Sentences with phrase «field of abstract expressionist painting»

This is the thing that impresses me most about the field of abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.

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In much Abstract Expressionist painting of the 50s, notably paintings by Rothko and Newman, expanded abstract visual fields reflect the viewer's gaze, conjuring an awareness of self.

With encouragement from Greenberg, Bush became closely tied to two movements that grew out of the efforts of the abstract expressionists: Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.

His automatic paintings and use of color inspired the surrealists, abstract expressionists, Dadaists, and color field painters.

Pollock's energetic «action paintings», with their «busy» feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's figurative paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstract).

Powerful abstract expressionist painting of color fields, titled «Shifting Memories» by Marie (Meinke) Sarni (American, b. 1931), circa 1980.

Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage of art's march to absolute abstraction.

Bhavsar's large scale paintings are bold, bright, beautiful and reminiscent of the abstract expressionists and color field painters of yore but with an undeniably original Indian influence.

This may be a bit left field, but I was in London for Bernard Cohens breakfast at the Tate Britain, where I went straight to see the Cezannes at the NPG and then to Garys show at Paisnal.Let me say I take my hat off to the Paisnal gallery for showing an artist so obviously alive and kicking.Ive known Gary since we showed together at MOMA oxford straight out of college.I also remember his big show at the ACME gallery, where he mixed drawing and paint very successfully.I have to say I was a little disappointed, particularly the way an abstract expressionist activity stresses the surface, particularly the Rhoplex PVA, which looked frothy..

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.

Biography: A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.

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Rejecting all forms of representational art or figuration, they also avoided the gestural abstract expressionist idiom of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, even though the latter's «action - painting» can be seen as a pioneering attempt to create an «all - over» field of colour, recalling Monet's huge water lily canvases.

Note: Abstract Expressionism refers in general to those artists who were working in New York in the 1950s, even if their work was not especially expressionist or abstract: so it encompassed Mark Rothko, and his Colour Field Painting, as well as the gesturalism of Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97) and his Woman series.

By the 1950s this multiform style had evolved into his signature style of abstract expressionist painting, known as «Colour Field Paintingpainting, known as «Colour Field PaintingPainting».

Studying the work of American abstract expressionists such as Helen Frankenthaler, an artist who poured thinned paint directly on larger than life - sized canvases on the floor in her Color Field works, Olivier similarly engaged in a process of coaxing acrylic paint to spread and drip in brilliantly hued pools, more characteristic in watercolor.

She was one of the early abstract expressionists and a pioneer in the development of color - field painting.

A Fishtown native who's studio is in the Crane Arts Center, Browning obviously takes full advantage of the large work space to create massive paintings, this color field of speeding urban images, like you see out of the corner of your eye as you zoom down the Expressway, is abstract expressionist yet a kind of contemporary cubism with obtuse angles and cracked spacial warps.

Neither purely abstract nor expressionist, the style embraced two broad groupings: the school of «Action Painting» (a style of gestural painting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko andPainting» (a style of gestural painting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko andpainting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko andPainting practised by Mark Rothko and others.