Sentences with phrase «of leading abstract expressionists»

CHICAGO — Congratulations to artist Magalie Guérin on being awarded a Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant.The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

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The justification for the term, «abstract expressionist,» lies in the fact that most of the painters covered by it took their lead from German, Russian, or Jewish expressionism in breaking away from late Cubist abstract art.

While certainly all of the leading artists who were part of the abstract expressionist movement were involved with color at various points in their career, many of the important masterworks of the movement — such as those by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and key series by Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman — are notable for their lack of strong color in favor of black and white.

The really early one was Thomas Moran and then the abstract expressionists, surrealists before that, and leading up to some of our contemporary artists.»

In these two - venue talks, guides from the Clyfford Still Museum and the Denver Art Museum collaborate to compare and contrast the work of Clyfford Still and other male abstract expressionists with the leading female artists of the movement.

Through his use of gestural brushstrokes, Paul created inherent motion within his works, leading many art historians to name him the first action painter and a precursor to the abstract expressionists of the 1950s.

Mitchell was a leading figure in the group of artists known as the second generation of abstract expressionists.

This style subsequently gave way to a sustained period of abstraction, as Guston became a leading figure in New York's abstract expressionist scene of the 1950s along with Jackson Pollock, a former school friend of Guston's in California.

Bourgeois joined the New York Students Art League, befriending artists who became leading figures of the abstract expressionist school, including Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell.

TWO IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS OF JACK TWORKOV COLORFUL PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS BY THE LATE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST New York, December 2001 — The leading modern and contemporary art gallery, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, is pleased to announce their exhibition Jack Tworkov: Red, White and Blue.

Perhaps there are abstract elements in German Expressionist art, which, if we could interact with them, could lead us toward a deeper understanding of the meaning of these works.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.

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.

Biography: A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.

In 1952, Rosenberg published his first major article on art - an essay entitled «The American Action Painters,» in the leading modernist periodical Art News - in which he coined the term action painting to describe the gesturalist wing of the abstract expressionist movement.

An influential figure in American art of the late 1950s and early 60s, Helen Frankenthaler is a leading abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.

An influential figure in American art of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Helen Frankenthaler is a leading abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and print - maker.

Neither purely abstract nor expressionist, the style embraced two broad groupings: the school of «Action Painting» (a style of gestural painting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko and others.

BEST IRISH ARTISTS For a list of the leading Irish painters, including exponents of abstract expressionist art, see: Best Irish Artists.

The Pollock - Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 to assist individual working artists of merit with financial need through the generosity of Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), a leading abstract expressionist painter and widow of Jackson Pollock.

In 1949, Garde completed a BA in fine arts on the GI Bill at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, where he studied with leading abstract expressionist George McNeil.

The PGC is pleased to present Homage to Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) a leading Abstract Expressionist whose gestural paintings along with those of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock formed the basis for the Postwar abstract movement in America.