But, as he famously said, «For someone who was intending to
continue as an abstract painter, I was clearly consorting with the wrong company.»
«For someone who was intending to
continue as an abstract painter I was clearly consorting with the wrong company,» Diebenkorn later acknowledged.
Not exact matches
As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintin
As a cerebral
painter, this body of work
continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer
as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintin
as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged
abstract, geometric painting.
Stella
continues to influence contemporary artists, such
as the American Mark Grotjahn and the German
abstract painter Tomma Abts, who won the Turner Prize in 2006.
A remarkable man and path - breaking
abstract painter, Whitten
continues to serve
as an inspiration for Bradford.
At Mitchell - Innes & Nash, meanwhile, Ferris
continues to stake out her position
as one of today's finest
abstract painter with ever larger, ever more exuberantly colored pieces, where shifting blurs compete with crisp, thick pointillist passages.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized:
Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to
abstract painting
as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe:
abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly
continued to make figurative work
as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or
Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and
abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
In gallery news:
abstract painter McArthur Binion has joined Lehmann Maupin (Binion's work will be on show at the gallery's Hong Kong outpost later this year); and New York's Regina Rex is closing its Lower East Side space — though the gallery have plans to
continue contributing to the city's exhibition scene,
as well
as participating in the upcoming Condo gallery share in Mexico City this April.
After college I was drawn to abstraction and since then have
continued to work
as an
abstract painter.
For this exhibition Gorman
continues this evolutionary refinement with a series of paintings that confirm his position
as one of Irelands leading
abstract painters.
These artists, in turn,
continue to serve
as mentors to the emerging
abstract painters of today.
Sadly, Van Doesburg passed away a year after issuing his manifesto, but his ideas were
continued and developed by the Abstraction - Creation group - led by the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965) and the French
painters Jean Helion (1904 - 87) and Auguste Herbin (1882 - 1960)- whose members included the cream of European
abstract sculptors, such
as Jean Arp (1886 - 1966), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941), Antoine Pevsner (1886 - 1962), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982).
After first establishing herself in New York
as a highly regarded
abstract painter in the midst of the heavily male New York School, Schapiro
continued shaping feminist art, inviting Judy Chicago and the women artists of her Fresno Feminist Art Program to CalArts, and serving
as a key player in bringing about the Feminist Art Program's legendary installation art project and performance space, Womanhouse, in 1972.
This issue is dedicated to the passing of our three friends, Robert T. Buck Jr. (1939 - 2018) for his great contributions to the Brooklyn Museum
as a former director and Anthology Film Archives
as a trustee; Marcia Hafif (1929 - 2018) whose ascetic monochrome
abstract paintings have long been esteemed by her peers and
continue to be consequential and inspiring; Dorothy Cantor Pearlstein (1928 - 2018), who came from Pittsburgh to New York City to be a
painter along with her husband Philip Pearlstein and classmate Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola)-- her inquisitive mind and generous spirit won her love and admiration from her community of friends.
Continuing the «Artists
as Curators» series this week, let's look at «The escape from the banal of everyday life to the world of the ideal,» an exhibition at NURTUREart curated by Brooke Moyse, a Brooklyn - based
abstract painter known for vivid color and casual landscape imagery.
Tate St Ives's autumn exhibition explores the development and
continuing relevance of
abstract art over the last 50 years with a display of work by 49 artists,
as selected by British
painter Daniel Sturgis.The Indiscipline of Painting demonstrates how artists working today
continue to be inspired by the history and legacy of
abstract painting.
As institutions devoted to the history and
continued development of contemporary art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Whitney Museum of American Art are honored to present this tribute to one of the great
abstract painters of our time.»