It's an idea that
a lot of abstract painters had and to me it's obsolete.
In those days
a lot of abstract painters were making one image.
I think that's probably the dilemma
a lot of abstract painters face.
But we just went through this Zombie Formalism period, and
a lot of those abstract painters who churned out tons of canvases to meet frenzied demand have now seen their markets disintegrate, and their reputations sink.
There are
lots of abstract painters around at the moment who love this stuff, and who are milking it, and bit by bit, unambitiously hollowing out abstract painting until it is borderline meaningless.
Not exact matches
PAUL CUMMINGS: Well, there was a time when a
lot of the
painters felt there was a while conspiracy on Hess» part to promote certain
abstract painters and not others.
Like a
lot of people, my fantasy when I was younger was to be the kind
of painter that that made big
abstract paintings.
He is not easy to categorise, because although in the 60s he knew
lots of painters and was influenced by the
abstract expressionism
of the late 50s — including exhibitions
of Jackson Pollock and Rothko at the Whitechapel art gallery — later in life he stood rather aloof from the contemporary art world.
There are
abstract painters in the show who talk a
lot about the role
of John Coltrane.
There must have been a
lot of pressure on you to be an
abstract painter.
I knew a
lot of painters,
abstract expressionists, who used to paint to jazz music.
Given the basic humanity
of geometry, it may come as a surprise to find that many contemporary
painters, both figurative and
abstract, think plain geometrical figures are chilly, «intellectual,» inhuman things best kept out
of art or buried deep beneath
lots of colorful, painterly gestures, thrustings and parryings.
I was going through a
lot of changes — I had changed from being a figurative
painter to an
abstract painter.
(A
lot of representational painting now is very
abstract in ways, because representational
painters are also thinking
of past
abstract painters.)