Sentences with phrase «method of abstract expressionism»

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Influenced by abstract expressionism, Gilliam experimented with methods of applying pigment, often pouring paint, staining canvases, and folding them while still wet.

Jenkins's diaphanous streaks and gentle, fluid fields of color positioned him as an important figure in abstract expressionism, and he often exhibited in the same venues as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — artists who shared his instinctual working method.

In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock used the drip painting method as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of what became known as abstract expressionism.

When Ed Ruscha entered the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s the city was buzzing with progressive jazz and the prevailing method of making art was abstract expressionism.

He discovered abstract expressionism and began experimenting with unprimed canvases and unusual methods of applying paint.

If abstract expressionism was defined by a reaction against Europe, an assertion of nationalist values, a way of decentring the way in which one worked by putting the painting on the floor, and minimalism is defined by the understanding of the three dimensional object, and fabrication and industrial methods, what happens when a painting comes after abstract expressionism but before minimalism?

What is still not sufficiently appreciated is that the twist Frankenthaler gave to Pollock's drip method removed the heavy breathing from abstract expressionism while retaining the closeness to the physical act of painting.