In spite of the remarkable careers of Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Kitaj, Bellany and Boyd, all of whom lived for 30 or more years in England, the human form was out of fashion in the art world under
the influence of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and non-object art.
Together with Arshile Gorky, Gottlieb is considered to be a very important
influence of the abstract expressionism.
Proponents of Regionalism supported realism as a defence against
the influence of abstract art which was rapidly arriving from Europe.
Under
the influence of these abstract artists, and after a visit to Piet Mondrian's studio, Calder began to make kinetic works which were christened «mobiles» by Duchamp.
With
the influence of abstract expressionism on the wane, many artists were looking for alternative modes and transgression remained a driving motivation.
The influence of abstract expressionism, colour field and minimalism is evident in the earliest paintings.
Here on BBC Arts we take an in - depth look at
the influence of abstract art on modern design with renowned designer Peter Saville; saxophonist Soweto Kinch explores how jazz embraced abstract through its album cover iconography; Alastair Sooke talks technique as he gets inside the world of abstract master Jackson Pollock, finding out just how challenging it is to create one of his famous drip paintings.
As
the influence of abstract expressionism waned in the 1960s, artists came to question the very philosophy underlying modernism.
During this creative period,
the influence of the abstract Expressionists is unmistakable.
While her work shows
the influence of the abstract expressionism of her youth, she ultimately tired of pure abstraction and turned to creating intensely personal representational paintings of Long Island landscapes, New York City scenes, interiors, and still lifes.
Therefore, the prevalent view is to understand the worlds of Asian artists with Oriental lyricism, though different in technique, as a branch that absorbed
the influence of abstract expressionism.
Early collages are formal and reflect the influence of cubism, while collages of the 1950s are more liberated as the constraints of European modernism diminish and
the influence of abstract expressionism appears.
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.
Hoskote, in the book, notes
the influences of abstract artists like Frantisek Kupka, or Alberto Burri, the Italian creator of post-Second World War Arte Informale, Shahane sees in his practice Arte Povera or «poor art» of the 1960s.
Early on, Frank Stella's visual vocabulary was heavily shaped by
the influences of the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline [3].
The exhibition invites you to explore more than 60 captivating works that reflect and refract contemporary abstraction through a variety of exacting and systematic frames of reference, providing fascinating insights into the underlying sources and
influences of abstract painting today.
Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist
influences of abstract expressionism with traditional calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.
In New York, she absorbed
the influences of abstract expressionism and many of her early works feel like searching homages to the canvases of Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell.
Not exact matches
Contrary to Weber's effort to show «how
abstract ethical doctrines could
influence everyday life,» Zaret concludes that «practical ethics in profane activities can be no less influential for the formation
of abstract doctrine.
Nietzsche's
influence may account in part for the dynamism
of Buber's philosophy, for its concern with creativity and greatness, for its emphasis on the concrete and actual as opposed to the ideal and
abstract, for its idea
of the fruitfulness
of conflict, and for its emphasis on the value
of life impulses and wholeness
of being as opposed to detached intellectuality.
If God is the source
of all possibilities, as «primordial deity», there is a sense in which he may be called
abstract and «eternal»; but God is also infinitely related to and
influenced by the world, and hence as «consequent deity» is concrete and «everlasting».
Thus there is a polarity in this concept
of God: he is both
abstract and concrete; he is both «eternal» and «everlasting»; he is both himself and yet endlessly related; he is both transcendent and immanent; he is both the chief principle
of explanation and yet participant, working with, and
influenced by, all that is to be explained.
There are a lot
of debates in the humanities about the relative
influence of agency (the will and power
of individuals), institutions, and structure (a more
abstract concepts including things like social norms and expectations which are not formalized).
Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak
of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose
abstract techniques have done more to
influence 20th century painting than that
of any other artist.
Political Theory is taking the
abstract of political philosophy, and applying it to a specific circumstance that includes and is
influenced by a cultural, religious and historical heritage.
A gene associated with risk for Alzheimer's disease
influences the gut microbiome
of mice, potentiating a novel treatment strategy (Ishita Parikh,
abstract 476.02, see attached summary).
At the January 2002, 199th Meeting
of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, two teams
of astronomers announced that the cold dust in Vega's circumstellar disk is at least partly gathered into large clumps, in a characteristic shape that suggests the gravitational
influence of a giant planet in an eccentric orbit (
Abstracts for sessions 66.04 and 66.05, and CfA press release).
But loving specific other people seems much likelier to
influence more
of us than loving
abstract mathematical beauty.
Reoccurring review (no
abstract available): Letter to the Editor:
Influence of Intestinal Microbiota on Body Weight Gain: a Narrative Review
of the Literature — Andre Alonso Taco - Masias and Augusto Rafael Fernandez - Aristi — Obesity Surgery
With its aching musical soundtrack and its exquisitely
abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping - bin, this film has been a major stylistic
influence on the past decade
of cinema, as well as a milestone in Wong's redoubtable career.
«At the end
of the day, you have got to create opportunities for kids to see people in positions
of power and in positions
of influence in order for them to not look at education as an
abstract activity,» Taylor says.
«Though I've ranged from Alaska to New York, the
influence of those years spent on Padaro Lane has figured into the
abstract and representational work I've made over the years in almost every way.
This one, The Johnson, showcases the work
of celebrated Sydney
abstract artist Michael Johnson, who is strongly
influenced by nature.
Influenced by an unusual combination
of abstract expressionist painting and classical music, he fuses the two mediums together into a unique body
of artwork.
Some other formative
influences are apparent in the show's first room
of paintings: for Krasner, it was the
abstract painter and pedagogue Hans Hofmann; for Lewis, the Harlem art school director Augusta Savage.
The artist's
influences are not easily identifiable; in her work one might sense the organic symmetry
of Ukrainian or Mexican folk art, the vibrating illusions
of»60s Op art or Islamic textiles, the expressively
abstracted mathematics
of Agnes Martin, the macro focus and whimsy
of Hilma af Klint, or the playfully curved shapes and lively palettes
of Henri Matisse or Yayoi Kusama.
During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known as an
abstract expressionist, and his gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco
abstract expressionist sensibility; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable
influence on younger artists by virtue
of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Hofmann thanked the university with a gift
of nearly 50 paintings representing the breadth
of his life work, from Surrealist -
influenced compositions to more physical and
abstract images.
Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings,
abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields
of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly
influenced by Milton Avery's style
of painting.
Consequently, some have preferred the word «constructive», or «constructionist» (as did Charles Biederman, for whom Korzybski was an important
influence) or «concrete», which in that other sense is the exact opposite
of «
abstract».
Avery's daring color juxtapositions and
abstracted depictions
of classic subject matter exerted a highly important
influence on Post-War American painting and anticipated the works
of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottleib, among others.
In fact, the dominance
of the term «
abstract expressionism» over «action painting,» which seemed more applicable to Pollock and Willem de Kooning than any other members
of the New York School, is emblematic
of the
influence of formalist discourse.
What shocks us in part is the fact that it is a sculpture at all — it looks like an
abstract painting created under the
influence of, say, free - form jazz.
Schlesinger's background as a painter
influences his selection
of abstract shapes, patterns, and manipulation
of the material's consistency.
Although radical, and rejecting many
of the concerns
of the immediately preceding
abstract expressionist movement, earlier
abstract movements were an important
influence on the ideas and techniques
of minimalism.
Discover more about the
abstract artist's style
of painting and the
influences behind her ground - breaking work
Motherwell's style
of abstract expressionism, characterized by loose opened fields
of painterly surfaces accompanied by loosely drawn and measured lines and shapes, was
influenced by both Joan Miró and by Henri Matisse.
In 1954, he held his first exhibition at Galleria La Bussola in Turin, where he exhibited works clearly
influenced by his knowledge
of informal art and American
abstract expressionism.
Curator Gary Garrels worked with six
abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — to select one
of their own recent paintings as well as works by other artists who have
influenced their thinking.
De Kooning was interested in both figurative and
abstract art, acknowledging the
influence of her husband and
of the
Abstract Expressionists
of the New York School.