Then again, color -
field painting always demanded that painting show itself as an object.
Not exact matches
But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative
painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't
always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective
field».
Subjecting the canvas to a range of
painted actions and erasures upon it, Humphries tests the limits of
painting,
always interested in synthesizing physical and psychological space onto the
painted field.
Landscape has
always been an important element in my
paintings, but the white on white wilderness and purity of Antarctica, its amazing wildlife and history soon convinced me to continue to work on the color
field paintings but also to expand the vision in a number of other directions.
As far back as I can remember I have
always had a love for linear geometrics and colour
field paintings.
His
fields of
paint are almost
always perfectly haloed by a narrow, unruled margin of bare ground.)
This
painting among the many others here illustrate what has
always been enticing to me about Color
Field work: its measured pacing of a visual experience that invites the viewer to be contemplative.
Yes, staining is somewhat unpredictable, and that dialog between control and chance was where much of my vocabulary started, but I feel I've
always been as invested in the image and politics of representational space, with pattern and decoration and with color
field painting, as in the physical process of making the
painting.
Laura Newman's
paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color
fields, dynamic lines and organic forms, resulting in atmospheric images evocative of representational landscapes, but
always opening up to something more, something beyond.
April 16 — May 14, 2011 Tomislav Nikolic's
paintings have
always presented centralized
fields of colour.
The grey
fields are
always perfect, flat,
painted in pristine fashion.
Transparent and opaque
paint have
always been part of my work; it's a contrast so basic to
painting, and now it's the kind of picture
field I make.