Despite this turbid content, it remains fashionable to talk about Baselitz's paintings as
abstractions, as though the perverse act
of reversing the figure — the works at Michael Werner, from the»70s, include some
of the first examples
of this practice — were merely a technical matter, and as though his
painterly explorations were mere attempts to stretch
Breslow's panels, which favor atmosphere over specificity, are about the artist's genuine affection for the city she lives in, and also represent a
painterly exploration of the balance between representation and
abstraction.
One
of the most important painters
of English
Abstraction, Ben Nicholson begin his
painterly explorations in the turbulent period between two wars.