.»
Bright,
gestural watercolors and 17 poems capture the experiences and feelings of young athletes
as they participate with varying success in a variety of sports, including karate, baseball, swimming, and running.
Further, human language comprises both verbal and non-verbal components (including the written extension of body language through
gestural substitutes such
as the < VBG >, symbols within Internet communication).
Open studio featuring large monotypes and small drawings by Philip Koplin, in which he attends primarily to surface and texture,
as well
as to the
gestural evocation of hazily imagined creatures of unspecifiable origin.
Koplin / Levin Studio: Open studio featuring large monotypes and small drawings by Philip Koplin, in which he attends primarily to surface and texture,
as well
as to the
gestural evocation of hazily imagined creatures of unspecifiable origin.
[Pat Steir] sees her overwhelming «From the Sea» drawings, huge (60 by 100 inches), totally
gestural works -LSB-...]
as inspired by the Japanese artist Hiroshige and by Courbet, who imbued his nature paintings with a heavy sensuality.
Two kinds of nominal handwriting —
gestural abstraction and a recognizable vocabulary of painted signs — slip and slide across the surfaces of his canvases,
as if perpetually merging and fading away.»
In terms of style and school, they are not thoroughly cohesive, embracing
as they do geometric abstraction,
gestural abstraction, realism, still life, seascape, and more.
Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar
as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes
gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.
Artist Walead Beshty, who authored the essay for the exhibition's illustrated catalogue, explains, «Just
as the ritual object accrues meaning incrementally and over time through a repetitive process of investment and stewardship, DeFeo came to favor producing paintings through a process of slow accumulation in lieu of the explosive and loose
gestural compositions that were common at the time.»
Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and
gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is
as much about the breakdown of the human condition
as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.
Inspired by urban surroundings of the big city, a landscape of his home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese calligraphy, the artist transfused these motifs into the recognizable large black - and - white paintings which helped establishment of
Gestural Abstraction
as an important segment within Abstract Expressionism.
Mitchell used
gestural, sometimes violent brushwork, and described her paintings
as «an organism that turns in space.»
In Chestnut (1955), the painting's white field is broken along the center,
as if a chestnut tree were pushing through the pigment; and in Red, blue, black (1957), the thick, dark red ground gives way at the center to black calligraphed lines concentrated within dense
gestural brushwork.
As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrie
As disparate
as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrie
as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process,
as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometrie
as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously
gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometries.
Only few art movements have been so criticized
as Action Painting or
Gestural Abstraction.
Rail: At any rate, much has been written about your relationship to
gestural realism, which includes painters such
as Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan, Fairfield Porter, Philip Pearlstein, and a few others, whose works focused on the relationship between image and process.
During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known
as an abstract expressionist, and his
gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco abstract expressionist sensibility; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable influence on younger artists by virtue of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member of the New York School and is regarded
as one of the great artists, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Clifford Still, whose
gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.
The installation also positions Mitchell's work
as a source of inspiration to artists such
as Lynda Benglis whose work pushed
gestural abstraction to new extremes.
It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful
gestural abstractions such
as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.
In these stills from the scene that appears in Belz's original trailer, Richter very thoughtfully creates classical
gestural abstractions: Which remind me of nothing so much
as the great, underappreciated - until - just - now, large - scale paintings of Willem de Kooning from the mid-1970s.
As a painter, Fairfield Porter forged a distinctly American vision out of two disparate styles: the first — intimate, sensual and representational; and the second — colorful,
gestural and abstract.
In these paintings, there is a
gestural energy that distantly recalls Abstract Expressionism, but the gesture may just
as well be that of wiping away
as of laying down paint.