Sentences with phrase «generation of abstract artists»

On the eve of his survey at the Whitney, the eminent abstract artist shares a few thoughts on this moment in his career and what it means (or doesn't) for a new generation of abstract artists.

Lundeberg's attention to formal elements such as balance and color connect her to a previous generation of abstract artists, including Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Josef Albers.

Observe Hofmann's deep influence on the next generation of abstract artists Part of «Making Modern,» this gallery explores the influence...

But a recent generation of abstract artists has lightened up now that abstraction is void as a symbol of social — and even of perceptual — revolution.

In the 1960s, Sir Anthony Caro became a leading figure of British sculpture [90] along with a younger generation of abstract artists including Isaac Witkin, [91] Phillip King and William G. Tucker.

Born in Besemer, Alabama, in 1939 — during the Jim Crow era when rigid segregation was in effect — Jack Whitten belongs to the generation of abstract artists that emerged in the early 1970s, more than a decade after Minimalism, Pop Art, and Color Field first came on the scene.

His research influenced Minimalism, Color Field painters, Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, and continues to inspire a new generation of abstract artists.

These issues, however, had been redefined by a younger generation of abstract artists and theorists, the Minimalists and Color Field painters, into a question of painting's essential identity: was it a thing or a surface or both?

While all four artists are innovators, Whitten is the most relentless experimenter with materials in a generation of abstract artists who have yet to receive their due, perhaps because no one has come up with a catchy and marketable name for them, like the «Minimalists» or «The Pictures Generation.»

At a time when a new generation of abstract artists experiences the grids of Mondrian not as spiritual threshholds but as prison bars, the exhibition reminds us what was at stake when a handful of artists in different parts of Europe first painted without reference to the external world.

After moving to New York City in about that time, he joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists who were exploring the limits and possibilities of art by experimenting with new techniques and ways of organizing pictorial space.

Otto Freundlich — theoretician, political activist, painter, and sculptor — belonged to the first generation of abstract artists, working alongside Braque and Picasso; Len Lye, a multi-disciplinary artist from New Zealand, was a pioneer of animated film - making; Brazilian painter and installation artist Lygia Clark created innovative interactive works; and Blinky Palermo was known for his «fabric paintings.»

Kandinsky became a leading source of inspiration for younger generations of abstract artists during the mid-1900s.

Greatly influenced by music — «music is the ultimate teacher,» he once averred — Kandinsky painted his first abstract compositions during his Bavarian period (1906 - 1914), and these riotously musical canvases, with their intense symphonies of color and wildly jostling forms, have influenced successive generations of abstract artists to the present day.

Caro and Olitski's achievements in surface, color and form through unusual, industrial elements enabled them to emerge as successors of the first generation of the New York School, and, in turn, inspire later generations of abstract artists.

Not exact matches

While a younger generation of artists, led by Katharina Grosse, Carol Bove, and others, are finding renewed significance and surprising rewards in extemporaneous abstract painting and sculpture, certain veterans like Emily Mason never lost faith in its limitless possibilities.

Lebanese - born artist, academic and poet Etel Adnan produces with her palette knife luminous abstracted landscapes — blocks of bright colour on canvas — that, late in life (Adnan is now nearly 90 years old), have brought her a new generation of devotees.

Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn..

panning several generations of artists, born in every decade from the 1930s to the 1980s, and making a convincing case for the growing relevance of abstract art in the UK.

Along with artists like Kelley Walker (a friend with whom he often collaborates), Seth Price and Tauba Auerbach, Mr. Guyton is at the forefront of a generation that has been reconsidering both appropriation and abstract art through the 21st - century lens of technology.

It's an impressive line up, spanning several generations of artists, born in every decade from the 1930s to the 1980s, and making a convincing case for the growing relevance of abstract art in the UK.

During the early to mid-1960s Color Field painting was the term for the work of artists like Anne Truitt, John McLaughlin, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, Friedel Dzubas, Jack Bush, Howard Mehring, Gene Davis, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Goodnough, Ray Parker, Al Held, Emerson Woelffer, David Simpson, and others whose works were formerly related to second generation abstract expressionism; and also to younger artists like Larry Poons, Ronald Davis, Larry Zox, John Hoyland, Walter Darby Bannard and Frank Stella.

BOOK > Featuring the work of Sam Gilliam on the cover, a new volume, «Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art,» is published documenting the collection established by Pamela Joyner, which spans four generations of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on abGenerations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art,» is published documenting the collection established by Pamela Joyner, which spans four generations of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on abgenerations of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on abstract art.

For generations, artists such as Mark Rothko, Yves Klein and Kazimir Malevich have attempted to locate and convey a certain ethereal quality within a space of visual absence, one that abstract painter Peter Halley defined as a «serenity or radiance».

The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation.

American abstract impressionism of the 1950s was crucial for Cy Twombly as an artist, though he himself belonged to the next generation of post-representational abstract painting.

These are impressively adept paintings with a confident sense of scale, but they do not have a distinctive character compared to contemporary works by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, or Joan Mitchell, to reference only the most noted women abstract painters of Schapiro's generation.

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in abstraction.

A dynamic, geometric clarity was certainly the aesthetic goal of many abstract artists, but there were others who worked under the influence of Surrealism and Expressionism, not to mention the natural landscape that so inspired the first generation of American abstract artists.

The luminous abstracted landscapes of Nicholas de Stael drew Hoyland to the south of France; but it was seeing the Jackson Pollock memorial show at the Whitechapel in 1958 followed by the Tate's survey of Abstract Expressionism in 1959 that blew the lid off conservative caution for him and a generation of young English artists.

He is part of a generation of artists who gained prominence when abstract expressionism's specter remained strong; several of its leading figures — like Still, De Kooning, and Motherwell — were alive and making important work.

It seems that by contrasting nine artists of different generations, the gallery's intention is to emphasize a continuity of interest in formal aspects of the abstract artwork.

The career - launching Sixteen American Artists placed a nail in the coffin of abstract expressionism, and Stella in the canon of minimalism — a generations - bending movement sprung from his mantra: «You See What You See.»

We've had a lot of younger artists through and people do know him, they have been students of Gilliam, but it's also important for the younger generations to see these works especially as abstract painting has entered the center of the conversation again.

The large scale of the Nymphéas (two meters wide and one meter high), its expressive and very present brushstrokes and very abstract rendering of all its natural elements would have a lasting influence on the future generations of artists.

In this installment of our interview focused on non-objective abstraction, a visual language chosen by Alma Thomas, Beauford Delaney, Charles, Alston, Sam Gilliam, Harold Cousins and other African American abstract artists of the so - called «first generation.»

The artists» shared exhibition history, with Peláez showing her work alongside the new abstract generation in the 1950s, challenges the art historical narrative of a rupture between the early

MR: The market was very active with historic African American artists including the Abstract Expressionists, if we want to call it, the first generation of African American abstract artists.

In this video interview with Stuart Krimko, Director of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, we learn about Gilliam's unique brush-less technique, his innovations in treating the canvas as the principal material and his influence on a young generation of artists (abstract and not).

Representatives of the new generation of Norwegian abstract artists in our traveling exhibition NN - A NN - A NN - A - New Norwegian Abstraction is now at Stavanger Kunstmuseum, and Hanne Borchgrevinks Husdikt is on loan at Lillehammer Kunstmuseum

Works by the earlier generation of artists represented in the show can be loosely situated within geometric abstraction and abstract constructivism, influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and groups such as De Stijl (founded 1917) and the ZERO movement of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the American Colour Field painters.

Bluhm acknowledged his artistic debt to artists of the New York School, but he also rejected the label of «second - generation abstract expressionist,» which he saw as limiting and pejorative.

Alexander Mackenzie was a British abstract artist, a powerful and distinctive member of the post-war generation of modernists at St Ives School and educator.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Dance of Light, a solo exhibition featuring 70 radiant, spiritual works that evoke an abstract vision of the natural world by Bang Hai Ja, celebrated as being among the first generation of professional artists from Korea to embrace abstract art in the modern era.

He wants to subvert the standards of judgment integral to our understanding of abstract painting, while being committed to the act of making... He is interested in — to use his own words — perversely cultivating the tenuous relationship between «creative seeing» and the randomness of nature without becoming explicit... By finding ways to foreground his conflicts about painting, while also expanding its definition, Burckhardt has become one of the most interesting artists of his generation.»

Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.

Alexander Mackenzie was a British abstract artist, a powerful and distinctive member of the post-war generation of modernists at St Ives School.

3 x 3 from Hungary This exhibition of three generations of Hungarian avant - garde art, spanned the last four decades, from the grand master of abstract painting Tamás Lossonczy, to the youngest generation of 1990s neo-conceptual artists.

In this regard, Newman stood apart from the other abstract artists of his generation.

In 1962, Greenberg was guest critic at the Emma Lake Artists» Workshops, where he introduced the work of second - generation American abstract painters Morris Louis, Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland to a Canadian audience, stimulated Andrew Hudson as a critic, and had a significant impact on painters Kenneth Lochhead, Dorothy Knowles and Ernest Lindner.