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.
Not exact matches
The great era of
Lyrical Abstraction was begun in
artists» studios in the sixties and continues in
artists» studios to this day.
While younger
artists like Frank Stella, Ronald Davis, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Walter Darby Bannard, Ronnie Landfield, Dan Christensen, began with Post-Painterly
Abstraction and eventually moved forward towards a new type of expressionism, referred to as
Lyrical Abstraction.
Over six decades, the
artist has explored through her distinctive style of
lyrical, luminous
abstraction, which reflects through her paintings executed in oil, carrying a sense of intriguing intimacy combined with uncompromising yet gentle intensity.
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.
I've written before about the suppression of
Lyrical Abstraction but even I am appalled by the arrogant disrespect that The Whitney Museum displays towards American
artists and to the American art public.
With the exception of Kelly, all of those
artists developed their versions of painterly
abstraction that has been characterized at times as
lyrical abstraction, tachisme, color field, Nuagisme and abstract expressionism.
Lyrical Abstraction shares with both Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting a sense of spontaneous and immediate sensual expression, consequently distinctions between specific
artists and their styles become blurred, and seemingly interchangeable as they evolve.
For the
artists in France,
Lyrical Abstraction represented an opening to personal expression.
Works by the following
artists associated with
Lyrical Abstraction will be included: Natvar Bhavsar, Stanley Boxer, Lamar Briggs, Dan Christensen, David Diao, Friedel Dzubas, Sam Francis, Dorothy Gillespie, Cleve Gray, Paul Jenkins, Ronnie Landfield, Pat Lipsky, Joan Mitchell, Robert Natkin, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Garry Rich, John Seery, Jeff Way and Larry Zox.
Marilyn Kirsch (born 1950 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American
artist, known for abstract and non-objective paintings often described as
Lyrical Abstraction.
Many
artists began moving away from geometric, hard - edge, and minimal styles, toward more
lyrical, sensuous, romantic
abstractions worked in a loose gestural style.
For the
artists,
lyrical abstraction represented an opening to personal expression.
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Lyrical Abstraction is a term that was used by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969 to describe what Aldrich said he saw in the studios of many
artists at that time.
In collaboration with PARKVIEW ART Hong Kong, Agora Gallery is pleased to present the work of contemporary Chinese
artist Mao Lizi in the exhibition,
Lyrical Abstraction.
Sam Gilliam (born 1933) is an American
artist associated with Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, and Abstract Expressionism.
Some of the other
artists connected with
Lyrical Abstraction were Victoria Barr, Jake Berthot, Dan Christensen, Ronnie Landfield, Pat Lipsky, John Torreano, Phillip Wofford and Robert Zakanitch.
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).
Like
Lyrical Abstraction and Neo-Geo, the term can feel nearly libelous to the individual
artists who find themselves so identified, perhaps because it seems to suggest a strategy of isolating and securing a limited formal objective to the exclusion of psychological and political content.
Rather, it is the
artist's unique impression of his surroundings, internal and external merged, transformed into almost
lyrical abstractions.
These
artists — Alex Clarke, Phoebe Collings - James, Ziggy Grudzinskas, Prem Sahib, Rebecca Ward and Jens Wolf — do so in a repertoire of mediums from sculpture to hand - drawn scrawls, to painted bodily imprints and
lyrical abstractions.
Lyrical abstraction, a term connected to a number of abstract
artists working between 1945 - 1960s, was used to describe the work of Meyer along with others painting all - over compositions (with no singular focal point) that exhibited a nearly patterned organization with vibrational movement.
Her ideas about surface, scale, and color are not only daring; they presaged the work of
artists as varied as Barnett Newman, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Heilmann, as well as Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern a
Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern
abstractionabstraction.
Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, several Abstract Expressionist / color field
artists (notably: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Theodoros Stamos, Sam Francis, Ludwig Sander, Clyfford Still, Jules Olitski, and others) explored motifs that seemed to imply monochrome, employing broad, flat fields of colour in large scale pictures which proved highly influential to newer styles, such as Post-Painterly
Abstraction,
Lyrical Abstraction, and Minimalism.
The limited - run exhibition of 14 works on paper will feature the
artist's
lyrical landscapes and mid-century
abstractions.
Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual
artist, considered as a pioneer of a form of
abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action, creating sculptures that eschew minimalist reserve in favor of bold colors, sensual lines, and
lyrical references to the human body.
The
artist was also associated with Color Field painting and
Lyrical Abstraction...
There was, he says, a lot of provincial «
lyrical abstraction», but the more serious galleries eschewed British painting altogether in favour of the Pop Conceptualism that would eventually become the style of young British
artists like Damien Hirst.
The exhibition will bring together key works by each
artist to demonstrate their shared mastery of light, colour and perception during three pivotal moments in Post-War Italian art, Futurism,
Lyrical Abstraction and Pittura Analitica.
Patrick Heron (1920 - 99)(
Lyrical Abstraction)- Manganese in Deep Violet (Estate of the
Artist)- Cadmium with Violet, Scarlet, Emerald, Lemon and Venetian (1969, Tate)
After a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, he did a painting degree at St Martin's, where he reacted against the prevailing
lyrical abstraction, thinking of himself as a Pop Art - inspired urban narrative
artist.
Whether working purely from imagination or from deep
abstractions of visual phenomena, the
artists of
Lyrical Abstraction focus on the formal relations within each piece.
Other
artists in the show employ strategies of accumulation and «recuperation,» drawing on objects present in their surroundings to create dense, poetically
lyrical works that combine a love of
abstraction with a commitment to the use of quotidian materials.
The best known digital
artists include the German pioneer Manfred Mohr (b. 1938); the American
artist Ronald Davis (b. 1937) who is associated with the movement's geometric
abstraction and
lyrical abstraction; John Lansdown (1929 - 99), and Jean - Pierre Hebert whose specialty is algorithmic art and mixed media.
(Note: several of these
artists later moved to non-geometric art forms, such as
lyrical or biomorphic / organic
abstraction).
About Sam Gilliam Sam Gilliam (born 1933) is an American
artist associated with Color Field painting,
Lyrical Abstraction, and Abstract Expressionism.
Orlando Museum of Art 2007 Generations of the Washington Color School Revisited, The George Washington University Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington DC 2007 Washington Color School: Selections from the Artery Collection, International Arts &
Artists» Hillyer Art Space 2007
Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland and the Washington Color School, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC 2007 OPTIC NERVE: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 2008 New American
Abstraction 1950 - 1970, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY 2008 Color Field Revisited, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY 2008 New American
Abstraction 1960 - 1975, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY Selected Collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Metropolitan Museum of Art Center, Inc., Coral Gables, Florida Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Virginia Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C..
Dan Christensen was an American
artist notable for his unfettered use of color in styles such as Color Field painting and
Lyrical Abstraction.
He was known for his paintings that served as a
lyrical abstraction that paved the way for newer generations of
artists to express their own techniques.
With an emphasis on the actual process of painting,
lyrical or gestural
abstraction can be characterised by techniques that are governed by the
artist's interaction with chance, intuition and circumstance.
«The Gesture and the Sign» features recent works by a group of
artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects of
lyrical abstraction.
The Abstract Expressionist
artist Yvonne Thomas»
lyrical and sophisticated
abstractions are prized for their interrogations into the symbolic possibilities of color.
Instead,
Lyrical Abstraction is known for the freedom of expression in which its
artists indulge in.
While Art Student League instructors such as Charles Alston, Richard Pousette - Dart, and Theodoros Stamos continued experimenting with elements of Abstract Expressionism, younger
artists such as Bruce Dorfman, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Golfinopoulos, Stephen Greene, Paul Jenkins, Ronnie Landfield, Larry Poons, and Peter Reginato, was engaged with alternative movements including color field painting,
lyrical abstraction, pop art and assemblage.
The exhibition features recent works by a range of international
artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects of
lyrical abstraction.