Greenberg favored, sequentially, Abstract Expressionism, then Color Field painting, and
later Lyrical Abstraction.
Not exact matches
While it would be naive to assume that everyone is going to prefer that type of art (
late Monet, Friedel Dzubas, William Pettet, John Griefen, Dan Christensen, John Hoyland, Jules Olitski, Joan Snyder, Larry Poons, Ronald Davis, et al) it is not naive to ask that
Lyrical Abstraction be accorded its hard earned place in the historical and critical landscape.
Lyrical Abstraction as perceived in the media of the
late sixties was largely misunderstood because of several factors.
The survey features 28 paintings spanning five decades — from
late - 1960s bold geometric
abstractions to recent gold metallic fields with
lyrical lines.
My use of the term
Lyrical Abstraction is not meant to refer to Larry Aldrich's maligned exhibition at the Whitney Museum, but to the new sensibility and phenomenon of what Aldrich actually observed in the artist studios that he visited in the
late sixties.
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.
Cheat River Landscape, addresses another issue which is at the central core of
Lyrical Abstraction, and that issue was that advanced painting pay attention and express what was going on in the culture of the
late sixties.
Abstract Expressionism preceded Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, and the other movements of the 1960s and 1970s and it influenced the
later movements that evolved.
Finally, in the
late 1960s (partially as a response to minimal art, and the dogmatic interpretations by some to Greenbergian and Juddian formalism), many painters re-introduced painterly options into their works and the Whitney Museum and several other museums and institutions at the time formally named and identified the movement and uncompromising return to painterly
abstraction as «
lyrical abstraction».
James Brooks» paintings were particularly poetic and highly prescient in relationship to
Lyrical Abstraction that became prominent in the
late 1960s and the 1970s.
By the
late 1960s however, postminimalism, process art and Arte Povera [121] also emerged as revolutionary concepts and movements that encompassed both painting and sculpture, via
lyrical abstraction and the postminimalist movement, and in early conceptual art.
The continuation of abstract expressionism, color field painting,
lyrical abstraction, geometric
abstraction, minimalism, abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and other
late 20th - century Modernist movements in both painting and sculpture continued through the first decade of the 21st century and constitute radical new directions in those mediums.
His early paintings, his figurative still - lifes, particularly - not the
late, softly fluid,
lyrical abstractions that would profoundly influence the course of American art - are often so densely built up, so airtight with paint, that they've more or less had the life choked out of them; in the course of trying to keep them alive, they have in fact become dead things.
During the
late forties, when painting was becoming physically big, angst - ridden, and unprecedentedly theoretical in its exploration of new modes of non-representational painting, MacIver kept her canvases compact and continued developing an intimate brand of
lyrical abstraction that remained mimetically based.
By the
late 1960s however, process art emerged as a revolutionary concept and movement that encompassed painting and sculpture, via
lyrical abstraction and the postminimalist movement, and in early Conceptual Art.
Later too, his freely painted and
lyrical landscape
abstractions of the 1960s and 1970s were to have an enormous influence on painters in the 1980s.
The show also includes his
late still - lifes and
lyrical abstractions.
By the
late 1960s, Postminimalism, Process Art and Arte Povera [38] also emerged as revolutionary concepts and movements encompassing painting and sculpture, via
Lyrical Abstraction and the Postminimalist movement, and in early Conceptual Art.
Willem de Kooning is famous for his wild and very «hot» abstract paintings of women and also for his more
lyrical late, bright
abstractions.
Twenty - eight paintings will be included, starting with his
late - 1960s bold geometric
abstractions like Harlem Angels (1968) to recent gold metallic fields with
lyrical lines like Evidence (2016).
For styles, see:
Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Stael, Jean - Paul Riopelle) and Tachisme (
late 1940s / 50s, Jean Fautrier, Georges Mathieu, Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis).
(Note: several of these artists
later moved to non-geometric art forms, such as
lyrical or biomorphic / organic
abstraction).
Abstract Expressionism preceded Tachisme, Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism, and the other movements of the sixties and seventies and it influenced all those
later movements that evolved.
Meanwhile, parallel movements in Western Europe were appearing under various titles, such as Art Informel (c.1945 - 60), along with sub-variants such as
Lyrical Abstraction (
late 1940s, 1950s), Tachisme (c.1945 - 60) and the COBRA group (1948 - 51).
If Post-painterly
abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s), its sub-variants Tachisme (late 1940s, 1950s) Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (
abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s), its sub-variants Tachisme (
late 1940s, 1950s)
Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (
Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (1948 - 51).
In the same essay Cornish brings attention to Mali Morris's «materiality and touch», which reminds me of the recent article by David Sweet at Abstract Critical where, questioning the relevance of «the kind of average
lyrical abstraction of the
late colour field period» and highlighting the importance of detail in the era of high - definition he partially equates touch with detail.