Sentences with phrase «other artists of her generation embraced»
Like her husband, Gwendolyn Knight preferred creating figural compositions rather than the Abstract Expressionist paintings that other artists of her generation embraced.
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His poetic use of found materials and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb the environmental stains of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of artists, including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, and Nate Lowman, among others.
Siegel points to Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which opened in 1950 and represented Frankenthaler along with other second - generation New York School artists, as the nexus of a taste that embraced decorative art, campy humor, and exquisite found objects alongside more commercial abstract paintings.
During the following decade, like most of the other American artists of his generation, he embraced the avant - garde European movements wholeheartedly while searching for his own unique interpretations.