On the one hand, the art world tends to look
at abstract painting as being traditional, even old - fashioned, which it is; when the paint was wet on those early Kandinskys, it was practically in the Victorian era, the space age still half a century away.
He even took a swipe
at abstract painting as the most salable and least adventurous type of art being made:
Not exact matches
Instead, he stared
at her back
as if it was an
abstract painting.
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.
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.
And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting
at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting on being read
as an
abstract painting.
Revelation: Major
Paintings by Jules Olitski
at American University Museum walks the viewer through Olitski's creative evolution
as an
abstract artist, -LSB-.....]
The light in the
paintings acts
as phenomenon, and
at the same time the
abstract color creates an experience of light and place.
NEW YORK — Opening June 26,
paintings by Philip Hanson and Rebecca Shore will be on view
at David Nolan Gallery
as part of a group exhibition of
abstract paintings.
Describing a finished or successful
painting as possessed of a nice awkwardness, differentiating an atypical
abstract painting from a great one, conscious of existing within the cultural context of abstraction, which adds to our understanding of emotion, logic, sensation, and concrete reality while
at the same time existing
at a... Read more
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.
Contemporary painters like Sean Scully, whose black - stripe
paintings from 1975 to 1980 are
at LeLong, and John Zurier, whose wispy
abstract paintings are
at Peter Blum, uphold their medium
as a vehicle of timeless poetics.
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.
I think the thought depends on being
at a greater distance from the early 20th century, that while Reinhardt and everyone else could not imagine abstraction (whatever he may have said to the contrary) other than
as a struggle to find what an
abstract as opposed to a representational
painting really might be and do, is no longer the case.
Hopefully this burst of intimately scaled creativity by Joanne Greenbaum —
as 1612, her first iteration of small - size
abstract paintings at D'Amelio Terras (on exhibit through November 12th)-- is just the beginning.
These included: Mark Rothko, Philip Guston («Philip would say again and again —
as if he had never said it before — that everything in a work of his had to be «felt»»), Franz Kline (he «held court
at the Cedar Street Tavern almost every night after ten»), David Smith, Tony Smith, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofman («I always admired Hans»
painting and believe that certain of his pictures — Lava and Agrigento come to mind — must be numbered among the greatest
abstract expressionist canvases»), Willem de Kooning, and Clyfford Still («
as a de Kooning man, it took me time to appreciate Still's innovation»).
Writers and curators, viewing these
paintings at the time of their production, recognized the near - mystical arrangement of mathematic symbols and
abstract shapes contained within these works
as a language wholly the artist's own.
These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010
as curator of contemporary art in its
painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previo
painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary
Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previo
Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed
as the first contemporary
painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previo
painting survey
at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary
abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.
Looking
at painters who came to prominence in the 1960s,»70s and»80s, this book shows how
abstract painting has developed in the wake of postwar movements such
as Art Informel.
The other version came in March
at the Whitney Biennial,
as a likeness of Emmett Till in his coffin was included in a series of
abstract paintings by the white painter Dana Schutz.
When dealing with an artist
as subtle
as Arturo Herrera, the manner of interpretation is by nature complex, further complicated by what
at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies of work, each adopting the formal affectations of the medium
at hand: architectural interventions, collage,
abstract paintings, biomorphic abstractions, hybrid
paintings, photography, sculpture, mail art.
The result is a creative experience that viewers themselves undergo
as they look
at an
abstract painting.
As with Jutta Koether's
paintings and
abstract photography by Eileen Quinlan
at Campoli Presti, it shares a sensibility with the Whitney Biennial.
At one point
as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set of blue
paintings with some subtle white
abstract elements on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.
In 1974, in reference to a New York gallery show by Judy Rifka, Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe wrote that the artist addressed «the question most crucial to
painting in general
at the present time: the question
as to how far the — currently compromised —
abstract «depth» of pictorial space can be newly considered — retrieved — through attention to the material basis of the conventions on which that experience of «depth» relies.»
Arranged thematically, the exhibition looks
at her surrealist
paintings of the 1930s and the
abstract works of the 60s,
as well
as her anti-war cartoons.
As someone whose job is at least in part to make these distinctions, how can you tell the difference between a genuinely good abstract painting versus, as you say, something that is very salable — something that simply looks like an abstract paintin
As someone whose job is
at least in part to make these distinctions, how can you tell the difference between a genuinely good
abstract painting versus,
as you say, something that is very salable — something that simply looks like an abstract paintin
as you say, something that is very salable — something that simply looks like an
abstract painting?
As an emerging
Abstract Expressionist painter, Melinda happily acknowledges that
abstract painting was in her blood long before she studied
at the School of Visual Arts in New York City under Frank Roth.
Architectural subjects, including
paintings of the weathered barns and buildings on the Stieglitz property that blend the descriptive and the
abstract, emerged
as a theme,
as did a number of panoramic landscape
paintings and bold, color ‑ filled abstractions that often visually related to the subjects she was working on
at the time.
But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative
painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that
abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though,
as the early works in the show
at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him
as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».
It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived
at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such
as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified,
abstracted forms
painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.
She currently has work in a group show
at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn called Another Gesture / Um Outro Gesto / Eine weitere Geste /, which «moves away from the dominant male legacy of
abstract expressionism, in which gesture was used to champion the uniqueness of
painting as a medium.»
Among the second group of
abstract paintings at Firestone are works such
as «Thunderbird» (1970), where a geometric cluster of blue lines, each about the width of standard masking tape, floats on a vibrant, flat red field.
As our eyes wander about in one of her
paintings, we become aware of the breadth and depth of Bates» vision, and of her bold attempt
at designing a new, non-art-historical,
abstract painting.
At a time when the world is increasingly
abstract, Borremans submits his
paintings as evidence that this particular form of painterly expression retains its validity.
Art in America: Robert Baribeau 1980 - NOW, Reviewed by David Ebony This recent show of Robert Baribeau's colorful, richly textured
abstract compositions
at first appeared
as an amalgam of postwar
painting styles.
The works on view
at the exhibition evokes conversations between
abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists,
as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with
paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.
Coming of age artistically
at a time when
painting, especially
abstract painting, was said to be dead, his early art employs impassive frontal images like Jasper Johns and incorporates words like did Bill Beckley, Robert Indiana, and Richard Prince
at the same time
as Wool.
«
As an advocate for all artists, I believe women have been and are currently trendsetters in contemporary
abstract painting,» said Jaime DeSimone, assistant curator of exhibitions
at MOCA.
Many times, I will start a
painting in a realistic way, and gradually it becomes more
abstract as I go along — for me, it's a matter of leaving reality behind
at a certain point and letting the
painting tell me what it needs to do next.
The
paintings were well received by the public
at large, and it was the artist Wassily Kandinsky, after seeing the
paintings in an exhibition in Moscow in 1895, that suggested this series
as the first
abstract painting in history.
Jasper Johns (born 1930) made his major breakthrough
as a painter in the mid-1950s when he started using iconic, popular images in his
paintings — an explosive move
at a moment when advanced
painting was understood to be exclusively
abstract.
Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance
at Art Basel Miami Beach
as well
as an upcoming solo
at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of
abstract and figurative
painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).
After moving to Los Angeles in 1977, she continued her studies in drawing, printmaking and photo etching
at UCLA
as well
as figurative and non-objective
abstract expressionist
painting at the Brentwood Art Center.
As a sign of the times, those new
paintings have taken a brutal turn — they're
at once more
abstract and more clearly violent, even political, showing little black girls defaced or wielding handguns, occasionally shooting each other dead.
At the Hole's booth, the gallery had installed several
abstract paintings that the street artist known
as Katsu had created by attaching a
paint applicator to a small computer - guided drone, with the artist able to control its flight and spray
paint on the canvas via a trigger.
Bradford's monumental
painting My Grandmother Felt the Color, 2016, is currently on view
at the BMA in a gallery dedicated to social abstraction, alongside other artists who have turned to
abstract imagery to convey the humanity, complexity, and ongoing impact of specific cultural experiences, such
as Jack Whitten and Ross Bleckner.
Focusing its energies on the mounting of exhibitions onsite and off - space, and on the publishing of artist books, La Salle de Bains is working towards new exhibition formats and methods of mediation, such
as the 2012 show Tell the Children / Abstraction pour Enfants (an echo of Andy Warhol's
Painting for Children Pop art show
at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, in 1983), which introduced children (and adults) to very contemporary
abstract paintings by artists including Claudia Comte, Lisa Beck and Olivier Mosset — all hung
at children's eye height, on vividly patterned wallpaper.
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