But what I find interesting about black art works today is the way they seem to combine the likes
of abstract expressionism with that of Caravaggio and his tenebrist contemporaries.
For decades he has been a highly visible force in the movement to combine the freedom and immediacy
of abstract expressionism with recognizable subject matter.
Taken together, the three exhibitions provide rare insight into one of the 20th century's most accomplished, if enigmatic, female modernists, an artist who linked the cerebral gravitas
of abstract expressionism with the sensuality of the School of Paris.
His work combines the gesture
of abstract expressionism with a reliance on the sensations of pure color typical of color - field painting.
Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist influences
of abstract expressionism with traditional calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.
Hiroshi Senju's sublime, large - scale paintings of waterfalls and cliffs are renowned for combining the techniques
of abstract expressionism with Japan's centuries - old nihonga style of painting.
Not exact matches
Paul Liebrandt approaches cuisine as an art form, and has made a name for himself
with his bold combinations
of ingredients (one
of his more outré creations features eel, violets and chocolate) and presentation which resembles
abstract expressionism more than the way your mother put food on a plate.
If you are a fan
of any form
of abstract expressionism, and particularly
of Tàpies, a visit to the Fundació Antoni Tàpies promises to provide you
with hours
of complete fulfillment!
Einspruch also notes that the murals «were worked up from sketches in gouache on colored paper [that] reveal a kind
of premeditation that we don't always associate
with the giants
of abstract expressionism.»
Among a new generation
of abstract painters who emerged combining color field painting
with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new elements
of complex space and surface into their works.
At a preview
of the New Museum's George Condo retrospective, George Condo: Mental States, I was struck by the painter's relentless engagement
with all sorts
of art historical genres, from Baroque portraiture to
abstract expressionism and back again, all cast into Condo's weird world
of bug - eyed monsters, fractured faces and elongated features.
In advance
of his representation
of the United States at the Venice Biennale, Mark Bradford is collaborating
with two institutions in Denver, Colo., presenting exhibitions that pair his work
with that
of Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a 20th century master
of abstract expressionism.
Neel's dedication to the «unfashionable» art
of portrait painting and social realism — and this during the decades
of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism — ensured that her work remained permanently out
of kilter
with avant - garde artistic developments.
# American
abstract expressionism of the 1950s: an illustrated survey
with artists» statements, artwork and biographies
Like other young artists trying to define themselves in the wake
of abstract expressionism, Martin first experimented
with found assemblages
of detritus from the lower Manhattan docks.
The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections
with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions
of India.
Inspired by
abstract expressionism, the paintings blend intuitive process
with child - like discoveries
of the COBRA avant - garde group, cleansing the angst and subconscious monsters
with his ever - present, smiley - face signature.
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 influence
of abstract expressionism on Eggleston, partly through his friendship
with the painter Tom Young, is addressed at points throughout the show, and it is important to recognise that perspectival lines, the balance
of colour throughout a composition, and the presence
of contextual details such as logos and pavements, are as important as the features, dress and celebrity identity
of the subjects.
With the exception
of Kelly, all
of those artists developed their versions
of painterly abstraction that has been characterized at times as lyrical abstraction, tachisme, color field, Nuagisme and
abstract expressionism.
He began his career in the arts studying painting in the late 1940s and early 50s, the heyday
of abstract expressionism in New York, first at the Art Students League
with Morris Kantor and then at Cooper Union
with Steve Wheeler.
The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a way
of describing several artists (mostly in France)
with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics
of contemporary American
abstract expressionism.
A pioneer in what could be called photographic
abstract expressionism, Nielsen audaciously experiments
with photographic process, expressing her individual psyche while attempting to tap into universal sources
of imagination.
[34] Lyrical Abstraction is a type
of freewheeling
abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when
abstract painters returned to various forms
of painterly, pictorial,
expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park,
with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that
abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one
of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».
Bearden's relationship
with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because
of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out
of step
with the trajectory
of art at the time.
Pared - down aesthetics and the desire to move away from figuration in a manner reminiscent
of minimalism, as well as spontaneous acts
of expression and working
with the physical limitations
of materials as in
abstract expressionism, coexist in Korean Monochrome.
Meyer Schapiro and Leo Steinberg along
with Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg were important art historians
of the post-war era who voiced support for
abstract expressionism.
Influenced by
abstract expressionism, Gilliam experimented
with methods
of applying pigment, often pouring paint, staining canvases, and folding them while still wet.
«By fusing the content
of conception, birth, or being
with the assertion
of the self through artistic gesture, the energy sign
of existence in
abstract expressionism, Alfonso created a sphere
of meanings.
Lines & Myths: Abstraction in American Art, 1941 - 1951 explores the manner in which artists experimented
with Surrealist automatism during the 1940s - an era
of complex growth and transition which proved instrumental in the genesis
of abstract expressionism.
Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds
of diverse young artists
with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic
abstract gestural
expressionism, such as calligraphy — in their contemporary works
of art.
While these highly complex and laborious constructions (she often called them «three - dimensional paintings») moved her well beyond the vocabulary
of the improvisatory, so - called «action painting» usually associated
with American
abstract expressionism, they also had virtually nothing to do
with the pop art and minimalism which were then the rage
of the 1960s New York art scene.
Harris's fascination
with Pollock matched his physical similarity, and his devotion assured a work
of singular integrity, honoring the artist's achievement in
abstract expressionism while acknowledging that Pollock was a tormented, manic - depressive alcoholic whose death at 44 (in a possibly suicidal car crash) also claimed the life
of an innocent woman.
Famously fell out
with his best friend, the composer Morton Feldman, over his rejection
of abstract expressionism.
An unassuming discussion
with her concerning the guises
of modern art makes even
abstract expressionism seem infinitely more approachable.
Formed in collaboration
with Otto Piene, a fellow student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the ZERO movement departed from the gestural language
of European
abstract expressionism and sought to reclaim an artistic purity from the ravages
of the Second World War.
But decades
of the dominance
of conceptual art have left painting a «niche activity» and
abstract expressionism profoundly unfashionable
with those in the artistic know.
His early work is associated
with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement
of the 1950s and 1960s.
But I can't agree: I would have preferred the pure rush
of exhilaration that comes
with the greatest
abstract expressionism.
This series
of cloaks is made
of reclaimed fabrics sourced from factory castoffs,
with unintended dye patterns producing a painterly effect that Camil describes as mechanical
abstract expressionism, the counterpart to the Copper Paintings series.
While his work
of the 1950s and 1960s shares the aesthetic and conceptual concerns
of abstract expressionism, Bluhm had also begun to test the limits
of this particular approach to painting, most notably in the «poem - paintings» he created in collaboration
with Frank O'Hara.
Rothko, along
with his colleagues Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman, is responsible for the abiding utterance
of abstract expressionism.
Sex, death, the perversity
of leadership and the fractured self are also battled out in Wrestling
with God # 1, a composition which references both
abstract expressionism and heroic mythological painting and is based on the Biblical story
of Moses» return to Egypt, during which Yahweh attempts to murder him for not having circumcised his son.
In the United States, it is commonly believed that
abstract art suddenly emerged in the late 1940s
with the rise
of abstract expressionism.
Her Los Angeles gallery featured
abstract expressionism, neo-Dada, and pop, while the New York branch became associated
with the emerging movements
of minimalism and conceptualism.
Influenced by New York
abstract expressionism and
abstract colour - field painting, Robert Scott has developed a style
of drawing
with his fingers through the top layer
of paint to expose the underpainted colours.
An important figure in the New York School, Paul Jenkins contributed to the development
of abstract expressionism in New York and abroad
with his intuitive, chance - based approach to painting.
Starting
with post-painterly abstraction, there has been a long reaction against the supposed egotistical machismo
of abstract expressionism.
In his writings Robinson notes that the return to representational painting «after the sublimities
of abstract expressionism and the intellectual extremes
of conceptual art, allowed for a particularly sophisticated embrace
of the everyday
with all its tragedies and comedies.»