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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
This one, The Johnson, showcases the work
of celebrated Sydney
abstract artist Michael Johnson, who is strongly
influenced by nature.
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.
Discover more about the
abstract artist's style
of painting and the
influences behind her ground - breaking work
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.
After joining the French
artists group Abstraction - Création, Calder began to perfect his trademark mobile sculptures,
influenced by the
abstract, non-traditional styles
of fellow
artists like Marcel Duchamp and Joan Miró.
England & Co have loaned a 1938 painting by Paule Vézelay from a private collection to Surface Work at the Victoria Miro Gallery: an international, cross-generational exhibition
of women
artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to
influence and expand, the language
of abstract painting.
A dynamic, geometric clarity was certainly the aesthetic goal
of many
abstract artists, but there were others who worked under the
influence of Surrealism and Expressionism, not to mention the natural landscape that so inspired the first generation
of American
abstract artists.
Less an exhaustive survey
of contemporary
abstract painting than a bringing together
of extraordinary works by exceptional
artists, Inherent Structure encourages viewers to meditate on the underlying sources and
influences of abstraction by providing varied and multiple manifestations
of it.
It seems to me the list
of influences on these
artists needs to include the likes
of Kant (
abstract schema) in the search for the «concrete,» whose forms occur in nature (biology) but also in art (disclosed reality).
The large scale
of the Nymphéas (two meters wide and one meter high), its expressive and very present brushstrokes and very
abstract rendering
of all its natural elements would have a lasting
influence on the future generations
of artists.
In this video interview with Stuart Krimko, Director
of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, we learn about Gilliam's unique brush-less technique, his innovations in treating the canvas as the principal material and his
influence on a young generation
of artists (
abstract and not).
Works by the earlier generation
of artists represented in the show can be loosely situated within geometric abstraction and
abstract constructivism,
influenced by
artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and groups such as De Stijl (founded 1917) and the ZERO movement
of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the American Colour Field painters.
This group
of artists, which included Emil Bisttram, Florence Miller Pierce, and Stuart Walker, shared an interest in the principles
of Theosophy advanced by Madame Blavatsky, and they also drew inspiration from Zen Buddhism, which would gain
influence among American
abstract artists in the decades to follow.
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Brooklyn
artist Andisheh Avini's
abstract works are
influenced by a fascinating range
of references, from art history and Andy Warhol to traditional Persian pattern and craft.
Beginnings clearly shows the
artist's assimilation
of surrealist
influence, taking Cornell's boxes in a new,
abstract / constructivist, direction.
In «Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists,» the Newcomb Art Museum
of Tulane University presents seven female
artists who have updated the state
of the
abstract in the American consciousness, accounting for technology's
influence on the psyche.
Although Josef Albers»
influence on color theory is pervasive, CMYK reveals that
artists continue to experiment and explore the infinite possibilities
of mixing pigments based on cyan, magenta, yellow and black (K), illustrating that the future for
abstract painting is as vast as its past.
With his roots in printmaking and Surrealism, British
artist Stanley William Hayter's (1901 — 1988) theoretical writings on automatism and the expressive abstraction
of his own work were a formative
influence on Pollock and other
abstract expressionists via his printmaking studio, Atelier 17, where Hayter taught Pollock and other well known
artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz and Alberto Giacometti.
Herrera's geometric, hard - edged
abstract paintings,
influenced by her university degree in architecture and singularly focused on the interactions
of space and color, prefigure the Op Art and Minimalism
of artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Kenneth Noland.
Regional
artists manuel arturo abreu and Christopher Paul Jordan explore the
abstracted visual and emotional cues that
influence how a sense
of «place» is communicated through signifiers
of the cultural, economic, and racial
influences within inherited identity.
A pioneer
of infusing
abstract painting with
influences from popular culture and craft traditions, Mary Heilmann (b. 1940) is one
of the most important yet least recognized
artists in the United States today.
With his focus on simplified forms and use
of colour as a primary means
of expression, in the 1930s he profoundly
influenced and won the devotion
of fellow
artists including future
abstract expressionists Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman.
Influenced by both Urban Art and
Abstract Contemporary, we present works from a group
of artists who merge the way between these styles focusing the energy and rawness
of classical graffiti with
abstract expressionism.
Ferren was active in the European avant - garde circles, and produced paintings
influenced by the
abstract geometry
of artists such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, and Robert Delaunay.
Greatly
influenced by the influx
of European surrealist
artists who emmigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois's early sculpture was composed
of groupings
of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood.
Thus is,
of course, an old modernist recipe, used to great effect by
abstract artists such as Paul Klee, Antoni Tàpies and Cy Twombly (on whose
influence Rosa is outspoken).
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.
These
artists (like Eric Fischl, David Salle, Elizabeth Murray, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel) ignored critic Clement Greenberg and his prescriptive view
of Modernism that had
influenced the previous generation
of artists, and instead crafted works that combined figurative subjects,
abstract landscapes, and intuitive mark - making into volatile works
of art.
This refusal to cohere to conventional notions
of abstract painting reflects the breadth
of Cain's
influences — including
abstract expressionism, photography, the
artist Ana Mendieta, and ceramics — and her desire to dismantle the male - dominated history and traditions
of painting.
While the two schools
of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality
of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area
artists,
influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness
of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.
Leiter, who was also a painter, incorporates
abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the
influence of his favorite
artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard, and Matisse.
In this substantial volume, the works
of the infamous mid-century French visionary
artist, Yves Klein — famed for having been photographed jumping off a wall, «into the void,» with his arms outstretched as he moved rapidly towards the pavement, as well as for having claimed and patented his very own shade
of the color blue — are presented alongside paintings by the
artist whose work
influenced him most profoundly: his mother, the bold
abstract painter Marie Raymond (1908 - 1972).
Regarding Creed's paint choice, the critic Michael Archer has linked the
artist's approach to that
of an acknowledged
influence, the
abstract painter Frank Stella (born 1936) who once said that in each
of his canvases he was trying to «keep the paint as good as it was in the can» (cited in Ikon Gallery 2008, p. 36).
The definitive monograph, created in close collaboration with the
artist, a pioneer
of abstract art, who
influenced subsequent generations
of artists such as Tauba Auerbach, Matt Connors and Alex Israel.
Bad
Influence presents works by Gretchen Bender, Ashley Bickerton, Wim Delvoye and Jonathan Lasker symptomatic
of a certain 80s generation
of artists who simulated and
abstracted the visual language
of consumerism to rupture traditional media circuitry.
The Syrian
artist's colorful paintings and drawings highlight arabesque concepts and are deeply
influenced by the
abstract school
of Arab art.
Combined with his interest in American
abstract painting this research lead him in the 70s to make a series
of particularly ambitious paintings, not only by their unusual format in France at the time (two by three meters, two by six meters), but also by the almost total withdrawal
of the gesture
of the
artist, an indirect inscription
of the pictorial surface, a minimalistic and radical process that
influenced, among others, Martin Barré.
As the
influence of abstract expressionism waned in the 1960s,
artists came to question the very philosophy underlying modernism.
His technical achievements became a paradigm for British art for the whole
of the eighteenth century, and his later works in particular
influenced the near
abstract compositions
of the next generation
of British
artists.
With Rothko an
influence, Morico spent years painting
abstract expressionist paintings after graduating in 1994 from Paier College
of Art in Hamden while pursuing a career as a graphic
artist, including on a freelance basis the past 10 years.
Twenty years after appearing as one
of the first
of the National Gallery's
Artist's Eye series
of modern
artists and their
influences among the Gallery's pictures, this ever - evolving mistress
of abstract form returns with a similar display
of influences and new pictures, including two large works painted directly onto the Gallery's walls.
A famous group
of abstract color theory
artists were
influenced by the Light and Space Movement, notably: Frederick Spratt, Phil Sims, Anne Appleby, and David Simpson.
[7][8] A famous group
of abstract color theory
artists were
influenced by the Light and Space Movement, notably: Frederick Spratt, [9] Phil Sims, Anne Appleby, and David Simpson.
Owing to his studies in the West, Chun was deeply
influenced by American and European
abstract expressionism, the early stages
of his career saw the
artist working with paintings until his shift to Korean mulberry paper in 1995.
Miró's work hugely inspired the
artists who would become the
Abstract Expressionists, thus
influencing generations
of American
abstract painting.