Essentially self - taught, he had educated himself in the city's museums and art galleries and through his association
with 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.
His compositions, for instance, echo those of Tomma Abts, Gordon Moore, and the
many other abstract painters who work with shallow relief and refer to modernist design.
Other abstract painters who belonged to the group included the likes of Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97), and Jackson Pollock, as well as the abstract sculptor David Smith (1906 - 65).
Following separate experiments
by other abstract painters like Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), Pollock himself began employing his splash / drip method in 1947, partly as a result of the surrealists» experience, and also (reportedly) after seeing how Navajo Indians in New Mexico made their sand paintings by sprinkling earth onto the ground to form intricate patterns.
It followed independent experiments by
other abstract painters like his wife Krasner and the influential art teacher Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966)- see the latter's 1940 painting Spring (Private Collection, Connecticut).
Other abstract painters associated with Orphism include the French - Czech painter Frank Kupka (1871 - 1957), Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953), Jean Metzinger (1883 - 1956), Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), and others.
In 1964, Noland - along with
other abstract painters including Jules Olitski (b. 1922), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Al Held (b. 1928) Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) and Frank Stella (b. 1936)- was labelled a member of Post-Painterly Abstraction, by the critic Clement Greenberg (1909 - 94).
Ryman withheld the same level of praise
for other abstract painters, particularly Barnett Newman, who, as far as Ryman was concerned, did not achieve the same strict nonrepresentation.
Tworkov and de Koonig met
many other abstract painters, and together with a group of abstract expressionists including Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, founded the New York School.
Perhaps more than
any other abstract painter (besides Frank Stella) Marden enjoys enormous audience consent for his various personal explorations of color, surface, drawing and expression.
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.
Rail: I wonder if there's any distinction to be made in artists like Al Loving or Stanley Whitney or yourself, if there's anything in your work that you think is distinctly African American, or if you associate your work with
any other abstract painters» work in particular.
Artists I know personally, such as Christian Haub and
other abstract painters, do not often get a show for me to review, but just as well.
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.
How is this abstract painter different from
all other abstract painters?
Resident in Paris until 1941, he fled to America for the period 1941 - 46, joining a number of other expatriate Surrealist artists in New York, where they became an important influence on Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91), and
other abstract painters of the so - called New York School.
• For details of
other abstract painters, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
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.
He formed Painters Eleven with ten
other abstract painters (most of whom had also been in the Abstracts At Home event) soon after.
The school at that time had a highly traditional curriculum, but Opper was pulled in a modern direction by a visit to the Pittsburgh International Exposition in 1928, where he saw the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and
other abstract painters for the first time.