Not exact matches
Cochrane took a special interest in the
abstract painting being developed by Jean - Paul Riopelle and Nicholas de Stael in France, in the work of Jean Dubuffet and the Cobra
painters including Asger Jorn, as
well as some of the
young Americans then active in Paris, such as Sam Francis and Ellsworth Kelly.
There is, in van Velde's work, a quality of indecision and incompleteness, of being improvised rather than planned, of being left in a transitional stage, in other words, of Provisionalism — as defined by Raphaël Rubinstein in his now famed article from 2009 — which makes it relevant to today's state of affairs in
abstract painting as
well as to the
young painters loosely grouped under the name of New Casualists.
Bavington, who lives in Las Vegas, makes a
good example of how
younger abstract painters reinterpret the styles of an earlier generation.
Those weary of shows of austere, faux - naïve, inanely insider - y
abstract painting will do
well to visit this tight grouping of work by five promising,
young painters whose work is joyfully brash, lively and sophisticated.
What isn't
well - known is the gallery's subsequent shift in favor of a group of
younger abstract painters starting in the late 1950s into the 1960s.