Sentences with phrase «of color field»

A more thorough accounting of Color Field painting would probably have to start with Pollock and end with Stella, with Noland, Olitski, Rothko and Newman somewhere in between, alongside Frankenthaler and Louis (and Greenberg hovering over all of them, singing the swan song of the authoritarian critic).
It's not the sensual depth of Color Field paintings, but there is an implied horizon.
I started out as a painter immersed in the world of color field painting.
Emmerich Gallery was a big place that showed a lot of Color Field painting.
The lineage for this approach goes even farther back than Murray and Stella, however, to include the paintings / performances of the Gutai group in Japan and Support / Surface in France, two of the more overlooked tendencies during the height of Color Field Painting and Minimalism.
The artist is widely seen as the central figure of Color Field painting, a transitional moment between action painting and Pop.
The unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn apart.
Widely regarded as one of America's last classic modern painters, Jules Olitski (1922 — 2007) created brilliant color harmonies and chromatic shifts that became one of the hallmarks of Color Field painting.
Walking into Los Angeles painter Charles Arnoldi's show at Modernism feels a little the way it did to enter Andre Emmerich's or Lawrence Rubin's Manhattan galleries in the heyday of color field painting.
Olitski was a painter who was instrumental in the development of the Color Field school.
Though extremely important in the early development of Color Field, he spent most of his career out of the limelight.
Later in the decade, he shared a studio with Howard Mehring, who also became part of the group of color field painters.
Surveyed in 29 canvases and watercolors, her dappled fields, stripes and concentric rings of color bring an energetic bluntness and unencumbered joy to the usual refinements of Color Field and Minimalism.
Penn's Kislak Center Special Collections Curator Lynne Farrington, who, together with ICA's Alex Klein, organized AVANT - GARDEner, was on hand, as was David Diao, whose presentation of color field painting was also on view in the galleries.
Under Guston's guidance, Whitney, who felt drawn to the basic formal qualities of Abstract Expressionism, the pure chroma of the Color Field movement, and the minimalist approach of such artists as Donald Judd, began to experiment with abstraction.
Territories of wall are marked with raw, bold pigments in a style reminiscent of Color Field paintings, demarcated by the steel bars that at once incarcerate and expose space.
Greenberg was also inspired by the concept of color field painting, although there were some people who thought of this technique as merely a different means of presenting an older approach to sublime landscapes.
This quiet painting has a richness and integrity that brings together elements of color field and abstraction, with receding passages that are slightly reminiscent of a geological aerial view of a rose garden.
This technique, known as «soak stain» was used by Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), and others; and was adopted by other artists notably Morris Louis (1912 — 1962), and Kenneth Noland (1924 — 2010), and launched the second generation of the Color Field school of painting.
From Instructions, his 1989 guide to painting do - it - yourself «Stingels» — perhaps a satirical reaction to ego - fuelled 1980s painting — to his orange carpets that, from 1991 to the present day, have stretched over the floors and walls of viewing spaces like an industrial version of color field painting, Stingel has sought to strike a balance between conceptual rigor and the retinal sensuality of painting, between detachment and participation, even between decorativeness and mental purity.
Jules Olitski (b. 1922, Snovsk, Russia; d. 2007, New York, NY, United States) was a painter and sculptor, challenged and widened the definition of Color Field through his signature techniques.
In other words, Greenberg saw in late Monet the kind of color field painting he eventually espoused that didn't even exist when he was writing.
The 11 works of modern art are dominated by representatives of the Washington Color School, including Leon Berkowitz, Thomas Downing, and Howard Mehring, as well as two paintings by Jack Bush, a Canadian member of the color field movement.
«These artists borrowed from myriad sources — Art Nouveau, Indian textiles, 1930s cartooning, Pop and Op Art, and even the shimmering vibrancy of the Color Field painters,» notes gallery director David Eichholtz.
A swish of color field painting encompasses the Bridge walls and ceiling adding reflective elements to create overlapping perspectives and optical illusions.
In turning away from the subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism and the mysticism of Color Field Painting, Stella's oeuvre marks a crucial moment in the trajectory of contemporary representation.
His work led me to the entire group of color field painters who I have been collecting for over a decade: Josef Albers, Paul Feeley, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella.
In the early 70s I was reading a lot of Greenberg and seeing a lot of Color Field paintings.
A somber color palette, obsession with the right angle and a deep understanding of color field painting have lead Novros to an aesthetic purity that render his paintings as fresh today as when they were created fifty years ago.
His paintings bear reference to the legacy of Color Field Painting, an art movement hailing — like himself — from New York.
Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010) is among the most influential Post-War abstract artists and one of the central figures of Color Field painting.
Unfortunately, what this kind of ripping, cutting, dropping, and rubbing action connected me to were aspects of Color Field painting.
While I have seen paintings of his in many exhibitions over the years, my introduction to his work came through a show of Color Field painters organized by the curator Kenworth Moffett at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1972.
The result is a visual feast of harmony, movement and balance that influenced countless future artists concerned with the idiosyncrasies of Color Field painting and Geometric Abstraction.
Gilliam's experiments with paint application and his transformation of the canvas support elaborated upon the ideas and processes of Color Field painting.
My work builds on the premise of color field painting, infusing it with a sense of frozen time and gravity fed entropy.
His achievements as one of the luminaries of Color Field painting are all the more astonishing in light of the fact that he created his rich body of work in less than a decade, as his life was tragically cut short in 1962.
She pushes the boundaries between abstraction and representation, drawing on imagery as wide - ranging as the mundane found - in - suburbia, manmade bodies of water, and sci - fi imagery, all the while referencing the great American tradition of Color Field Painting, creating a fresh language and all her own.
Olitski's «Circles»: Anyone too young to remember the heyday of color field painting should regard Hackett Mill's show of early work by Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) as necessary homework.
Making use of single colors and strong forms, Rhodes has found a new way to harness the potential of Color Field and Hard - edge painting.
While it was around this time that Frankenthaler's canvases began to achieve a lightness — a kind of openness that allowed the composition to breathe — it was in the 1970s that the artist had moved away from the literal and figurative landscapes seen in her early work, such as the celebrated Mountains and Sea from 1952, and towards a more emotional and expressive representation of Color Field paintings where she developed a new sumptuousness and sensuality characterized in the present work.
Instead of Color Field firmly in the limelight, there was Pop art from commerce and cartoons, Conceptual art from philosophy and politics and Minimalism from industrial materials.
Displays of Color Field paintings at local museums including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The National Museum for Women in the Arts; The Phillips Collection; and Smithsonian American Art Museum / An exhibition at The Kreeger Museum of paintings and drawings by Gene Davis, a native Washingtonian and one of the Washington Color School's most recognized figures / A public art project directed by the Corcoran College of Art and Design and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
American abstract painter Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010) was one of the primary exponents of Color Field painting.
Other notable artists from the second generation of color field painters include Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Alma Thomas and Sam Gilliam among others.
«Anyone too young to remember the heyday of color field painting should regard Hackett Mill's show of early work by Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) as necessary homework.
Her paintings combine aspects of both color field painting and gestural abstraction.
Wolf Kahn is a German - born American painter best known for his unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color Field painting.
The emergence of color field painting is now widely connected to the three significant names in the field of abstractionism.
Morris Louis was an American visual artist and a leading member of the Color Field painters and Washington Color School.
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