Sentences with phrase «of abstract expressionist painting»

Emerging slightly later than «Action - Painting», and in complete contrast to the latter's frantic gesturalism, Colour Field was a more passive, more reflective and more emotional style of abstract expressionist painting pioneered by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) and Clyfford Still (1904 - 80).

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

In the 1950s, many artists had begun to translate the monumental scale of abstract expressionist painting into sculpture, but Chamberlain added the element of color, using brightly painted scrap metal from the discarded bodies of cars to create voluminous works that exploited sculpture's three - dimensionality.

To explore the little - known flowering of abstract expressionist painting in Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War, the exhibition presents art by five artists: Andrej Jemec, Tadeusz Kantor, Jan Kotík, Edo Murtić and Romul Nutiu.

Rothko looked like one of the survivors, and was even insidiously caricatured as a careerist, a bit of a fraud, who had turned the rigour and extremism of abstract expressionist painting into something luscious, colourful, decorative and profitable - until that morning in 1970.

In 1955, living in Berkeley, CA, Diebenkorn began working figuratively, drawing from the model, painting still lifes, landscapes and interiors, much to the surprise of those who were familiar with his earlier Berkeley series of abstract expressionist paintings leading up to that point.

Influenced by an unusual combination of abstract expressionist painting and classical music, he fuses the two mediums together into a unique body of artwork.

Yet his own unique style, which he describes as a combination of old world glass and contemporary design, reflects his love of abstract expressionist painting.

The collection encompasses works from 1945 to the present, including major holdings of abstract expressionist painting, minimalist sculpture, media and installation works, large - scale and conceptually driven photographs, and an impressive representation of works by emerging artists.

Although I'm not a passionate lover of abstract expressionist paintings, I always give any painting its due when I stand in front of it.

The individual curls and ripples of paper echo the contours of traditional brushstrokes, in some passages even taking on the gestural quality of abstract expressionist paintings.

Their legacy is undeniable: it is impossible to imagine the scale and ambition of contemporary art — from the vigorous expression of Georg Baselitz (who saw the 1959 show) to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst — without the epic precedent of abstract expressionist painting.

In the final phase of his career, Philip Guston, once described as the «high priest of the abstract expressionist painting cult», returned, outrageously, to representation.

Transferred to video and projected on a scale reminiscent of abstract expressionist painting, the resulting films become a hallucinogenic kaleidoscope of references.

The French term Art Informel, meaning art without form, was the European equivalent of abstract expressionist painting, which dominated the art world from roughly 1946 until the late 1950s.

The story begins in a studio in downtown Manhattan in the early 1950s, the heyday of abstract expressionist painting.

Pressure came from the dominance of abstract expressionist painting and from a growing interest in reality, in the potential for using objects and events that existed outside art that was already evident in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

Brown embraced the gesture and force of abstract expressionist paint handling and its intuitive approach to the creative process.

The gallery had long lacked cohesion, being composed overwhelmingly of abstract expressionist paintings, but with just enough individual works from other movements or periods to frustrate any attempt to make sense of it.

Tamarind was founded in the absence of an American print shop dedicated to serving artists, and during a period when American artists tended to reject lithography and collaborative printing in favor of the more «direct... immediate» possibilities of abstract expressionist painting.

This is the thing that impresses me most about the field of abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.

Word painting and other types of text - based art first appeared as a reaction to the «high culture» style of abstract expressionist painting practised by Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) and others in the New York School of the early 1950s.

The production of striking photographic imagery became the goal of many Actionist performances, which often combined the explosive energy of abstract expressionist painting with imagery suggestive of primitive rituals.

Within the genre of abstract expressionist painting the purest form of gestural art can be seen in Jackson Pollock's Action Painting - in which paint is applied all - over a horizontal canvas using a «drip, dribble and splash» method.

Many of his abstract expressionist paintings reflect the misty dreamlike coolness of the mountains, cultural aspects and the beauty of the female form.

The Washington artists, including Reed, often followed a strict geometric approach in their work, as they sought to move away from the «gestural» manner of abstract expressionist painting, in which the movement of the artist's hand across the canvas was evident in every brushstroke or drip.

True to the parameters of abstract expressionist painting, you will find a lot of gestural paint strokes and thickly applied paint, usually favoring line over shape, but each artist represented here is more than a token of the movement, and worthy of inclusion.

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The traditional medium of drawing typically does possess such a demanding physical presence: my drawings are the size of an abstract expressionist painting, and the weight of a Richard Serra sculpture.

By night he was a painter driven to push the boundaries of abstract expressionist painting.

The mural - like scale of abstract expressionist painting goes along with a suggestive, turbulent, «expressive» release of colour that is so much more moving than Mondrian's impersonal blues, reds and yellows.

After experimenting with Tachisme, a gestural form of abstract expressionist painting which he thought shallow, he developed another technique about 1950 - 1, which he called «controlled drops» (egoutture dirigee), as in his Composition (1950 - 1).

The two of us talked about his thesis and aspirations among the grouping of his abstract expressionist paintings and a gold plated chainsaw on a pedestal.

He, along with other pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, brought the imagery and techniques of mass commercialism into fine arts and broke up the stylistic hegemony of abstract expressionist painting in the 1960s.

Greenberg's view of aesthetics coincided with his appreciation of abstract expressionist painting in America, during the late 1940s and 50s.

«Exploded Salad» could be the joke title of a lot of abstract expressionist paintings.

From the early 1960s onwards, his work began gradually to be represented in several important exhibitions of abstract expressionist painting, although he was particularly sensitive about the correct meaning given to his work, an attribute which caused him to decline an offer to participate in the 1962 exhibition on Geometric Abstraction at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art.

As early as 1942, Jackson Pollock was working at the cutting edge of abstract expressionist painting.

(For an explanation of abstract expressionist paintings, like those produced by Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko, please see: Analysis of Modern Paintings: 1800 - 2000.)

There was a layer of abstract expressionist painting that I covered over at one point, though some areas remain.

[5] He developed his own style of abstract expressionist painting.

• Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) One of the foremost exponents of abstract expressionist painting, Rothko's huge abstract canvases were characterized by plain, soft - edged shapes filled with colour, as in Untitled: Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red (1949, oil on canvas, Guggenheim Museum, New York).

• Abstract Expressionism (c.1947 - 1965) By 1945 the centre of modern art had shifted to America, where the major new trend was the New York School of abstract expressionist painting.

At first glance, the show looks like what would happen if you turned off the color in a series of abstract expressionist paintings.

Rail: As much as you had reduced your «Big Nude» to black and white while adapting the monumental scale of abstract expressionist painting, did you think you were going against the grain of what was happening at the time?