Pollock was regularly spotted at jazz venues such as the Five Spot Club in New York and his love of jazz largely influenced his work and
the development of his action painting technique.
Not exact matches
Untitled, 1958 illustrates an important
development in Mitchell's work, whereby she focused the
painting's
action towards its center, creating a vortex
of bold strokes and colors.
According to Alloway, the main feature
of these diverse artists was that their
paintings, which constituted «a
development of some
of the potentialities present in
Action Painting», contained «allusions to nature» that «however... are not allowed to disrupt the autonomy
of the
paint.»
His
action - based
painting style was the Eastern, independently born answer to some
of the key artistic
developments in the post-war American art scene, such as Jackson Pollock's Abstract Expressionism and Allan Kaprow's Happenings.
His dynamic brushwork refers to the
development of the postwar avant - garde — particularly
action painting, such as the work
of Franz Kline — and the rise
of such Neo-Dada artists as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, who dominated the art world in the decades following World War II.
Several oil
paintings are props assisting the
development of an
action or stage in a story, sculptures are designed as stage sets, with an illusionist facade and visibly constructed backgrounds.
Minimalism was the final stage in the logical
development of Abstract Expressionism, whose style went from gestural (
action -
painting) to plane - work (colour field
painting) to sharply defined geometrical planes and patterns (hard edge
painting) to Minimal Art.
I am thoroughly inspired and agitated by the
actions themselves which the
development of painting continuously requires... This seems simple but it is actually the fruit
of long research» (H. Hofmann, «Hans Hofmann on Art,» in Art Journal, Vol.