Sentences with word «gesturalist»

These works included several abstract expressionist paintings - allegedly never before exhibited - including so - called works by gesturalists Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell, and by colour field painter Mark Rothko.

Starting out as a conventional representational painter, he turned to abstract art in his late 30s, partly under the influence of the great gesturalist Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97).

For analysis of works by gesturalist painters like Willem de Kooning, please see: Analysis of Modern Paintings (1800 - 2000).

UNDERSTANDING ART To appreciate modern art by gesturalist painters like Willem de Kooning, see: How to Appreciate Paintings.

Other gesturalists in the movement included Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91)(famous for his Elegy to the Spanish Republic series), and Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976)(calligraphic style).

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

This solo show gained him a reputation as one of the top young 20th - century painters, and a key exponent of Tachisme - the French gesturalist style of Art Informel - a European variant of abstract expressionism pioneered by the New York School.

One of the most famous gesturalists was Van Gogh (1853 - 1890), many of whose oil paintings - notably Wheat Field with Crows and Roots and Branches (both 1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)- are marked by feverish, highly animated brushstrokes that express all too clearly the mental anguish from which he was suffering.

For other gesturalist pictures like, those produced by Franz Kline, see: Greatest 20th - Century Paintings.

By 1956, Pollock's paintings and painting methods were having an enormous influence on his contemporaries both in America and Europe; the former included such gesturalists as Willem De Kooning (1904 - 97) and Franz Kline (1910 - 62); the latter included gestural artists like Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 - 51), sometimes referred to as the «European Jackson Pollock», and the Cobra group leader Karel Appel (1921 - 2006).

Franz Kline (1910 - 1962) New York School gesturalist, known for calligraphic black - and - white pictures.

At this time, he became friends with the Dutch - American Abstract Expressionist and gesturalist Willem de Kooning, who stated: «I met a lot of artists - but then I met Gorky... He had an extraordinary gift for hitting the nail on the head; remarkable.

For other gesturalist works similar, to those produced by Pollock, see: Greatest 20th - Century Paintings.

However, he had little time for mixed - media artists like Robert Rauschenberg, or gesturalist painters like Willem de Kooning.

Outpacing neat categories that sometimes pigeonhole the Abstract Expressionists into «colour - field» artists versus «gesturalists», Guston, Joan Mitchell and the young Helen Frankenthaler evolved their own respective visual palimpsests by the second half of the 1950s.

In addition, by lecturing at Yale and other universities and creative forums, and by staging Surrealist exhibitions with their ideas of automatism and intuitive creativity, Breton influenced several members of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism - notably the gesturalist Jackson Pollock whose early works and styles (like action - painting) contained several important Surrealist features.

Basing the article on his detailed knowledge of de Kooning's working methods, and on Jackson Pollock's paintings, Rosenberg explained that the gesturalists were primarily concerned with the act of painting.

In his focus on purely emotional matters - devoid of any intellectualisms or aesthetic issues - Rothko was poles apart from most abstract - minded modern artists notably the gesturalists of the New York School (including Pollock, de Kooning, Kline) and the later devotees of hard edge painting and minimal art (including Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Ryman).

These «women» pictures illustrated his desire to maintain an overtly figurative element in his painting, in contrast to the gesturalist Pollock, as well as the wholly abstract Colour Field Painting group of Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), and Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), the versatile Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91), the lyrical «Abstract Impressionist» Philip Guston (1913 - 80) and the «Hard - Edge» painter Frank Stella (b. 1936).

The show established him as one of the leaders, along with Jackson Pollock, of the gesturalist wing of the Abstract Expressionist Painting movement.

Like Tachisme, the COBRA group was closely related to the gesturalist wing of the broader European abstract expressionist school known as Art Informel, and derives its style from the early expressionist movement in Germany.

These were the gesturalists Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Hofmann and Franz Kline (1910 - 62); and (2) the «colour - field» painters, notably Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80) and Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), who were more concerned with reflection and mood.

In other words, the brushwork in a gesturalist painting expresses the artist's emotions and personality just like a person's gestures reflect their feelings in everyday life.

In 1952, Rosenberg published his first major article on art - an essay entitled «The American Action Painters,» in the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movement.

It also helped Namuth to arrange portrait sessions with numerous other artists from the New York School - notably the colour field painter Mark Rothko, the gesturalist Willem de Kooning, the neo-Dada artist Robert Rauschenberg, and the reclusive Clyfford Still - as well as some of America's greatest architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Phillip Johnson, Walter Gropius and Louis Kahn.

Dr. Schapiro described the gesturalist painting of Pollock and De Kooning as an art of «impulse and chance» and opposed it to that of Mark Rothko with its emphasis on sensation.

I can think of no other British artist of his time who was so uniformly admired by his peers: abstract and figurative painters, gesturalists and Minimalists, Pop artists and conceptual artists alike all saw him as a kindred spirit.

His friendship with Leduc continued and he also met the gesturalist Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012).

The following fall they moved in together and, through Krasner, Pollock greatly widened his circle of artistic friends; in particular she introduced him to the gesturalists de Kooning and Hans Hofmann, as well as critics Harold Rosenberg, and Clement Greenberg.

In Europe, abstract expressionism was known as Art Informel (formless art), which divided into a gesturalist wing, known as Tachisme (see also the COBRA group), and a softer style called Lyrical Abstraction.