Pollock's influence didn't really stop with Clement Greenberg and his circle of artist friends, such as Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, or Larry Poons — even though part of its appeal for them was the decorative side of
his late drip paintings.
Not exact matches
Spontaneity, chance, spilling,
dripping and brushing became important working methods in the mid to
late 1970s and Bowling began referring to his work as «poured
paintings».
He then used
paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases, such as «Male and Female» and «Composition with Pouring I.» After his move to Springs, he began
painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and he developed what was
later called his «
drip» technique, turning to synthetic resin - based
paints called alkyd enamels, which, at that time, was a novel medium.
Someday, for instance, I'd like to see Janet Sobel's 1944
drip paintings — admired by Pollock and which Greenberg would
later cite as the first instance of» all - over»
painting — placed within an Abstract Expressionist context.
Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his
drip paintings — read as vast fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued
paint skeins that read as all over fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized
late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.
The strange violence that has been exerted on the canvas, and therefore to the Nurse of Greenmeadow herself, with
paint dripping down the surface, recalls the shock and scandal with which de Kooning's celebrated
paintings of women were received in the
late 1940s and early 1950s, puncturing the myth of the woman in art.
In the
late 1940s, Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), now recognized as one of the most important Abstract Expressionist artists, began experimenting with a new method of
painting that involved
dripping, flinging and pouring
paint onto a canvas laid flat directly on the floor.
Pollock had enjoyed great success with his
drip paintings of 1947 - 50, some of which are included in a major show of his
late work at Tate Liverpool (Summertime: Number 9A, 1948).
Later, one can look at Jackson Pollock and see all - over
painting or the
drips, action or abstraction.
Pollock is usually remembered for his «all over»
drip paintings from the
late 1940s, which helped define the radical break from what was then considered advanced
painting.
By the
late 1940s, Ossorio had begun acquiring many
drip paintings by Pollock and, at Pollock's suggestion, Ossorio visited Dubuffet on a trip to Paris in 1949.
While the exhibition emphasizes Hofmann's drawings from the 1930s and»40s, there are a few highly suggestive
late works in the exhibition, particularly several untitled pieces from 1961 in which the artist contrasts a few seemingly carefree
drips and spatters of richly hued oil
paint with delicate felt - marker traceries.
It wasn't until four years
later that Jackson Pollock began working on the
drip paintings that made him famous around the world.
Working first with oil
paints and
later acrylic, Jenkins poured
paint directly on the canvas, allowing it to
drip, bleed, and pool, as well as manipulating it with an ivory knife.
In these works, Pollock applied the distinctive
drip -
painting technique he had developed in the
late»40s to raw, unprimed canvas, but with a difference.
Later, «action
painting» spun out arbitrary signs,
drips, and «zips» into the vocabulary of art.
The exhibition follows Pollock's practice through a selection of these
drip paintings made between 1947 and 1950 to his
late blind spots, demonstrating a radical juxtaposition between two distinct periods within his work.
In the 1970s she was known for her room - sized installations and
later, influenced by the equally vanguard John Cage and Agnes Martin, she struck upon a method of poured
painting, where she
dripped paint onto
paint, creating waterfall - like giant canvases which were stoic and imposing, suspended in time.
Since the
late 1980s, Steir has been known for her
dripped and splashed waterfall imagery that reveal her interest in nineteenth - century Romantic
paintings, Abstract Expressionism, Chinese landscape
painting, and the Chinese convention of flung ink
painting.
Namuth's photographs and films of Pollock still stand among the most important documents showing an artist in his studio and continue to influence artists as diverse as Richard Serra (whose molten - lead sculptures from the
late»60s transpose the
drip paintings into three dimensions) and Vik Muniz (who appropriated one of the images for a
painting in chocolate).
Evoking Lynda Benglis «s pigmented polyurethane foam pieces from the
late 1960s and 70s and Carolanna Parlato's 2010 poured
paintings, Godward
drips, pours and splashes skeins of brightly colored foam and
paint, embedding objects in the ooze, like dinosaurs trapped in a rainbow - colored tar pit.
Mina Cheon aka Kim Il Soon North Korean Dream Sequence Project 2 Dip and
Drip Painting Series in International Klein Blue 01 - 18, 2017 Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 x 1 inches each As one of the last remaining hermit kingdoms of communism, North Korea has relentlessly remained socialist amidst a global overturn towards
late - capitalism, and stands out with its greatest cultural paradox of vulnerability and threat.
The
latest body of Mina Cheon aka Kim Il Soon
paintings are her Dream Sequence
painting series where she is
painting hot pink
drip, Western style abstract expressionist,
paintings in her dreams.
The efforts of Stella and Noland and especially Louis could be usefully linked to Jackson Pollock's post cubist output of the
late forties, particularly his canonical
drip paintings of 1947 - 50.
What, for example, does Jackson Pollock's teenaged enthusiasm for the teachings of Krishnamurti have to do with his
drip paintings of the
late 1940s?
He developed a method that was
later dubbed the «
drip technique» in which he
dripped paint onto a canvas that was spread out on the floor.
Over fteen years
later, she has returned to her original medium, which recalls the rhythmic chaos of Jackson Pollock's
drip paintings: the long, liquid lines and gurative blobs evolving into anthropomorphic trees, owers or people.
I wish she had worked a little more thematically, perhaps drawing together a group of works to emphasize the streetwise lyric poetry of New York, the dark pastoral mood that you find in some of the
late Gorkys, in de Kooning's saturnine Valentine, and in Pollock's Full Fathom Five (which I much prefer to the slightly
later, larger
drip paintings).
Greenberg introduced her to the major figures in New York School of painters, including Jackson Pollock, whose
drip -
painting later inspired her «
painting by pouring».
Her early work was loosely associated with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract
dripped, splashed and poured «Waterfall»
paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her
later site - specific wall drawings.
Inspired by Pollock's
drip style, her soak - in technique resulted in fresh, appealing expanses of color that spurred similar experiments by Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (whom Greenberg took to Frankenthaler's studio in 1953) and prefigured Color Field
painting of the
later 1950s and 1960s by Louis, Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frankenthaler herself.
[42] Jackson Pollock and art critic Clement Greenberg saw Sobel's work there in 1946 and
later Greenberg noted that Sobel was «a direct influence on Jackson Pollock's
drip painting technique.»
During the 1940s, he explored what
later became known as Abstract Expressionism, pioneering the technique of «
drip -
painting» which
later became associated with Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56).
Over the next decades, Francis's style in
painting and print production evolved from the depiction of bright, centrally placed shapes evocative of Tibetan mandalas (influenced by Jungian psychology) to his
late - 1970s exploration of more severe grid structures to a 1980s fascination with snakelike forms and colorful
drips.
Though with her early work Steir was loosely allied with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, she is best - recognized for
dripped, splashed and poured «waterfall»
paintings which she first started in the
late 1980s.
A Pollock
drip piece from the
late 1940s, a congested disaster of a
painting, opens the exhibition and serves as an augury for the mishmash that follows.
Now, in a sequence of galleries, the DMA's senior curator of contemporary art, Gavin Delahunty, presents a compelling case for the significance of the black
paintings, with portable
drip paintings, the first burst of black works,
later ones that were exhibited in solo shows at the galleries of Betty Parsons and Sidney Janis in New York, screen prints, and drawings made on Japanese mulberry paper.
Begun essentially by the Rothko, Newman, Still wing of Abstract Expressionism (Pollock's
drip paintings are crossovers between this and gestural abstraction), it continued on in Colorfield
painting, and in
later large - scale monochrome and minimalist
painting (another important addition to the map, although not with as much breadth as the Gestural.)
They have a slightly raised panel which can collect
paint and then
later allow it to
drip down the front of the drawer.
Paint one side of the door at a time and watch for
drips —
paint right onto the glass since you'll scrape it off
later.