The artist's most recent abstract works on canvas and plywood feature gestural lines influenced
by calligraphic writing.
Possessing the qualities in abundance, Untitled VII is one of de Kooning's final triumphs — a painting that's both rapturous and lean, defined
by calligraphic lines that curve and wend their way through the canvas, revealing the renewed strength of de Kooning's line and his restrained yet glorious use of color.
Not exact matches
Like me, my Mum has an old exercise book in which she writes, in her beautiful
calligraphic script, the recipes she finds which are too good to pass
by.
As guests pass through a wide façade reminiscent of the city's Imperial Palaces and into the skylit central atrium, they are immediately struck
by the dramatic
calligraphic art entitled Landscape of Desires
by Qin Feng.
Created
by calligraphy and graffiti artist, Said Dokins, these giant light installations capture
calligraphic gesture at the very moment when the action of inscription takes place.
Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 — 2011) had her first solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1951, an exhibition that synthesized the most radical aspects of works
by Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, with ambitious canvases of textured surfaces, pale color, and
calligraphic drawing.
Nearby is a gorgeous late Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1951 that is semi-figurative; a Franz Kline black and white
calligraphic abstraction, Untitled from 1953; an architectural collage of rectangular shapes
by Conrad Marca - Relli from 1965; and, from 1976, the Larry Rivers pop - historical Big B Signs Up, a lithograph of two hands clasping a quill pen created
by Rivers to mark the U.S. Bicentennial and honor Benjamin Franklin's signing the Declaration of Independence.
In the late eighties his
calligraphic paintings inspired
by Chinese Landscape Painting widened his range even more.
Kelley cuts and reassembles
by chance his own
calligraphic traces.
Jirō bows to tradition, too, as with a
calligraphic black painting broken
by a white impasto circle.
The «gesture» in the show's title is shorthand for the term Action Painting, coined
by Rosenberg to describe the
calligraphic brushstrokes — and,
by extension, the existential angst — of AbEx's embryonic phase in the early 1940s.
Covering a 4,000 - sq - foot site with burnt orange and powder blue impasto surfaces and
calligraphic marks, Amistad America is the artist's most ambitious project yet and was inspired
by the history and natural landscape of Texas, whose name in Spanish, Tejas, derives from the Native American Caddoan word for «friends».
Karen Wilkin explains, «The most apparently self - referential cluster of strokes on his recent
calligraphic gesture paintings often have their origins in shorthand references to the characters in Saito's haunting performances, transformed and made independent
by their new context.»
Where an inky, consuming black expanse is the bass note of Stacked Black, an incandescent white expanse is at the center of Light Stir, surrounded
by a rhythmic frame of
calligraphic red, blue and green strokes that pursue one another around the edge with quiet elegance.
Works
by Patricia Treib and Melissa Meyer have a
calligraphic quality, reminiscent of the writerly gestures of Louise Fishman or the pictograms of Jane Irish, though these comparative examples bear the marks of having been worked over many times.
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By 1942, Tobey's process of abstractionism was accompanied by a new calligraphic experimen
By 1942, Tobey's process of abstractionism was accompanied
by a new calligraphic experimen
by a new
calligraphic experiment.
Fluid lines form ovoid shapes, more or less skull - like, that are joined
by written words or
calligraphic marks that suggest writing.
Those very words echo upstairs, too, in some uncharacteristically
calligraphic paintings
by Morris Louis, the great color - field painter.
This bold work with its deep red
calligraphic marks aided
by a confident approach shows one side of Jinchi's studies of the visual and text and its content.
First creating large - scale pieces like Mason and his peers, Takemoto decorated his surfaces with painted or incised
calligraphic patterns influenced
by Abstract Expressionist painting as well as Picasso's ceramic designs and traditional Asian ceramics, as in his 1959 work First Kumu, a bulbous stoneware vase adorned with swirling motifs.
By the late 1940s, Lewis was represented by Willard Gallery in New York City and had developed his own personal calligraphic style consisting of fluid forms suggesting groups of figures in activit
By the late 1940s, Lewis was represented
by Willard Gallery in New York City and had developed his own personal calligraphic style consisting of fluid forms suggesting groups of figures in activit
by Willard Gallery in New York City and had developed his own personal
calligraphic style consisting of fluid forms suggesting groups of figures in activity.
In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed
by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the
calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).
A
calligraphic painting
by Twombly hangs next to a monochrome
by Rauschenberg, making it harder to dismiss Twombly's experimentation or Rauschenberg's casual gesture.
In Trace, first exhibited at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Liu appropriates a Chinese
calligraphic stroke, the «wulouhen» — stains caused
by leaking roofs — and reproduces it repeatedly in gleaming black trails of porcelain.
Following a number of shows in recent years, Khan is now «in the studio playing with a lot of different aspects of the work»: his first white on white paintings, which will be exhibited at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, in late 2015, and
calligraphic black paintings inspired
by his longstanding admiration of Cy Twombly.
Ma suggests a new urbanism
by reducing form and function to simple
calligraphic lines in the fragile light of neon.
John Himmelfarb is an established artist whose lush,
calligraphic drawings and paintings have always been driven
by an unceasing devotion to line.
Founded
by L.A. - based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck, Sumi Ink Club invites the public to create an immersive work using age - old
calligraphic and brush techniques.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist
by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired
by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (
calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented
by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led
by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
Peace & Love @ Saatchi Gallery This top floor exhibition at Saatchi gallery is filled with beautifully lit
calligraphic works
by Emirati royalty.
Enter relative unknowns such as Judith Godwin and Deborah Remington, whose Epic (1959) and Eleusian (1951), respectively, take a less strident approach to the broad,
calligraphic strokes so favored
by Kline
by supporting them with wedges of plum, dusky gold, or tomato red.
In the late 1980s, influenced
by his growing interest and travels in Thailand, his style took a dramatic turn towards gestural abstraction incorporating
calligraphic intricate lines on monochromatic panels — a nod to Asian characters and odes to nature.
It fills in gaps in the museum's holdings, such as paintings
by Georg Baselitz, a German neo-expressionist artist who specializes in tense, angst - filled canvasses and Cy Twombly, who is known for his
calligraphic, graffitilike works.
Urban Jealousy is a title of a show curated
by David Bloch Gallery that will feature all of the
calligraphic mastery Vincent Abadie Hafez is known for.
Originally curated in 1984
by Jeffrey Deitch (Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) at Leila Heller's former uptown gallery, Calligraffiti explored a myriad of possible connections shared between the seemingly disparate styles of select mid-century abstract, U.S. graffiti, and
calligraphic artists from the Middle East and its diaspora.
I continue to be inspired
by the world of plants, ancient
calligraphic manuscripts, doodling, color in my environment, weather patterns and the movement I see in nature.
I think of it too as how one comes to the final
calligraphic brush mark
by the repeated making of a from.
Brian Conley's «Decipherment of Linear X» project came about when he found a stick on property upstate that was covered with what appeared to be incisions with a striking
calligraphic quality, perhaps carved
by Native Americans, he thought.
Her work was also unique in terms of her commitment (in varying degrees) to maintaining some figuration — usually patterns from nature and sometimes
calligraphic elements such as Hebrew letters — and a cerebral sense of control, in contrast to the less - controlled automatism being practiced
by her contemporaries.
His recent work has included a 12 -
by -100-foot mural and an installation of paintings at Mass MoCA in 2006, whose
calligraphic passages demonstrate his amazing use of black.
A logo gone wild, this giant, physical, sleek, animated,
calligraphic form is contained only
by the physical space in which it exists.
Her first solo exhibition, in 1971, at Galerie Claire Brambach in Basel, was organized
by the American abstract painter Mark Tobey, whose own works incorporated
calligraphic - like marks (and who, incidentally, had converted to the Baha'i faith in 1931).
El Seed's In the desert of language, calligraphy is the shade where I rest (2013)(Courtesy Ouahid Berrehouma / itinerrance GALLERY) Less obvious perhaps is work
by Shirazeh Houshiary, with her dreamy works on paper defined
by bold yellow symbols, or Shirin Neshat's C - prints of faces faintly covered in
calligraphic script.
In the book, Berlin art critic R.M. Vaughan is exuberant in his description: «Pattinson plays with the emotional triggers of colors, mostly
by slamming together unlikely, even decadent, contrasting hues and then encases those associations, the metonymic readings possible, with harsh, cutting and
calligraphic blackish strokes.
Red, Red, Red is exuberant in its embrace of the sexier end of the colour spectrum: a
calligraphic dance enacted
by a troupe of bold swipes of tumescent colour, all on a ground of flesh - coloured wood set in a frame of gold.
On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting
by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and
calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.
There's a great wall of Lucio Fontanas, all 1962 works from his Spacial Concept: Waiting series, and a terrific pairing of spare,
calligraphic paintings
by Jean Dupuy and Judit Reigl — all in close proximity to Anthony Caro's lyrical sculpture Orangerie (1969), a recent acquisition.
Tobey's mature work is characterized
by what he referred to as «white writing,» delicate
calligraphic markings overlaying and animating the surface.
A 1960 review
by Michel Strauss in the art magazine The Burlington — of an exhibition of Cervelli's work at London's Savage Gallery — described the artwork as
calligraphic transpositions of ancient propitiatory rites as presented
by the peasants of the Abruzzi region.
The works on view, selected from Asia Society Museum's new acquisitions of contemporary ink and
calligraphic art, highlight exemplary works
by Gu Wenda, Minjung Kim, Qiu Zhijie, Sun...