"Lyrical abstraction" is an art style that focuses on the emotions and feelings expressed through abstract paintings. It emphasizes the artist's personal experiences and inner thoughts, using fluid and expressive brushwork to create a sense of movement and beauty.
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The exhibition features recent works by a range of international artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects
of lyrical abstraction.
At this time, his approach to painting took a dramatic turn toward a gestural style associated first with abstract expressionism and then
with lyrical abstraction.
Christenberry describes Calcagno's painting style
as lyrical abstraction, which provided a counterbalance to Mel Price's style of Abstract Expressionism.
It is also related to American
Lyrical Abstraction painting of the 1960s and 1970s, The Hairy Who movement in Chicago, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 1950s and 1960s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop Painting.
In Europe, abstract expressionism was known as Art Informel (formless art), which divided into a gesturalist wing, known as Tachisme (see also the COBRA group), and a softer style
called Lyrical Abstraction.
[28] Lyrical abstraction shares similarities with color field painting and abstract expressionism especially in the freewheeling usage of paint — texture and surface.
And now the audience has lost their money and the people are turned off, alienated by both sides, and now is the time
for Lyrical Abstraction to emerge from the political dungeons and head for the light.
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.
Melinda Zox is the daughter of renowned American
lyrical abstraction painter Larry Zox (1936 - 2006), who played an essential role in the Color Field movement of the 1960s and 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.
As an act of resistance
against lyrical abstraction, these artists combined visual art with newly available technologies such as photography, Polaroids, photocopies, film, video and graphic design.
Diebenkorn was one of the premier American painters of the postwar era, whose deeply
lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide - open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life.
An artist of poetic eloquence — his work fills a museum in Segovia — Vicente painted almost until his death at age 97 in Bridgehampton, New York,
creating lyrical abstractions like «Color Luz» (pictured left, 1999) and «Untitled» (pictured right, 1999).
He attended a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art and studied at St Martin's School of Art, where the
prevailing lyrical abstraction caused him to react and rebel against it.
Eugene Martin is best known for his imaginative, complex mixed media collages on paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and ink drawings, and his paintings on paper and canvas that may incorporate whimsical allusions to animal, machine and structural imagery among areas of «pure», constructed, biomorphic, or
disciplined lyrical abstraction.
His work was also shown in the seminal exhibition Véhémences confrontées (Opposing forces), which visually pitted
European Lyrical Abstraction against American Abstract Expressionism and for which Mathieu assisted French critic Michel Tapié in organizing at Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris (1951).
His technique shows some influence of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, as well as the more subtle European style of Art Informel, the more gestural French style of Tachisme, and the
softer Lyrical Abstraction.
Richard Diebenkorn, one of the premier American painters of the postwar era, whose
deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide - open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life, died yesterday at his home in Berkeley.
Carolanna Parlato's show of recent paintings continues her long preoccupation with
how lyrical abstraction might evoke ephemeral beauty combined with a certain rigor of process that actively arrests the form's potential drift into maudlin, painterly dramatics.
Alike the Musicalism, European
lyrical abstraction artists, American abstract expressionists or the contemporaries of the artist — the graffuturists, he develops a poetry working with the material, the line and the color.
This trend represented both an alternative and a challenge to the critical consensus of mainstream Northern - Atlantic art production: while in the established art centers of Paris, London and New York, abstract expressionism, informel and
lyrical abstraction reigned supreme, another art history was being written linking the hubs of Warsaw, Budapest, Zagreb, Bucharest and Moscow together with Buenos Aires, Caracas, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Lyrical Abstraction developed as a reaction to Formalism and Anti-Formalism's denouncing of personal expression in favor of a critical dialectic.
But
when Lyrical Abstraction waned and Pattern Painting petered out, Seery and Zakanitch continued to explore the manners and motifs that had initially motivated them, only released from the expectations of the art world (most especially, and perhaps dauntingly, their peers).