Umbach's abstract paintings reveal his classical training in the juxtaposition of people or objects rendered in realism
in fields of abstraction of both color and texture.
The pattern seen is reminiscent of Arab - Islamic Art that has developed throughout history
in the field of abstraction as religion forbade the representation of the human figure.
With never - ending energy and enthusiasm, the artist continued to experiment
in the field of abstraction, and the Abstract paintings dominated his practice until 1987.
Despite their virtual invisibility
in the field of abstraction, black artists have engaged in this tradition for over six decades.
In light of recent controversies over the use or absence of Black bodies in relation to abstract painting (most notably the controversy of the Dana Schutz painting at New York's Whitney museum), and the ahistorical suspicion of abstraction as a form of practice that manifest in some of the discourse, it is important that Black artists» role as innovators
in the field of abstraction is given due significance here through the works of Whitten, Bowling, and others.
While the artists» works all begin
in the field of abstraction, each branches out to take the viewer on a unique and personal experience unlike the next.
Her work evolved in response to this new environment of bold creative experimentation, particularly
in the field of abstraction, and began drawing the attention of other artists, critics and curators.
Frank Bowling: Metropolitanblooms focuses on a key moment in career of an artist now widely recognised as one of the masters
in the field of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century.
Her quest as an artist resides
in the field of abstraction.
Not exact matches
Elements
of high
abstraction in the antecedent
field apply to many events
in that duration, but also to events
in previous and subsequent durations.
Those elements,
in order
of increasing
abstraction, are: individuals, groups, institutions, concepts, and
fields.1
In history, the
field of «null»
abstraction is the multiplicity
of subjective interactions with indefinite spatial and temporal dimensions (i.e., the «experience
of becoming»).
This is
in a way the experience
of the shepherds
of the
field, who are terrified at the realization that God is real, and his actions will not only change the course
of history (as an
abstraction), but their history.
However,
in some
abstraction (that is,
in the appearance) there is a separation
of these particles, because the
field in between is weak and may be neglected.
Those who labor with intellectual
abstractions often benefit most from leisure - time activity
in the
field of arts and crafts.
What is happening
in one part
of a
field can not be understood
in abstraction from the
field as a whole.
Although firmly rooted
in color -
field abstraction, Jones» paintings consistently register as «pictures» - their spatial organization hints at a window space
of varying depths even while the physicality
of the paint asserts the surface.
Some
of the new styles and movements that appeared
in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric
abstraction, Minimalism, and Color
Field.
In my work
of 1967 - 1968 using colored lines across thick, rolled colored
fields, and painterly
abstractions with allusions to nature I articulated where I thought advanced painting should go.
Amongst our favorite artworks being exhibited here are Marc Dennis» realistic still - life painting
of luscious flowers at Dallas» Cris Worley Fine Arts, Francis Upritchard's gesturing bronze figure at London «s Kate MacGarry, Jason Middlebrook's geometric
abstraction on an elm plank at New York «s Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Luis Gispert's
abstraction made by embedding gold chains
in a
field of black stones at Palma de Mallorca's Lundgren Gallery, and Klara Kristalova's ceramic sculpture
of animals
in a tub at Lehmann Maupin, with galleries
in New York and Hong Kong.
Rendered
in grisaille with the feathered brushwork synonymous with Richter's blurred painterly idiom, Italienische Landschaft dissolves before our eyes into a flat
field of subtle grey striations, pushing the figurative into the realm
of abstraction.
Angelina Gualdoni's works on canvas take patterns, interiors and
abstraction as their main focus, locating the rhythm
of the everyday sublime
in the language
of color
field painting.
During the late 1950s and early 1960s Frank Stella was a significant figure
in the emergence
of Minimalism, Post-Painterly
Abstraction and Color
Field painting.
Color
field painters efface the individual mark
in favor
of large, flat, stained and soaked areas
of color, considered to be the essential nature
of visual
abstraction along with the actual shape
of the canvas, which Frank Stella
in particular achieved
in unusual ways with combinations
of curved and straight edges.
Associated with movements as diverse as Abstract Expressionism, Color
Field painting, Minimalism, Op art, and Postmodernism, the artists featured
in Rothko to Richter were at the forefront
of debates about the changing priorities and imperatives
of painting after World War II, each seeking to redefine
abstraction for new social and cultural milieus.
With a career spanning over six decades, this film presents Mason as a shy yet innovative figure
in American art, a pioneer
in the
field of lyrical
abstraction, and a master
of the so - called «poetry
of color».
In St. Augustine, I painted an asymmetrical, emotionally intense, abstraction that combined several styles and expressions in one picture; hard edge borders, hard edge lines, stacks of painterly brushed smears, on a deep red fiel
In St. Augustine, I painted an asymmetrical, emotionally intense,
abstraction that combined several styles and expressions
in one picture; hard edge borders, hard edge lines, stacks of painterly brushed smears, on a deep red fiel
in one picture; hard edge borders, hard edge lines, stacks
of painterly brushed smears, on a deep red
field.
[27][28] When
in 1967 he returned to
abstraction his works were parallel to movements like the Color Field movement and Lyrical Abstraction but he remained independe
abstraction his works were parallel to movements like the Color
Field movement and Lyrical
Abstraction but he remained independe
Abstraction but he remained independent
of both.
During the later phases
of Color
Field painting; as reflections
of the zeitgeist
of the late 1960s (
in which everything began to hang loose) and the angst
of the age (with all
of the uncertainties
of the time) merged with the gestalt
of Post-Painterly
Abstraction, producing Lyrical
Abstraction which combined precision
of the Color
Field idiom with the malerische
of the Abstract Expressionists.
The green
field in Baseball is manicured down to
abstraction, the crowd a sea
of tiny dots, as though painted by an extremely diligent child; the glowing depiction
of sports is arresting — even off - putting —
in a New York gallery.
He «explores
abstraction and gesture
in the artistic
fields of painting and fashion.»
Events Programme A programme
of talks and performances expand on the themes
of the exhibition, from an introduction to geometric abstract art by Whitechapel Gallery director and exhibition co-curator Iwona Blazwick (27 Feb, 3 pm) to a major two - day symposium on
abstraction and society bringing together experts
in the
field including Doug Ashford, Tanya Barson and Briony Fer (Fri 13 & Sat 14 Mar, 11.30 am — 6 pm).
[33] Lyrical
Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along with the continuation
of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color
Field Painting, Hard - edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop Art, Photorealism and New Realism extended the boundaries
of Contemporary Art
in the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
Abstraction survives
in Ross Bleckner's disco glow, Alan Uglow's tape - like disruptions
of a color
field, and Peter Schuyff's version
of Op Art that trades sensual overflow for an illusion that will not go away.
1972 Abstract Paintings
in the 70's: A Selection, Museum
of Fine Art, Boston, MA Masters
of the 1960's, Edmonton Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Color
Field Painting to Post Color
Field Abstraction, Nelson - Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City, MO Post 1945 Paintings, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Giant Paintings; Monuments and Murals, Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
I view it as an artwork less to do with the ideas evident
in modernist
abstraction, even though the deconstructed language
of democracy and freedom (Neoplasticism) and a meditative and immersive void (Color
Field Painting) hovers on the surface.
In the under - recognized field of Latin American geometric abstraction, it is important to note Sanín's contributions creating artwork reflective of the political, economic, and social realities in Latin American histor
In the under - recognized
field of Latin American geometric
abstraction, it is important to note Sanín's contributions creating artwork reflective
of the political, economic, and social realities
in Latin American histor
in Latin American history.
In 2014 they set up two exhibition spaces, Art House in Santa Fe and Orange Door in Chicago, where they display the four distinct areas of their collection: Spanish Colonial, Japanese Bamboo, Post-War Painting and Sculpture (notably color field and hard - edge abstraction), and Digital and Electronic Art, which is the focus of this articl
In 2014 they set up two exhibition spaces, Art House
in Santa Fe and Orange Door in Chicago, where they display the four distinct areas of their collection: Spanish Colonial, Japanese Bamboo, Post-War Painting and Sculpture (notably color field and hard - edge abstraction), and Digital and Electronic Art, which is the focus of this articl
in Santa Fe and Orange Door
in Chicago, where they display the four distinct areas of their collection: Spanish Colonial, Japanese Bamboo, Post-War Painting and Sculpture (notably color field and hard - edge abstraction), and Digital and Electronic Art, which is the focus of this articl
in Chicago, where they display the four distinct areas
of their collection: Spanish Colonial, Japanese Bamboo, Post-War Painting and Sculpture (notably color
field and hard - edge
abstraction), and Digital and Electronic Art, which is the focus
of this article.
Enveloping the background completely
in «Last Piece» (1958), the expanses
of grey
field suggest erasure — an obliteration
of the artist's previous association to pure
abstraction.
At Theodore: Art, Eric Brown,
in «Punctuate,» examines the tension
of figure and ground
in paintings that are fun and funny — caprices
of 1960s Color
Field art. 7 At David & Schweitzer, the esteemed Brenda Goodman finds expression
in the working and reworking
of her materials, with etched - over
abstractions that read as psychological portraiture.8
Most notably, the DMA has become a major player
in the
field of contemporary art, as evidenced by the November acquisition
of Leaf (1970), a major «Drape» painting by Sam Gilliam, a figure
in postwar American
abstraction.
One could see Mondrian's plus and minus signage as conflating shadow and line into a sign language
of oppositions between
field and ground, representation and
abstraction,
in a broken «analytic» grid that derives its formal language from academic drawing.
Melinda Zox is the daughter
of renowned American lyrical
abstraction painter Larry Zox (1936 - 2006), who played an essential role
in the Color
Field movement
of the 1960s and 1970s.
Confronting the Canvas: Women
of Abstraction does not attempt to rewrite history, but instead it identifies and gives prominence to emerging and mid-career women working in the field of gestural abstrac
Abstraction does not attempt to rewrite history, but instead it identifies and gives prominence to emerging and mid-career women working
in the
field of gestural
abstractionabstraction today.
This documentary explores a critical decade
in American life, when an explosion
of artistic energy produced Pop art, Minimalism, Color -
field painting, and hard - edged
abstraction.
As one
of the most significant proponents
in the reconciliation
of gestural and
field painting, figuration and
abstraction, he was a solitary figure, «moving vertically», unencumbered by the responsibilities and pressures that others often felt as they worked
in his shadow.»
Tellingly, Mason is known for her color
field abstractions; it would appear that
in these portraits
of her fellow artists, Marcus captured not only their likenesses, but also something
of their artistic identities.
In Washington, Gilliam befriended Thomas Downing and became part
of the Washington Color School, moving away from his earlier style
of dark figural
abstraction towards the production
of large works with
fields of flatly applied color.
2005 Flashback: Revisiting the Art
of the 80s, Kunstmuseum, Basel (catalogue) Extreme
Abstraction, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (catalogue) 25 Years: Selected Solo Exhibitions 1979 — 2004, Part 1, Baumgartner Gallery, New York The Shape
of Colour: Excursions
in Colour
Field Art 1950 — 2005, Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue) Drawings: 1945 — Now, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum
of American Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki (catalogue); travelled to Fuchu City Museum
of Art, Fuchu, Japan; 21st Century Museum
of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum
of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Koriyama City Museum, Koriyama, Japan Logical Conclusions: 40 Years
of Rule - Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York (catalogue) Universal Medium, McClain Gallery, Houston Another Look at the Collection, Fundació La Caixa, Sala de Exposiciones del Mercado del Este, Santander, Spain A View from 1988 Up to Now, Proje4L Elgiz Museum
of Contemporary Art, Istanbul Contemporary Voice: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan (catalogue) We Can Do It!
In the crowded
field of postwar
abstraction, Robert Natkin's lifetime exploration
of color and light set him apart.