Sentences with phrase «of lyrical abstraction»

The exhibition features recent works by a range of international artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects of lyrical abstraction.
He was a part of the second wave of lyrical abstraction.
He turned to abstract art during the mid-1950s under the impact of American abstract painting, becoming identified with the French style of Lyrical Abstraction.
Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012) Pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction style of French abstract art.
The truth about the censorship and suppression of Lyrical Abstraction needs to be told and straightened out.
Götz developed his distinctive brand of lyrical abstraction following a period of derivative style - hopping, with hints of Miró, Picasso, and Pollock especially evident in the early works on view here.
For Egan the results clearly identify a masterful handling of the paint that fuses the motion and drive of lyrical abstraction with overlaid and still forms and shapes of defined instances of paint that bring to mind Hans Hofmann, or the mosaic paintings of Jean Paul Riopelle.
Downing's surfaces, such as in the marvelous «Abstract Composition» (1970) and «Recall» (1975) are much smoother and cooler than Levee's, by which he achieves a delightful form of lyrical abstraction that deserves acknowledgment superior to what he has received until now.
Included in the Whitney exhibit were works by John Seery, who is considered one of the leaders of the Lyrical Abstraction movement.
Artworks that can accurately be described as works of Lyrical Abstraction tend to deviate from the tendencies that are prevalent in movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.
Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002) Canadian abstract painter, exponent of Lyrical Abstraction and Art Informel.
The great era of Lyrical Abstraction was begun in artists» studios in the sixties and continues in artists» studios to this day.
Entering a period of lyrical abstraction that explores the materials and possibilities of a newly developing consumer culture, the exhibition includes her later works, such as the Raumfahrt (Space Travel)(1956) as well as Um Einen Roten Mund (Around a Red Mouth)(c. 1967) which joyously makes use of cut - outs from colour - print and popular culture, incorporating red lips, petticoats and crystals.
The work references many of the qualities of Lyrical Abstraction.
A rare woman painter of the Lyrical Abstraction of Postwar Europe, Huguette Arthur Bertrand was active in the Parisian art scene, alongside Pierre Soulagesand, Hans Hartung, Zao Wou - ki, Chu Teh - Chun and others.
With its dramatic palette and deep black passages, Traverse is a prime example of lyrical abstraction and Colour Field painting.
Her work then was strongly in the mode of Lyrical Abstraction.
Critics sometimes compare her work to the emotive, intuitive paintings of the Lyrical Abstraction and Tachisme movements — a comparison she embraces.
Beginning of his lyrical abstraction style of painting like Heaven, sea and earth (Ciel, mer et terre).
Considered the founder of Lyrical Abstraction — a movement distinct from geometric abstraction in the organic style of its forms — and the organizer of the «Abstraction Lyrique» exhibition held in Paris in 1947, Georges Mathieu is best known for his large - scale paintings featuring curving calligraphic lines.
Whether working purely from imagination or from deep abstractions of visual phenomena, the artists of Lyrical Abstraction focus on the formal relations within each piece.
In post war decades, the abstract expressionism slid into different fields of op art and geometric abstraction in United States, while the European answer was the invention of lyrical abstraction, art informel and political abstraction in the works of CoBrA members Karel Appel, Constant and Asger Jorn.
He is considered one of the first color field painters and is one of the forerunners of Lyrical Abstraction.
Camille Bryen was a poet, painter and French engraver of the new School of Paris, belonging to the currents of lyrical abstraction and tachisme.
Uslé takes on the formidable challenge to make a case for the visual and intellectual vitality of abstract art... He has set about re-investing the language of lyrical abstraction with intensity and purposefulness.»
They frequently evoke a less self - consciously aesthetic version of Lyrical Abstraction, but the checklist reveals that their stains involve all sorts of natural substances — spirulina, nettles, kombucha, yew berries, the urine of Ms. Dodd's dog — along with charcoal, mixed pigments and graphite.
Although the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) can be said to have pioneered the elegant combination of narrative, form and colour which is the basis of Lyrical Abstraction, the tendency emerged at an exhibition entitled «L'Imaginaire», which was held at the Galerie du Luxembourg in Paris, in 1947, and which included works by Hans Hartung (1904 - 89), Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 - 51), Jean - Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002), and others.
New York's Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting echoed in its European counterpart known as «Art Informel», with its sub-variants of Lyrical Abstraction and Tachism.
In the past she has explored a range of techniques such as staining and pouring typically associated with earlier generations of lyrical abstraction, yet for her it all seems to have been an experiment in how phenomenal gesture might translate the beautiful through an awareness of its inherent empirical properties.
Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012) Pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction style of Art Informel and Tachisme.
«The Gesture and the Sign» features recent works by a range of international artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects of lyrical abstraction.
I've written before about the suppression of Lyrical Abstraction but even I am appalled by the arrogant disrespect that The Whitney Museum displays towards American artists and to the American art public.
During the late forties, when painting was becoming physically big, angst - ridden, and unprecedentedly theoretical in its exploration of new modes of non-representational painting, MacIver kept her canvases compact and continued developing an intimate brand of lyrical abstraction that remained mimetically based.
This American form of Lyrical Abstraction is exemplified in works by Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), and Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007), among others.
Born 1941 in Maspeth, New York, his paintings are among some of the first to be referred to as works of Lyrical Abstraction.
Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 1955) Russian - French painter; colourist, exponent of Lyrical Abstraction.
Instead, he developed a unique style of Lyrical Abstraction - frequently referred to as Abstract Impressionism - whose shimmering forms were reminiscent of the late Impressionist paintings of water lilies by Claude Monet.
As a pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction, he made images through the use of layers and bold brushwork, rejecting geometry, and building a connection with the natural world.
A major pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction, a gestural and personal form of abstraction, along with Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages, Gérard Schneider was shown in Paris at the Galerie Louis Carré as early as 1950.
Its generally a platform for Robin Greenwood who used to run a gallery (Poussin) promoting only a «certain type» of lyrical abstraction.
After her return to France, she rapidly became one of the best - known exponents of Art Informel (best understood as «formless improvisation»), specializing in the style of Lyrical Abstraction, (also related to French Tachisme), alongside Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Sculze)(1913 - 51), Pierre Soulages (b. 1919), Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012), Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 55), Alfred Manessier (1911 - 93), Serge Poliakoff (1906 - 69), and Jean - Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002).
He was one of the major pioneers of Lyrical Abstraction, a gestural and personal form of abstraction.
Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, a painter, and photographer considered a pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction.
«The Gesture and the Sign» features recent works by a group of artists that take their cue from pictorial aspects of lyrical abstraction.
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