Through
the painterly languages of abstraction and representation, Eric Aho explores the lived, remembered, and imagined experience of landscape.
I recognize three themes in your painting: «strokes and grids,» which comes out of your love of post-Impressionist paintings and minimalism, «fields,» which embodies your own unified geography of overall surfaces that yield both to Abstract Expressionism's and Neo-Expressionism's
painterly languages and lastly, narrative or personal history is an ongoing thread that runs throughout your work.
A lively conversation of form, mark, and color emerges from the juxtaposition of these five unique
painterly languages.
Gerhard Richter's unrelenting urge to find new
painterly languages moved him away from the figurative and towards an embrace of abstraction.
All these objects share a collaged
painterly language which calls into question the definition of objectivity.
The sweep and complexity of Mitchell's
painterly language is built on an armature of drawing, whether it's a feverish tangle of colored pencil lines or a series of loosely demarcated partitions dancing across a seven - panel pastel.
During the seventies as Brice Marden's work developed he expanded
his painterly language considerably.
Her aesthetic relies on the principles of balance and restraint - concepts that she finds crucial considering the breadth and complexity of the multi-faceted
painterly language that developed as she moved from place to place.
She set off the grain of wood against the starkness of geometric lines, whereas Stella concentrated on reducing
painterly language to a minimum of its expressive means.
She soon incorporated these readymade motifs into a unique
painterly language all her own.
In a time when new techniques were dominating and when painters and painting, in general, were considered quaintly anachronistic, he forged a new
painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting landscape vistas.
Francis Bacon's flayed skin and the broad brushwork of German Expressionism, for example, are evoked in
his painterly language.
He became fascinated with tribal art, using
the painterly language of the early 1950s to invoke primitivism, reversing the normal evolution of the New York School.
Yet Gioni and his young co-curators, Gary Carrion - Murayari and Margot Norton, have successfully recast his art in subtler and more somber tones, playing down the shock and pleasure and mapping out his long search to develop
a painterly language.
Rather, it has become an established
painterly language that subsumes the ideas and values pioneered by the S / S artists.
The gallery press release notes the «work ranges from the highly structured and pre-planned to more spontaneous
painterly language... The process of painting is reliant upon the discovery of new possibilities.
Lüpertz's
painterly language is either promiscuously referential or helplessly unspecific.
The systematic process within Butler's paintings runs parallel to their pictorial beauty, weighing
painterly language against conceptual restraint.
Evolving a unique
painterly language over the last two decades, Cloud's work often comprises a mash - up of thick paint and patchworks of collaged material and language culled from photo books, newspapers and other ephemera from daily life.
DIAO employs maps, emblems, and images as
his painterly language to re-shape the Hong Kong in his visual memory and, on the other hand, to outline his own culture and subjectivity through the present - past contrasts.
Writing about her last one - woman show at the gallery in A.i.A. «s Jan. 2002 issue, Joe Fyfe described Thomas's
painterly language as «at once more worldly in its eclecticism and more homespun in its intimacy» than the Washington Color Field artists in her circle.
Working with bamboo, chalk, fabric, glass, thread, wood, and paint, her sculptural and
painterly language enfolds the visitor in a web of associations both physical and emotional.
Fishman's grasp of
a painterly language that was both mythologized and discredited, and that she intuitively identified with, has sustained her life's work.
In a sense I was trying to break out of the rectangle, in a Kelleyesque way, but using
a painterly language with a kind of heavy California flair to it.
At Time Out New York Anne Doran reports that Matt Connors, in his second solo show at Canada, continues to develop his idiosyncratic
painterly language.
«Sitar's
painterly language and her strangely emblematic images are imbued with veiled meanings and resonate with compressed, yet oblique personal feeling.
Along with Elizabeth Murray, Mary Heilman, and Miriam Schapiro, Snyder strove to tame the heroic gestures of male - dominated Abstract Expressionism into a new intimate
painterly language.
Measured by Mason's simultaneous participation in the «Inventing Downtown» show at NYU's Grey Art Gallery — a show about artist - run galleries in the early 1950s — the artist's career has been built on decades of developing
a painterly language loose enough to allow multiple voicing, yet purposeful enough to assert a lone sensibility.
Not exact matches
In a picture you get a total and apparently spontaneous impression, whereas the written word (in the European
languages at least) takes the eye on this rather laborious journey from left to right — if only we had that
painterly power to put it all across at once, to show rather than to tell!
[30][31][32] The late 1960s saw painters turning to surface inflection, deep space depiction, and
painterly touch and paint handling merging with the
language of color.
The lightness of being in his work, the range of forms, contours, edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness of the spaces in between his network of slashes, swatches, and other
painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the paintings are airy, permeable, and most significantly, written in a
language that is all his own.
Rhapsody positively defies direction with its catalog of
painterly styles, from abstraction to child's play, like the ultimate in
languages of art.
Ideas and philosophies that challenged
painterly conventions of the previous centuries, more specifically — deliberate departure from representational art towards pure abstraction — and invented a whole new
language of expression.
The strongest works in Frankfort's show push the tension between verbal
language and
painterly gesture to an extreme.
A pioneer in incorporating
language into visual art, Bochner has taken an unusual turn toward
painterly expressiveness during the past two decades.
Balancing moral dilemmas with wit and a musical sense of
language and color, Hancock's works create a
painterly space of psychological dimensions.
Perhaps it's something like Pensato's paintings — animal and «human» personages anthropomorphized into the barest semblances of themselves, erased (to use Pensato's own
language), and re-represented, brutally, in the grammar of «high» art, with the
painterly strokes and complex surfaces of abstract expressionism.
His development of original content and a signature formal
language was accompanied not only by an increased exploration of the
painterly craft, but also with a progressive seriality in which he «played through» this
language in an almost musical way.
Birnbaum has orchestrated his exhibition «Making Worlds» between the Arsenale and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini as «an omnivorous and centrifugal show without sections where all the creative
languages between installations, video and film, sculpture, performance, painting, and design follow one another with a common denominator: a «
painterly sensibility.
Through the precise and exact
painterly science that Newman mastered in which the flat color of the surface of his paintings is formed in direct proportion to the impressive scale of his works, Newman forged a visual
language that aimed to provoke an existential sense of awe and wonderment in the viewer.
Lydia Gifford's artistic research is an enquiry of the
language and possibilities of painting, of
painterly thought, which are subsequently allocated and transposed by means of subtle actions, gestures, ideas and processes into a physical space.
From this point on, Lichtenstein continued to synthesize often found (but also at times imagined) imagery into a graphic
language of flat primary colors (red, blue and yellow) edged in straight black and modeled in space through the conventions of advertising and graphic design rather than those of
painterly naturalism.
Hodgkin shows an audacious confidence as he begins to abandon all representational forms and works purely in his own
language of bold
painterly abstraction that he is so revered for.
His familiar visual
language and themes shine through in these new works, albeit in a variety of different
painterly mediums.
These themes finds expression in Schomaker's own visual
language, which is characterised by the tension between figurative representation and
painterly abstraction.
Sandner's
painterly renditions of found notes and text juxtapose the autobiographical with the
language of gestural painting.
During his residency, Olivier sought to push his work further to abstraction, moving away from a narrative or film
language toward a more
painterly approach.
Painted in 1952, Mark Rothko's superb oil on canvas Untitled is a vibrant and deeply moving masterpiece, created in the first years of his maturity when Rothko discovered the new vision and new structural
language that defined his
painterly practice for the rest of his life.
I use gesture, improvisation, and
painterly notation to translate Old Master imagery into a contemporary pictorial
language.
Similarly, while Amy Sillman is known for her abstract paintings, her iPhone and iPad animations fuse abstract
language with narrative and figuration; all within a practice that unmoors the
painterly from its traditional auratic bases.