After experimenting with Tachisme, a gestural
form of abstract expressionist painting which he thought shallow, he developed another technique about 1950 - 1, which he called «controlled drops» (egoutture dirigee), as in his Composition (1950 - 1).
Not exact matches
Beginning in 1960 Schapiro gradually eliminated the
abstract expressionist brushwork from her
paintings, introducing a variety
of geometric
forms.
His gestural
paintings of the 1950's along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline
formed the basis for the
abstract expressionist movement in the United States.
The expressionistic,
abstract gestures that motivate many
paintings take new
form in works such as Norman Bluhm's drawing that combines the physical properties
of ink and gouache to show the drips, stains, and flow
of abstract -
expressionist gesture.
* Cropped closely to exclude the horizontal plane, they focus on the all - over
abstract patterns
formed by the arrested motion
of the cascading water, capturing a kinetic energy reminiscent
of twentieth century American
Abstract Expressionist painting.
Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland
formed the core
of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one
of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces
of the
abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based
paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage
of art's march to absolute abstraction.
Many
of the Cubo -
Expressionist works are exhibited in finished
form, but most are completely obscured beneath the opaque surfaces
of paintings featuring
abstract radiant designs.
Facets
of the Figure is a thought provoking survey
of the various aesthetic interpretations
of the human
form in
painting and sculpture by juxtaposing museum - caliber works by Surrealists, realists,
Expressionists, modernists, social realists, and abstract e
Expressionists, modernists, social realists, and
abstract expressionistsexpressionists.
The productive tensions between an
abstract expressionist engagement with surface,
paint, and gesture and a more decisive shift into the ambiguous terrain between
painting, collage, and assemblage find their fullest expression in Untitled [black
painting with portal
form], specifically in the way the composition is structured around (and then decisively proceeds from) a tonal, monochromatic center: a flat, inky, double - truck sheet
of newspaper.
In the late 1940s, Motherwell embraced the tenets associated with the
Abstract Expressionist movement: the canvas as an arena in which the artist engages spontaneously and passionately in the physical and mental action
of painting; the composition, often monumental in size, charged with feeling; the
abstract forms suggesting deep, open - ended meanings.
Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member
of the New York School and is regarded as one
of the prominent figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline, whose gestural
paintings of the 1950s
formed the basis for the
abstract expressionist movement in America.
Helen Frankenthaler, coming out
of the
abstract expressionist hotbed in New York in the early 1950s, always seemed to me to have something «wrong» about the color and
form in her famed
paintings.
Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind
of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience
of the war more accurately than other painters and, in a way, different
form the
paintings of the
abstract expressionists.
Even though Burri was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his
abstract «unpainted
paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests
of Abstract Expressionists, while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope
of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna
of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject
of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist
formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its use
of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism
of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates
of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish melting
of form).
[6] During one
of his solo
Abstract expressionist exhibitions in 1959, Held's large - scale
paintings of colourful, simple
abstract geometric
forms gained increasing recognition in America and Europe.
Rejecting all
forms of representational art or figuration, they also avoided the gestural
abstract expressionist idiom
of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, even though the latter's «action -
painting» can be seen as a pioneering attempt to create an «all - over» field
of colour, recalling Monet's huge water lily canvases.
Within the genre
of abstract expressionist painting the purest form of gestural art can be seen in Jackson Pollock's Action Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash»
painting the purest
form of gestural art can be seen in Jackson Pollock's Action
Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash»
Painting - in which
paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash» method.
A disciple and vanguard
of the taschist style, a non-geometric
abstract style that developed in postwar Europe, Ayres was inspired by
abstract expressionist art in the United States and
painted in a lyrical, gestural style that stood in contrast to the hard - edge
forms of her contemporaries.
Contemporary depictions
of the female
form,
abstract expressionist drawings and
paintings, imaginative color photography and an...
as an important and influential artist, along with Rothko, de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, and Pollock, whose gestural
paintings of the early 1950s
formed the basis for the
abstract expressionist movement in America.
Like her husband, the Abstract
Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning was interested in
abstracting the human
form through gestural mark - making with black lines and the direct application
of pure, unmixed
paint colors juxtaposed, rather than blended, on the surface.
Beginning in 1960 Schapiro began to eliminate
abstract expressionist brushwork from her
paintings and began to introduce a variety
of geometric
forms.
Contemporary depictions
of the female
form,
abstract expressionist drawings and
paintings, imaginative color photography and an installation exploring the relationship between sight and sound have all made our picks
of new stand - out exhibitions opening in NYC this week.
Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic
abstract painting in which
forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode
of the art
of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural
painting in the
abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets
of color.
However, all his
abstract expressionist painting is noted for its saturated colour and - despite being unmistakeably
abstract - the essential naturalism
of its
forms.
At this time, Seliger was the youngest artist exhibiting with members
of the
abstract expressionist movement, and he was only twenty years old when the Museum
of Modern Art acquired his
painting Natural History:
Form within Rock (1946) for their permanent collection.
Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member
of the New York School and is regarded as one
of the prominent figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, and Franz Kline, whose gestural
paintings of the 1950s
formed the basis for the
abstract expressionist movement in America.
These early
paintings were again
abstract, however in a different way to the later «Ocean Park» series, in that they were more rooted in the biomorphic
forms of the
Abstract Expressionists, more specifically in the work
of fellow Americans, the painters Arshile Gorky and Robert Motherwell.
Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member
of the New York School and is regarded as one
of the great artists, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline, whose gestural
paintings of the 1950s
formed the basis for the
abstract expressionist movement in America.
The PGC is pleased to present Homage to Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) a leading
Abstract Expressionist whose gestural
paintings along with those
of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock
formed the basis for the Postwar
abstract movement in America.