While an audience familiar with the Wells College landscape will inevitably seek to identify familiar sites in this work, Leduc's photographic depiction
of painted gestures and slick reflections invites viewers to identify both with her process and her exploration of new environments.
Murphy uses milk - based casseine paint for it's dryly controllable nature, creating skeins
of painted gestures that connect to the fine forms of the wire sculptures but also take the mind in the direction of textiles too.
Like Richard Pousette - Dart, Tobey's spiritual optimism and physical distance from New York City set him apart from his abstractionist contemporaries, but his interest in the expressive potential
of the painted gesture echoed their own artistic concerns.
Abstract painting continued to dominate the artistic discourse in the 1950s and early 1960s, but the concerns began to shift from the tactility and energy
of the painted gesture to a preoccupation with emphasizing the flatness of the canvas.
Not exact matches
House speaker Paul Ryan said: «Here lies America's pastor,»
gesturing to Mr Graham's casket under the eye
of the dome, surrounded by family, friends, politicians and a ring
of paintings of the nation's founders.
Think
of John Ashbery's «Self - Portrait in a Convex Mirror,» in which the artist Parmigianino
gestures with his hand in the
painted convex surface, as if welcoming us, even as the figure in the mirror pulls away.
With exaggerated
gestures and abrupt facial expressions that he has developed over the years, and with appropriate strains
of strings and brass in the background, Schuller
painted word - pictures
of America's achievements over the years and her magnanimity toward other nations and their peoples.
The artist has stated that she wants to observe in a person the nuances
of gestures and expressions that may be particularly characteristic in that individual as «the challenge in
painting portraits is to catch that essence
of who a person is, their spirit and emotion, in a
painting.»
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As a welcoming
gesture, and an attempt to strengthen India's ties with British aristocracy, Maharaja Ram Singh
of Jaipur ordered the entire city to be
painted pink, a shade widely associated with hospitality.
He explores the
gesture of affection and empathy and his wealth
of images have included the dreamlike and enchanting melancholy
paintings of women and flowers, children absorbed in daydreams, the serene White cat Gardens and beach scenes.
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Schjeldahl writes:» [Thomas»] best acrylics and watercolors
of loosely gridded, wristy daubs are among the most satisfying feats (and my personal favorites)
of the Washington Color School, a group that included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and others associated with the prescriptive aesthetics
of the critic Clement Greenberg:
painting shorn
of imagery, the illusion
of depth, and rhetorical
gesture.
In this way Jones has assumed the mantle
of Pollock's late
paintings such as Portrait and a Dream and The Deep, mining the unconscious shared meaning between
gesture and image.
And indeed, the Dejeuner sur l'herbe, with Manet's brother, brother - in - law - to - be, and favorite model, Victorine, staring blandly out
of the decor
of Giorgione's venerated pastoral idyll, their elegant contemporary costume — or lack
of it — making a mockery
of the «timeless» Raphaelesque composition, must have seemed as full
of protest and constituted as destructive and vicious a
gesture as that
of Marcel Duchamp when he
painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa.
The intimacy
of the hand which leaves its imprint and the glyphs and
gestures of a spontaneous approach reveal his enthusiasm for
painting.
«If I was going to get around Bill de Kooning, first
of all I had to go faster than he, and second
of all I had to do something much larger than he,» says Whitten, who created a 12 - foot - wide tool he called the «developer» to drag
paint in a single
gesture across the entire picture plane.
Each is a closeup
of a fragment —
of a
gesture,
of fabric,
of grain, or
of paint itself?
Through exuberant works that sometimes engage the heroic
gesture or make use
of pop imagery, artists explored the traditions
of figuration and history
paintings and offered new interpretations
of abstraction.
Throughout his more than five - decade career, he created
paintings and drawings distinguished by their intensity
of gesture and intellectual rigor.
Like Krasner's «Little Image»
paintings, they eschew the big, swashbuckling
gestures of textbook Abstract Expressionism in favor
of a wiry sgraffito (or occasionally, in Krasner's case, a thin and tightly controlled drip).
Her elegant structure transforms
painting into architecture (and vice versa), with the imperfections and eccentricities
of the hand - glazed tiles functioning like a painter's
gestures.
And it is challenging for me to see how little information in terms
of content, colour and
gestures I need to make a good
painting, to reach the maximum level
of emotion.
These artists are acting like industrious junior postmodernist worker bees, trying to crawl into the body
of and imitate the good old days
of abstraction, deploying visual signals
of Suprematism, color - field
painting, minimalism, post-minimalism, Italian Arte Povera, Japanese Mono - ha, process art, modified action
painting, all
gesturing toward guys like Polke, Richter, Warhol, Wool, Prince, Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Wade Guyton, Rudolf Stingel, Sergej Jensen, and Michael Krebber.
His post-war
paintings — emotional abstractions which explored varieties
of gesture and mark — were considered reactions to his experiences in battle.
In his most recent work, Télémaque has reintroduced
gesture, especially in a series
of paintings inspired by the concept
of the forest canopy, a place one can't see from within the forest itself and is always in the state
of becoming.
From illusionistic, or trompe l'oeil (trick
of the eye),
paintings to more ephemeral and conceptual
gestures, these artworks challenge what we see and prompt us to appreciate and even enjoy experiences
of dissonance.
Murillo's huge and physically enveloping canvases (seen at Art Basel 20135), echo familiar threads through contemporary fine art
painting practice — the energetic
gestures and scribblings
of Cy Twombly, the haptic scruffs and mixing
of materials
of Antoni Tàpies and Anselm Kiefer, the calling out (in script)
of Colin McCahon6 and the drawing, foodstuffs and performances
of Joseph Beuys and William Pope.L.7
Cardoso's
paintings evoke Frank Stella's polygon and protractor
paintings, and the white and green monochromatic canvases and light flurried abstractions
gesture toward the long history
of modern
painting.
Part II, 1950 — 2000, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York (September 26, 1999 — February 13, 2000) Primed & Un-Primed:
Paintings from the 60s and 70s, Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York (August 9 — October 2) Abstractions Américaines, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (July 3 — October 3) American Abstraction / American Realism: The Great Debate, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (June 8 — August 21) In Honor
of Alan Groh» 49: The Buzz Miller Collection
of American Art, Bayly Art Museum, Univeristy
of Virginia (June 4 — July 18) between art and life: vom abstrakten expressionismus zur pop art (organized with Fundación «la Caixa,» Barcelona), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (April 30 — July 10) Catherine Murphy, Joan Mitchell, Harriet Korman: Three Rooms, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (April 1 — April 24) Art at Work: Forty Years
of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (March 3 — May 2) Sign and
Gesture: Contemporary Abstract Art from the Haskell Collection, North Carolina Museum
of Art, Raleigh (March 21 — June 13).
The energetic execution
of the
painting is governed by the artist's control, and the immediacy
of the
gesture is captured and locked in an instant.»
Known for her vocabulary
of schematic linear constructions evocative
of fantastic structures, tight to loose linear coils, and flat, template - like shapes, Greenbaum has steadily moved from drawing in thin
paint on white grounds to layering the surface with different structures and
gestures.
GESTURES, Vilem Flusser, Univerity
of Minnesota Press, 2014, p 4 In my experience everything visible in an abstract
painting establishes meaning within the context
of the
painting.
Action
Painting is characterized by energetic techniques that depend on broad
gestures directed by the artist's sense
of control interacting with chance or random occurrences (that is why it is also called Gestural Abstraction).
Amongst our favorite artworks being exhibited here are Marc Dennis» realistic still - life
painting of luscious flowers at Dallas» Cris Worley Fine Arts, Francis Upritchard's
gesturing bronze figure at London «s Kate MacGarry, Jason Middlebrook's geometric abstraction on an elm plank at New York «s Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Luis Gispert's abstraction made by embedding gold chains in a field
of black stones at Palma de Mallorca's Lundgren Gallery, and Klara Kristalova's ceramic sculpture
of animals in a tub at Lehmann Maupin, with galleries in New York and Hong Kong.
Lee Ufan makes his own minimal
gesture on an opposite surface, his multi-layered brushstroke serving as a mark
of time and place, while a new suite
of paintings by Stanley Whitney completes this more lyrical, meditative and philosophical section
of the show.
These rounded, individuated
gestures, defined by the width
of her tools, the stretch
of her arms and the fluidity
of her
paint, lend an open quality to the new
paintings.
Elements
of silkscreen only confuse the layering
of paint and print or
of gesture and grid that much further.
Featuring about 60 works, «Five Decades
of Painting,» demonstrates that beyond innovation, content remains paramount to Whitten — from his contemplations
of the violent tenor
of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, to his more recent «Apps for Obama,» a
gesture to the president.
I should also note that he was the first
of the New York School to make a mural - size
painting (it measures 7.5 × 10 feet), and that his personal style owes nothing to the athletic
gesture that is often identified with certain works by Pollock, de Kooning and Kline, or the subtle applications
of the hard - edge geometry
of Reinhardt, or the fields
of suffused and unbroken color in Rothko and Newman.
In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism were the «
Gesture Painters» and the «Color - Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying
paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the use
of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.
Confronted with work like this, I feel every specific thing that I feel for the work, and then more generally — gratitude, that they took the trouble, that they disciplined their passion enough to capture some fraction
of it in
paint, that they made that
gesture, both generous and greedy,
of capturing how and what they see and making it visible outside themselves.
Movements refers both to literal and suggested motion and change: her
gestures on the canvas, the viscosity
of her
paint, and the way these actions combine to produce a shifting spatiality within her compositions.
In these
paintings, there is a gestural energy that distantly recalls Abstract Expressionism, but the
gesture may just as well be that
of wiping away as
of laying down
paint.
[17] Her disciplined work lost ground to the assertive
gestures of the Neo-Expressionists in the 1980s, but a 1999 show at the Serpentine Gallery
of her early
paintings triggered a resurgence
of interest in her optical experiments.
Unlike his contemporaries, such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman whose art expressed an urge to transcendence, Kline was focused on pure abstract forms and
gesture itself, deprived
of any symbolic character or «
painting experience».
In the press release for the Fort Tilden show, MoMAPS1 suggested that Grosse's ambition was to «extend the scope
of her
painting beyond the borders
of the canvas» and declared that her installation projects «evoke the physicality
of action
painting and earthworks through their
gestures and monumentality.»
Many
of Schnabel's signature tropes — the use
of dropcloths and soiled canvases, the incorporation
of studio debris and other «imperfections» into the body
of the work, and his re-imagining
of found materials — have become celebrated
gestures in contemporary
painting.
Bookended artistically and conceptually by two
paintings, Mark Rothko's Untitled (1968) and Gerhard Richter's Abstract
Painting (613 - 3)(1986), the exhibition charts the alternating appeal
of gesture, authenticity, and self - expression, on the one hand, and irony, appropriation, self - effacement, on the other.
Important
paintings on view from this period include Blue Cradle (1956) and Thursday (1960), which feature strong colors and
gestures, as well as Crossfield I (1968), which hints at the final phase
of Tworkov's career in its grid - like structure and layered lines.