Sentences with phrase «decades of abstract painting»

He also laid the conceptual groundwork for the next few decades of abstract painting, effectively introducing his name within the ranks of Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

Organized by VMFA in partnership with the Munch Museum in Oslo, Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch examines how Johns (born 1930), one of America's preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade of abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss and death.

Now a ground - breaking exhibition entitled Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life examines how Johns, one of America's preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade of abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss and death.

Not exact matches

As his work has developed over four decades he has created an enormous variety of series of abstract paintings in an articulate, elegant and personal language.

Semmel's near - decade of experience with abstract painting informs Green Heart's urgent paint handling, expressive color, and push - and - pull composition.

For more than a decade Gibson has worked with a broad range of materials to create artworks that both reference and contribute to the ongoing dialogues of contemporary abstract painting.

Neel's dedication to the «unfashionable» art of portrait painting and social realism — and this during the decades of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde artistic developments.

In 1967 Christensen began using spray guns to draw colorful stacks, loops and lines in paintings that were among the most original abstract paintings of the decade.

Richter initially engaged in Abstract Painting in 1976, thus meaning that the present work draws on nearly two decades of various technical and abstract investigations.

After nearly two decades of rigorous experimentation, his abstract paintings reached new levels of technical and conceptual sophistication, hinting at figurative realities whilst simultaneously deflecting all attempts at interpretation.

Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work — one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book - making, sculpture and design.

For example, included are the exhibition are two preparatory drawings and their related painting, Blue, Black and Grey of 1960, which reveal her sensitivity to abstract forms in the natural world and her debt to Dow, five decades after studying his methods.

These quandaries started as soon as Kline, having abandoned decades of working in realism, first exhibited his black - and - white «abstract» paintings in New York galleries.

In the 1950s, Stamos's paintings were exhibited regularly in New York, in solo exhibitions and alongside the art of his fellow abstract expressionists, many of whom were a decade or two older than him.

In the decades up until his death in 2015 at the age of 92, the East End - based artist continued to paint huge ebullient abstracts with ever more vigour, the results a fixture on the walls of the RA's Summer Exhibition.

Having abandoned painting for over two decades, Mack resurrected his practice in 1991 and began his Chromatische Konstellation (Chromatic Constellation) series of large - scale paintings and works on paper that explore colour, tonal scale, light, rhythm and abstract patterning, which he continues to this day.

Other collections were not so much kept as withheld, such as Hilma af Klint's suite of abstract paintings from 1906 — 15, which she kept hidden for decades after her death, venturing that her work would be better appreciated beyond her own time.

The canvas (Mycenae - axe - blue) was a highlight of the Tate's celebrated 1964 exhibition Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54 - 64, this magisterial abstract work is on the scale of his Festival of Britain -LSB-...]

Spanning four decades, from the early 1960s to the present, the broad, fascinating spectrum of these colorless paintings ranges from representational works based on black - and - white photographs, to entirely abstract paintings.

The canvas (Mycenae - axe - blue) was a highlight of the Tate's celebrated 1964 exhibition Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54 - 64, this magisterial abstract work is on the scale of his Festival of Britain commission and akin to his celebrated work that forms part of Tate Britain's recent rehang.

In the following decades, she significantly influenced the direction of abstract painting in the New York art scene.

The continuation of abstract expressionism, color field painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism, abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and other late 20th - century Modernist movements in both painting and sculpture continued through the first decade of the 21st century and constitute radical new directions in those mediums.

But decades of the dominance of conceptual art have left painting a «niche activity» and abstract expressionism profoundly unfashionable with those in the artistic know.

The simple joy and unselfconscious vitality conveyed by the mesh of writhing, abstract form was a style that compelled and satisfied the French artist for many further years, and Impair et Amble became one of the very first paintings in Dubuffet's definitive painting cycle — L'Hourloupe — that was to occupy him for a full decade.

The Columbus Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major exhibition tracing the evolution of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced, figurative compositions of the early 40s to the abstract, color field paintings for which he is best known.

Many of Alston's abstract works from this decade were inspired by African art, but unlike several of his his abstract expressionist contemporaries whose passion for American Indian, Pacific, and African art was connected to a modernist search for an imagined «primitive» impulse, Alston's paintings were created through an intimate knowledge of African aesthetics.

He was producing some on his most abstract works and with them, he challenged the boundaries of landscape painting and developed sophisticated and subtle color relationships that remain captivating decades later.

Sarah Crowner, known over the last decade for stitching together cutout shapes of plain or painted canvas to form rectilinear abstract paintings, is sticking to first principles.

Perhaps because of the incandescence of the YBAs in the 1990s, British art in the 1980s often gets short thrift in terms of column inches in histories of modern and contemporary art, but — as Ikon's new show on the decade should demonstrate — it was a period of free - wheeling experimentation, in which figurative painting made a comeback, the variety of abstract styles increased, installation art grew in ambition and cut - and - paste appropriation prevailed.

3 x 3 from Hungary This exhibition of three generations of Hungarian avant - garde art, spanned the last four decades, from the grand master of abstract painting Tamás Lossonczy, to the youngest generation of 1990s neo-conceptual artists.

As an internationally recognized artist whose work spanned five decades, Allan D'Arcangelo began painting at a pivotal moment when artists, critics, and dealers were challenging the dominance of abstract expressionism and other modernist doctrines and hotly contesting new criteria in defining the creation and interpretation of art in society.

Elizabeth Osborne's paintings have become more radically abstract in the last decade, but one can trace the thick, elongated brushstrokes back to the views of Arizona, Maine, and Maryland from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist's development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.

For decades we debated different questions: What is the subject of abstract painting?

The exhibition presents 28 of Newell's abstract oil paintings, demonstrating his stylistic multilayered surfaces and luminous tonality through these works that span several decades.

Many of Kathy Muehlemann's abstract paintings from the past half decade are animated by a tension between diminutive scale and an allover deployment of images.

Throughout the decades, these artists experimented with different materials and printmaking techniques, producing highly conceptual prints that gave a definitive nod to contemporary developments in European and American painting, from the abstract aesthetics of Wassily Kandinsky (1866 — 1944) to the expressionist drip paintings of Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956).

In attendance were some of the preeminent figures associated with American abstract painting of the past four decades.

After nearly two decades of making paintings and drawings depicting heads, hands, and torsos, she rigorously pursued quiltmaking, and then created a final group of architectonic abstract paintings a decade before her life was cut short by a debilitating neurodegenerative disease.

Her development of a grid in the late 1950s wherein she gently inscribed penciled lines over subtle fields of color marked a turning point in the history of abstract painting and established the geometric and spatial language that she continued to refine over the ensuing decades.

Over the course of six decades, she would return to revered masters like Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, and Marie Laurencin, whose formal innovations expanded her own notions of what abstract painting could be.

The artwork on view spans the first four decades of the twentieth century, from a scene of majestic beauty painted in 1902 by Thomas Moran to the abstract Modernist composition of Raymond Jonson, created in 1940.

Halasz writes: «this show has a number of paintings that yank the artist out of his stately cubo - surrealist orbit of the 40s and situate him far more certainly in the tempestuous ensuing decade... they situate their creator far more persuasively in the turbulent 50s and justify his claim to be called an outstanding member — if not of the first, certainly of the second abstract expressionist generation.»

Spanning the last decade of the artist's output and comprising twenty - two works on both floors of the museum's downtown Jones Center galleries, this exhibition highlights key moments in Weiser's recent oeuvre and illustrates an evolution in his exploration of abstract painting.

What ties the work of Lois Dodd and Neil Welliver to the period that saw the rise of Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella is a shared bias toward directly applied and unadulterated color, and it is on this same ground that Janet Fish has thrived for decades, exploring in subtle ways the boundaries of representational and abstract painting.

A painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Sultan is regarded for his ongoing large - scale painted still lifes featuring structural renderings of fruit, flowers, and other everyday objects, often abstracted and set against a rich, black background; but he is also noted for his significant industrial landscape series that began in the early 1980s entitled the Disaster Paintings, on which the artist worked for nearly a decade.

After two decades of working in abstract collage, Naves has returned to paint in this latest show.

Case in point, Sotheby's star lot was a Gerhard Richter abstract painting of the type that has driven noteworthy prices for nearly a decade.

He established a close friendship with German artist Martin Kippenberger, and towards the end of the decade he had dedicated himself completely to abstract painting.

Willis» appearance supports an exhibit called «Thornton Willis: Structural Abstractions,» that features selections from a decade of his large abstract oil paintings.