Sentences with phrase «ideas of abstract expressionism»

Other abstract artists whose works were grounded in nature include Manoucher Yektai, who absorbed the ideas of abstract expressionism and the School of Paris; Sohrab Sepehri whose semi-abstract compositions drew on imagery of desert landscapes from his native Kashanor; and Abolghassem Saidi known for his lyrical and sensuous style.

Henk van Vessem is a Dutch artist who paints with a grand gesture in strongly contrasting colors, employing the ideas of abstract expressionism.

Sam Middleton was an American artist who often employed the ideas of abstract expressionism in his work.

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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).

DAM curator of modern art Gwen Chanzit says she got the idea for the exhibition after seeing an exhibition of works of abstract expressionism at the Jewish Museum in New York City in 2008.

CV: And I was — and so, I was wondering, was that part of a strategy that you had coming from the East Coast coming West, or what were your ideas about, you know, like, abstract expressionism?

Run by Hans Hofmann, whose reputation as an excellent teacher was well - established, the Hofmann School had become a vital space for nurturing and developing the talent and ideas that formed the foundation of abstract expressionism and the New York school of painting.

Since critics so often discuss your work in terms of its being, as they suggest, a bridge between abstract expressionism and Pop art, it might be interest ing to see how very different it is, how distinct your attitudes and ideas were from either, and from the artists who were figures at either end of that bridge.

I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.

This was a reaction to the emotional qualities of abstract expressionism, and focused on the ideas behind the art as opposed to the actual objects.

MR. PRITIKIN: But even though abstract expressionism — that was one of their ideas, that the whole body be involved in painting.

Ossorio speaks of his youth and education in England and the United States; attending Harvard; working as a medical illustrator for the Army; coming to New York and becoming acquainted with Jackson Pollock and other New York artists; a mural commission he received for a church in the Philippines; the difficulty of introducing new ideas into Catholic art; traveling to Paris; his association with Jean Dubuffet; changes in his technique; his work in collage; his affiliation with the Signa Gallery; abstract expressionism.

In 1948 he, along with Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and others, founded the Subjects of the Artist School as a means for exploring and promulgating ideas about the inspiration, subjects, attitudes, and possibilities of abstract expressionism.

Defying the heroic myth of abstract expressionism - the artist exploding with spontaneous invention before a blank canvas - Kline rehearsed ideas for his big black - on - white paintings in these ink drawings.

The idea that these were such a rejection of abstract expressionism I don't think is accurate.»

From abstract expressionism, to gorgeous fields of color, to minimal manipulation of surface and texture, painting and sculpture was the arena where these ideas found their most varied expression.

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.

This idea of creating work devoid of subject seems to be one of the few differentiations between abstract expressionism and the BORF graffiti series...

Matta began to teach some of the American painters about the surrealist movement and the ideas he shared instigated a new movement of art in America, abstract expressionism.

Influenced by new ideas brought to New York by European emigrants such as Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and Piet Mondrian, he moved increasingly toward abstract art as he explored a range of styles rooted in expressionism and symbolism.

There his ideas on abstraction profoundly influenced his friend Arshile Gorky and were important to such exponents of abstract expressionism as Pollock, Rothko, Baziotes, and Motherwell.

The tableau of two artists from opposite sides of the world bouncing ideas back and forth with the urban pop aesthetic of Ren's paintings and the abstract expressionism of Win's prints is a synopsis of contemporary culture.

Going beyond abstract expressionism, we will consider the text and ideas laden works of Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Peter Sacks and Ed Ruscha; Agnes Martin's and Robert Ryman's meditative canvases; the compilations of Markus Lupertz; Julie Mehretu's maps, as well as the work of Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown and Eva Hesse.