The main exponents of
this form of abstract expressionism include: Hans Hartung (1904 - 89), Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Sculze)(1913 - 51), Jean - Michel Atlan (1913 - 60), Pierre Soulages (b. 1919), Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 55), and Jean - Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002).
Through a hybrid
form of abstract expressionism, de Klaver paints on canvas with a series and gradation of blacks, blues, greys and white informed by a deep attachment to the neutral palette and texture of Robert Ryman and freely - scribbled liberation of Cy Twombly.
This is
a form of abstract expressionism, where the process of making the painting becomes more important than usual.
This period lead to Erased de Kooning Drawing in 1952, which both tested the limits and celebrated
the form of abstract expressionism.
Drawing from the energy and freedom of painting in an urban landscape, he translates his roots as a graffiti artist into paintings that are a completely unique
form of abstract expressionism.
He combines «iconic urban calligraphy with a contemporary
form of abstract expressionism» said his gallery.
In 1968, Guston drastically changed his artistic style from a lyrical
form of abstract expressionism to a kind of cartoony figuration.
If you are a fan of
any form of abstract expressionism, and particularly of Tàpies, a visit to the Fundació Antoni Tàpies promises to provide you with hours of complete fulfillment!
In the hands of this New York — based artist, the muscular
forms of abstract expressionism are given a bold, effervescent, feminist slant.
The artists in the exhibition are fluent in the language and
forms of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and primitivism, and they incorporate sincerity, irony, focus, humor, skepticism, diligence and detachment into their work without considering those elements to be contradictory.
Not exact matches
Paul Liebrandt approaches cuisine as an art
form, and has made a name for himself with his bold combinations
of ingredients (one
of his more outré creations features eel, violets and chocolate) and presentation which resembles
abstract expressionism more than the way your mother put food on a plate.
[34] Lyrical Abstraction is a type
of freewheeling
abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when
abstract painters returned to various
forms of painterly, pictorial,
expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
But by the 1940s and»50s,
abstract expressionism emphasized pure
form and feeling; art was, as Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko put it in a letter to the art editor
of The Times: «an adventure into an unknown world.
Striking for their hot, vivid, deep colors, pierced and jagged
forms, and pulsating energy, these wax - resist paintings on paper, done at the height
of abstract expressionism's ascendancy, captivated Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner and inspired Jean Dubuffet to write his only monographic study on Ossorio.
The latter is certainly original — it's bold, multi-dimensional, odd and makes you want to touch it; the former is a
form of Rothko-esque Indian
abstract expressionism.
In
abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like hard - edge painting and other
forms of geometric abstraction began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles as a reaction against the subjectivism
of abstract expressionism.
Formed in collaboration with Otto Piene, a fellow student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the ZERO movement departed from the gestural language
of European
abstract expressionism and sought to reclaim an artistic purity from the ravages
of the Second World War.
His work has encompassed photorealism,
abstract expressionism and conceptualism and seeks to unearth the true nature
of painting in its purest
form.
In 1953 a group
of nonobjective painters in Toronto, inspired more by
abstract expressionism in New York than their contemporaries in Montréal,
formed Painters Eleven as a means
of exhibiting their work.
His way
of transforming
abstract expressionism into his own
form set me off on a new path.
The fact that Rauschenberg increasingly is pulling back from this is indicated not only in his latest works, but also, programmatically, in the painting he recently sent to the exhibition
of abstract expressionism at the Guggenheim Museum: an arrow marks an exit from the
forms of gestures and the painting is entitled «Blue Exit.»
Collapsing History For my generation, the three great movements
of post-war painting —
abstract expressionism, minimalism and pop — are not so much antithetical to each other (i.e., movement / counter-movement, assertion / repudiation) as they are part
of a larger ongoing redefinition
of the
form of painting itself.
Dadaism can be viewed as part
of the modernist propensity to challenge established styles and
forms, along with Surrealism, futurism and
abstract expressionism.
In
abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like Hard - edge painting and other
forms of Geometric abstraction like the work
of Frank Stella popped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism
of Abstract expressionism began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles.
Neo-futuristic
abstract expressionism best describes the genre
of Johnathan's work; colorful and evocative, his paintings create powerful visual discourses about the relationships we
form with pop culture and its most iconic characters.
Run by Hans Hofmann, whose reputation as an excellent teacher was well - established, the Hofmann School had become a vital space for nurturing and developing the talent and ideas that
formed the foundation
of abstract expressionism and the New York school
of painting.
The Sam Feinstein retrospective at the Cape Cod Museum
of Art will reveal the seventy - year trajectory
of Feinstein's development from realism through
expressionism, cubist -
expressionism, Hofmann - influenced abstraction to Feinstein's own unique language
of color -
forms — luminous and life - enhancing — in his monumental, mature
abstract paintings.
Conversations with Satoru Abe and Harry Tsuchidana about the beginnings
of abstract expressionism in its Hawai'i
form.
But the transition was neither neat nor immediate, nor did everyone suddenly give up
abstract expressionism and jump straight into slimmed - down
forms and conceptual coolness
of later decades.
One might well use the phrase
abstract expressionism, since
form and structure have undergone a process
of abstraction, whilst primarily being emotionally expressive.
Abstract Expressionism was born from the blending
of these two groups and resulted in art based on personal experiences, canvases filled with color,
abstract forms, and vigorous gestural
expressionism.
McNeil speaks
of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American
Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group
of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as
abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories
of Léger; how he assesses the period
of the 1930s; the importance
of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline
of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period
of the 1940s; his stance on
form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance
of The Club; the antipathy to the School
of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides
of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems
of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric
form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality
of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.
Still's mature style, marked by purely
abstract form and monumental scale, was achieved early in his career and years before his contemporaries, causing the artist to be widely considered as one
of abstract expressionism's first innovators.
ZERO
formed by Heinz Mack with Otto Piene, later joined by Günther Uecker, which came to number among many others Yves Klein and Jesús Rafael Soto as members, argued that art should be void
of colour, emotion and individual expression, thus placing itself in direct opposition to
abstract expressionism, and anathema in the USA.
In contrast to the unemotional, geometrical iconography
of concrete art,
abstract expressionism is a much more emotional, sentimental and derivative
form of abstraction.
The
abstract works began to reveal the presence
of human
forms within them, and his two artistic approaches merged in 1945's Pink Angels, one
of his first significant contributions to
abstract expressionism.
Slashed with color and
formed with eloquent brushstrokes, de Kooning's often huge canvases are charged with explosive energy; many are widely considered some
of the masterpieces
of abstract expressionism.
In the 1950s, the London - based Independent Group
formed; from which pop art emerged in 1956 with the exhibition at the Institute
of Contemporary Arts This Is Tomorrow, as a British reaction to
abstract expressionism.
The Logans strongly opposed all
forms of modern art, including cubism, surrealism, and
abstract expressionism.
Jones» work investigates
form, both
abstract and figurative, through a unique combination
of hyperrealism and geometric
expressionism.
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.
From the 1930s to the early 1940s, while working for the Federal Arts Project and assisting the revolutionary Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, Pollock's style evolved from a dark, turbulent
form of regionalism to a more freely rendered
abstract expressionism.
He has at some point been identified with nearly every style
of the 20th century — from surrealism's free association and the gestures
of abstract expressionism to the cerebral
forms of minimalism and the brutish marks
of graffiti.
Dine's earliest art - Happenings and an incipient
form of pop art - emerged against the backdrop
of abstract expressionism and action painting in the late 1950s.
The show addresses how artists departed from
abstract expressionism with in - depth concentrations
of works by Ellsworth Kelly, whose Tablet series documents how he
abstracts everyday
forms to create the shapes found in his paintings; Cy Twombly, whose strangely elegant paintings are sometimes built up with scribbles and scrawls, other times scratched out with a screwdriver dragged across a painted surface; and the twin pillars
of neo-Dada, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
If the pictorial lyricism
of abstract expressionism continues to dominate the Los Angeles art scene, numerous artists have also decided to tread the path
of a
form of minimalism in which light is an inseparable part
of their practice.
The story
of abstract art in America has long focused on the male stars
of the New York School, the giants
of abstract expressionism including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, who sought to convey emotion rather than
form.
From student work like the jokey
abstract expressionism of «Disintegrating Pig» (1950) he becomes adept at painting interlocking, jigsaw puzzle - like compositions that look partly like exhilarating aerial views but also feel internalised, elemental, like shifting tectonic plates
of colour and
form.
In spite
of the remarkable careers
of Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Kitaj, Bellany and Boyd, all
of whom lived for 30 or more years in England, the human
form was out
of fashion in the art world under the influence
of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and non-object art.
Conroy's stated concern about the natural environment is underscored by the seriousness
of his commitment to the layered cut - paper
forms — allowing, like
abstract expressionism, the viewer to extract as much meaning as they wish from the inherent formal impact
of the works.