The work I'm doing now is me backing out of pure abstraction and color
field painting into something more figurative.
Not exact matches
He knows that the introduction of a certain shade of blue
into the background of his
painting can transform the visual
field for us from its ordinary tonality.
In college I studied
painting and after college I went
into the early childcare
field while also further exploring textiles.
Brooklyn Paper article on Borough President Adams allocating $ 1 million to convert a
painted field at Harold Ickes Playground in Red Hook
into a skate park and BMX trail.
Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts
into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped
into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand,
painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed
field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.
Volcanos, geysers, boiling mud pits, petrified lava
fields, peculiar rock formations, splashes of
paint on martian landscapes — the sights were truly amazing, but less enjoyable when broken down
into standardized drills: Drive, step out, take a picture, drive.
In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed
into a magical world of black lava
fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies
painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.
Whether you choose to take part in activities such as whitewater rafting,
painting and carving, yoga or mountain biking or just relax around the villa and wander
into the padi
fields and woods for a stroll, it is impossible not to slow right down to the Balinese pace of life here where tranquil bliss surrounds you.
And while we're gazing down the snowy lane, see how the pattern of distant
fields and hedges have been very simply treated as a few streaks and dabs of blue / grey
paint, thus pushing those features back
into their proper place in the background.
Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color
Field painting, moved
into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
This attention to compositional structure is what separated him from his AbEx colleagues... Opper somehow transcended the mythology of the AbEx period and almost clandestinely slipped
into the more formalist designs of color
field painting, while holding to a visual language that was both his own and an echo of Bonnard.»
Among a new generation of abstract painters who emerged combining color
field painting with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new elements of complex space and surface
into their works.
These artists are acting like industrious junior postmodernist worker bees, trying to crawl
into the body of and imitate the good old days of abstraction, deploying visual signals of Suprematism, color -
field painting, minimalism, post-minimalism, Italian Arte Povera, Japanese Mono - ha, process art, modified action
painting, all gesturing toward guys like Polke, Richter, Warhol, Wool, Prince, Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Wade Guyton, Rudolf Stingel, Sergej Jensen, and Michael Krebber.
Important among them was the propensity to get very physical with
paint and to take
into new terrain the pours and drips of Jackson Pollock and the staining technique of Color
Field painting.
As the American upholder of Matisse's colouristic doctrine, Milton Avery developed the French artist's decorative colour surfaces
into subtly toned colour zones, thus breaking the ground for the Colour
Field painting of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, both of whom were friends of his.
There's no evidence of facture; the
paint, you think, has soaked seamlessly
into the linen support; these must be riffs on Color
Field Painting, sans the bright colors, late iterations of stripe
paintings in the mode of Kenneth Noland and Gene Davis.
Serving as an overdue affirmation of Hoyland's significance within the
field of abstraction, they provide fascinating new insights
into the artist's practice, and through it, the object of
painting itself.
His recent Mojave Desert
paintings done on site in Joshua Tree National Park, California are a highlight of the exhibition; large, lyrical compositions of cliffs and boulders that all but dissolve
into fields writhing and swelling with lambent reds and oranges.
Color
field, curiously enough or perhaps not, became a viable way of
painting at exactly the time that acrylic
paint, the new plastic
paint, came
into being.
His large color -
field canvases, made entirely with spray
paint, contain hallucinogenic and elusive visions, hinting at images, which never quite come
into focus.
The dye will saturate, run, and dry over the course of the exhibition — eventually turning the white felt from pale blue to almost black — transforming the material
into a colossal color
field painting, a rolling mountain landscape, or even the hump of a whale.
Another interesting comparison to be drawn is between the Dan Christensen
painting of 1968 Serpens, and the 1969
painting of mine Eternal Circle, both
paintings exhibit an expansive and high spirited use of drawing in color across huge
fields sprayed
into the surface by Christensen and poured thick on top of the surface in my case.
Her work — which she describes as «futurist abstract
paintings in three dimensions» — playfully transforms conventional signifiers of femininity
into genderless, abstract color
fields.
Five
paintings structured after works by Kandinsky and Malevich — McElheny's Crystalline Prism
Painting I, II, III, IV, and VI — feature press - molded and polished glass prisms inset
into a
field of black, matte oil
paint brushstrokes, visible behind or through a surface made of a sheet of «museum glass».
See, in Denim Dress, how the tranquil American iconography of girl - sprawled - out - in -
field jumps the frame when you realise the girl is a boy; and in Junction 2015, how the mythic forms and long shadows of the American west are worked
into surreal compositions that speak as poignantly of human longing as has any sculpture or
painting.
Critic Helen Sumpter suggests in her recent essay on Gabb: «It's almost as if Gabb had taken something of the cool colour
field paintings of Barnet Newman and turned them
into something like the gestural action
paintings of Jackson Pollock... These extraordinary artworks could also be seen as somewhat flighty but if they've become sculpture,
paintings should at least stay fixed in their final form, shouldn't they?
In the black pourings Pollock was sometimes letting the
paint bleed
into bare canvas — and this was a precursor to Colour
Field painters, such as Helen Frankenthaler Hon RA.
Revisiting an idea he first employed in his late - seventies project «128 Photographs of a
Painting», he divided the work's surface
into two vertical sections, then halved those halves, and so on, he had each work printed to his desired scale, so that we might contemplate what have become remarkable horizontal, rhythmic
fields of fine lines, oscillating with vibrations of color, the largest of which stretches over ten meters, as seen on the gallery's first floor.
There I thought to put it in the gallery, enlarge it
into a
field and call it a
painting.
According to Sara Reisman ``... Wojciech Gilewicz» practices is about expanding the scope of
painting specifically and art art generally
into the realm of daily life, usually public and sometimes private... Gilewicz... questions the very nature of art, dismantling it from the rarified, official spaces of culture to a much wider
field that leads to the discovery that life itself as art.»
The artist's approach to
painting includes utilizing the most intimate material residues of life — textiles, texts, and traces of objects — all transformed
into active
fields of energy, empathy and history.
Painted four months after his arrival in Arles, Wheat
Field displays some of the key lessons that Van Gogh learned in Paris — the bright palette of the Impressionists and the individual touch of the Neo-Impressionists — which by then had developed further
into his highly personal, signature style with its distinctive brushwork and singing colour.
But dealer George Adams was moved by the crisp lines and jarring angles of the artist's brief foray
into Hard Edge, a style associated with Color
Field painting and Op Art.
Scher's larger works (and groupings of multiple works) provide
fields where some of these elements convene, where countless drawings — which often get loose
into otherwise abstract
paintings — are funny conundrums that outlast their own laugh lines.
Color -
field paintings fall
into the category of art often derided with statements such as «My six - year - old could do that.»
Ten Americans sheds new light on important figures in American Abstract Expressionist and Color
Field painting who adapted aspects of Klee's art and ideology
into their own artistic development.
More
paint was added and eventually the creases from the folds were translated
into lines and patterns that move throughout the
fields of color that ebb and flow throughout the massive canvas sheet.
Her new
paintings — groupings of hammerhead sharks, fronds, cell phones, toucans, plantains — bring something of Basquiat's mind - boggling border - to - border busyness, combined with Bernhardt's spray -
painted, psychedelic phosphorescent
fields that transform
into fossil beds of modern life.
These
paintings emit a gravitational
field that pulls in associations and assembles them
into a new kind of symmetry, a forbidden symmetry of seeing from multiple perspectives at once.
David Novros
painted just as abstraction and Minimalism were converging
into color -
field painting, and he pursued its rigor with a vengeance.
In his installations, he has created silver Celotex walls that invite museum - goers to become vandals, and transformed shag carpets
into grand echoes of Color
Field paintings.
Though primarily functioning as Warhol's investigations of the history of Abstract Expressionism and Color
Field Painting, they remain as integrated
into popular culture as never before.
You then came to New York in 1954, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was hitting its late peak and beginning to transition
into Color
Field painting, Pollock was gone, and de Kooning was leaving for the Springs.
In sculpture, video and photographic prints, Rana transforms snapshots of shop signs in Lahore
into abstracted cityscapes or renders reproductions of Old Master
paintings as digital
fields of colour.
What resulted remained true to
painting's basic materials while turning its traditionally flat surface
into a
field of topographical undulations that, interacting with light, appear to change a great deal as the viewer moves around them.
Thicker stripes run diagonally, merging
into still broader
fields of
paint.
It took guts to select a
field of art such as landscape
painting and persist
into a venture around which so much else bustles with attitudes of antagonism towards the very art one cherishes.
The next
paintings in this show explain much of what that
field became and how personal he chose to go
into the 70s.
While Newman's work reeled viewers
into a color
field, Swavely's
paintings resist close inspection, for as one approaches, the brushstrokes that once felt voluminous fall flat, having been washed away by turpentine - soaked rags scrubbed across canvas heavy with oil.
I love Willem de Kooning's «Women»
paintings for their formal qualities; the
fields of slashing brush strokes and garish colours somehow corralled
into dynamic compositions.