Famous for his brutal brushwork, impasto textures and clashing colours, he exemplified the «gestural painting» style of the New York School, along with
other abstract artists like Franz Kline (1910 - 62), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), the founders of «action painting».
Not exact matches
While a younger generation of
artists, led by Katharina Grosse, Carol Bove, and
others, are finding renewed significance and surprising rewards in extemporaneous
abstract painting and sculpture, certain veterans
like Emily Mason never lost faith in its limitless possibilities.
Like other young
artists trying to define themselves in the wake of
abstract expressionism, Martin first experimented with found assemblages of detritus from the lower Manhattan docks.
During the early to mid-1960s Color Field painting was the term for the work of
artists like Anne Truitt, John McLaughlin, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, Friedel Dzubas, Jack Bush, Howard Mehring, Gene Davis, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Goodnough, Ray Parker, Al Held, Emerson Woelffer, David Simpson, and
others whose works were formerly related to second generation
abstract expressionism; and also to younger
artists like Larry Poons, Ronald Davis, Larry Zox, John Hoyland, Walter Darby Bannard and Frank Stella.
Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800
artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the
likes of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long
abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are opinion - makers, as we've seen with Hernan Bas among
others).
In
abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions
like hard - edge painting and
other forms of geometric abstraction began to appear in
artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles as a reaction against the subjectivism of
abstract expressionism.
As the show's title expresses, the predominance of
abstract expressionism in midcentury American modernism eclipsed the work of Porter and
other artists like him who chose to work in a figurative vein.
Like the
other members of the group, Bush pursued abstraction as best he could, «
abstracting» from nature in a manner derived from the illustrations becoming available in international magazines as well as from his practice as a commercial
artist.
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.
I wouldn't necessarily define myself as an
abstract artist (if such boundaries really exist now), but more an
artist who uses the
abstract language as a tool just
like any
other medium.
In
abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions
like Hard - edge painting and
other forms of Geometric abstraction
like the work of Frank Stella popped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism of
Abstract expressionism began to appear in
artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles.
A novel in the form of letters, this exhibition echoes the form by placing the
artists works in dialogue with each
other: Warren's elegant blue neon
abstracts are suspended on one side of the space, while on the
other side Dyer's curious pale sculptures sit arranged on a table
like so many natural history specimens from creatures either long extinct or yet to evolve.
Since then, collage has been used by many
other artists:
like the Dutch
abstract painter Piet Mondrian, the UK
artist John Walker and the American Jane Frank (known for their canvas collages).
Pop Art offered a clear contrast to
abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and
artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and
others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should be.
Other artists I am always loving are
abstract painters
like Trudy Benson, Wendy White, Laura Owens, and
artists that are creating immersive environments with 2D and 3D Elements
like Liz Miller, Jim Drain, Diana Cooper.
It is interesting that people
like Jackson Pollock and
other abstract artists said they listened to jazz.
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.
Not many art appreciators were there to block my view of Rob Pruitt's hilarious installation: big fancy
abstract paintings twinkling with the
artist's signature glitter, innertube objets encrusted with more sparkly «action painting,» and (literally) heavy - duty floor pieces composed entirely of cement - filled jeans (Levi's, Sasson, brands from every price point): Five stuffed pairs «sitting up» created a starfish; a snakelike lineup of several more doing splits straddled the floor
like a team of torso - free cheerleaders; denim couples, oozing cement cellulite, spooned, mounted each
other, and / or tempted one to sit on them
like furniture.
Since 1950, hundreds upon hundreds of American
artists have turned to «
abstract expressionism», some of them,
like Tworkov, in mid-career,
others,
like Hartigan and Frands, while they were still students.
In contrast, two of the
artist's work intricately traces haptic gestures, with a nod toward disappearing landscapes and lost language: Inga Dorosz» drawings track and map recognizable renditions of trees and
other organic forms, yet the tiny line work pixilates and separates the scenes
like disappearing data; Léonie Guyer's small works remove information further — little
abstract shapes are
like punctuation that has lost its conversation and therefore its purpose, yet they remain
like memories of forgotten stories.
The most important monochromatic, richly nuanced paintings that are primarily made of one color, including works by Ellsworth Kelly who, as one of the most radically
abstract painters, will be central in the display together with
other American
artists like Nassos Daphnis, Marcia Hafif, Joseph Marioni, Allan McCollum, Steven Parrino, Stephen Prina.
Despite being defined by
others as an
abstract artist, Frost was never programmatic about belonging to this movement and adopted its style for his work because he
liked the freedom of artistic expression that it offered.
One of the problems is that when works
like Heilmanns receive praise for their wit and ingenuity, it downgrades the expectations and ambitions of
other abstract artists; so that now, any number of painters think that slapping a few lines and shapes around on a canvas, in a manner that vaguely represents something or
other — place, memory, feeling, whatever — constitutes an
abstract painting, in which it is the very ambiguity of the work which constituting the «
abstract» bit.