Christenberry describes Calcagno's painting style
as lyrical abstraction, which provided a counterbalance to Mel Price's style of Abstract Expressionism.
American Lyrical Abstraction (1960s, 1970s) A movement which became known
as Lyrical Abstraction emerged in America during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the growth of Minimalism and Conceptual art.
Meanwhile, parallel movements in Western Europe were appearing under various titles, such as Art Informel (c.1945 - 60), along with sub-variants such
as Lyrical Abstraction (late 1940s, 1950s), Tachisme (c.1945 - 60) and the COBRA group (1948 - 51).
He was known for his paintings that served
as a lyrical abstraction that paved the way for newer generations of artists to express their own techniques.
This encompassed abstract art movements such
as Lyrical Abstraction, as well as various forms of Minimalism including Hard - Edge Painting.
In 1950s France, a parallel type of colour - related abstract painting sprang up, known
as Lyrical Abstraction.
Andrew Russel Coate's photograms map the pulsing lights of fireflies bouncing inside of mason jars, to record the alchemical and accidental as well
as a lyrical abstraction of summer nights.»
Marilyn Kirsch (born 1950 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American artist, known for abstract and non-objective paintings often described
as Lyrical Abstraction.
With the exception of Kelly, all of those artists developed their versions of painterly abstraction that has been characterized at times
as lyrical abstraction, tachisme, color field, Nuagisme and abstract expressionism.
While younger artists like Frank Stella, Ronald Davis, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Walter Darby Bannard, Ronnie Landfield, Dan Christensen, began with Post-Painterly Abstraction and eventually moved forward towards a new type of expressionism, referred to
as Lyrical Abstraction.
Not exact matches
Matisse and Miró,
as well
as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian directly influenced the Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field painters of Post-Painterly
Abstraction and the
Lyrical Abstractionists.
Lyrical Abstraction as perceived in the media of the late sixties was largely misunderstood because of several factors.
Lyrical Abstraction developed
as a reaction to Formalism and Anti-Formalism's denouncing of personal expression in favor of a critical dialectic.
As Anti-Formalism in general dominated the critical dialogue
Lyrical Abstraction grew increasingly passe.
With a career spanning over six decades, this film presents Mason
as a shy yet innovative figure in American art, a pioneer in the field of
lyrical abstraction, and a master of the so - called «poetry of color».
During the later phases of Color Field painting;
as reflections of the zeitgeist of the late 1960s (in which everything began to hang loose) and the angst of the age (with all of the uncertainties of the time) merged with the gestalt of Post-Painterly
Abstraction, producing
Lyrical Abstraction which combined precision of the Color Field idiom with the malerische of the Abstract Expressionists.
Lyrical Abstraction shares with both Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting a sense of spontaneous and immediate sensual expression, consequently distinctions between specific artists and their styles become blurred, and seemingly interchangeable
as they evolve.
Lyrical Abstraction is sometimes described
as the last art movement to be killed off.
His work fits, more precisely, in the
Lyrical Abstraction school of thought, which is also promoted by painters such
as Michelle Destarac and Pierre Célice.
Finally, in the late 1960s (partially
as a response to minimal art, and the dogmatic interpretations by some to Greenbergian and Juddian formalism), many painters re-introduced painterly options into their works and the Whitney Museum and several other museums and institutions at the time formally named and identified the movement and uncompromising return to painterly
abstraction as «
lyrical abstraction».
American
Lyrical Abstraction's European counterpart Neo-expressionism came to dominate the 1980s, and also developed
as a response to American Pop Art and Minimalism and borrows heavily from American Abstract Expressionism.
European
Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered
as a component of (Tachisme) when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945 — 1966, and American
Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969.
However, instead of trying to establish a pedigree that approximates the emergence and development of modern art in larger metropolitan areas like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, with its requisite local variations of welded steel sculpture and
lyrical abstraction, the historic past proposed in this exhibition is one that is just
as idiosyncratic
as the present it influences.
Ehrenhalt's work across media — on canvas, in tapestry, on paper, or in sculpture — reveals a fluid sense of ease and a breadth of mastery
as she pursues her own
lyrical vision of
abstraction over time.
By the late 1960s however, postminimalism, process art and Arte Povera [121] also emerged
as revolutionary concepts and movements that encompassed both painting and sculpture, via
lyrical abstraction and the postminimalist movement, and in early conceptual art.
Color Field painting, hard - edge painting and
lyrical abstraction [120] emerged
as radical new directions.
Breathing luminous color and varying in media from stain paintings to digitally controlled light emitting diodes, this select gathering of abstract images showcases
Lyrical Abstraction as -LSB-...]
By the late 1960s however, process art emerged
as a revolutionary concept and movement that encompassed painting and sculpture, via
lyrical abstraction and the postminimalist movement, and in early Conceptual Art.
Understood
as an umbrella under which hard - edge painting, color stain painting,
lyrical abstraction, and minimal painting stood, post-painterly
abstraction introduced a more logical and systematic approach to creativity.
The simple
abstraction has a remarkable effect: the quotidian video is reactivated and re-presented
as an energetic,
lyrical still.
Her ideas about surface, scale, and color are not only daring; they presaged the work of artists
as varied
as Barnett Newman, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Heilmann,
as well
as Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern a
Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern
abstractionabstraction.
By the late 1960s, Postminimalism, Process Art and Arte Povera [38] also emerged
as revolutionary concepts and movements encompassing painting and sculpture, via
Lyrical Abstraction and the Postminimalist movement, and in early Conceptual Art.
Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, several Abstract Expressionist / color field artists (notably: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Theodoros Stamos, Sam Francis, Ludwig Sander, Clyfford Still, Jules Olitski, and others) explored motifs that seemed to imply monochrome, employing broad, flat fields of colour in large scale pictures which proved highly influential to newer styles, such
as Post-Painterly
Abstraction,
Lyrical Abstraction, and Minimalism.
As a pioneer of
Lyrical Abstraction, he made images through the use of layers and bold brushwork, rejecting geometry, and building a connection with the natural world.
A major pioneer of
Lyrical Abstraction, a gestural and personal form of abstraction, along with Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages, Gérard Schneider was shown in Paris at the Galerie Louis Carré as ear
Abstraction, a gestural and personal form of
abstraction, along with Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages, Gérard Schneider was shown in Paris at the Galerie Louis Carré as ear
abstraction, along with Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages, Gérard Schneider was shown in Paris at the Galerie Louis Carré
as early
as 1950.
Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist, considered
as a pioneer of a form of
abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action, creating sculptures that eschew minimalist reserve in favor of bold colors, sensual lines, and
lyrical references to the human body.
Her unprecedented piece Rhapsody (1975 — 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates, reads
as a
lyrical conversation between mathematical
abstraction and painterly figuration.
His technique shows some influence of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism,
as well
as the more subtle European style of Art Informel, the more gestural French style of Tachisme, and the softer
Lyrical Abstraction.
It doesn't include Klee, but it's a catholic mix, ranging from modernist
abstraction (including a lovely,
lyrical 1950 Ad Reinhardt that makes you wonder how he ever turned into the implacable maker of nearly uncommunicative black paintings within just a decade) to Renaissance allegory (such
as Albrecht Dürer's celebrated 1513 engraving The Knight, Death, and the Devil).
By this time, Bowling had developed a very personal palette for his large, light - filled,
lyrical colour
abstractions that distinguished his work from that of earlier Colour Field painters working in the USA such
as Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski or Larry Poons.
His works have also been described
as belonging to abstract expressionism and
lyrical abstraction.
Greenberg saw Bush's post-Painters Eleven work
as a clear manifestation of the shift from abstract expressionism to Color Field painting and
Lyrical Abstraction, a shift he had called for in most of his critical writings of the period.
After a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, he did a painting degree at St Martin's, where he reacted against the prevailing
lyrical abstraction, thinking of himself
as a Pop Art - inspired urban narrative artist.
Photorealism and the remnants of «
lyrical abstraction» waned
as Pattern and Decoration, New Image, and «bad» painting waxed in a Darwinian struggle for philosophical
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.
As schematic
abstraction goes, Scacco's work is warm, evocative, and unusually
lyrical.
Despite these experiences, Tàpies was swiftly drawn to the
lyrical abstraction known
as art informel, especially after 1953, when he experienced the American equivalent, abstract expressionism, at the time of his first one - man show in New York.
(Note: several of these artists later moved to non-geometric art forms, such
as lyrical or biomorphic / organic
abstraction).
During the 1960s, this highly formalist trend of Colour Field painting (which Greenberg nicknamed Post-Painterly
Abstraction) fragmented into smaller groups such
as Washington Colour School, Hard - edge painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, and Minimal Painting.
Tachisme, also known
as Art Informel and
Lyrical Abstraction, rejected geometric abstraction as lifeless and t
Abstraction, rejected geometric
abstraction as lifeless and t
abstraction as lifeless and too passive.