Many of her early paintings consisted of shapes that were more or less rectangular, often in silver, gray and black, defined by crisp lines and edges.
The opportunity to consider this work and chart her artistic evolution from the series
of early paintings of the 1960s is really a remarkable experience.
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition
of early paintings by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) at the gallery's London location.
While the current exhibition concentrates on William Bailey's recent work, both figure and still - life paintings, also included is a selection
of earlier paintings including Italian Profile from 1963, Girl in White Skirt from 1977 and L'Attesa from 2006.
The exhibition highlights the range of his production, starting with
examples of early paintings executed around the time of his 2001 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Once again enrolling at the local Kunstakademie, Richter intended to work in a more uninhibited, avant - garde manner, in the process of rethinking his approach to art making, he purposely destroyed many
of his early paintings from the «50s and the «60s.
Plagued by depression and professional disappointments, that forced him to destroy
most of his earlier paintings, Ahn experienced the terrifying incident as profoundly transformative.
In these works, the expressionist brush
strokes of his early paintings are replaced by the effects of a vapor evaporator, a piece of specialized machinery that allowed Bell to apply subtle gradations of translucent color.
Instead, he emphasizes the importance of nationhood, the kind of nation building, or community building, really, that was a principal part of the Black Power and Black Arts Movements and that he expressed in one
of his early paintings titled «Nation Time» (1969).
It also graces, to surprisingly good effect, a
series of early paintings by Andy Warhol, which look like paragons of intellectualism alongside the Koonses.
Consisting of over 150 works, «Juanito and Ramona» opened with a small
set of early paintings before quickly moving on to Berni's hectic assemblages.
So Kandinsky was studying anthropological things about shamanism in Vologda and he comes back and a
lot of those early paintings with the imagery of riders jumping over people — that's all about shamanic dream travel.
Joseph is best known for his two - colour paintings, those of the 1960s being boldly geometric, relying on primary colours and optical effects; for Herrera the more lyrical
abstraction of her early paintings gave way to a focus on pure geometry.
The compressed and flattened space
of his early paintings gave way to illusions of deep, cavernous space, for example in his imaginary landscapes and seascapes, such as Un Sospiro di un onda.
The exhibition and its accompanying publication offer a retrospective view of the artist's work from the 1960s to the 1990s — from the loose geometries and web - like
forms of early paintings such as Turn Back Columbus (1963) to the artist's groundbreaking experiments in «pop abstraction.»
His exhibition
of early paintings at the Budapest Art Hall led to an invitation by the Arts Alliance of Austria for a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, followed by solo exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
After completing a
number of early paintings in the Expressionist tradition of Erich Heckel (1883 - 1970) and Karl Schmidt - Rottluff (1884 - 1976), he joined the Bauhaus design school at Weimar, under Walter Gropius, where he became a teacher.
Bacon reproduced recognizable religious paintings of earlier masters including Velazquez and El Greco and then, with great ferocity, canceled out the
authority of the earlier painting with striking symbols of his rage.
The exhibit features three of Nicola L's signature heads from 1991: Earth, Forest and Fire Head, a set
of early paintings around the same theme, with three sets of Giant Penetrables from 2002 and 2012.
Sharply defined and repeated geometric shapes were
characteristic of his earliest painting, that were described by Goossen as depicting «yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red - orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black», hypothesizing that Ohlson's experience growing up and working long days on the family's farm gave him a unique passion for color.
Auerbach is known for the heavy impasto of his paintings, where the brush strokes and layers of paint take on the sculptural quality of a relief, although in many of his later works, the layers of paint
indicative of his early paintings are instead scraped away before being repainted.
This selection
of early paintings documents a conceptual shift in the artist's work as the landscape imagery offered by earlier paintings begins to incorporate and is consumed by the symbol - laden abstract compositions that would become a recurring theme throughout his career.
He recalls painting both the backs and the
fronts of his early paintings, and his installations have sometimes featured light emanating from behind walls or parts of paintings hidden behind architectural elements.
In them, the society
dames of the earlier paintings have left their home turf to visit the Painter, imagined as a blond — pompadoured and bearded, usually bare - chested male animal with a brush.
In the catalogue accompanying Eva Hesse Spectres 1960, which is currently on view at The Brooklyn Museum, Louise S. Milne, Lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art, wonders about the
merits of the early paintings by Eva Hesse (1936 — 70).
On July 5, 2011, the day of Cy Twombly's death, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) painted a series of cruciform works as a tribute to Twombly, who was an important
influencer of his early painting and a close friend.
Home Again traces the circuitous
path of this earlier painting from Diao's studio, through two auctions, and finally back into the artist's own possession — back home, as the title suggests.
In her solo show at Half Gallery, Trudy Benson presents easel - size paintings that continue her riff on the digital
imagery of early paint software like MacPaint, SuperPaint, and Painter.
There he was introduced to the work of Mark Gertler, Henry Moore, Augustus John and other prominent English artists of the time whose emphasis on visual acuity and technical skill would have a major effect on Mead and accounted for the
restraint of his early paintings.