Sentences with phrase «movement of abstract painters»

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Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn..

However, by the beginnings of the 1960s, leadership of the movement had shifted to the color - field and abstract imagist painters, whose followers in the 1960s rebelled against the irrationality of the Action painters.

Coming off the David Zwirner London showing of Cuban abstract painters from 1950s and in anticipation of next year's first - ever US showing of Cuban post-revolutionary work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, there was a good representation of the work of Wifredo Lam and Amelia Peláez of the Vanguardias (vanguards) movement.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

Looking at painters who came to prominence in the 1960s,»70s and»80s, this book shows how abstract painting has developed in the wake of postwar movements such as Art Informel.

Through the Mint Museum's collection you can trace the evolution of this genre from the work of the Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford, who focused on the natural beauty of our country's topography, through the rise of Impressionism: a movement whose artists celebrated a more abstract, subjective view of their surroundings.

Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the «flatter» surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the «target» paintings of Jasper Johns.

Works by the earlier generation of artists represented in the show can be loosely situated within geometric abstraction and abstract constructivism, influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian (1872 — 1944) and groups such as De Stijl (founded 1917) and the ZERO movement of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the American Colour Field painters.

Born in 1940, he started as an abstract painter, and he took instantly to the movement after seeing the slit canvases of Lucio Fontana.

Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract painter who has been closely linked to the Arte Povera movement.

Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Like most American painters after World War II, Park (1911 - 1960), based in Berkeley, and Avery (1885 - 1965), an East Coaster, were part of the abstract - expressionist movement.

Stella is considered to be a pioneer within the minimalist art movement and one of the most influential painters of his generation, a generation moving from abstract expressionism towards minimalism.

André Lanskoy was a Russian painter and printmaker who lived in France, linked to the School of Paris and Tachisme, an abstract painting movement.

One of the pioneers of the West Coast «Light and Space» movement, Irwin started out as an abstract painter but is now known for his architectural interventions made with translucent scrims, light tubes, and natural light (one of which, Excursus: Homage to the Square ³, is currently on view at Dia: Beacon).

Famous authors, such as the above - mentioned painter Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, and Helen Frankenthaler used it to produce flowing, most often abstract paintings and compositions which celebrated pure color, or the pure quality of the canvas surface as was the case during the Post-Painterly Abstraction movement.

Bridget Riley is an abstract painter who came to prominence in the American Op Art movement of the 1960s, after her inclusion in the 1965 exhibition «The Responsive Eye» at The Museum of Modern Art.

Few British painters have played an active role in the modern abstract movement of post-war Europe.

This work is not abstracted from reality in the way that some abstract painters start with particular objects or landscapes; rather, Egan refuses to begin with a plan, relying instead on, in his words, «an unconscious recognition of my surroundings, digesting and transferring this complexity into a cascade of recognizable but irrational space» in a process that begins with marks as a record of «natural movements.»

Emerging with the abstract expressionist movement, Jay DeFeo worked for four decades as a sculptor, photographer, and painter, producing a broad and personal vocabulary of heroic imagery that was inspired by ordinary objects and influenced by prehistoric art, astronomy, and architecture.

Macdonald - Wright, 1890 - 1973, was a pioneer of American abstract art who, with painter Morgan Russel, founded «Synchronism,» an avant - garde painting movement meaning «with color,» according to writings.

Look, as I stop to think back practically all the leaders of the abstract expressionist movement were very active as painters in the thirties: de Kooning, Kline, Rothko,

Although the number of abstract painters increased substantially from the late 1900s onwards - in the form of Cubists, Suprematists, the De Stijl movement, Abstract Expressionism and the Minimalists - figurative artists continued to develop new techniques and methods.

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn., her nephew said.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

An abstract painter, Smith was a member of the Radical Painting movement in the 1980s, seeking to distill painting to its essence.

The Phillips Collection pulls back the curtain on American abstract expressionism to reveal a little - known but captivating story that focuses on the relationship between three of the movement's seminal players: American painter Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), American artist and patron of abstract expressionism Alfonso Ossorio (1916 — 1990), and French painter Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985).

Lawson's long career as a painter has seen her explore a wide breath of subject matter through figurative and abstract painting, referencing a number of artistic movements.

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut, her nephew said.

An abstract figurative painter, her work is full of color and movement.

Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) was a second - generation abstract expressionist painter and printmaker and was a fundamental member of the American abstract expressionist movement.

• Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957) Dynamic, idiosynchratic abstract painter, co-founder of Vorticism movement.

One of the most eminent abstract painters of post-war Europe, and a key figure in post-war Spanish painting, Antoni Tapies has been involved in various art movements during his long artistic career, and is one of the best known Spanish painters to emerge in Europe since the Second World War.

In 1952, Rosenberg published his first major article on art - an essay entitled «The American Action Painters,» in the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movement.

Robert Motherwell was an American painter best known for being an influential force in the abstract expressionism movement of the 1940s.

The Dutch - born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.

Important Informel Artists Leading abstract painters of the Art Informel movement included Jean Fautrier (1898 - 1964), Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Sculze)(1913 - 51), Hans Hartung (1904 - 89).

However, once in power, Lenin replaced the Wanderer Group with a new Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AARR), which became popular with traditional painters rebelling against the European Cubist and Surrealist - inspired abstract movements of the early twentieth century.

The Women of Abstract Expressionism By Lorraine Heitzman Through May 28th The current show at the Palm Springs Art Museum examines the famously testosterone fueled abstract expressionist movement through the lens of a dozen women painters working from the late 1940's through the 1950's.

One of the most innovative figures in abstract art in America during the mid-20th century, the Latvian - born, Jewish - American painter, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was the leading pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, a movement triggered by the collapse in moral values following World War II.

Matta began to teach some of the American painters about the surrealist movement and the ideas he shared instigated a new movement of art in America, abstract expressionism.

Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923 Newburgh, NY — d. 2015 Spencertown, NY) was an important American abstract painter and a pioneering figure of Minimalism, hard - edge painting and Color Field painting, although he has succeeded in not being solely defined by any of these movements.

The current show at the Palm Springs Art Museum examines the famously testosterone fueled abstract expressionist movement through the lens of a dozen women painters working from the late 1940's through the 1950's.

Katrin Fridriks (1974) is a renowned Icelandic conceptual painter and installation artist from Reykjavik, and one of the leading artists of a new abstract expressionism movement.

Situated neither within Constructivist nor Minimalist movements, his pared - down vocabulary of lines and squares, refined colour palette and precise measurements nevertheless positioned Calderara closely with other minimalist painters at the time, including Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers, both of whom the artist admired greatly.Such singular geometric lyricism came to the fore in Calderara's seminal work Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e Rettangoli.

Never fitting into any of the movements in which one might place him, Kelly was the most European of American abstract painters, as indebted to the lessons of Matisse and Brancusi, Jean (Hans) Arp and Sophie Taeuber - Arp as he was to Alexander Calder or Ad Reinhardt.

Julian Stanczak, a Polish - born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.

New York had a charge sheet a mile long by that time when it came to killing artists, especially painters of Rothko's generation - the abstract expressionists, the epic and baffling, rhetorical and silent, introspective and dazzling movement whose intensity and originality made Manhattan the capital of modernism in the middle of the 20th century.

Associated with both the Bay Area Figurative Art movement and abstract expressionism, California painter Richard Diebenkorn developed a distinct vocabulary of intersecting lines and geometric forms augmented by chromatic undercurrents.