The dethreaded canvas» cruciform patterning is counterbalanced by
the painterly application of color, reminiscent of Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, whom Emblema met on a visit to New York in the 1950s.
Not exact matches
Interestingly, the practitioners
of the
Color Field saw themselves apart from the Abstract Expressionists because they stayed clear
of emotional, mythic or the religious content, allowing the personal and gestural
painterly application to take precedent.
Yet, Kahn's pointed concentration on hue and luminescence moves beyond the constraints
of abstract expressionism, in which his teacher worked, to a kind
of representation that artfully transcends overt description or narrative, even while maintaining a kind
of painterly lyricism hinged entirely on
color and its unique
application.
The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work
of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more
painterly or gestural forms
of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint
application and delineated areas
of color with particular sharpness and clarity.
I don't see them as anti facture so much as more linear — which is just as much a «
painterly» quality as thick or heavy
applications of color.
Sam Francis's untitled monotype composition signals the culmination
of the artist's career - long investigation
of abstract
painterly procedures: the aggressively stroked red field and chance
application of colorful drips and blots energize the surface
of this broad horizontal frame, synthesizing the dynamism
of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings and the powerfully reductive aesthetics
of Color Field painting
of the 1940s and 50s.
Informed by the artist's love
of Mark Rothko's
color fields and the
painterly techniques
of predecessors such as Barnett Newman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Georgia O'Keefe, Colen's Mailorder paintings emerge from a laborious process
of application and control.
Fine's emphasis to
color and its wavering
painterly application result in the Accordment paintings achieving just that; they strain to bring about a successful marriage
of structure and lyricism.
Through the meticulous
application of grain layers and the manipulation
of color, the artist creates an almost
painterly effect in the finished photographs.