• German Expressionism (1905 - 14) Kandinsky's
expressionist pictures painted during his membership of Der Blaue Reiter come close to abstraction, as do works by his colleague Franz Marc (1880 - 1916).
Several of Kandinsky's
expressionist pictures painted during his time with Der Blaue Reiter come very close to abstraction, as does Deer in the Wood II (1913 - 14, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karsruhe) by his colleague Franz Marc (1880 - 1916).
Not exact matches
At Metro
Pictures, Longo uses Abstract
Expressionist painting as a source for his drawings.
Abstract
expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler,
pictured above in 1956, adopted Jackson Pollock's technique of
painting canvases laid flat on the floor.
These included: Mark Rothko, Philip Guston («Philip would say again and again — as if he had never said it before — that everything in a work of his had to be «felt»»), Franz Kline (he «held court at the Cedar Street Tavern almost every night after ten»), David Smith, Tony Smith, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofman («I always admired Hans»
painting and believe that certain of his
pictures — Lava and Agrigento come to mind — must be numbered among the greatest abstract
expressionist canvases»), Willem de Kooning, and Clyfford Still («as a de Kooning man, it took me time to appreciate Still's innovation»).
After studying
painting at Wesleyan, Ligon moved to New York and, as the curator Scott Rothkopf has it, «churned out belated Abstract
Expressionist canvases» (a smattering of these
pictures can be seen in America).
Galleries on the fourth floor present Abstract
Expressionist paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and archival materials in a display subtitled The Big
Picture, marking the first time in the history of the new Museum building that a full floor has been devoted to a single theme.
These works were a riposte to abstract -
expressionist pictures, such as Jackson Pollock's «drip»
paintings; the compositions were more radical and the process of producing them more intense.
• For the meaning of important
expressionist pictures, see: Famous
Paintings Analyzed.
PETER SELZ: Well, I think Goya really, you know, instead of
painting in the neo-classic tradition as his contemporary Dávid was doing, he was
painting expressionist pictures.
There were so many strong, competing agendas: the
Pictures Generation and appropriation, the «Bad Boys» of
expressionist painting, graffiti, a new generation of feminists.
Robert Longo's Gang of Cosmos at Metro
Pictures includes 12, ghostly black - and - white charcoal drawings based on canonic
paintings by Abstract
Expressionist masters Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still.
Robert Longo has a show at Metro
Pictures in March of supersized charcoal drawings of iconic Abstract -
Expressionist paintings.
In the 1955 essay «American - Type
Painting» Greenberg promoted the work of Abstract
Expressionists, among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, and Clyfford Still, as the next stage in Modernist art, arguing that these painters were moving towards greater emphasis on the «flatness» of the
picture plane.
The physicality and dense entanglements of monumental Abstract
Expressionist canvases, in turn, are now regarded not simply as dialogues between
paint and
picture surfaces, but as historical indexes of the toils of intense, larger - than - life personalities.
By 1958, Siskind had established himself as a lone photographer among the Abstract
Expressionist painters exhibiting his
pictures along side their
paintings well before it was the accepted norm.
gestural surfaces of abstract
expressionist works and towards flatter surfaces and a more minimal color palette, Stella's
paintings reflected his statement of the time that a
picture was «a flat surface with
paint on it — nothing more.»
His «meta - matics» were comically structured machines that mechnically
painted «abstract
expressionist»
pictures.
This motif, repeated from
picture to
picture takes a kind of content that belonged to the original Abstract
Expressionist mythos — e. g. the existential nothingness out of which the being of the
painting arose — and brings it deftly over into a formal aspect of the composition itself.
Like all the pop generation in America, he was working in the shadow of the abstract
expressionists who in the 1940s and 50s widened the reach of
painting, destroying the difference between the easel
picture and the mural.
This
picture might appear to be merely a depiction of a figure intensely working on a large sheet of white paper until one recognizes the role assumed by the blobs of
paint in the background that look as if they have been applied by an Abstract
Expressionist.
Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract
painting in which forms move into and through the
picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural
painting in the abstract
expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.
If the Abstract
Expressionists sought to vanquish the focal points of traditional
painting through a balanced fragmentation of the
picture plane, Saccoccio does the opposite.
Its 19th - century holdings include Impressionist
paintings by Edouard Manet (1832 - 83), Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917), Pierre - Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919), Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) and Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899); works by Post-Impressionist painters like Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906), Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) and Paul Signac (1863 - 1935);
expressionist works by Van Gogh (1853 - 1890), and Symbolist
pictures by Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916).
Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist /
Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - Ame
Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the
expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - Ame
expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed
pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene
Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.
For an explanation of some of the great 20th century abstract
expressionist pictures, please see: Analysis of Modern
Paintings (1800 - 2000).
Guston's main point at Boston University was that the state of things in 1966 was very different from the original experience of the Abstract
Expressionists around 1950 when, in his words, you felt as if you were driven into a corner against the wall with no place to stand, just the place you occupied, as if the act of
painting itself was not making a
picture, there are plenty of
pictures in the world — why clutter up the world with
pictures?
One reason for our consideration is that, by some standard, she did everything wrong: she made easel
pictures on prefabricated canvas board; she made impure abstract
paintings; she seems not to have given a fig about what the Abstract
Expressionists were up to.
Inspired by interactions and studio visits with American Abstract
Expressionists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko, Hoyland increased the scale of his
pictures and moved exclusively to acrylic
paint rather than oil.