Sentences with phrase «form of abstract expressionism»

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.

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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.
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