Emblematic of Wylie's tendency to work across multiple canvases, this work elaborates on her series of large - scale monochromatic paintings that utilized the forms of animals to explore the
conventions of painterly abstraction.
Instead of creating sketches and studies for a larger painting, Van Genderen made the large work first and endeavored, on six smaller canvases, to recreate
sections of that painterly abstraction that were as true to the original painting as possible.
From afar Veronica's canvases read as so many familiar
gestures of painterly abstraction, involving the surrounding wall and floor and the drops, splashes and marks that are created in the process of painting.
While Lanyon has remained an iconic figure for painters, as an authentically British
pioneer of painterly abstraction, he is little known to the public at large.
In this exhibition — which takes its title from the phonetic spelling of the word Atmosphere — all three artists respond to the dynamic climate of contemporary South Africa, primarily through the
use of painterly abstraction.
His paintings are delicate balancing
acts of painterly abstraction, combining structure and evanescent color to form surfaces of supple, luminous intensity.
Aubrey Williams» distinctive contribution to 20th century British art as a
master of painterly abstraction is increasingly recognized; a contemporary of Alan Davie and Peter Lanyon, Williams» work invites productive comparison.
Rather than reinsert Burri into a clean
narrative of painterly abstraction, it seems that the show's implicit mission is to transcend this exclusion by connecting Burri to so many other movements.
In her artist statement, she describes, «I mine the
language of painterly abstraction, monumental sculpture, slapstick humor, and pop art to transform mundane industrial materials into inflatable painted sculptures and performative props.»
Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist challenges the usual accounts that Butoh was formed as a direct response to Japan's post-World War Two trauma, Hawkins's new work instead reveals the surprising
effect of painterly abstraction on Butoh.
His practice incorporated elements from Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Impressionism, and Eastern philosophy to create a unique
style of painterly abstraction.
Frank Bowling's new paintings prove that his ongoing modernist enterprise has continued to develop in relation to his own aims, demonstrating that he has found a way to make a disciplined and consistent contribution to a particular
stream of painterly abstraction, which remains vital and productive in his hands.
She studied with the German - born
guru of painterly abstraction Hans Hofmann, but she shunned the modes of fervent expressiveness — promoted as Action painting by Greenberg's agonistic rival critic Harold Rosenberg — that engaged most artists of the so - called second generation of Abstract Expressionism.
The Hoffberger Grad program at my college just opened their first painting show of the year, and it's mostly the
sort of painterly abstraction you described as «self - conscious, searches for something fresh and new».
Emblematic of Wylie's tendency to work across multiple canvases, this work elaborates on her 2016 series of three large - scale monochromatic paintings that utilized the forms of animals to explore the
conventions of painterly abstraction.
There is no easy way to define Franz West's art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty that speaks with equal fluency to the
tradition of painterly abstraction and the aesthetics of trash art.
According to the press release, the intention of My Crippled Friend was about «the
intersection of painterly abstraction and the object,» but rather than approaching objecthood as «a formalist issue, the works in this exhibition gather their identity through the subversion of formalism — scrambling and reassembling themselves in an aesthetic shell game -LSB-...]»