Sentences with phrase «expressionist generation of painters»

Amid the leaden self - importance of the abstract expressionist generation of painters, Baldessari played the ingenue, seeing what would happen, as he puts it, if he took art at its word: «If it really was all about communication, why not really try to communicate, with things that everyone could understand?

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AT THE HEIGHT of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction of the natural world could make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.

Taking issue with Harold Rosenberg (another important champion of Abstract Expressionism), who wrote of the virtues of action painting in his article «American Action Painters» published in the December 1952 issue of ARTnews, [3] Greenberg observed another tendency toward all - over color or Color Field in the works of several of the so - called «first generation» Abstract Expressionists.

Poons painted dots, Stella painted stripes and they both were apparently reacting against the Abstract Expressionist generation of relational painters.

Guston achieved fame in the 1950s as a part of the first generation of abstract expressionists, although the painter himself preferred the term New York School.

Considered one of the most important painters of the twentieth century, Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.

With what has been describes as a furious and fearless working process, painter Karen Schwartz illustrates from an unlikely inspiration combo of both generations of German Expressionists and Post-Modern Neo-Expressionists, with a sense of color and light that recalls the likes of Matisse.

At the gallery's 293 Tenth Avenue location, «Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings» examines the lesser - known, experimental abstractions of the artist's pre - «Elegy» years.1 Around the corner at Kasmin's 515 West Twenty - seventh Street venue, «Caro & Olitski: 1965 — 1968, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays» looks to the personal friendship and creative dialogue between sculptor and painter.2 And finally, up the block at the gallery's 297 Tenth Avenue address, in «The Enormity of the Possible,» the independent curator Priscilla Vail Caldwell brings the first generation of American modernists together with some of the later Abstract Expressionists — Milton Avery, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, John Marin, Elie Nadelman, and Helen Torr, among others, with Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.3

In 1950s New York, Joan Mitchell was a lively, argumentative member of the famed Cedar Bar crowd, alongside Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and other notable first - and second - generation Abstract Expressionist painters.

At 89 years - old, Athos Zacharias is a last living link, if not the last living link, to the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters, many of whom spent significant periods of time on the East End of Long Island.

Claimed as a Fauvist, a Surrealist, Expressionist, and a Magical Realist, the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró has had an enormous influence on the work of several generations of succeeding artists.

Equally important, however, is his respect for the integrity of the picture plane in these works, a respect that stems from his admiration for and emulation of the generation of Abstract Expressionist painters that came before him, including Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still.

Although this particular painting is named after a girl that Stella knew, its composition demonstrates his desire to move away from any representational illusion as well as the emotional content found in works by the preceding generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.

Critics and commentators had placed him among the group of young painters called the «Second Generation New York School,» a name that both indicated their debt to the original New York Abstract Expressionists and their new openness to representation.

'' Join us for the unveiling of the landmark artwork, «Symphony in DC Major,» commissioned by City Market at O and created by renowned sculptor and third - generation Washingtonian, Zachary Oxman, The massive three - part sculpture, occupying an entire city block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma Thomas.

Abstraction Second generation Abstract Expressionist Ray Spillenger has been described as «the most brilliant unknown painter of his generation» by artist Pat Passlof.

Her pioneering, immediate approach widened the practices of abstract expressionists and went on to inspire Color Field abstract painters such as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland and generations of future artists.

Guston not only effected key artists from a generation of (predominantly German) expressionist painters in the 1990s, but continues to have far reaching influence today, including younger artists in the gallery's own stable, such as Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Volker Hüller and Eddie Martinez.

I love Julian Schnabel's tenacious exploration of painting's parameters, but I've always wrestled with his grandiose sentimentality and unselfconsciously earnest approach that recalls the old - fashioned bravado of earlier generations, particularly the Abstract Expressionists and German postwar painters.

On view are ink paintings by the late David Slivka, a sculptor and painter who was part of the first generation of abstract expressionists.

Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.

«The best of these second - generation Abstract Expressionist paintings are strongly structured by color, a trait that the French - born painter Yvonne Thomas developed in her studies wi...

Best known for his Abstract Expressionist - style Graffiti, JonOne represents a new generation of contemporary artists who have moved beyond their roots as graffiti writers to establish themselves as painters.

And although the next generation of American artists, notably Robert Rauschenberg, reacted against the «nature painters» with work that saw the spectacle of the mediated world itself as a form of second nature, they knew that the stage on which they stood had been created by the abstract expressionist painters.

Robert Arthur Goodnough was an American abstract expressionist painter, and one of the last of the original generation of the New York School...

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

In art circles, it's sometimes forgotten that the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters in the 1940's were indebted to the modernist writers of the 1920's, who elevated an interest in myth and symbolism to the level of an aesthetic imperative.

Free - associate these elements and the great postwar painters inevitably come to mind, Generations One and Two of the Abstract Expressionists, the keepers of the Modernist flame after WWII reduced Europe to ashes.

On his death, the prominent art critic Clement Greenberg proclaimed Motherwell as one of the best artists of his generation: «Although he is underrated today, in my opinion he was the very best of the Abstract Expressionist painters.»

He has a strong sense of Bay Area art traditions — his father is a second - generation Abstract Expressionist painter who taught art at De Anza High School in Richmond — as well being interested in a wide range of modern and contemporary artists from many countries.

Klee's art and lessons on color theory would greatly impact later generations of artists, including, significantly, the Abstract Expressionists and Color Field painters.

Melville Price was one of the youngest of the first generation Abstract Expressionist circle of painters working in New York after WWII.

Perhaps more than any other sculptor of his generation, he made manifest in his sculpture of the early 50's the whole, abstract and essentially non-Cubist space that was being developed by the Abstract Expressionist painters.

Dubbed «The Merry - Go - Round Show,» it arose from his concern that a new generation of Abstract Expressionist painters was not being seen in L.A. Hopps rented the merry - go - round at the Santa Monica Pier for $ 80, stretched tarp around the poles and hung nearly 100 paintings by 40 artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Jay De Feo.

Second - generation Abstract Expressionist painter developed the technique of staining raw canvas with pigment.

While there he met some first generation Abstract Expressionist painters, including Mark Rothko who was teaching at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco at the time.

Embraced by the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters on the East End of Long Island, she represents one of the last living links to central figures in the avant - garde of 20th century American art, including such artists as Willem De Kooning, Philip Pavia, Ibram Lassaw, John Little and Balcomb Greene.

Joan Mitchell was an action painter, a member of what is considered the second generation of Abstract Expressionist artists.

Using a phrase coined by second generation American Abstract Expressionist painters, they assembled works by American artists living in the US (among them Philip Guston) or France (Francis, Joan Mitchell, Norman Bluhm), French painters (de Staël, Pierre Tal - Coat) and British artists (Heron, Lanyon, Richard Smith), with the addition of a Canadian living in Paris (Riopelle).

That energy continues to inspire the third generation of Abstract Expressionist painters working today, like Francine Tint.

Grace Hartigan, an Abstract Expressionist painter once hailed as the leading female artist of her generation who later turned to teaching and led a Baltimore art school to national prominence, died Nov. 15 of liver failure at a nursing home in Timonium, Md..

A second - generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler became active in the New York School of the 1950s, initially influenced by artists like Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock.

Michael David, the atelier's director, says the group's «radical sincerity» helps them avoid the affectation and mannerism that art critic Clement Greenberg once dismissed as «the Tenth Street touch» of second - generation Abstract Expressionist painters.

[1] Seliger was one of the original generation of Abstract expressionist painters connected with the New York School.

«We work with some informed collectors in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil who have made a significant commitment to the art of Joan Mitchell, and to that of other first - generation abstract expressionist painters.

James Brooks, one of the last of the original generation of Abstract Expressionist painters, died on Monday at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Brookhaven, L.I..

Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) was a second - generation abstract expressionist painter and printmaker and was a fundamental member of the American abstract expressionist movement.

Firmly within a masculine generation of Abstract Expressionist painters that held originality in near - divine regard, her deep interest in the work of her contemporaries set her apart, and ultimately helped her to produce a rich and dynamic body of work.

Jay Milder (born 1934) is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School.

Angelo Ippolito, one of my undergraduate painting professors at Binghamton, was a second - generation New York School Abstract Expressionist painter.