Sentences with phrase «example of abstract expressionism»

The most expensive example of abstract expressionism sold at auction.

But if this initial impulse in pictorial composition seems cerebral, his sensuous enjoyment of pigment, colour, and the exploration of the absolute extremities of an abstractly pictorial situation tend toward a pictorial grandeur and excitement which approximate to the more directly sensuous examples of abstract expressionism.

For instance, it often confuses examples of abstract expressionism and action paintings, in which artists drip or fling paint and step on the canvas.

Not exact matches

Arshile Gorky's portrait of someone who might be Willem de Kooning is an example of the evolution of abstract expressionism from the context of figure painting, cubism and surrealism.

The paintings, for example, range from abstract expressionism to newspaper collage to pictures that use fabric and gold leaf to another made entirely of earth.

They had less to do with American abstract expressionism or color field painting than with the British pop art of the period, for example that of Hoyland's good friend, Patrick Caulfield.

The exhibition opens with the origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim collection that was begun in 1937 and focused on Non-Objective art including stunning examples of cubism, abstract expressionism and surrealism.

One of the earliest paintings in the exhibition, Byzantium (1967), created just after her move to La Jolla, is a pivotal example of Schapiro's transition from abstract expressionism to Hard Edge painting during this brief period when she lived in Southern California.

Greenberg later admitted Sobel's work was the first example of all - over painting he'd seen.5 It's not totally clear why Sobel faded from visibility, but one can assume her virtual - outsider status and the fact that she was a homemaker in the 1940s didn't help her cause in the male - dominated world of abstract expressionism.

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.

(One of Rockhill's examples is the still - unfolding history of the Cold War politics of abstract expressionism.)

She has expanded the concept of Beat to include examples of work from other movements and tendencies that co-existed, sometimes overlapping, with it - abstract expressionism, neo-dada, bebop and cool jazz, and independent film.

Truly, the strength of the collection is in abstract expressionism, with some of the greatest masterpieces of that movement on view, including major signature examples by the likes of Gorky, Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko and Still, among others.

Since then, whenever the art sought to break or depart from the aesthetic and artistic issues of feature more cerebral, this trend was resumed on new foundations: the American abstract expressionism (decade of 1950) and the German neo-expressionism (decade of 1980), for example., by revaluing the drives emanating from the insides of the human condition, brought with them the recovery of brushstrokes and traces of gesture agile, whose ordination in the works, does without the project.

This show brings back into the spotlight not only some of those first major encounters with California, but it also cleverly draws our attention to the way in which Hockney himself was responding, in his very earliest paintings, to the fashionable art of his time, to minimalism and abstract expressionism, for example.

[1] With abstract expressionism dominating their living environment, the sisters were aware of della Francesca, da Vinci, Matisse and Bonnard, but for example, didn't know anything about Andrew Wyeth until they went to college.