It actually happened in the following two years, when I was about eight years old, my parents took me to see an exhibit at the Ontario Art Gallery — I believe it was a big abstract color
field painting show, which included a huge red stained painting.
Our next stop was to meet Honor Fraser and view her stunning»60s color
field painting show, called Openness and Clarity and curated by Haydn Dunbar, with stand - out paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and a simply breathtaking one by Frank Stella called Ctesiphon I, from 1968.
Not exact matches
The
fields used to illustrate the theme are those of health care and civil nuclear power, the former to
paint a general picture of the hierarchy of uncertainty, and the latter to
show the full range of relationships between governments and their advisers in a series of specific examples.
The map
shows the intensity of infrared light, and traces magnetic
field lines within filaments of warm dust grains and hot gas, which appear here as thin lines reminiscent of brush strokes in a
painting.
I do henna, spin fire,
paint, work in the medical
field, have awesome children, love to go to
shows and dance, I am interested in all types of music and the variety life...
Initial Smarter Balanced
field tests
showed dramatic drops in English and math proficiency rates and first results — while in many states better than expected — still
paint a grim picture.
In 2004, Fernando won the best of
show at the Cesar Chavez Anniversary Art Show with the painting «Field worker&raq
show at the Cesar Chavez Anniversary Art
Show with the painting «Field worker&raq
Show with the
painting «
Field worker».
meditation at and Vihara Buddhist Temple, sunrise sail with the dolphins, rice
field trekking and visit to Munduk waterfalls, eco-forest walks, snorkeling at Puri Jati, scuba diving at Menjangan Island, Golf at Bedugal,
painting and art classes, selected evening cultural
shows, healthy cooking seminars, Balinese culture briefings and visit to local villages, lifestyle coaching etc..
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.
Parkinson writes that «Opticality seems an important sub plot in this
show, and its» not just the Peter Young or the stunning Cantus Firmus by Bridget Riley that I have in mind, there is also the early Sean Scully
painting East Coast Light 2, the pulsating Auditorium by Dan Walsh, Depth of
Field by Richard Kirwan, as well as the strangely photographic Flirt by Jane Harris and Untitled (fold) by Tauba Auerbach.
Silas writes: «In the
show at Elizabeth Dee, we are presented with
paintings that are
fields of color.
The exhibition features a new series of Boo Saville's colour
field paintings, which are
shown in dialogue with a number of black and white canvases.
Just to cover the historical end of the spectrum, there are two big museum
shows: Color as
Field Field: American Painting, 1950 - 1975 at the Smithsonian, the first full show dedicated to the color field movement (OK, so the show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at
Field Field: American Painting, 1950 - 1975 at the Smithsonian, the first full show dedicated to the color field movement (OK, so the show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at
Field: American
Painting, 1950 - 1975 at the Smithsonian, the first full
show dedicated to the color
field movement (OK, so the show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at
field movement (OK, so the
show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at MoMA.
If the artist is using geometry to construct a
painting, like so many since the early 1960s, it feels more like doing math than if the artist
shows a square as an image floating in a
field, like a character in a graphic novel.
O'Neal's drawings and
paintings have been
shown at The Drawing Center, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; P.S. 122, New York; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Centre d'Art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Chicago Cultural Center; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, FL; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; ART LA;
Field Projects, New York; and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago.
The
paintings by this great Color
Field innovator, now 80, looked as every bit as fresh as they did when they were first made in the»60s and»70s — prompting some fair goers to ask the gallery, «who is this young artist you are
showing?»
The earliest
painting in the
show, a 1966 untitled work, belongs to Christensen's minimalist period, with vertically - piled rows of short golden strips on a puce - colored
field.
Sites, subjects, and methods of observation are critical to each artist's visual language: planted
fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations of color in a sky reflected on a watery plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle of shapes in a tapestry - like world are some of the inspirations for the
paintings shown here.
Then again, color -
field painting always demanded that
painting show itself as an object.
Woodward Gallery features emerging and established artists and
shows Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Color
Field painting, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Neo-expressionism, and Street Art among other movements.
The
show suggested a shift: from privileging gestural abstractions and Color
Field paintings to celebrating pared - down forms in three dimensions.
1990 Before the
Field -
Paintings from the Sixties, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, NY Group: 1990, Salander - O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY Group
Show, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Installation photographs of the rooms within the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, where Still, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko first
showed their classic works, suggest these artists were accustomed to having their
paintings dominate the viewer's
field of vision.
Even critics otherwise sympathetic to advanced
painting in the 1950s were made apoplectic by Newman's huge, minimally inflected canvases —
fields of monochromatic
paint with a vertical stripe or two — and they have provoked vandalism from the time of his first solo
show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1950.
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».
Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract
Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Painter's Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia Nature Study: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California Summer Choices: A Group
Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco California Joyride, Marlborough Broome St, New York, New York Capture the Rapture, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, California Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada The good, the bad and the ugly, Gesso Artspace, Vienna Austria Another Cats
Show, 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California Cornucopia, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland The Machine Project
Field Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, California Wake Up Early, Fear Death, curated by Philipp Kaiser.
It's very interesting to me how the 1959 — 61 works in our
show — coming between her celebrated soak - stain work of the 1950s and her Color
Field paintings of the 1960s — have somehow slipped out of her history.
However, where Kelly's shapes are cold and solidly rooted in color
field and minimalism, Valdez's
paintings are the contemporary response, letting feminism and craft
show through the artist hand.
In her own words, Summer Wheat makes artworks — one of which is currently included in the
show «Expanding the
Field of
Painting» at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Arts — that are «ugly but beautiful.»
Sarah Wiseman Gallery presents in June «Line & Surface», an exhibition examining the work of Simon J Harris, Steven MacIver (whose work «Divide and Rule» is
shown here courtesy of the artist and Sarah Wiseman Gallery), Henrietta Dubrey and Mark Beattie, making connections across the
fields of
painting and sculpture.
The strongest presence in the remainder of the
show is Larry Poons, whose three
paintings (from 1963, ’69 and» 72) outline his progress from optical dots on monochrome
fields to torrential pours of
paint that tosses stain -
painting delicacy to the winds and parodying both Pollock's and Ms. Frankenthaler's finesse.
The next
paintings in this
show explain much of what that
field became and how personal he chose to go into the 70s.
While for Rothko the side of the
painting had color to it that not only
showed the stages of its making but also indicated an environmental continuity between the
painting and its site of placement, this strip, finished with a neutral light - reflecting color, signified a concept of separation between the discrete
field of
painted canvas and its surroundings.
Bradley's layers of color and abstract
fields of
paint feel consistent throughout the
show but still experimental with each new
painting.
«But the first
show of Indian contemporary art in the fair's history, from newcomer Sundaram Tagore of New York, also reflects heightened interest in that
field Tagore has meditative
paintings on paper by Sohan Qadri..»
Now, for her new
show, she's tackled the
field of
painting for the first time, creating elegant wall - mounted abstractions — she calls them «drawings» — by embedding tens of thousands of nickel - headed steel pins in Gatorboard, a polystyrene material often used for mounting prints.
Shows cancelled or postponed • Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, «Jean - Léon Gérôme», February - May 2010, cancelled • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, «Subversion of the Images: Surrealism and Photography», spring 2010, cancelled • Chicago,
Field Museum, «Lucy's Legacy: the Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia», planned for 2009 - 10, dropped • Denver, Denver Art Museum, «Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library», July - September 2009, cancelled • Honolulu, Contemporary Art Museum, «Japan Fantastic» (11 contemporary artists), December 2009 - March 2010, cancelled • Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, «Cildo Meireles», June - September 2009, cancelled • Kansas City, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, «Rafael Lozano - Hemmer», February - May 2009, cancelled • London, Tate Britain, «Johann Zoffany», autumn 2010, cancelled and moved to Royal Academy • Los Angeles, Getty Museum, «Franz Messerschmidt», September 2009 - January 2010, postponed • Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, «Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan», August - November 2009, cancelled • Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, «Cildo Meireles», November 2009 - February 2010, cancelled • Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, «Arshile Gorky: a Retrospective», June - September 2010, cancelled • Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, «Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design», February - May 2010, cancelled • New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, «Donald Saff and the Art of Collaboration», September 2009 - January 2010, cancelled • New York, Metropolitan Museum, «Duncan Phyfe: America's Legendary Cabinetmaker», January - April 2010, postponed • Paris, Centre Pompidou, Indian contemporary art, 2010, postponed to 2011 • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, «The Kingdom of Aragon» (15th - century Spanish
painting), spring 2010, postponed to 2011 • Reykjavík, National Gallery of Iceland, «Off the Beaten Track: Violence, Women and Art», September - December 2009, cancelled • Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, «Cildo Meireles», March - June 2010, cancelled • Vienna, Albertina, «Jörg Immendorff», October 2009 - January 2010, cancelled ``
One in a series of «map
paintings» that attempt to redraw the world — evoking the history of slavery, family memories and the colors of Bowling's native Guyana — the work also
shows Bowling moving strongly towards the work of the Color
Field school.
André Emmerich, an influential Manhattan art dealer whose gallery was an early champion of the 1950s and»60s school of Color
Field painting and who also mounted important
shows of pre-Columbian art, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.
(Further dumping on Greenberg & color -
field painting ensued in an otherwise enthusiastic review of this
show by a younger geometric abstractionist painter that was published in Studio International)..
He
shows his range in these later works gleefully inventing and exploiting new spaces in the picture plane: 1951's Every Atom Glows: Electrons in Luminous Vibration is a delicate black - and - white oil
painting, while his Alabama II, 1969, is a strong protest work — a rectangular
field of red in which a triangular wedge evoking bodies marching or a megaphone's amplified language emerges in glossier red on the
painting's surface.
The
show features about 40 color
field paintings and explores their sources, meaning, and impact.
Looking back on Basquiat's street years, his friend Fab 5 Freddy recollects»... he had just had his first
show,
painting on clothes, at Patricia
Field's gallery.
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith,
shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household
paint on canvas of colored dots on a white
field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943
painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
Including over sixty works, many of which have never before been
shown in the United States, the retrospective provides a fresh and in - depth examination of the evolution of the artist's aesthetic and illustrates the significance of his contributions to the
field of postwar
painting.
«We want everyone who attends to experience this wonderful new exhibition where we have literally bared our walls to
show murals and
paintings created by some of the top international contemporary artists working in their
field.»
Anonymous — The
Field of the Cloth of Gold, c1520 This spectacular history
painting by an unknown 16th - century artist
shows the pageantry and bravado of a famous diplomatic meeting between Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France.
The
show concluded with the luminously
painted atmospheric
fields of color for which this Abstract Expressionist is celebrated.
In the tasty «Untitled Body Parts» at Simone Subal Gallery (January 10 — February 7), a
painting by the excellent Emily Mae Smith (a leader in this emergent
field)
showed a chiseled torso overlaid with short lengths of brass tubing.
«And I don't think any of these artists find
painting an unproblematic
field,» he says of the
show, which included Fairfield Porter, Vija Celmins, and younger artists like Edgar Bryan, Mari Eastman, Jochen Klein, and Mamma Andersson.