Sentences with phrase «dominance of abstract expressionism»

Robert Rauschenberg, along with Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, broke the stylistic and conceptual dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and expanded the horizons of art.

His warehouse loft was on Coenties Slip, a then - industrial area that in the late 1950s became a hub for artists at a remove from the dominance of abstract expressionism, which Indiana says he was «very much against.

But the acclaim faded, done in by a combination of Senator Joseph McCarthy's wave of repression, by Sharrer's adherence to figural art in the face of the dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and «60s, and by the fact that the artist was a woman.

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.

During the 1950s, a trend towards figurative expressionism emerged in reaction to the rise and dominance of abstract expressionism.

Not exact matches

In 1953 Blackman was co — founder of the Melbourne Contemporary Art Society and he was also one of seven artists responsible for the Antipodean Manifesto; these artists protested the dominance and rejected the rise of abstract expressionism and non — figurative art.

In fact, the dominance of the term «abstract expressionism» over «action painting,» which seemed more applicable to Pollock and Willem de Kooning than any other members of the New York School, is emblematic of the influence of formalist discourse.

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.

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

This was the time of dominance for abstract expressionism, says Lobe.