A key member of the Art Informel movement (the European variant of Abstract Expressionism), he was associated initially with the Lyrical Abstraction wing, before becoming
more calligraphic in style, not unlike the painting of Pierre Soulages (b. 1919).
At the beginning of the 1960s, Frankenthaler has started creating work that was more quitter and
more calligraphic.
Not exact matches
In the late eighties his
calligraphic paintings inspired by Chinese Landscape Painting widened his range even
more.
Meyer gestures are fluid, almost
calligraphic, but they suggest something like skeins or tangles of yarn, which have
more dimension than what calligraphy would imply.
YFJ: I think that when you explore with
calligraphic line, it is freer, there are
more possibilities and many
more ways of putting time and space together than in photography.
Fluid lines form ovoid shapes,
more or less skull - like, that are joined by written words or
calligraphic marks that suggest writing.
In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction,
more precisely the
calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).
There's
more precision now, and the effect is at times
calligraphic.
During the late 1980s Brice Marden, who held a spiritual / emotional view of abstraction, began a
more multi-colored and
calligraphic form of abstract painting.
Pouran Jinchi exhibits in Contemporary
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This important exhibition will feature
more than twenty paintings from various periods of his forty year career: rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 1990s, and rhythmic
calligraphic swirls from his last decade.
Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letterbased work from gestural, abstract,
calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and
more.
Correspondingly, a
calligraphic gesture threads its way over the... read
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Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letter - based work from gestural, abstract,
calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and
more.
Now that we have a twenty - year perspective on them, perhaps we can better understand the principal role they played in Marden's transition from the
more minimal work of the 1960s and 70s to the
calligraphic work of the late 1980s through the present.
Ming painting maintained the traditions of the earlier Southern Song painting academy, as well as those of the Yuan Dynasty: the Zhe School of painters (Zhejiang) pursued the descriptive, style of Song ink and wash painting, while the Wu School (Suzhou) school practised the
more intense and expressive
calligraphic idiom of Yuan scholar - painters.
The six - year period in which he executed these works coincided with enormous changes in his
more publicly - exhibited paintings: in 1981, before he began working on marble, Marden's paintings were principally geometric monochromes; 1987, the date of his last painting on marble, marks the first public exhibition of his
calligraphic paintings.
Goldberg's 21st - century work is
more overtly
calligraphic, and perhaps in tune with the abstraction of the 90s and later: it is
more layered, historically conscious, process - oriented, and indexical.
Tape has also been the poetic,
calligraphic, and elegant gestural subject of several of Smith's
more exploratory installations.
The middle ground within Abstract Expressionism is represented by several varied styles, ranging from the
more lyrical, delicate imagery and fluid shapes in paintings by Guston and Frankenthaler to the
more clearly structured, forceful, almost
calligraphic pictures of Motherwell and Gottlieb.
Apartment - sized rather than loft - sized, they vary from all - over paintings reminiscent of Pollock but with their own coloristic pizzazz, to others that have been called «
calligraphic» but are
more pictographic.
He soon regarded such aesthetic freedom with suspicion, however, and began to paint
more premeditated pieces, such as Number 9: In Praise of Gertrude Stein (1950), in which
calligraphic and typographic shapes form a floating, but controlled, network over the entire surface of the canvas.
Brice Marden has furthered the traditions of abstraction with his exploration of surface, material, and color, from his early monochromatic work to his
more recent
calligraphic compositions.
More broadly, Krasner's
calligraphic paintings revealed the artist's exploration of symbols and sign systems; she explained, «I thought of [my unconscious messages] as a kind of crazy writing of my own, sent by me to I don't know who, which I can't read, and I'm not so anxious to read.»
In his
more abstract «Speicher» works, Ross painstakingly covers canvases, aluminium and sheets of drawing paper with
calligraphic networks of lines and pattern that develop organically in a repetitive and for Ross something of a meditative process.
In
more recent paintings, these ludicrous yet gnomic images might be thrust into passages of expressive brushwork, layered and dense, or caught in black
calligraphic drawing inspired by Dürer's Apocalypse woodcuts, to produce dramatic and emotive compositions.
When I look at those C - Swing paintings, because of their extreme physicality and their precariousness of form, they seem to have
more in common with Ronald Bladen's elemental and geometric structures, than they do with any sort of gestural paintings, even with the potential reference to Franz Kline's
calligraphic gestures.
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