In that show, Vo presented close to 4,000 of Wong's collected objects, including rare Chinese
calligraphic works, racist trinkets and previously unexhibited paintings.
And McNeil never cultivated that grandly glum and sooty New York palette that one sees in the paintings of de Kooning, Pollock, and Robert Motherwell, and of course in the sweepingly
calligraphic works of Franz Kline.
Peace & Love @ Saatchi Gallery This top floor exhibition at Saatchi gallery is filled with beautifully lit
calligraphic works by Emirati royalty.
Her fascination with language comes through in a large, light - filled
calligraphic work from 1965 titled Kufic, as well as in the tightly painted, untitled schematic grid of 1949 that stacks hieroglyphics in meticulous boxes.
The exhibition was a move into sculptural work establishing a shift from his 2dimensional
calligraphic work.
It is a very lovely
calligraphic work that was executed in 1955 and was also in the Dorothy C. Miller collection.
Mark Tobey, American painter whose individual experiments with abstract,
calligraphic work influenced subsequent art trends, especially Abstract Expressionism.
Mark Tobey, (born December 11, 1890, Centerville, Wisconsin, U.S. — died April 24, 1976, Basel, Switzerland), American painter whose individual experiments with abstract,
calligraphic work influenced subsequent art trends, especially Abstract Expressionism.
Now that we have a twenty - year perspective on them, perhaps we can better understand the principal role they played in Marden's transition from the more minimal work of the 1960s and 70s to
the calligraphic work of the late 1980s through the present.
Not exact matches
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.
The exhibition also includes a number of
calligraphic drawings, including a group of twenty
works Marden began in Tanzania.
Many of Laurel's
works are composed of extruded forms resembling three - dimensional line drawings or
calligraphic brushstrokes.
You have this kind of brushy mark, and then you have this very
calligraphic line, and then you can
work tonally, where all the colors are close together.
His most recent
works come in a variety of mediums, including a mix of
calligraphic and abstract paintings, as well as landscape photography.
While Qin employs traditional Chinese materials in his
work — brush, ink and paper — and paints in a
calligraphic manner, his
works are created with a physical vigour and scale evocative of Western Abstract Expressionist painters (it is interesting to note that many Abstract Expressionists were deeply interested in Eastern philosophy).
Fay Ku creates
works on paper that combine the bold negative space and
calligraphic lines of traditional Asian art with an American emphasis on the figure.
Lewis»
work then moved into what Fine described as «a very
calligraphic period, where the use of line in fairly abstract terms for me reflects his interest in music.»
The surfaces of his
works are extraordinarily complex and densely
calligraphic.
A
calligraphic leafed vine, painted in varying forms and colors against different grounds, is a recurring motif in the new
work, which continues Amenoff's thirty - year exploration of an intense, romantic, physical, and densely woven semi-abstract landscape vision based both on observation and personal interpretation of the natural world.
The earliest
works exhibited, gouaches from 1956 and 1957, combine
calligraphic elements on broad fields of color in ways which clearly relate to the
work of Mark Tobey, who also showed at the Willard Gallery, and to Helen Frankenthaler.
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.
In terms of how I
work, when I paint in the figure — I call [the
calligraphic lines] a figure — it's like this [he waves his hands in the air].
This exhibition, featuring forty
works from 1932 to 1952, will trace Boris Margo's development from Surrealism in the 1930s; through abstraction imbued with biomorphic imagery in the 1940s; and finally, to luminous
calligraphic abstractions of the early 1950s.
Eventually, Saito abandoned his theater
work to focus on developing his particular style ofColor Field abstraction, often featuring
calligraphic characters drawn from an alphabet of his own creation.
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.
In the
works in the show designated as Surface Body, he wrote, «I contemplate wall structures, cities and the State as being political borders, with opposing polarities, whereas Action Space employs a fast
calligraphic mark, in juxtaposition with vast spaces of color significantly symbolizing personal freedom.»
Visitors shouldn't rush through the latter for the former, as Smith's
work is indebted to the
calligraphic traditions of the East, and after walking through rooms full of painted tiles, fabric designs, and miniature paintings the connections between the two will be obvious.
Eventually, Saito abandoned his theater
work to focus on developing his particular style of Color Field abstraction, often featuring
calligraphic characters drawn from an alphabet of his own creation.
Chang's earliest
works were commissioned portraits, however, in the late 1950s, he stopped using brushes in favor of using his body to make abstract paintings that were at once gestural and
calligraphic.
«Stan Gregory [s]...
work has been associated with the likes of Kandinsky and Matisse... [He] evokes the style of Islamic
calligraphic art»
These new
works include several of Osborne's abstracted, almost
calligraphic, landscapes.
Kline may have disparaged comparisons of his
work to calligraphy, but the drawings
work precisely because they are
calligraphic: here his line has vigor, activating the pictorial ground.
The artist's most recent abstract
works on canvas and plywood feature gestural lines influenced by
calligraphic writing.
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).
That polyglot character — mixing French, Spanish, Hebrew, English, even Chinese with the iconography of many cultures — is a hallmark of the
work gathered in the current show, especially the
works on paper, with their
calligraphic inclusion of words and symbols.
This range may be seen in the
works on view in the jewel boxes: the twisted, sharp muscularity of «Plume»; flat, densely
calligraphic lines of «Brittle Stars»; airy, arabesque patterning of «Floresco»; and the rhythmic mandala of «Lotus.»
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.
His
work is also often described as full of little images, or «little people» — his
calligraphic line, which fluidly creates the subjects of crowds or jazz quartets.
Saito's
works are bright and
calligraphic, often covered in gestural strokes of color, drips of paint, and stenciled capital letters.
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
«His late
work consists of
calligraphic, predominantly white canvases that demonstrate the artist's ultimate synthesis of figuration and abstraction, of painting and drawing, of color and line.»
The exhibition itself, meanwhile, features a number of
works that, it seemed to me, were designed as site - specific installations, offering a dynamic and fascinating melding of textural and
calligraphic impulses.
In identifying different qualities of abstraction, it helps to know that a
calligraphic drive is evident in Valerie Mankoff's abstract
work, which has a mannerist, stylized signature.
Pouran Jinchi's
works featured in the exhibition: Contemporary
Calligraphics: Three Artists Image the Word October 26 - December 1, 2007 Binghampton University Art Museum Binghampton, New York
«Exaltations» features
works from the «The Lost Exhibition,»
calligraphic canvases that Sadequain made in Paris in the late - 1960s and left behind when he departed France with the intention to return, but never did.
His paintings are predominantly large - scale, freely - scribbled,
calligraphic and graffiti - like
works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off - white colors.
Calligraphic elements and their emphasis on expressiveness and asymmetry have always been the most prevalent aspect of Asian art apparent in the
work of abstract expressionists such as deKooning, Francis, Tobey and Kline.
The exhibition is completed with «Take off Your Hat», this
work was created in the context of «Trio for 4 Hands» a series of long narrow strips of Japanese rice paper, pinned alongside each other, like film strips with
calligraphic type ink markings on them.