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.
After that, he balanced
lyrical abstractions evoking rustic pleasures with more tormented statements regarding the flesh.
Not exact matches
His arcing, expressionistic curves recall the
lyrical abstraction of Hans Hartung, while his agile finessing of negative space
evokes the East Asian idea of «ma» — the passages of supple emptiness enveloping forms in historical Chinese and Japanese landscape painting.
They frequently
evoke a less self - consciously aesthetic version of
Lyrical Abstraction, but the checklist reveals that their stains involve all sorts of natural substances — spirulina, nettles, kombucha, yew berries, the urine of Ms. Dodd's dog — along with charcoal, mixed pigments and graphite.
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.