Manny Farber's monumental color
field paintings created in New York and California during the years 1967 through 1975 were cut, stained, saturated, sliced, wet, glued, painted, folded, collaged, pleated, pasted, layered, dripped, brushed, glazed, bled, marked, colored, tinted, textured, smeared, pierced, trimmed, slit, creased, buffed, wiped, varnished, washed, graphed, drawn, scraped, burnished, rubbed, scoured, soaked, coated, veiled, and wrapped.
Manny Farber's monumental color
field paintings created in New York and California during... Continued
The lithograph print poster features and untitled monochrome brown color
field painting created in 1962.
Not exact matches
By pairing the first - an abstract
painting whose flat forms are schematic and derived from markings observed on a soccer
field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical
painting photographed at an angle, Uglow
creates a visual experience charged with the potential of both abstraction and representation.
Poons, Christensen, Davis, Landfield, Seery, Lipsky, Zox and several others
created paintings that bridge Color
Field painting with Lyrical Abstraction and underscore a re-emphasis on landscape, gesture and touch.
Frankenthaler developed her own technique of pouring diluted
paint directly onto canvas, then manipulating it with mops and sponges to
create vivid
fields of color.
The importance of three - dimensionality is apparent when one compares her oil
paintings from this period to related drawings: even when these are on several pieces of paper
creating a shape or a broken
field, they operate in a more conventional relation to form.
The Contemporary art collection encompasses works
created from 1945 to the present with strong examples of Abstract Expressionism, Color
Field painting, Pop art, Conceptual art, and recent movements in
painting, sculpture, photography, and video.
Gorky
created broad
fields of vivid, open, unbroken color that he used in his many of his
paintings as grounds.
Collins recently
created Energy
Field, a lounge in the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, where her
paintings and three dimensional textile works co-exist with her home textiles and furniture.
In the late 1960s Richard Diebenkorn began his Ocean Park series;
created during the final 25 years of his career and they are important examples of color
field painting.
By the 1970s Poons
created thick - skinned, cracked and heavy
paintings referred to as Elephant Skin
paintings; while Christensen sprayed loops, colored webs of lines and calligraphy, across multi-colored
fields of delicate grounds; Ronnie Landfield's stained band
paintings are reflections of both Chinese landscape
painting and the Color
Field idiom, and John Seery's stained
painting as exemplified by East, 1973, from the National Gallery of Australia.
In Giulia Ricci's Order Disruption
Painting there's something strange going on spatially, the patterned repetition of a triangular motif
creating something akin to a systemic
field which breaks down in places as the pattern is interrupted, resulting in the appearance of wormholes or spatial anomalies that can also be interpreted as twisting forms caught in the net of the surface whilst at the same time forming that surface.
Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the
paintings on view relate to Color
Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to
create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
I had a general sense that I needed to expand the range of my palette, to
create a richer
field of colour and to intensify the atmospherics of the
paintings.
Although his earlier
paintings are about limits, restrictions, and controlled accesses; in more recent work, he tries to counter his own expectations, juxtaposing unlike elements to
create an active visual
field.
Painted on un-primed supports,
fields of dark charcoal or pencil - drawn areas on modulated titanium or zinc white acrylic
fields respond to each other to
create a delicate interplay of opposing forces.
She favors optical activity over conceptual rigor in «pencil
paintings» from 1968, where diagonals in several colors of pencil on acrylic
create a single vibrant
field of blue - gray.
Mark di Suvero's
painted steel sculptures are a burst of color in a green
field, artists in residence
create installations across the island and work in the studios near the ferry, and the Governors Island Art Fair crowds the island every summer.
He liked the effect, and made it his own, combining the wiped marks with sprayed loops to
create complex abstract
fields that began to look, squinted at from a distance, like black and white reproductions of
paintings by Franz Kline or de Kooning.
In many of your
paintings the foreground and background together
create an all - over atmospheric
field, while in your recent
paintings, large star shapes become significant points of focus constructing much more of a figure / ground relationship.
While working in the U.S. a few years earlier, Piet Mondrian
created arguably the first American color -
field painting; Guggenheim opened her gallery Art of This Century in 1942; The New Yorker coined Abstract - Expressionism in 1946.
Gorky
created broad
fields of vivid, open, unbroken color that he used in many of his
paintings as grounds.
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.
Through a process of applying many translucent layers of oil
paint onto canvases lying on the floor random expressionistic color
fields are
created sometimes with broken geometric structures floating on the surface.
Halley goes on from there in his own curious fashion,
creating visual parallels between the color
fields in abstract
painting and, yes, prison cells, circuit diagrams, and flowcharts.
An early and influential pioneer of Color
Field painting, Louis gained renown for his innovative method of staining raw canvases with washes of pigment to
create vibrant, large - scale works.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on
fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to
creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
Combining the early «Slat»
paintings, with exploration of form and
field in his «Wedge» series, he
created a body of work he entitled «Lattices» where lines appear to weave forward and back.
His large - scale abstract
paintings feature
fields of solid color with little depth or perspective,
created by pouring, spraying, and sponging
paints and dyes onto the canvas.
In his «Eccentric Polygon» series, from 1965 and «66, he embraces asymmetry and bold color,
creating forms delineated by
painted fields and by the edges of the canvas.
In the large construction «Bound», a wide yellow line (both as
painted mark and as collaged or free hanging dyed and hand
painted muslin) traverses the entire
field, stitching together disparate materials and
creating a possible path for the eye, which never arrives at a static image.
Drawn from the
fields of photography,
painting, performance, installation, video, film, and public art, the works featured here combine to
create a bigger picture of the state of contemporary art today.
Although the Japanise artist Yayoi Kusama
creates in a diverse
field that consists of everything from
painting to sculpture, every single piece she ever produced has one same motif all over it — endless dots.
Westfall contends that Wilson is
painting «at the height of her powers,»
creating sky
paintings that are «a perfect synthesis of abstraction and representation,
field and tactile subject, the general and particular, process and memory.»
Influenced by both textiles and jazz, these
paintings create around themselves a
field of active energy as color interaction and mark improvisation blend and riff off each other.
The sense of space is
created by a riotous
field of
painted squiggles and dashes that soar upward.
«I am interested in the social, even the propaganda, angle in
painting; but I feel that the job of everyone in a creative
field is to picture the whole scene... I am interested in
creating a style that is much more powerful, that will take in the technical end and at the same time will say what I have to say.
His
paintings and distilled style went on to influence Bauhaus artists, the Minimalists of the 1960s, Color
Field Painting and even iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who
created the «Mondrian» dress — made with fabric matching the artist's Neo-Plastic color blocking.
«Force
Field» features a selection of bold, thought - provoking pieces, the majority
created by using old
paint and discarded
paintings.
New York - based artist Keltie Ferris covers her mostly large - scale canvases with layers of spray
paint and hand -
painted geometric
fields,
creating the effect of brightly colored digital screens dissolving into pixels.
This resulted in his minimal «line
paintings» and then canvases filled with
fields of subtle gradations of color
created by thousands of dots.
Composed of 196 panels, each consisting of 25 coloured squares that can be arranged in 11 core configurations, this work pursues the artist's early investigation of colour
field paintings which he began
creating in 1966 by replicating, in large scale, industrial colour charts produced by
paint manufacturers.
A main proponent of color
field painting, Davis worked on canvas and paper, and also
created large - scale public artworks, and light sculptures.
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.
At a time of the thrive of Abstract Expressionism, Britain turned to
create an atmosphere of new ideas and movements, working with different media and spanning a variety of artistic
fields, from architecture and graphic design to collages and drawings, film, sculptures and
paintings.
Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color
Field painting is a style of abstract
painting characterized primarily by large
fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas
creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
Frankenthaler on the other hand, poured turpentine - thinned artist grade
paint to
create watery amorphous pools, stains, lines and
fields.
One lovely summer day, an iconic vision comes to mind: you see yourself seated at your easel in a
field of flowers, working peacefully on a plein - air landscape
painting as clouds float above and bees pass by, humming in a friendly manner while searching for nectar or
creating honey or whatever.
Masako Kamiya's acrylic gouache
paintings are constructed of thousands of tiny nodules of
paint, one built upon another,
creating fields of color that shift and move, generating patterns and illusions.