Nathan Hylden is an American abstract painter admired for his ability to question the
very essence of painting in a unique body of work.
The outcome is a cross-section that incorporates everything painting can mean today — while focusing on the innermost
essence of painting through the paradoxical renunciation of color.
Body parts and objects were assembled on the canvas in non - hierarchical structures that sought to articulate the
absolute essence of painting and reconcile it with his fears for what he saw to be a brutal, degenerating world.
Conventional wisdom about this style of art has been rendered worthless for reasons beyond the scope of this essay, but it holds that it is concerned with
pure essence of painting, excluding all content, referring only to its heroic self.
Referencing Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, and Color Field, the artist mainly focuses on the mechanics of painting, exploring the bare
minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic.
At the work's centre, a thin strip of high - keyed azure blue bleeds into neighbouring areas with intoxicating results; Rothko insisted that it was here, where the edges of his painterly passages meet, that the
true essence of his paintings were witnessed.
Oil on canvas, Although French painter, Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) shared with Picasso the deep belief that figuration is the
very essence of painting, many trustworthy connoisseurs...
This sweet and simple biography captures both Rousseau's personality and
the essence of his painting.
Having engaged in long periods of material experimentation, employing substances from chewing gum, flowers, dirt, and grass, to confetti, and tar and feathers, he has gradually deconstructed
the essence of painting's brushstroke and the gestural mark of the artist's hand.
As Larson explores in her catalogue essay for the show, Steir's continuous search for
the essence of painting guided her to John Cage, who she met in 1980, and Agnes Martin, who she visited in New Mexico every year for 30 years, until Martin's death in 2004.
When Clement Greenberg asserted
the essence of painting flatness, I think he was off the mark by being both too literal and too narrow, and this gave formalism a bad name which it didn't deserve.
He said it over and over to his students:
the essence of painting is drawing.
At first associated with geometric imagery, in 1966 Poons reacted against Clement Greenberg's pictorial theories to return to
the essence of painting — tactile pigment itself.
Arshile Gorky saw drawing as
the essence of painting.
With this reduced and radical orchestration Eriksson provokes the question of
the essence of painting: for Eriksson painting is an expression of one's own perception.
Moreover, Bas shifts the focus away from earlier themes toward an exploration of
the essence of painting, displaying an overt interest in abstraction that puts the work far from the misguided comparisons to Kilimnik / Peyton of yesteryear.
The paintings are not representational, but rather express
the essence of paint as a medium — Jenkins, in this sense, was very much of his time.
A quintessential Pop painting, and one that questions fundamental beliefs about the artistic process, Roy Lichtenstein's monumental Red and White Brushstrokes takes
the essence of painting — the brushstroke — and frames it within the Pop idiom.
Juxtaposing monochrome color and vibrant pattern, opaqueness and transparency, minimal and luxurious textures, he creates luminous surfaces that offer glimpses of hidden areas beneath, drawing attention to the constructed, sculptural,
essence of painting.
The assumption, in advanced circles, was that abstraction was wholly superior, raising large, lofty questions about
the essence of painting instead of getting bogged down in the picayune details of postwar life.
Throughout his career, Dan Colen has engaged in long periods of material experimentation, gradually deconstructing
the essence of painting.
In these new works,
the essence of painting collides with the essence of place.
The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and
essence of painting.
It's an abstract concept she describes as «part of
the essence of a painting, or a sculpture» that can be sensed in the hushed atmosphere of gallery or museum.
Pinelli's works explore
the essence of painting itself through the innovative use of materials and formal experiments.
Calling into question notions of context and subjectivity, Lapin's highly distilled works consider
the essence of painting and poetics.
Chosen for their immediacy and their remoteness from contemporary art discourse, each substance — from chewing gum to street trash — overrides assumptions about
the essence of painting.
Although French painter, Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) shared with Picasso the deep belief that figuration is the very
essence of painting, many trustworthy connoisseur...
Although French painter, Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) shared with Picasso the deep belief that figuration is the very
essence of painting, many trustworthy connoisseurs perceive blatan...
The group, which explored
the essence of painting and undermined traditional institutional structures, raised questions about authorship and originality.
Approaching photography with the same eye as high art, Erik Madigan Heck's works capture
the essence of painting through the lens of his camera.
Steir's continuous search for
the essence of painting guided her to John Cage, who she met in 1980, and Agnes Martin, who she visited in New Mexico every year for 30 years, until Martin's death in 2004.
Following his studies at Black Mountain College, Rauschenberg created a series of seminal monochrome paintings and continued to challenge assumptions about
the essence of painting with his Combines (1954 — 64), which paved the way for Pop art as well as new directions in assemblage and painting.
Versed in academia, Motherwell had touchstones and influences that he needed to assimilate and release before he could arrive at what he considered
the essence of painting: work that showed, without the props of still life or landscape, a true state of feeling.
These forces conspired in a movement to make paintbrushes superfluous and to give color,
the essence of painting, even more primacy.
Distilling is to uncover or reveal
the essence of painting.
It is Ryman's careful, monastic pace, not his intellectual ambition, which embodies
the essence of his painting.