The painting, which blends
figurative expressionism with Pop aesthetics reminiscent of artist Larry Rivers, is often deemed a landmark in Cannon's career — and in the course of contemporary Native art.
In the late 1960s, he transitioned from Pop - inflected
figurative expressionism with the development of his Map Paintings, which feature abstract fields of colour overlaid with the stencilled outlines of continents.
Not exact matches
By the mid-1950s, Richard Diebenkorn abandoned abstract
expressionism and along
with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and several others formed the Bay Area
Figurative School
with a return to
Figurative painting.
Fast gaining nationwide attention for her unique and fresh style, Ash Almonte uses references to abstract
expressionism and combines it
with a layered
figurative aesthetic.
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».
Bearden's relationship
with abstract
expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his
figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step
with the trajectory of art at the time.
By the mid-1950s, Diebenkorn had become an important
figurative painter, in a style that bridged Henri Matisse
with abstract
expressionism.
His early work is associated
with abstract
expressionism and the Bay Area
Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
By combining
figurative painting
with abstract
expressionism, he created a style which displayed a well - crafted balance between planes and surfaces which can be seen only in the most prestigious gallery and museum world.
Brown's reputation, based on her intensely painted canvases that synthesized
figurative imagery
with the dynamic gestures of abstract
expressionism, grew towards the mid -»60s.
In several pictures on view made circa 1960, Petersen appears in his stride and confidently in step
with the
figurative expressionism already practiced hereabouts for several years by older contemporaries such as David Park (1911 - 1960) and Elmer Bischoff (1916 - 1990).
Richard Diebenkorn (American, April 22, 1922 — March 30, 1993) is associated
with abstract
expressionism and the Bay Area
Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Associated
with both the Bay Area
Figurative Art movement and abstract
expressionism, California painter Richard Diebenkorn developed a distinct vocabulary of intersecting lines and geometric forms augmented by chromatic undercurrents.
Basil Beattie's career spans the emergence in Britain, in the late 1950s, of abstract
expressionism, through to his more recent emphasis on
figurative signs that meld gritty northern muscularity
with a voluptuous sensuality towards the painted surface.