Not exact matches
AT THE HEIGHT
of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph
of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger
generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful
of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction
of the natural world could
make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part
of the Twentieth Century.
His experimental approach to surface, texture and colour
makes him among the most inventive
painters of his
generation.
American
painter Joe Bradley has distinguished himself among the artists
of his
generation with his mutable approach to art -
making.
Pull My Daisy is a classic look at the soul
of the beat
generation,
made with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and
painters Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, and Alice Neel.
Summed up and separated, they might
make Jackson the most prolific
painter of his
generation.
If Jasper Johns put it back on the map in the 1950s and»60s, Joanne Mattera has been a prime mover in
making the technique accessible to a new
generation of painters.
This is part
of what Pop art achieved and what subsequent
generations of painters do when they work from photography: they estrange it enough to
make its deepest impact thinkable.
For a new
generation of abstract
painters, the process
of making an artwork often becomes an indispensable part
of showing the work as well.
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.»
In 1961, the noted critic Thomas Hess extolled Pace's place in this milieu, writing in the introduction to a show
of his work: «Pace is a brilliant member
of the second
generation of New York School
painters [who] burst on the scene in the early 1950s, fully
made, as if from the forehead
of the Statue
of Liberty.»
Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one
of the leading abstract
painters of his
generation,
making work which stands defiantly against the tide
of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility
of so many
of his contemporaries.
While it's true that he was a slightly younger contemporary
of painters like Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente, who were
making a mark with figurative works at the beginning
of the 1980s, most
of the outstanding black
painters of the
generation preceding Marshall's own — Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Jack Whitten — were committed abstractionists.
That unabashed bombast has
made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest
painter of his
generation, certainly the one who
made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great
painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much
of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle
of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.
His peers were the second -
generation followers — «A host
of younger
painters like myself who were struggling, fighting, full
of energy and argument and drive, demanding, assertive, trying to
make an original mark.
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Perhaps more than any other sculptor
of his
generation, he
made manifest in his sculpture
of the early 50's the whole, abstract and essentially non-Cubist space that was being developed by the Abstract Expressionist
painters.
«We work with some informed collectors in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil who have
made a significant commitment to the art
of Joan Mitchell, and to that
of other first -
generation abstract expressionist
painters.
In 1961, the critic, Thomas B. Hess, called Pace a «brilliant member
of the second
generation of New York School
painters that burst on the scene, in the early 1950s, fully
made, as if from the forehead
of the Statue
of Liberty.»
Bavington, who lives in Las Vegas,
makes a good example
of how younger abstract
painters reinterpret the styles
of an earlier
generation.
Her psychologically penetrating portraits and outspoken personality,
made her a cult figure in the art community during the last two decades
of her life, in which her visual language has had a major impact on successive
generations of painters.
When asked what exactly was the mythic calling
of his
generation of painters, Barnett Newman famously responded, «Instead
of making cathedrals out
of Christ, man, or «life,» we are
making [them] out
of ourselves, out
of our own feelings.»
Heilmann's big ideas and promiscuous use
of different media have
made her a hero for a new
generation of painters, not least the women leading abstract American art today.
For this Tuesday Evenings lecture, Vassell presents DARK ART: A New Conversation with Abstraction, in which she proposes that «a new and grittier form
of abstraction permits us to theorize that a younger
generation of painters, consciously or not, is producing ruggedly electric paintings that tell somber and vicious tales...
making a statement on the sociopolitical inevitability
of a world gone mad.»
And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists
of Wool's
generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition
of four: 93 Drawings
of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece
of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show
of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection
of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall
of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies
of photographs
of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition
of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994
Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum
of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective
of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries
painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum
of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum
of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging
of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos
of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas
However, there were many second -
generation Abstract Expressionists
making terrific paintings, such as Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Michael Goldberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Alfred Leslie, and others, but by 1958 most
of the other painterly
painters had become academic.
A master
of postwar art and the highest - selling Chinese
painter of his
generation, Zao Wou - ki applied Modernist art -
making techniques to traditional Chinese literati painting.
New York had a charge sheet a mile long by that time when it came to killing artists, especially
painters of Rothko's
generation - the abstract expressionists, the epic and baffling, rhetorical and silent, introspective and dazzling movement whose intensity and originality
made Manhattan the capital
of modernism in the middle
of the 20th century.
Goodnough, a
painter whose stylistic evolution from vibrant, Cubist - inspired abstractions to Color Field canvases
made him one
of the least definable members
of the second -
generation Abstract Expressionists, died on Oct. 2, 2010 in White Plains.
Several
of the New York School
painters who first
made American art a cultural force in the world were in rebellion against an earlier
generation committed to social activism in art and communism in politics.
Many other
painters of the same
generation - including Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 74)- have skillfully refined the innovations
of the immediate past with great individual distinction but few have
made genuine discoveries
of striking originality.
In addition to clearing a path
of possibilities for a
generation of painters Tom has
made a practice, reputation and career as an artist who seeks and conveys «rightness» in all the unorthodox, lush, gorgeous, challenging and exciting ways that it can appear.
The use
of enamel conveys Allen's refusal to be medium specific and
make a fetish out
of oil paint, as did earlier
generations of English
painters.
Jane Freilicher, a stubbornly independent
painter whose brushy, light - saturated still lifes and luminous landscapes set in the marshes
of eastern Long Island
made her one
of the more anomalous figures to emerge from the second
generation of Abstract Expressionists, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan.
The Dead Nor am I a fan
of Christopher Wool's work, pacem the canon formation / hagiography in operation in many
of the notable reviews
of the show — Peter Schjeldahl: «Like it or not, Christopher Wool, now fifty - eight, is probably the most important American
painter of his
generation,» Roberta Smith: first, October 24, «this exhibition is an elegant experiential treat» but, while assuring him the best patrilineage, still a bit tepid «How a painting is
made has long been part
of its content — before Pollock for sure, and even before Manet.