Sentences with phrase «edge painting movement»

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Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field.

His diverse painting practice weaves together impulses of minimalism and hard - edge abstraction with those of the California Light and Space movement, to forge an entirely singular creative vision.

However, the popular nature of plein air movement seems a double - edged sword; more people now care about landscape painting but on the other hand the work often suffers from being geared toward mass consumption.

Jack Youngerman is an American artist, who works in multiple media, and belongs to Minimalism, Hard - Edge painting and Abstract art movements.

The playful sculptures and paintings of the only woman in the Arte Povera movement have a distinctly steely edge

It resurfaced after many of the successive postmodern movements: the ironic hard edges of pop, the pared - down compositions of Minimalism, the free - for - all expressionism of assemblage and street art, and finally the tongue - in - cheek homages of 1980s appropriation — each caused critics to mourn painting's demise.

(Beal didn't actually align himself with Hard Edge movement, Mr. Adams told the Observer, but in addition to the paintings he completed in those years, he studied flat planes and toyed with spacial illusions exhaustively in a multi-year, diaristic sketchbook titled The Form Book, also on view in the gallery.)

It was so smooth and flat and the edges were stunning, but the moment I wanted to push more movement and energy into the painting, it just couldn't handle it.

These smaller paintings are studies on composition, framing the outer edges (round or square) with vibrant colours and adding a few touches of paint that suggest depth and movement.

The three artists share an interest in depicting — in hard - edged artworks of pulsating abstract painting — the vibrating, undetermined power of the universe and the movement of the world as reflected in everyday life, according to the gallery press release.

This covered a number of movements, from stain painting (just what it says) to systemic painting (most famously Josef Albers, who reduced his work to a series of coloured squares, one inside another), minimal painting (such as that of Agnes Martin, obituary, January 10) and hard edge abstraction.

Around the mid-1800's, the time that the French Impressionism lost its edge and became a valuable style, with various exhibitions happening in America presenting the European painters, the American painters began to gather in artistic colonies that centered on outdoor paintings, which later influenced a movement of garden art in America.

The Automatiste movement gave way in the mid-1950s to a rigorous form of hard - edge abstraction first marked in the work of Leduc and the Plasticiens, a group that was formed in 1954 by the critic Rodolphe de Repentigny (who painted under the pseudonym Jauran) and 3 other painters; it first exhibited in 1955.

Abstract Expressionism, the first great US art movement, sought to instil abstract painting with an emotional, expressive edge.

Hard - edge painting was not much of a movement but a style of painting.

The exhibition title itself is a literal reference to the historical terminology Hard - Edge painting; which was first coined in the late fifties and used to describe intense and abrupt delineation of color within the burgeoning Geometric Abstraction and Op - art movements.

In fact, hard edge painting is a term that came to describe a tendency applied in the artworks of different Modern and Contemporary artists across many movements.

The move towards a more hard - edge style of abstraction, the clear lines, high contrast of color and its various hues, along with the rejection of the tactile application of paint were seen as the dominant features of such movement [2].

Because of these characteristics, hard - edge painting went to inspire Minimalism as well, a movement which relied on aesthetic formalism not just in painting, but also sculpting, installation, video art...

The legendary Black Square and the star of the Suprematism movement, the artwork by Kazimir Malevich certainly represents one of the major examples of hard edge painting, even though it wasn't created during the highlight years of the style.

The 21st Century saw an emergence of different art movements; as technological development brought new opportunities, new movements have emerged, and many of them could be described as abstract art: digital art, computer and internet art, hard - edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism — to mention a few.

Though not as well - known as figures such as Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, or Dan Flavin, Ryman is nonetheless one of the pioneers of Minimalist painting, whose works attempt to empty the painting of content — and color — in order to focus almost entirely on form and process, an idiom in which he has continued to work for some sixty years, long past the demise of Minimalism as a cutting - edge movement.

By treating the words as shapes, den Breejen generates conceptual narratives and explores a personal take on movements such as minimalism, «action painting,» grid and color - field painting, and hard - edged geometry.

Each painting in the exhibition will highlight key compositional strategies in a formal narrative where perceived movement, fragmentation, and painterly gesture establish a dynamic interaction with the edges and frames of her canvases.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

Of the work for which Sam Francis is known, his Edge Paintings are highly regarded for their contributions to minimalist style of contemporary art that rose to prominence in the 1960s Abstract Expressionist movement.

While absorbing the work of these movements and artists, Kelly has said, «I was deciding what I didn't want in a painting, and just kept throwing things out — like marks, lines and the painted edge».

One example would be an exhibition that traces the emergence of and shows the interrelationship between important movements such as abstract expressionism, hard - edge painting, lyrical abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art.

Whereas members of this movement draw inspiration from mass media, Thiebaud paints on the basis of his own memories, and his loose brush strokes are miles away from the mechanical, hard - edge reproductions by artists like Andy Warhol.

He has curated numerous exhibitions in some of the most distinguished museums around the world, including Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography; The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 — 1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S. 1 and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, Castello di Rivoli, Torino; In / Sight: African Photographers, 1940 — Present, Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux Art, Brussels, Lenbach Haus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Co-Curator of Echigo - Tsumari Sculpture Biennale in Japan; co-curator of Cinco Continente: Biennale of Painting, Mexico City; Stan Douglas: Le Detroit, Art Institute of Chicago.

Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923 Newburgh, NY — d. 2015 Spencertown, NY) was an important American abstract painter and a pioneering figure of Minimalism, hard - edge painting and Color Field painting, although he has succeeded in not being solely defined by any of these movements.

This encompassed abstract art movements such as Lyrical Abstraction, as well as various forms of Minimalism including Hard - Edge Painting.

At the time he belonged to the Hard Edge movement, whose proponents painted bands of pure colour with clearly marked outlines on the canvas.

Returning to America, his individual style had a significant impact on the development of Minimal art, Systemic Painting, Hard - edge Painting, Frank Stella's Shaped Canvas genre, and Greenberg's so - called Post-painterly Abstraction, without him actually becoming a «member» of any of these movements.

Though the horizontal strokes dividing the rectangular canvas into regularly refined segments evoke hard - edged geometric painting, they are made without tools and hence incorporate the animated irregularities that come with the movements of a free hand.

Fusing pop art's hard edges with the political ideals of social realism, and techniques of Tibetan painting with the graphic symbolism of West African sculpture and design, her practice occupies a unique space within the black arts movement of the 1960s and»70s.

Saturated with California cool and New York edge, the electricity that runs through Mary Heilmann's paintings is super-charged with references to her own life, pop music, and the free - wave movements of the Sixties.

Over the course of her career Lundeberg explored numerous idioms of expression; her work has been alternately characterized as working within the parameters of Hard - Edge Painting, Geometric Abstraction, Social Realism, and, perhaps most famously, Post Surrealism — a style and movement that she pioneered with Feitelson.

«It became apparent,» Aldrich said, «that in painting there was a movement away from the geometric, hard - edge, and minimal, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions in colors which were softer and more vibrant.

He is often associated with hard - edge painting — a movement associated with calculated execution and flat surface planes.

Recognized by art enthusiasts and professionals the world over as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and a leader in minimalist art, his work has greatly influenced various post-war movements like hard - edge painting, color field and pop art.