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A small - town boy from Nebraska, the son of a farmer and a truck driver, might not seem like a likely candidate for becoming one of New York's leading abstract painters in the 1960s.

A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops, and grids.

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The justification for the term, «abstract expressionist,» lies in the fact that most of the painters covered by it took their lead from German, Russian, or Jewish expressionism in breaking away from late Cubist abstract art.

One of Britain's leading abstract painters, John Hoyland was born and educated in Sheffield before moving to London at 22 to study at the Royal Academy.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

Richter's technical aptitude has led to his reputation as one of the outstanding painters of our era and Abstraktes Bild, which lays testament to his relentless technical explorations in the field of abstract art and to the painterly and intellectual elasticity unique in his work, is estimated at # 500,000 - 700,000.

CHICAGO — Congratulations to artist Magalie Guérin on being awarded a Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant.The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Mark Bradford, a leading abstract painter, was selected to represent the U.S. at the 57th Venice Biennale, in a new commission presented by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Charles Hall finds a dazzling new freedom in the work of one of England's leading abstract painters.

In 1959, at the instigation of Bloore and fellow teachers A. F. MCKAY and Roy KIYOOKA, the American abstract painter Barnett Newman was invited to lead an Emma Lake Workshop.

In the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfaceIn the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfacein the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner Gérald Piltzer as a leading figure among the «new new painters,» a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfacein Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high - keyed, glossy colour and built - up surfaces.

As a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract art.

It also brings the 50th anniversary of Movement in Squares (1961), the break - through black and white painting that marked her out as one of the world's leading abstract painters.

Damien Hirst's much anticipated new private museum opens on Tomorrow with a solo exhibition of works by John Hoyland (1934 — 2011)-- one of Britain's leading abstract painters — will inaugurate Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, which opens in Vauxhall, south London on 8th October 2015.

Born in Dublin, Sean Scully is one of the world's leading abstract painters.

A pivotal gesture for Baldessari — he says it marks when he stopped being a painter and started to follow Duchamp's lead — was the 1970 Cremation Project, in which he burnt all the abstract paintings he had made between 1955 and 1963 and put the ashes into a book - shaped casket.

Painter, sculptor, poet, and musician Larry Rivers was an established figure in the New York School, recognized for creating large paintings merging abstract and narrative elements, as in Washington Crossing the Delaware (1953), where the general leads his men through a space defined by murky oil washes and broad gestural brushwork.

«As the leading American abstract painter of his generation and a vigorous advocate for the interests of under - represented urban communities in the U.S. and beyond, Bradford creates work that embodies art's capacity to both inspire wonder and catalyze enduring social change.

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn., her nephew said.

Ellsworth Kelly, (born May 31, 1923, Newburgh, New York, U.S. — died December 27, 2015, Spencertown, New York), American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was a leading exponent of the hard - edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined.

Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 — November 22, 1981) was a leading early 20th - century painter in abstract styles in New York City.

Marden, who became famous overnight in the mid -»60s and is now regarded as one of the world's leading abstract painters, was in town recently as a guest of SFMOMA's Director's Circle.

Russian painter and designer Kasimir Malevich was born in Kiev in 1878 and became a leading pioneer of abstract art.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been...

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

Biography: A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut, her nephew said.

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

Of equally lasting importance, it was at the institute that Truitt met Kenneth Noland, the brilliant young painter who would go on to become one of the leading lights of the Washington Color School, a group whose abstract color paintings would lead the art - world limelight to shine oh so briefly on the nation's capital in the 1960s.

A pioneer of abstract art, the North Dakota - born American painter Clyfford Still was one of the leading figures in the New York School of avant - garde Abstract Expressionism, which took root in the 1940s and became the predominant style of painting until its replacement by Pop art during the mid-1960s.

In 1952, Rosenberg published his first major article on art - an essay entitled «The American Action Painters,» in the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movemenIn 1952, Rosenberg published his first major article on art - an essay entitled «The American Action Painters,» in the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movemenin the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movemenin which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movement.

An influential figure in American art of the late 1950s and early 60s, Helen Frankenthaler is a leading abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.

One of the most innovative figures in abstract art in America during the mid-20th century, the Latvian - born, Jewish - American painter, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was the leading pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, a movement triggered by the collapse in moral values following World War II.

«As the leading American abstract painter of his generation and a vigorous advocate for the interests of under - represented urban communities in the U.S. and beyond, Bradford creates work that embodies art's capacity to both inspire wonder and catalyze enduring social change,» Rose Art Museum director Christopher Bedford said in a statement.

Julian Stanczak, a Polish - born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

Jurors: Ian Davenport was born in Kent in 1966 is one of Britain's leading abstract painters and printmakers.

An influential figure in American art of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Helen Frankenthaler is a leading abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and print - maker.

From the 1960s are Charles Green Shaw's Black on White against Yellow (1968), in which Shaw revived the polygon from his art of the 1930s to create a new minimalist statement, Leon Berkowitz's Cathedral, No. 11 (1968), a work by the Washington Color School artist in which imperceptible shifts of color and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th Street.

She is regarded as one of the 20th century's major abstract painters, and a leading figure in British contemporary painting.

Antoni Tapies, born in Barcelona in 1923, became a leading abstract painter and sculptor of postwar Spain.

Other major painters and sculptors drawn to Paris included the Czech abstract painter Frank Kupka (1871 - 1957), the Cubist Juan Gris (1887 - 1927), the alcoholic genre - painter Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955), the Surrealist Salvador Dali (1904 - 89), the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), the Russian artists Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967), Mikhail Larionov (1881 - 1964), Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), the Hungarian optical artist Victor Vasarely (1906 - 97), the leading theorist of Surrealism Andre Breton (1896 - 1966), the painter Jules Pascin (1885 - 1930), born in Bulgaria of Spanish and Italian stock, and the Russian - French colourist and lyrical abstractionist Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 1955).

Pollock, photographed action - painting, was one of the great abstract painters, of the 20th century, and the leading American exponent of avant - garde art in the 50s.

Regarded as the leading Canadian abstract painter of his era, Riopelle's work is hung in some of the best art museums in Canada, France, Britain and America.

After many difficulties and the refusal of some leading British abstract artists to join (including Victor Pasmore), she was successful in forming a small group of painters, sculptors and architects who held an exhibition in the Royal Festival Hall in 1955 which anticipated many elements of the much better known 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, «This is Tomorrow».

The Pollock - Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 to assist individual working artists of merit with financial need through the generosity of Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), a leading abstract expressionist painter and widow of Jackson Pollock.

Many younger artists returned to observation around that time, but her exploration did not lead toward the abstract realism of painters like William Bailey or Janet Fish, where objects are rendered in great three - dimensional specificity, but to the creation of an alternate universe of «realist» abstraction.

Walker is a leading abstract painter, with works in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and other museums across the world.

The inaugural exhibition in the series features a new, architecturally scaled installation by Stephen Bram who, alongside his practice as a leading abstract painter, has achieved recognition in Australia and Europe for distinguished art projects and commissions developed in relation to architecture.