In seeking to reinvigorate and advance
the language of action painting, Yossifor concentrates the «action» near the center of each work while allowing it to become more diffuse around the edges, establishing a figure - ground relationship.
In Throw, 2016, by Wangechi Mutu, the eruptive gesture of demonstration merges with the (violent) placement of paint on a wall, referring to
the languages of action painting and performance as well as to the act of throwing used in defiant protest.
Not exact matches
All were moving in a new direction away from the violence and anxiety
of Action painting toward a new and seemingly calmer
language of color.
Lichtenstein adopted a series
of different artistic
languages, first approximating Picasso's style
of the 1940s, in 1956 turning to a more ornamental idiom and then to Rococo motifs, and finally turning to abstraction in 1958 in a late variation
of Action painting.
Mary Bucci McCoy's intimate abstract acrylic
paintings reconcile intention and acceptance,
action and stillness, object and image, and conceptual rigor and intuitive process through a poetic material
language that negotiates and exploits the opportunities and exigencies
of her chosen medium.
Rather, Copperwhite approaches «
action painting» as an inherited
language, to which she contributes some striking dialect
of her own.
Her videos, which conflate poetry,
painting, live
action performance and stop - animation, enact the slipperiness
of language in times
of extremity with signifiers that swing from propaganda to elegy, and rhetoric to apology.
Cohen intersects the
language of heroic Abstract Expressionism with narrative to re-invent the experience
of action painting in a contemporary context.
Lydia Gifford's artistic research is an enquiry
of the
language and possibilities
of painting,
of painterly thought, which are subsequently allocated and transposed by means
of subtle
actions, gestures, ideas and processes into a physical space.
Taking his cues from artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Henri Michaux, and Christopher Wool, Feaster seeks to advance the
language of abstract
painting through the use
of an ever - expanding lexicon
of material effects, marks, and erasures, entreating the viewer to participate in a disjointed narrative that warps the experience
of pictorial space, light and
action.
Transiting through multiple
languages, such as
painting, photography, performative
action and video, Desali's work is marked by the subversion
of hierarchies, both artistic and social.
Without prescribed beginnings, their means
of production share more with
action painting than with the
language and precision
of tapestry.
Soon afterward, the term «
action painting» became part
of the
language.
Bernède's
paintings are easily accessible for they evoke the collective sense
of an archetypal visual
language, and aid a civilisation's understanding
of the world through heightened self - consciousness and awareness, a concept adopted by the
Action painters from Freud and Jung.