Ding's crosses, then, may have become simply the language he uses, but their accumulated units prove ambiguous enough to allow both microscopic and macroscopic projections from the world, and at the same time to trigger multiple echoes
of other abstract painters.
Not terribly long ago I saw a late career retrospective of an elderly Chicago artist who basically spent his whole life imitating the work
of other abstract painters.
• For details
of other abstract painters, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
• For details
of other abstract painters and sculptors, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
But in her work, and
that of other abstract painters I've mentioned, the issue of whether there is anything already in such paintings, as opposed to what we might «read» into them, is often raised.
Not exact matches
She wrote that Mueller and a number
of other painters were the «generation that essentially reinvented American
abstract painting in the 1970s and»80s.»
Some
other formative influences are apparent in the show's first room
of paintings: for Krasner, it was the
abstract painter and pedagogue Hans Hofmann; for Lewis, the Harlem art school director Augusta Savage.
Greenbaum is among a generation
of women
painters — Carrie Moyer and Amy Sillman are
others — reclaiming
abstract expressionism.
Piero Dorazio (Rome, June 29, 1927 - Perugia, May 17, 2005) was an Italian
painter, whose work was related to Color field, Lyrical Abstraction and
other forms
of abstract art.
PAUL CUMMINGS: Well, there was a time when a lot
of the
painters felt there was a while conspiracy on Hess» part to promote certain
abstract painters and not
others.
The
other version came in March at the Whitney Biennial, as a likeness
of Emmett Till in his coffin was included in a series
of abstract paintings by the white
painter Dana Schutz.
Curator Gary Garrels worked with six
abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — to select one
of their own recent paintings as well as works by
other artists who have influenced their thinking.
The gallery represents each
of these artists, as well as
other influential mid-century
abstract painters including Roger Kuntz, June Wayne, and James Jarvaise.
And he was doing it with the kind
of deeply seductive, gutsy painterliness that, say, Philip Guston, that
other abstract - turned - figurative
painter — and upstate New Yorker — wasn't.
Meanwhile,
other action
painters, notably Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Norman Bluhm, Joan Mitchell, and James Brooks, (see gallery) used imagery via either
abstract landscape or as expressionistic visions
of the figure to articulate their highly personal and powerful evocations.
An
abstract painter, Greenbaum «wields a vast visual glossary, with her works sometimes reading like punchy, assured, confrontational statements and at
other times ballooning quietly across the page like slow - capture botanical animation, never arriving at any kind
of declaration,» Ali Fitzgerald has written.
Bringing together three
painters with distinct oeuvres — that have been, at times, linked to the legacy
of German painting, or even
of Albert Oehlen himself — the panel will consider
abstract painting in relation to
other contemporary manifestations
of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure
of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling, rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations
of form, the notion
of style).
A possible correction: I don't know
abstract painters or surrealists but I do know photographers: Ernst's
other woman «Dorothea» is likely not Dorothea Lange as stated in the first part
of the article but the Dorothea Tanning mentioned in the second.
Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core
of a group known as the colour field
painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one
of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces
of the
abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings
of Noland and the
others marked out a different and more advanced stage
of art's march to absolute abstraction.
The addition
of motion and sound brought new dimensions to the
abstract art pioneered by Wassily Kandinsky and
other avant - garde
painters of the early twentieth century.
In this exhibition six contemporary
abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — were asked to select one or two
of their recent paintings to be shown alongside works by
other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development
of their practice.
A native New Yorker, he came
of age as an artist during the late 1980s and early 1990s alongside
other now established
abstract painters, including Richmond Burton, Gail Fitzgerald, Daniel Levine, Carl Ostendarp, Kate Shepherd, Cary Smith, Dan Walsh, Mary Weatherford, and Stephen Westfall, among
others.
September 24 - October 29, 2011 MINUS SPACE is delighted to present the exhibition Ted Stamm: Paintings, an overview
of paintings, works on paper, street interventions, and
other materials by the late NYC - based
abstract painter.
On the
other hand, both parts
of Black in the
Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality
of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion
of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «
abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that
of their colleagues
of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both
of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.
For Australian
abstract painters to look back at this moment, and compare it to their own, could prove quite beneficial, and force a complete reversal
of what we are always taught, that Blue Poles and
other paintings like it signify the end
of the line for painting, the last port
of call before the inevitable disembodiment into performance and conceptual art.
Only within the microcosm
of abstract painting itself, where one pole is dominated by the extreme reductiveness
of the so - called «Radical»
painters and the
other is exhausted by the sheer scope
of Gerhard Richter's all encompassing photo - expressionism could Reed be seen as decadent.
But among the things they had in common was a rejection
of the gestural painting favoured by the
abstract expressionists and
other abstract painters, and the personal agonising associated with Auerbach, Bacon and what would come to be known as the School
of London.
Visiting Robert Ruello's third solo exhibition at Inman Gallery, I was reminded
of the term «
abstract illusionism,» which critic Barbara Rose coined in the late 1960s to describe
painters using trompe - l'oeuil devices to create spatial and
other pictorial illusions in non-representational painting.
But his question wasn't wrong per se — it just didn't have much to do with the achievement
of his exhibition, which takes a more interesting, less expected tack: Garrels asked six
abstract painters working in the United States to «select one or two
of their own recent paintings to be shown with works by
other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development
of their own work.»
These artists used familiar scenes to engage a wide range
of audiences with fine art, in contrast to the popularity
of European trends in
abstract painting among
other American
painters of their generation.
He earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College
of Art, where his teachers included
abstract painters Philip Guston and Clyfford Still, among
others.
In essays that address links with the poetry
of Robert Frost and the paintings
of Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler and
other artistic peers, the authors consider Wyeth's statement that he was, in fact, an
abstract painter.
In 2001 Hoyland was commissioned to design a mosaic mural for the Rome Metro as part
of a much larger project involving
other artists, mostly Italian (his friend the
abstract painter Piero Dorazio, among them), and including Patrick Caulfield.
There she joins a formidable stable
of abstract and quasifigurative
painters: Charline von Heyl, Nicola Tyson and Maria Lassnig, among
others.
We will be presenting a work on paper by Mark Rothko from 1957, a suite
of prints from the 1960s pop series by Roy Lichtenstein and a classic black and white work from 1955 by the
abstract painter Franz Kline as well as two early works by Andy Warhol from 1964, one an iconic painting from his Electric Chair series, the
other a silkscreen on paper from the Race Riot series.
A
painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Sultan is regarded for his ongoing large - scale painted still lifes featuring structural renderings
of fruit, flowers, and
other everyday objects, often
abstracted and set against a rich, black background; but he is also noted for his significant industrial landscape series that began in the early 1980s entitled the Disaster Paintings, on which the artist worked for nearly a decade.
Looking at Martin Bromirski and Amy Feldman, among
others, Butler saw
abstract painters «saying goodbye to all that didactic thinking and exuding a kind
of calculated tentativeness.»
The Unbearable Yet Obligatory And
other shows
of modern and contemporary works Shirley Jaffe (b. 1923; lives in Paris) is one
of the most accomplished American
abstract painters of her generation — yet she has never been included in a Whitney Biennial.
Perhaps more than any
other sculptor
of his generation, he made manifest in his sculpture
of the early 50's the whole,
abstract and essentially non-Cubist space that was being developed by the
Abstract Expressionist
painters.
«So Pasmore, in spite
of his abortive pursuit
of pure abstraction, joined the ranks
of the British semi
abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and
others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints
of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions
of poeticised landscape reference»
Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind
of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience
of the war more accurately than
other painters and, in a way, different form the paintings
of the
abstract expressionists.
Ad also spoke
of his regard for
other abstract painters, such as Carl Holty, Balcomb Greene, and Burgoyne Diller.
The
Other nominees for the inaugural year included sculptor Richard Deacon, the collaborative duo Gilbert & George,
abstract painter Howard Hodgkin and sculpture and installation artist Richard Long — but unlike his fellow nominees Morley just did not fit into any one particular genealogy; with his connection to Photorealism, or Super-realism — as he named it — later being discarded by the artist in favour
of a more expressive method
of painting — that critics deemed a kind
of Neo-expressionism.
«We work with some informed collectors in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil who have made a significant commitment to the art
of Joan Mitchell, and to that
of other first - generation
abstract expressionist
painters.
She attended the Emily Carr University
of Art and Design, where, like
other artists
of her generation, she encountered the instructor and
abstract painter Elizabeth McIntosh, whose fresh and expansive approach to
abstract painting has played a critical role in Mouton's art.
And while it could be argued that the dazzling boom and bust
of a few 26 - year - old white male skateboarders - cum -
abstract -
painters isn't representative
of thousands
of other emerging artists, the spectacular market failure
of that one, tiny group had a much broader cooling effect on the market: With collectors suddenly questioning the value
of their not - insignificant investments (no matter how rich you are, watching your $ 100,000 painting go to $ 20,000 in a few months has to be unpleasant), a crisis
of confidence resulted in some very good galleries going under.
Betty Goodwin: At Work is one
of a three - part exhibition examining the studio practice
of three exceptional innovators (the
others are the American sculptor Eva Hesse and Saskatchewan - born
abstract master
painter Agnes Martin), and for me, the absolute standout.
There is, in van Velde's work, a quality
of indecision and incompleteness,
of being improvised rather than planned,
of being left in a transitional stage, in
other words,
of Provisionalism — as defined by Raphaël Rubinstein in his now famed article from 2009 — which makes it relevant to today's state
of affairs in
abstract painting as well as to the young
painters loosely grouped under the name
of New Casualists.
• For biographies
of other French
abstract artists, see: Twentieth Century
Painters.
As well as Schmidt and all former members
of Die Brucke,
other banned artists included members
of the Der Blaue Reiter expressionist group, such as the
abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), the Russian Alexei von Jawlensky (1864 - 1941), the colourist Franz Marc (1880 - 1916) and the Swiss
painter Paul Klee (1879 - 1940).