Sentences with phrase «made color field painting»

An important distinction that made color field painting different from abstract expression was the paint handling.

Not exact matches

Throughout 1968 I made paintings with rollers, stains, hard edge borders and lines across intense colored fields.

«Sometimes I landed in the color - field genre because I was making more reduced paintings with shapes I collaged together.

Before I began my fifteen series paintings, 9» x 6», large open fields with 4» borders I made a group of nine or ten large hard edge paintings in mostly primary colors and some smaller ones a few of which were in black and white.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

I should also note that he was the first of the New York School to make a mural - size painting (it measures 7.5 × 10 feet), and that his personal style owes nothing to the athletic gesture that is often identified with certain works by Pollock, de Kooning and Kline, or the subtle applications of the hard - edge geometry of Reinhardt, or the fields of suffused and unbroken color in Rothko and Newman.

The paintings by this great Color Field innovator, now 80, looked as every bit as fresh as they did when they were first made in the»60s and»70s — prompting some fair goers to ask the gallery, «who is this young artist you are showing?»

These paintings do not feature the luminous color fields that made Rothko famous.

His large color - field canvases, made entirely with spray paint, contain hallucinogenic and elusive visions, hinting at images, which never quite come into focus.

That year Young made a major series of colored dot paintings on white fields that skyrocketed him to international attention.

At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»

«And he employs this system to make large - scale, totally immersive color field paintings that are utterly transcendent.

Well, like all good abstract art, the masters of color - field painting have made it appear simple and effortless.

The «one - shot painting» stain technique of color field was the innovation of Helen Frankenthaler, first accomplished in «Mountains and Sea,» made in 1952, when she was 24 and unknown.

His esteemed intellect not only undergirded his gorgeous, expressive paintings — frequently featuring bold black shapes against fields of color — but also made Motherwell one of the leading writers, theorists, and advocates of the New York School.

Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.

While for Rothko the side of the painting had color to it that not only showed the stages of its making but also indicated an environmental continuity between the painting and its site of placement, this strip, finished with a neutral light - reflecting color, signified a concept of separation between the discrete field of painted canvas and its surroundings.

After making paintings of straight, repeated lines he moved to placing objects within the paintings themselves in an attempt to magnify their «objectness» to move away from flat fields of color.

His paintings and distilled style went on to influence Bauhaus artists, the Minimalists of the 1960s, Color Field Painting and even iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who created the «Mondrian» dress — made with fabric matching the artist's Neo-Plastic color blocColor Field Painting and even iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who created the «Mondrian» dress — made with fabric matching the artist's Neo-Plastic color bloccolor blocking.

Yet it also put structure over medium, and it seemed to make the lushness of color - field painting or even painting itself a thing of the past.

The term stems from Clement Greenberg's 1955 description of the paintings being made by Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko as comprising large fields of color.

The piece occupies a space between the ready - made and painting, between Color Field and abstraction.

«Judd and Adkins have each made an indelible mark on contemporary art that is critical to understanding its evolution, while Bannard's influence on Color Field painting and Alÿs» work addressing issues of geopolitical and social conflict in urban environments both merit renewed attention.

In her most recent work Lou has created monochrome woven canvases, which reference Color Field painting and Minimalism, while focusing on the beauty and humanity revealed in the simple repetitive processes made by the human hand.

This time, his dealer Kurt Mueller said Mr. Gilliam is making a «spectacular» new painting that nods to his earlier Color Field breakthroughs.

Exploring the intricacies of color, Apfelbaum weaves her way, both literally and conceptually, through ideas of Minimalism, Pop aesthetics, and Color Field painting to blur the lines between two and three - dimensional art macolor, Apfelbaum weaves her way, both literally and conceptually, through ideas of Minimalism, Pop aesthetics, and Color Field painting to blur the lines between two and three - dimensional art maColor Field painting to blur the lines between two and three - dimensional art making.

The crucial role of binding medium, first made explicit in the chapter on red, is further investigated in Frankenthaler's and Louis's stained color field paintings, and the history of pigments is carried forward in works by Veronese and by Millais and Hunt.

While some pieces are gnarly tree formations isolated atop pedestals to illustrate their status, others are flat wall - mounted compositions made of cast broom clippings and quinoa, that create large color field paintings of, in fact, large colorful fields.

Sam Gilliam made «After Glow» in 1972 as a color field painting.

She applied this to the processes of art - making: Frankenthaler defied rules about painting as well as printmaking, most consequentially when she thinned her paint with turpentine and poured it directly onto raw canvas, in a manner that radically redirected so - called Color Field abstraction.

The simple, seemingly organic forms of Still's painting and its bold expansive fields of space and color made «the rest of us look academic» Jackson Pollock observed at the time.

Made of wood and smoothly finished in semigloss colors configured as stripes, wide bands and rectangles, they were supremely tasteful marriages of Color Field painting and Minimalist sculpture.

Gina began making abstractions in the studio and I began making large collages in acrylics; the colors I added became less about enhancing the colors in the subject and more about making new relationships emerge from the field — in this sense I see myself going back to the way I worked in «Night», although now including work from observation (I start the collages with painting outdoors).

Her myriad site - specific and improvisational installations - hybrids of drawing, painting and sculpture - made poetic references to landscape, biology and color field painting.

Inspired by Du Bois» sociological studies on the advancements of Black Americans from the time of Emancipation to 1900, the exhibition will feature a series of response paintings in which the statistical data gathered and made visual by Du Bois has been reduced to abstract color fields and geometric motifs.

One more point I want to make about Feeley's paint — he used ship and deck enamel in commercial colors, which is not what artists associated with Color Field painting were using.

Rather than being part of a movement or stylistic trend, and, despite however close they were to artists associated with Abstract Expressionism (Stout studied intermittently with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown) and with Color Field painting (Frankenthaler was a student of Feeley at Bennington), they went off on their own — and the work they made calmly and self - assuredly exudes that independence.

Even Clement Greenberg, champion of Color Field painting and post-painterly abstractionists, with cowboy hat in tow, made an appearance during the installation of Deluxe.

As much as Howardena Pindell's unstretched paintings and drawings — which were made between 1974 and 1980 — share something with the Pattern and Decoration movement, or with monochromatic abstraction, color field painting, all - over painting, fiber art, the counting work of Roman Opalka, and the spot paintings of Larry Poons, what elevates them above all of these aesthetic and stylistic connections is her subtle infusion of a deep and palpable rage.

In recent years, he had also returned to making large color - field paintings with poured, rather than brushed, areas of color.

His large - scale paintings, sculptures, reliefs, and installation works made from found objects embrace the diverse styles, genres, and ideas of 20th century art history including Abstract Expressionism, Color - Field Painting, and Op - Art.

Blue Chauffeur (1948), the first painting in this series, is made up of three distinct fields of color that order the composition: white, red, and blue — the latter of which was frequently used by Wróblewski to denote death.

Avery's early work incorporated elements of Impressionism, but his smooth planes of color and combination of figuration and abstraction would make him an archetype of American Modernism, prefiguring aspects of Color Field painting by ycolor and combination of figuration and abstraction would make him an archetype of American Modernism, prefiguring aspects of Color Field painting by yColor Field painting by years.

From afar one of his paintings could read as a monochromatic color field, but upon closer examination they reveal themselves as meditative compositions made up of childhood drawings and ruminations on his own memories.

The ravishing fields of color that appear in Amm's gesso board paintings, which will constitute the entirety of this exhibition, represent one of the most sustained and sensuous bodies of work being made by a contemporary European artist.

Yes, staining is somewhat unpredictable, and that dialog between control and chance was where much of my vocabulary started, but I feel I've always been as invested in the image and politics of representational space, with pattern and decoration and with color field painting, as in the physical process of making the painting.

The Synchromists made use of the broken planes of the Cubists, but their lavishly colored areas of paint sometimes looked, as the art historian Abraham Davidson has described them, like «eddies of mist, the droplets of which collect to form parts of a straining torso... To find anything like this in American painting one has to wait for the color - field canvases of Jules Olitski in the 1960s.»

But Color Field Painting is less about the process of making the work, which is at the heart of Action Painting.

He further complicates things because he painted for only about a decade — 1950 to ’60 — before moving on to making unclassifiable, jam - packed assemblages during the rise of Minimalism, Pop Art and Color Field painting.

I stopped doing the Color Field paintings and began making monochromatic encaustic work.