Composer Nathan Hall is fascinated with the works
of abstract painter Clyfford Still.
Composer Nathan Hall is fascinated with the huge, vibrant paintings
of abstract painter Clyfford Still.
Not exact matches
And yet, this American
painter managed to forge his own path and become one
of the most famous
abstract artists, who stood toe - to - toe with titans such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko,
Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman.
Mark Bradford on
Clyfford Still Los Angeles - based
abstract painter Mark Bradford is co-founder
of Art + Practice and currently has an exhibition on view at Hauser and Wirth Gallery in New York.
During the late 1940s she became a member
of The Irascible Eighteen, a group
of abstract painters who protested the Metropolitan Museum
of Art's policy towards American painting
of the 1940s and who posed for a famous picture in 1950; members
of the group besides Sterne included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette - Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks,
Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.
The
abstract painter Clyfford Still is a craggy enigma
of American art.
Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980) was an
abstract expressionist
painter, notorious for his freakish control
of his work that often made sales difficult.
Despite not being as widely known as some
of his New York School contemporaries,
Clyfford Still was the initial
painter to break through to a different and radically
abstract style devoid
of any obvious subject matter.
The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group
of teachers and serious students at the California School
of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by
Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation
abstract expressionist
painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.
He earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College
of Art, where his teachers included
abstract painters Philip Guston and
Clyfford Still, among others.
Clyfford Still is considered a major figure
of modern art in America and one
of the great
abstract painters.
A pioneer
of abstract art, the North Dakota - born American
painter Clyfford Still was one
of the leading figures in the New York School
of avant - garde
Abstract Expressionism, which took root in the 1940s and became the predominant style
of painting until its replacement by Pop art during the mid-1960s.
Raised in California, he studied and taught during the 1940s at the California School
of Fine Arts, where his approach to color and composition was influenced by the
abstract painters Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko.
The styles embraced by this term include Hard - Edge Painting, illustrated by the works
of abstract painters like Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Frank Stella (b. 1936), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926); Colour Stain Painting, exemplified by Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Joan Mitchell (1926 - 92), and Jules Olitski (b. 1922); Washington Colour Painters, such as Gene Davis (1920 - 85), Morris Louis (1912 - 62) and Kenneth Noland (b. 1924); Systemic Painting, which covered the work of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67), as well as Stella and Youngerman; Lyrical Abstraction, including works by Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), Frankenthaler and others; Colour Field Painting, illustrated by the works of pioneers Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), as well as Frankenthaler, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 93); and Minimal Painting which referred to pictures by Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), Brice Marden (b. 1938), and Robert Ryman (b
painters like Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Frank Stella (b. 1936), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926); Colour Stain Painting, exemplified by Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Joan Mitchell (1926 - 92), and Jules Olitski (b. 1922); Washington Colour
Painters, such as Gene Davis (1920 - 85), Morris Louis (1912 - 62) and Kenneth Noland (b. 1924); Systemic Painting, which covered the work of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67), as well as Stella and Youngerman; Lyrical Abstraction, including works by Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), Frankenthaler and others; Colour Field Painting, illustrated by the works of pioneers Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), as well as Frankenthaler, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 93); and Minimal Painting which referred to pictures by Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), Brice Marden (b. 1938), and Robert Ryman (b
Painters, such as Gene Davis (1920 - 85), Morris Louis (1912 - 62) and Kenneth Noland (b. 1924); Systemic Painting, which covered the work
of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67), as well as Stella and Youngerman; Lyrical Abstraction, including works by Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), Frankenthaler and others; Colour Field Painting, illustrated by the works
of pioneers Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70),
Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), as well as Frankenthaler, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 93); and Minimal Painting which referred to pictures by Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), Brice Marden (b. 1938), and Robert Ryman (b. 1930).