Although he borrowed elements from a number
of abstract art movements, he developed his own pictorial language.
The following list
of abstract art movements is not exhaustive, but all major schools are included, from 1890s Art Nouveau to 1980s Postmodernist styles.
This is not so simply because it was a part
of the abstract art movement that occurred in the mid-1950s but because in subliminal ways it defied it and the dogma of modernist art, which called for self - reflexive purity.
A pioneer
of the abstract art movement in the 1950s, Sandra Blow is best known for her monumental canvases experimenting with abstract form, rhythm, light, space, and texture.
He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases
of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism).
Not exact matches
Soon after World War II, the center
of the avant - garde shifted from Europe to the United States when the first American - grown modern
art movement —
abstract expressionism — was born.
The major
abstract movements of the 1950s — 1970s era are characterized by a return to the basics
of concrete, constructive and minimalist
art, although this took different forms in Europe and America.
Gleaning elements from this
abstract expressionist
art movement, Waddell returned home to his native Montana and created works
of nearly
abstract backgrounds that suggest landscapes.
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..
At this event in Berlin, the Daimler
Art Collection (which concentrates on abstract avant - garde movements and reduced conceptual tendencies from Bauhaus to current contemporary art) presents mainly new acquisitions in the field of international contemporary art for the first ti
Art Collection (which concentrates on
abstract avant - garde
movements and reduced conceptual tendencies from Bauhaus to current contemporary
art) presents mainly new acquisitions in the field of international contemporary art for the first ti
art) presents mainly new acquisitions in the field
of international contemporary
art for the first ti
art for the first time.
The Pattern and Decoration
movement consisted
of artists, many
of whom had
art education backgrounds, who had been involved with the
abstract schools
of art of the 1960s.
Her commitment to truth and dedication to figuration — unfashionable during her lifetime — ensured that her work remained permanently out
of kilter with avant - garde
movements such as
abstract expressionism, pop
art and minimalism.
The faded surface
of «Corrupt Diptych» is haunting, like the distinct sensation
of déjà vu, the dirt and gravel is metaphorical not material, moving this artwork away from hyphenated
arts (
art - and - environment) towards something more mysterious with its
abstract lines that race past the corner
of the gallery's gyprock wall; themes
of time and
movement that have more in common with land
art than
abstract painting.
Representing the response
of Mexican artists to
art movements from around the world with a cosmopolitan vision, the exhibition also features the artwork
of abstract sculptor German Cueto, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Abraham Ángel, Roberto Montenegro and Rufino Tamayo.
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.
And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war
abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced in a brief «manifesto»
of the rising
movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times in response to a negative review
of the new style: «There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
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.
ICA's exhibition will focus on paintings from 1963 through 1986: a period when Andrade followed a distinctly optical course, and one which historically coincides with Op
Art, Minimalism, and Pattern and Decoration Painting — movements in art that relate to the pure pursuit of geometric and abstract desi
Art, Minimalism, and Pattern and Decoration Painting —
movements in
art that relate to the pure pursuit of geometric and abstract desi
art that relate to the pure pursuit
of geometric and
abstract design.
Born in 1952 in Seoul, Korea, Il Lee studied painting in the 1970s with seminal figures
of South Korean contemporary
art, including those in the vanguard
of the
abstract monochrome painting
movement (Dansaekhwa).
He founded the suprematist school
of painting, one
of the first geometric
abstract art movements.
The painterly style also emerges from expressionist painting
movements of the time, including CoBrA Group and
Art Informel, important movements in art in Europe near the time Golub lived in Paris, and abstract expressionism lurks in the strokes and the scrapes t
Art Informel, important
movements in
art in Europe near the time Golub lived in Paris, and abstract expressionism lurks in the strokes and the scrapes t
art in Europe near the time Golub lived in Paris, and
abstract expressionism lurks in the strokes and the scrapes too.
The terms modernism and modern
art are generally used to describe the succession
of art movements that critics and historians have identified since the realism
of Gustav Courbet and culminating in
abstract art and its developments in the 1960s.
The new
art movements of the 1960s essentially followed the lead
of abstract expressionism and in particular the innovations
of Pollock, De Kooning, Rothko, Hofmann, Reinhardt, and Newman.
The radical Anti-Formalist
movements of the 1960s and 1970s including Fluxus, Neo-Dada, Conceptual
art, and the feminist
art movement can be traced to the innovations
of abstract expressionism.
For Galvez, and perhaps as a modus operandi
of the gallery itself, the pathways
of non-objective
abstract art created by, and funneled through, Malevich (b. Ukraine) and Mondrian (b. Netherlands), among others, are the seed - like lenses that grew into
movements that thrived through the 20th century to the present.
The
abstract art movement is rooted in the desires
of the artist to simply create, with or without meaning.
For Zero, the use
of monochrome served multiple purposes: it was a separation from the expressionistic and
abstract works
of Art Informel and other earlier postwar
movements.
In these two - venue talks, guides from the Clyfford Still Museum and the Denver
Art Museum collaborate to compare and contrast the work
of Clyfford Still and other male
abstract expressionists with the leading female artists
of the
movement.
The continuation
of abstract expressionism, color field painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism,
abstract illusionism, process
art, pop
art, postminimalism, and other late 20th - century Modernist
movements in both painting and sculpture continued through the first decade
of the 21st century and constitute radical new directions in those mediums.
This
movement rejected
abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior in favor
of art that depicted and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography
of the mass production age.
The
abstract drip paintings were made during the climax
of his career and pushed Pollock to the forefront
of Abstract Expressionism — the first American
art movement to wield international influence.
Richard Smith rose to the forefront
of the emerging avant - garde scene in London in the 1960s, standing apart from the burgeoning Pop
Art movement by melding the slick and vibrant imagery found in advertising billboards and consumer packaging with an
abstract painterly style very much his own.
The contemporary
abstract art on view is inspired by dance and portrays the qualities
of both
movement and rhythm in their expressive forms.
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.
Benton studied at the
Art Institute
of Chicago and later at the Académie Julien in Paris amid the many
abstract movements of the early 1900s.
From Blast to Pop features works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and William Turnbull and explores the period between two defining
movements in English Modernism: Vorticism (England's first
abstract art movement) and British Pop
art of the late 1950s.
Considered a forefather
of the Pop
Art movement, Stuart Davis translated the visual imagery
of New York City and the jazz music
of the mid-20th Century into iconographic
abstract paintings
of squiggly lines and flashy colors.
The title Abstraction - Creation refers to the European
abstract art movement of the same name founded by Theo van Doesburg in Paris in 1931.
Still, while the book is a great presentation
of artists and their individual practices, it begs the questions: What role did Texas play in the international
Abstract art movement, and what role do Texas
abstract artists play now?
Produced by the Department
of Exhibition Programs, the film follows the career
of Virginia Dwan, who opened her first
art gallery in Los Angeles in 1959 and went on to organize dozens
of exhibitions
of remarkable range, representing
movements as diverse as
abstract expressionism, pop
art, minimalism, conceptualism, and land
art.
The Vogels began collecting
art in the 1960s, a time that saw a new generation
of artists respond to the
abstract expressionist
movement.
There have been persistent murmurs in the
art world about the imminent (market) demise
of the so - called Zombie Formalism
movement, a kind
of colorful, undemanding type
of abstract painting that's commanded astronomical prices for the past few years.
This is the box that Andy Warhol would appropriate, aka plagiarize, starting the Pop
art movement that put
abstract expressionists like Harvey out
of business.
Action Paining is painting
movement widespread in New York
art scene from late 1940s to mid 1960s and is often seen as synonym
of the
abstract expressionism.
[36] This
movement rejected
abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor
of art which depicted, and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography
of the mass production age.
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.
As complex
art movement in late 1940s,
abstract expressionism was logical continuation
of the anti-figurative aesthetic
of the European abstraction and Modernist styles.
We witness a revival
of abstract art, and a new
movement coined Zombie Formalism, along with the focus
of many artists concerning issues
of identity.
[1] This is not to say that the phase
of art denoted by post-modernism is accepted, merely that the need for a term to describe
movements in
art after the peak
of abstract expressionism is well established.
The Bay Area Figurative
Movement was an
art movement consisted
of creators located in the San Francisco Bay Area who decided to abandon
abstract expressionism as a prevailing style and return to figuration.