Sentences with phrase «out of abstract expressionism»

Interestingly, Feneon also coined the term Tachisme to describe the painting technique of the Impressionists, some 60 years or so before it was re-used by the French art critic Michel Tapie to describe the Tachisme splinter movement which evolved out of abstract expressionism.

Cesare Lucchini's rich painterly works have emerged out of abstract expressionism where the process of painting is all.

But already then the David Park, or just about that time, and company were, in fact, they already had emerged out of, and Diebenkorn, of course, out of the abstract expressionism of Still, Rothko for that matter, but especially Clyfford Still at the San Francisco, California School of Fine Arts, now Art Institute.

They all came out of abstract expressionism, but Jasper and Bob are realists, they used real images; Cy stayed abstract.

Noland used to talk about one - shot painting - it comes out of abstract expressionism and Pollock.

I was taken by the confidence and force of Yvette's brush marks, coming out of abstract expressionism yet evoking a complex interplay of contradictory marks reflecting a contemporary mood.

I see this painting coming out of abstract expressionism's insistence on the painting surface as a place for action but heading towards the post-modern insistence on art as something conditioned and prepared in our heads.

In the 1950s Allan Kaprow began to explore the possibility of a new kind of art developing out of abstract expressionism.

His work continuously evolves from a language of gestures and colored born out of abstract expressionism, towards the meticulous painting style seen in the 1964 - 66 series dots paintings.

Not exact matches

In 1959, a year out of Princeton, he was included in Sixteen Americans — a landmark show at New York's Museum of Modern Art that pulled the plug once and for all on abstract expressionism and set the stage for the multifarious art of the 1960s.

Neel's dedication to the «unfashionable» art of portrait painting and social realism — and this during the decades of abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde artistic developments.

Her commitment to truth and dedication to figuration — unfashionable during her lifetime — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde movements such as abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism.

STILLPASS: It's interesting that you rejected formal training because certain art critics at the time argued that abstract expressionism came out of America, where artists could fully escape the preconceived notions of the European tradition.

Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

What was it that launched our own painting out of the issues of abstract expressionism?

Famously fell out with his best friend, the composer Morton Feldman, over his rejection of abstract expressionism.

Sex, death, the perversity of leadership and the fractured self are also battled out in Wrestling with God # 1, a composition which references both abstract expressionism and heroic mythological painting and is based on the Biblical story of Moses» return to Egypt, during which Yahweh attempts to murder him for not having circumcised his son.

Frank O'Hara, the critic and poet who collaborated with Bluhm, wrote in 1962, «Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom of abstract - expressionism who has a spirit similar to that of Pollock, which is to say that he is out — beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old - fashioned kind of pictorial ambition.»

I hope this is an exhibition that will spur more exhibitions and more attention to who may have been left out of mainstream histories of abstract expressionism.»

Something dark emerges out of sweeping, gestural marks of colour, simultaneously as earnest as abstract expressionism and as throwaway as neo-expressionism.

That's where I started out and, let me say this, at that particular point we looked at New York and we looked at abstract expressionism in New York and I was involved with artists, there were two groups of artists in Chicago and neither of them are interested in abstract expressionism.

Albert Irvin, the painter, who has died aged 92, started out in the 1950s as a figurative artist of the kitchen sink school, but after discovering Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko at a famous Tate exhibition in 1956 he reinvented himself as an exponent of a dazzlingly vigorous abstract expressionism, becoming one of Britain's most respected abstract artists.

During the»40s, he pushed cubism out of its academic doldrums into a new and exciting abstract expressionism.

By 1961, the flirtation with abstract expressionism has passed — the first skip — and given way to a pop primitivism in which the painter's crush on Cliff Richard is acted out by a pair of love - hungry blobs going at it like the clappers in a painting called We Two Boys Together Clinging.

Having begun his venture into abstraction through cubist fragmentation and the constructivist composition of geometric planes, Browne later branched out into biomorphism, his gestural style influencing the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorsky, and Willem de Kooning.

Gwen Chanzit, the museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, didn't set out to produce an all - women show: «I wanted to broaden the parameters of what we know about abstract expressionism — and destroy some myths,» she tells Maclean's.

I am committed to searching out styles ranging from uber realistic to abstract expressionism, all of which excite and challenge my comfort zone.

Chanzit hopes the show will help to integrate women into the history of abstract expressionism, rather than kickstarting a flurry of similar shows: «The takeaway for me is to let our audiences know that there are more important works out there,» she says.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

With deliberate placement and the eye of a master colorist, she maps out a constructed world informed by numerous artistic traditions, including abstract expressionism, color field painting, installation, and minimalism.

Entering the New York art world at a moment when abstract expressionism - all - out improvisation on canvas - held sway, Mr. Twombly soon evolved a manner that suggested a frenzy of illegible scrawl.

’49 Even if Kline had not produced his paintings with the speed commonly associated with abstract expressionism, his breakthrough to abstraction was understood in metaphorical terms as a coming - of - age event out of Wagnerian opera — and not only because Kline sometimes listened to Wagner while he worked.

It and the Stella flank the exit; while the Stella is still the odd man out, now its placement positions it as one of artists» exit strategies out of the mannered, overblown self - indulgent dead end that abstract expressionism seemed to represent by the late 1950s and early 1960s.

But Hoyland's subjectivity, so it turns out, is full of references and not merely to American abstract expressionism as represented by Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Jules Olitski and Larry Poons.

But I would say that abstract expressionism came out of many, many forces of which a certain kind of Surrealism like Masson's was one of the extremes.

After dropping out of college, he found his people and learned about abstract expressionism in the Provincetown, Massachusetts, art scene.

Indeed all but Hofmann objected to the term «abstract expressionism,» which, they felt, linked them to the expressionist and abstract artists of preceding generations; by contrast they saw their work as arising out of unique acts of individual introspection.

Some of them, such as the handling of paint - brusque, clotted, ejaculatory - come straight out of the language of abstract expressionism, and in particular of Willem de Kooning's pictorial lingo, which was the nursery talk of Rauschenberg's artistic childhood - the parental language he both loved and rebelled against.

Evolving out of Bay Area abstract expressionism, Remington had developed an inimitable and impossible - to - classify imagery, and techniqu...

The show addresses how artists departed from abstract expressionism with in - depth concentrations of works by Ellsworth Kelly, whose Tablet series documents how he abstracts everyday forms to create the shapes found in his paintings; Cy Twombly, whose strangely elegant paintings are sometimes built up with scribbles and scrawls, other times scratched out with a screwdriver dragged across a painted surface; and the twin pillars of neo-Dada, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Johns helped change our definition of art coming out of the period of abstract expressionism and gesture....

At that time, he was a representational painter working out of doors when abstract expressionism was in vogue and pop art and minimalism were beginning to emerge.

In spite of the remarkable careers of Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Kitaj, Bellany and Boyd, all of whom lived for 30 or more years in England, the human form was out of fashion in the art world under the influence of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and non-object art.

Alice Neel's emotional intelligence and her commitment to figurative painting during the heyday of American abstract expressionism marked her out as a maverick.

Similarly, I am indebted to Martha Rosler's Culture Class (Sternberg Press) for pointing out how the history of abstract expressionism is intertwined with the history of transnational capital flows.