The show will include
early drip paintings from the 1940s by Rolph Scarlett, one of the pioneers of drip painting who had his own show of drips at the Whitney in 1951.
As with Wool's
early drip paintings, the influence of Jackson Pollock is observed here.
Not exact matches
During the
early 1950s, the couple was spending thousands on Sèvres and Spode dinner services at a time when a Jackson Pollock
drip painting could be bought for $ 800.
Gary Snyder Fine Art in New York City presents the work of Janet Sobel, whose
early 1940s
drip paintings inspired Pollock to explore the possibilities of that style and essentially found the Abstract Expressionist school.
The strange violence that has been exerted on the canvas, and therefore to the Nurse of Greenmeadow herself, with
paint dripping down the surface, recalls the shock and scandal with which de Kooning's celebrated
paintings of women were received in the late 1940s and
early 1950s, puncturing the myth of the woman in art.
«Pollock's extraordinary, still controversial black
paintings of 1951 finally get the attention they deserve; they prove to be just as radical as his
earlier, more celebrated all - over
drip paintings, and speak even more to our own time as well,» said John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of
Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art.
With Mylar foil and straw bales,
painted stripes and gestural
drips, German painter and sculptor Anselm Reyle (born 1970) breathes new life into the motifs of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimalism and
earlier movements, leaving no modernist master untouched in his reprisings of their motifs.
A photo shows a
drip painting in its
earliest stage, and the Whitney argues that a Cubist grid guides it to its ultimate destination.
The Parrish show also includes one of Dubuffet's great «texturologies» from the mid»50s: a
painting that, like Pollock's
drip paintings from a few years
earlier, appears to be completely abstract.
Although Bluhm lived an ocean away from the epicenter of abstract expressionism, his works of the
early 1950s share its gestural brushstrokes, visible
paint drips, and pulsating color.
As Pollock developed from his
early abstractions to the «
drip»
paintings for which he is known, his work fell more into Greenberg's ideal —
painting about space and color and, above all, about
painting itself.
(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his
earliest mature works explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous works, yet more formalist:
paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields
painted in encaustic (wax - medium) with a narrow strip along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of process (i.e.,
drips and spatters of
paint).
These works follow on from Pollock's abstract action
paintings which saw the artist
drip brightly coloured
paint onto canvases laid flat on the studio floor, and are far lesser known yet just as intriguing as these
early, pioneering works.
In Slow Storm (2017), grey circular strokes spiral, tornado - like, in the canvas's upper right corner, grabbing
paint from
earlier layers while
dripping onto patches of raw canvas.
In the
early 1970s the precise forms of his abstracts — the L - shapes, the lozenges, rectangles, ovals, trapezoids — began to be scumbled and overlaid with
dripped or poured
paint.
These works are much messier than her
earlier paintings, and they celebrate the sexual tactility of food preparation amidst a haze of faux - expressionist
drips of
paint that spew from perfectly plotted Ben - Day dots.
In the mid-1960s he used tubes of
paint,
dripping color directly onto the canvas, and his
earlier «Cachets,» or rubber stamp prints, suggest a mechanical version of all - over
paintings.
In his
early Joke
paintings, the artist experimented with layering pilfered cartoon illustrations and their pun - riddled, Freudian punchlines on canvas with a silkscreen while also inviting incidents of chance,
dripping and other fragmentary evidence of his hand.
Using a method that involves
dripping and pouring
paint as well as often stitching and adhering fragments and strips from
earlier paintings onto larger canvases, Bowling creates works in the Color Field idiom that are noted for their optical and surface complexities.
In the
early 1940's, a painter by the name of Jackson Pollock began developing a technique that allowed him to spontaneously
drip enamel
paint onto flat canvases, resulting in...
Pollock's
early work was figurative, becoming increasingly abstract over time until the «
drip»
paintings of the
early 1950s, for which he is most famous.
Her
early work was loosely associated with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract
dripped, splashed and poured «Waterfall»
paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site - specific wall drawings.
His oeuvre includes
early modernist works, geometric abstractions,
drip paintings, stain
paintings and abstract expressionist works.
This exhibition emphasizes the
drip for two reasons: first, following a ten year hiatus from
painting — roughly from 1972 to 1982 — after a sever illness resulting from toxicity to aluminum
paint and auto lacquer used in his
earlier work, Batterton returned to the
drip in his new artwork.
Another important figure in the development of Colour Field
painting was Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), who began as a Cubist before exploring Abstract Expressionist styles in the
early 1950s, making a significant development of Pollock's «
drip» technique.
In works like Sleeping Effort Pollock synthesized the expressive handling of his
drip paintings with the psychological interests of his work from
earlier in the 1940s.
She uses techniques of
dripping, layering and pouring to apply
paint, which derives from her
earlier work with glazes.
Though with her
early work Steir was loosely allied with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, she is best - recognized for
dripped, splashed and poured «waterfall»
paintings which she first started in the late 1980s.