Studying the work of American abstract expressionists such as Helen Frankenthaler, an artist who poured thinned paint directly on larger than life - sized canvases on the floor in
her Color Field works, Olivier similarly engaged in a process of coaxing acrylic paint to spread and drip in brilliantly hued pools, more characteristic in watercolor.
Frankenthaler's landscapes relate so strongly to
her Color Field works that they question the boundary between representation and pure abstraction.
Painter Helen Frankenthaler wrote of
her Color Field works that «A good picture looks as if it's happened at once.»
Minimalist and abstract, they are deeply influenced by landscape and also reference
the color field works of artists aligned with the New York School during the 1960s.
Her painting ties the translucence and spaciousness of the exhibit's
Color Field works to the passionate gestures of the Expressionist paintings.
Black and White, Mostly — Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX The Grant and Peggy Reuber Collection of International Works on Paper — McIntosh Gallery, London, ON Local History: Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd, Frank Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City, NY Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery — London, London In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking — Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Taking A Stand Against War — Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella: Wooden Synagogues — Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Love Story — Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze — Schweizergarten, Vienna Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection — The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Openness And Clarity:
Color Field Works From The 1960S And 1970S — Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Exhibition: Part I — Van Doren Waxter, New York City, NY The Shaped Canvas, Revisited — Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, NY Calculated Abstractions — Hard - Edge Prints — UB Art Galleries — University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Solidaridad Y Resistencia.
He also swung by Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, which is showing one of Stella's paintings from 1968, «Ctesiphon I,» as part of the group exhibition «Openness and Clarity:
Color Field Works From the 1960s and 1970s.»
Among other standouts are
Color Field works by Frankenthaler and Morris Louis's «veil» paintings and canvases by Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann.
Even the Abstract Expressionist and
Color Field works in the show challenge the usual Matisse narrative.
Finally some select
color field works by Frankenthaler and Noland and European works by Giacometti, Mathieu and Picasso.
From the rigorous flatness of hard edge painting to the celestial expanse of
color field work, color can enhance or defy the flatness of the canvas, and activate the work in an exciting variety of ways.
So, this is in a way almost like transitional painting — a bridge painting between his very gestural 50's Abstract Expressionist work and his later
color field work, which he moved into in the 70's and 80's.
This painting among the many others here illustrate what has always been enticing to me about
Color Field work: its measured pacing of a visual experience that invites the viewer to be contemplative.
So we haven't necessarily seen
Color Field work in the last couple years that we had to live with.
Not exact matches
Working with the National Rifle Association and the California Optometric Association, the California officials conducted
field tests with both
color - blind subjects and those with normal vision.
PMHA - WOC Statement: PMHA - WOC was created to fill a gap in support services for professionals and communities of
color around perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and we are thrilled to have our
work supported by an organization that has been a leader in our
field.
To those who suggested that Quinn, long the frontrunner in the Democratic mayoral
field, stumbled on the homophobia voters reflect once at the ballot box, Menchaca's and Torres» victories demonstrate that LGBT candidates can win in outer borough districts dominated by
working class and poor people of
color and without large visible gay and lesbian voting blocs.
That's how many self - dimming rear - view mirrors
work: The high - beams of the motorist behind you hit a light sensor that applies a mild electric
field to the mirror, and that activates the
color - changing, or electrochromic, film, which switches to a darker tint.
Constant development
work in the
field of plastics creates a moving target for accurate
color realization across product lines.
It is a skillful brand
working in the
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«The types of questions the Court is considering in Schuette relate to my research interests and, in past
work, I have found that bans on affirmative action lead to statistically significant declines in the enrollment of underrepresented students of
color in various graduate
fields of study,» she says.
«Teachers generally don't go into teaching for money, especially in these days when they have access to all other lines of
work,» in contrast to years past when women and men of
color went into education because they were blocked from some
fields, Johnson says.
State chiefs are
working to ensure that low - income students and students of
color will no longer be disproportionately taught by ineffective, inexperienced, or out - of -
field teachers.
Over the last decade, Tracy Session has
worked for justice and equity for communities of
color within the
field of education.
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math): Students of
color and girls continue to be underrepresented in these
fields of study and
work.
As a part of Ed Trust's ongoing
work around teachers of
color, the assets they bring to the classroom and the challenges they face, we sat down with longtime educator and former Washington State Teacher of The Year and Milken Award - winner Nate Bowling to hear his ideas about the challenges surrounding recruiting talented Black teachers, the experiences that drive too many talented Black teachers out of the
field, and what it will take to ensure that America's teaching workforce reflects its student body.
Full -
color photographs of people hard at
work in these
fields accompany engaging text and informative fact boxes.
These may very well be the best
works this year, but when
colored females dominate the
field, one starts to wonder whether progressivism really does trump quality.
Surely all the
colors had been present all along, but for her it was suddenly as if some gears had clicked or aligned, allowing her to notice them now, some subtle rearrangement or recombination blossoming now into her mind's palette: the gold of the wheat stubble and the elk's hide, the dark chocolate of the antlers, the dripping crimson blood midway up both of Ralph's arms, the blue sky, the yellow aspen leaves, the black earth of the
field, the purple liver, the maroon heart, Bruce's black and red plaid
work shirt, Ralph's faded old denim.
This perceptual complexity, along with the fusion of
color and structure, lies, I believe, at the core of the renewed interest in the work not just of Thomas, but also of formally oriented Color Field painters of the»60s and»70s, like Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene D
color and structure, lies, I believe, at the core of the renewed interest in the
work not just of Thomas, but also of formally oriented
Color Field painters of the»60s and»70s, like Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene D
Color Field painters of the»60s and»70s, like Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene Davis.
1 In the 1960's, Hoyland became acquainted with American
color field painters Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski as well as the critic Clement Greenberg but, ultimately, found inspiration in the
works of Hans Hofmann and Nicholas de Staël.
Among a new generation of abstract painters who emerged combining
color field painting with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new elements of complex space and surface into their
works.
The basic point about Louis's
work and that of other
Color Field painters, sometimes known as the Washington
Color School in contrast to most of the other new approaches of the late 1950s and early 1960s, is that they greatly simplified the idea of what constitutes the look of a finished painting.
The use of large opened
fields of expressive
color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing (vague linear spots and / or figurative outline) can first be seen in the early 20th - century
works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.
The Ocean Park series exemplified by Ocean Park No. 129, connects his earlier abstract expressionist
works with
Color field painting.
In addition to speaking about her mesmerizing new
work Color Field at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Lou read from and discussed her book «Durban Diaries».
Painted with a palette knife during a single session in the studio, the paintings juxtapose a single, highly finessed
field of
color against a solid, white band commonly along the bottom or outside edges of the
work.
Additionally, Tyler's paintings are reminiscent of the
work from past artists such as the simplified geometric grids of Piet Mondrian's later
work,
color field paintings of Mark Rothko and the early abstract expressionistic
work by Philip Guston.
They even have a few recent
works, in which the outline of tape and cast shadows turn
fields of white into delicate
colors.
But, as the curators at The Hole explain, Rower's
work veers from his
Color Field and Ab - Ex predecessors in a key way.
Shields» signature format of a
color - drenched
field inscribed by stitching and sewing is represented in the exhibition by an important early
work titled Sandbar 12, from 1969.
In my
work of 1967 - 1968 using
colored lines across thick, rolled
colored fields, and painterly abstractions with allusions to nature I articulated where I thought advanced painting should go.
Returning to Washington, DC., they began to produce the major
works that created the
color field movement in the late 1950s.
Unlikely as it seems, this artist, known for many decades as a Pop painter whose canvases throng with violent, sensual imagery amid bright
fields of
color, began her career
working exclusively as a sculptor.
Her early
work, with its sparely applied geometries and gently stated means, owes a clear debt to Rothko's mature paintings: those hovering
fields of
color that radiate heat, light, and mystery.
Frank Stella's approach and relationship to
Color Field painting was not permanent or central to his creative output; as his
work became more and more three - dimensional after 1980.
Kenneth Noland,
working in Washington, DC., was also a pioneer of the
color field movement in the late 1950s who used series as important formats for his paintings.
I now could see his transition from
color -
field painting, in a black - and - white
work dating from the 1970s.
Another artist whose best known
works relate to both abstract expressionism and to
color field painting is Robert Motherwell.
Taking issue with Harold Rosenberg (another important champion of Abstract Expressionism), who wrote of the virtues of action painting in his article «American Action Painters» published in the December 1952 issue of ARTnews, [3] Greenberg observed another tendency toward all - over
color or Color Field in the works of several of the so - called «first generation» Abstract Expression
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Color Field in the works of several of the so - called «first generation» Abstract Expression
Color Field in the
works of several of the so - called «first generation» Abstract Expressionists.