Sentences with phrase «idea of action painting»

While they had «little sympathy» for Greenberg's formalism they felt «Rosenberg had carried the idea of Action Painting to an untenable extreme and had mis - stated how [Abstract Expressionists] actually worked.»

Not exact matches

The staff at Airbrush Action did comprehensive photo pieces on the paint jobs and artwork of the cars displayed at the SEMA Show, informing their readers of color trends and ideas presented by exhibitors.

ArtsATL: You often talk about the «immediate present» in your work, especially with the environmental paintings, which makes me think of action painting in the 1950s and the contemporary idea of focusing on the «present moment» as a stress - reducing mental exercise.

Drawing from his daily life, and using his work as a tool to deal with the experience of existence, Auerbach has stated that painting is «something that happens to a man working in a room, alone with his actions, his ideas, and perhaps his model.

Painting in the genre of Abstract Expressionism, I feel a strong affinity for artists such as Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, whose work also emphasizes action and emotion over ideas.

Brock constantly tests the ideas that action painting holds some sort of knowledge about the creator that can be likened to theories of graphology.

In the 1940s, abstract expressionists introduced the idea that painting was an action, and the completed object was not the art, but a record of the art.

Rosenberg's idea of painting as «action», of «becoming» through «doing», is returned to us by Johns as an activity of undoings — undoing the myriad signs given us by the modern world or the history of art.

I am reminded of some of those old black & white surrealist films but can't quite recall a specific one, and action painting, abstract expressionism, neo Dada, are all in here too, as are art - historical / art critical ideas of constructivism, all overness, and Leo Steinberg's «flatbed picture plane», in other words modernism, post modernism, and I want to say post-post modernism (Metamodernism even).

Back in New York, immersed in the circle of artists known as the New York School and with Cage and Cunningham's avant - garde influence as a foil, Rauschenberg explored many of the central ideas of Abstract Expressionism, both acknowledging and transgressing the movement's emphasis on gesture, individualism, action, and direct expression through paint.

Greenberg, who'd already gained recognition for essays on art like «Avant - Garde and Kitsch» (1939) and «Towards a Newer Laocoon» (1940), responded critically to the idea of «action painting.»

Yet in the Bacchus paintings, there's an extraordinary sense of release, so you have this idea of reprise and release, which moves in a kind of temporal action through the different eras of Twombly's work, as though he returns again and again to a problem and then finds new energy in the way he releases it both in gesture and in the way he addresses each canvas.

The label action painting codified the idea of art as a window onto the artist's thought processes.

Minimal art rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of action painting.

By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

Among the themes explored are the establishment of new definitions of painting; the introduction of movement and light as both formal and idea - based aspects of art; the use of space as subject and material; the interrogation of the relationship between nature, technology and humankind; and the production of live actions or demonstrations.

Having just returned from abroad and immersed himself in the New York art scene, he found himself in a cauldron of ideas about action, process, concept, and nothingness, navigating an artistic landscape that was being redefined through influences such as Cage's intellectual Zen advances, Rosenberg's painting as an action, the Janis Gallery Dada show, and the Stable Gallery exhibition of his very own White Paintings.

Working directly on the floor, his action paintings were considered as documents of time and were associated with spiritual, magical, and philosophical ideas.

Pleasure Principle considers the idea of pleasure as the driving force behind identity and human actions through an accumulative site - specific sculpture, painting and wall - drawing installation.

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.

Lydia Gifford's artistic research is an enquiry of the language and possibilities of painting, of painterly thought, which are subsequently allocated and transposed by means of subtle actions, gestures, ideas and processes into a physical space.

By the early 1960s Minimalism had emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

1 Inspired by Ed Ruscha's photobook Royal Road Test, in which the artist documented the act of throwing a typewriter out of a car, Rugoff traces an alternative idea of looking via the frozen, latent violence in the artworks of Vija Celmins and Robert Rauschenberg, and through the actions of Le Va (throwing pieces of felt and ball bearings), Burden (shooting), and even Yves Klein (evidence of performances as recorded in painting).

Referencing the history of painting — especially action painting and abstract expressionism — and drawing on feminism and performance art, Black proposes an expanded idea of sculpture as primarily an intuitive and sensory encounter with pure materiality.

Various critics have tied the appearance of action painting to the ideas of Jung and Freud as well as Surrealism.

When the American critic Harold Rosenberg introduces the idea and concept of Action Painting, he insists on the fact that such paintings must be perceived as traces of actions.

Among the themes explored are the establishment of new definitions of painting (such as the monochrome, serial structures, and fire and smoke paintings); the introduction of movement and light as both formal and idea - based aspects of art; the use of space as subject and material; the interrogation of the relationship between nature, technology, and humankind; and the production of live actions or demonstrations.

Fortunately, four paintings survived this action to give art - lovers an idea of his early creative years.

Despite the aesthetic of spontaneity that Mitchell employed in her work, she rejected the idea that her works reflected «action» painting, stating, «the freedom in my work is quite controlled.

The exhibition proposes a new way of looking at the work of a number of younger artists whose approach to painting is energised by these diverse historical sources, drawing upon action painting, drag and the idea of the stage set.

Action painting took this a step further, using both Jung and Freud's ideas of the subconscious as its underlying foundations.

The genesis of this idea for DOJ to investigate fossil fuel companies lies in the comparison between the actions of the fossil fuel industry and the actions of other industries known to have intentionally misled the public about the nature of their products, including the tobacco and lead paint industries.

And, I'm truly impressed with the whole paint sprayer idea... I want video of that, not just pictures, of you in action.