Sentences with phrase «identity as abstract painter»

A new show explores links between Ad Reinhardt's identity as abstract painter and as cartoonist, satirist, crusader, explicator, and slide - show maker Read More

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The influence of abstract expressionism on Eggleston, partly through his friendship with the painter Tom Young, is addressed at points throughout the show, and it is important to recognise that perspectival lines, the balance of colour throughout a composition, and the presence of contextual details such as logos and pavements, are as important as the features, dress and celebrity identity of the subjects.

Probably benefiting from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some of the same artists, Engender shows how contemporary painters are complicating identity and the body with a range of abstract and figurative strategies.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

Fellow African - American abstractionists like the painter's friend Stanley Whitney — who has a show of his wavy grids currently up at the Studio Museum in Harlem — and Jack Whitten — who showed his lush abstract paintings at Alexander Gray Associates in 2013 to raves — are also being rediscovered one by one as personal and painterly alternatives to Identity Art are sought.

In the mid-20th century, Fishman's identity as a lesbian and an abstract painter made her «doubly invisible,» writes Moyer.