Abstract expressionist pioneers like Pollock advocated non-representational art and believed art should reflect the artist's internal reality through
the physical painting process.
Not exact matches
For some reason, as Spall burrowed deeply into his role (and learned to
paint in the
process), one of the
physical traits he adopted was an almost constant guttural cough, a seemingly unconscious snort.
Water was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude, into a valuable
process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and
painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its
physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beings.
Going back to how you [Gooding] describe the earlier work, there was in fact a self - conscious desire to block off or direct the viewer's
process of looking at it or looking into it, and this later evolved into a later stage in which there was actually an invitation to «look in», but in which at all times the viewer was encouraged to be aware that the
painting was made out of real things, real
physical layers, rather than illusions.»
The
paintings are altered as much by their actual,
physical production, as by their dissemination, each step in this
process degrading the copies further, purposefully leaving us with no original by which we can ground the work.
Suzanne Friedli, co-founder and partner of Annex14 who represents the artist in Zurich comments: «When we saw the
paintings of Otis Jones for the first time we were immediately impressed by the deepness and the density of this reduced language, the
physical presence of the object - like works and the concentration on
painting as a
process.
Owens's work proposes a vital relationship between the
physical process painting and the circulation of digital images in the age of the Internet.
Rosenberg's critique shifted the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished
painting being only the
physical — the
process and the action is the act of art, artworks are not in the focus; this is something that would influence the emergence of a number of art movements in the coming years.
While Evans considers himself first and foremost a painter his works are
process - based
physical environments, surrounded by the very source materials that conceptually inform his
paintings.
Through his
physical engagement with the brush and canvas, Wool articulates the
process of
painting.
Mackie has titled the exhibition
Painting the Weights, a term used to label the
process of establishing the
physical make - up of an object within the field of digital animation.
A self - taught programming wunderkind and early adopter of today's virtual reality technology, Florida - born Rossin pairs her technical practice with
painting — tethering her
process to
physical reality.
Consisting of six contemporary painters and approximately thirty works, this exhibition explores the manner in which these women appropriate both the
physical, dramatic
processes and the expressive freedom of direct gesture at the core of action
painting, redeploying the now - historic style to boldly advance the abstract
painting of our time.
His crosshatches resemble
painted brushstrokes yet arise from a far more
physical process of mark making with crayon on panel.
Rosenberg's critique shifted the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished
painting being only the
physical manifestation, a kind of residue, of the actual work of art, which was in the act or
process of the
painting's creation.
What is the
physical process of building these dense
paintings?
Both Jackie Saccoccio and Jessica Dickinson offer works that through their
process - based
painting and drawing emphasize the
physical layers of residue to a literal past.
The
paintings carry with them the aura of art history as well the intensity of Moran's
physical process of
painting, a
process of reduction and abstraction that results in a state, experience or sensation.
For me, the actual
process of
painting, the
physical activity of it, the manipulation of the medium and the subconscious imagery that surface are of interest to me.
Deeply invested in the technical and
physical act of
painting, Wool says that he ``... often [wants] a
painting to feel like it is the result of a certain
process, a
process that was not simply the
painting / picturing
process of putting together a formally successful
painting» (C. Wool, quoted by A. Goldstein, «How to Paint,» ibid, p. 171).
His work has embodied the idea that
painting is a
physical thinking
process to continue an interior dialogue and a way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sub-linguistic speech.
In the text accompanying the exhibition, Desmett stressed the activity possible in the work's
physical form and presentation; he acknowledged a «theatrical
process» in the making of each
painting.
The material practice is the vehicle for this transference, one that must have
physical evidence of the
painting process (of
painting, and repainting) to satisfy until image, content, and surface comply as a record of experience.
They hark back to a time when flatness was abstract
painting's primary goal, and the
physical facts of the medium were starting to be endlessly parsed — beginning with shaped canvases — in a
process that continues today.
The immersive, haptic quality of Commito's
painting owes much to the
physical and sensory demands of her
process.
In a similar
process, the joke
paintings too find authorless statements, filtered down over generations and disseminated across the world, and take ownership of them, immortalizing them in the
physical form of
painting.
The
physical experience of approaching her
paintings, then, is in effect a spiritual experience, that is, a
process of initiation and revelation.
One of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century, Hyong - keun became associated with the influential Dansaekhwa (monochromatic
painting) movement of Korean artists who experimented with the
physical properties of
painting and prioritized technique and
process in the 1960s.
Hobbs's conclusion, that these artists»
paintings should be understood «as contingent views of each of these women's own nature, which is partially and indistinctly witnessed through its connections with the
physical world as it is being poetically invoked through the
process of
painting,» is precisely the kind of redefinition of Abstract Expressionism that Chanzit promised in her introduction.
The
physical act and
process of
painting couched in a formal construct is explored by Nola Zirin's thick scraped surfaces, Cecily Kahn's dripping take on cubism, and Marthe Keller's insouciant acrylic washes.
Tamar Halpern's hybrid practice negates notions of the digital archive, incorporating fragmentary analog and digital content in a highly
physical process of photographing, collaging,
painting, ripping, masking and displacing in works that defy classification.
She referred to the smaller fragments as «the contemporary mutation of the
physical and philosophical
process that goes into
painting.»
The
paintings are as much about the
physical process of
painting and the inherent possibilities within that
process to generate meaning, as they are about what's depicted on the canvas.
In both her
painted images and her animations, Sikander uses the
process of layering to knit together elements from Hindu mythology, Persian tales, and personal experience in order to explore the shifting nature of the space — metaphorical and
physical — in which we live.
During the selection
process, the artist remarked that «the
paintings are now awake from having been asleep» — a metaphor for the artist's
physical and conceptual
process whereby
paintings do not start or end, and are never «finished» due to the
physical act of folding and unfolding.
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.
At 90, Moses continues his dogged search for the elusive metaphysical power of
painting, creating works that are about the expression of temporality,
process and presence, beyond the
physical limitations of surface.
Scott Olson's abstract
paintings look fragile and ethereal, even though they can be traced back to vigorous
physical processes.
Bowling has always regarded
painting as an intensely
physical act as well as an aesthetic
process.
His work scrutinizes and dismantles the
process of
painting through the material, the subject matter, and the
physical space the work is shown.
Rodriguez's rugged
physical work stands in relationship to the battered automotive effigies of John Chamberlain, the
process - driven folded felt pieces of Robert Morris, the architectural
painting installations of Jessica Stockholder, and the bricolage clusters of Isa Genzken.
Yun Hyong - keun (1928 - 2007), a Korean artist of significance, was associated with the Tansaekhwa movement where artists experimented with the
physical property of
painting, placing a priority on technique and
process.
During the 1960s, he became associated with the influential Dansaekhwa (monochromatic
painting) movement in Korea, where artists experimented with the
physical properties of
painting and prioritized technique and
process.
Yes, staining is somewhat unpredictable, and that dialog between control and chance was where much of my vocabulary started, but I feel I've always been as invested in the image and politics of representational space, with pattern and decoration and with color field
painting, as in the
physical process of making the
painting.
The highly focused selection of
paintings and sculptures emphasizes the female body and the
physical process of art - making.
His
paintings are the direct (and wild) result of an open - ended
process that is focused on the
physical properties of the variety of media he uses to bring them into being.
Using an expressive,
physical process, she creates line drawings with black
paint on paper in dialogue with the architectural forms and signifiers of place she finds around her.
Earlier, you described a
process of
painting where one puts down a mark and then considers the next one, but I can see you are extremely prolific, that your work feels
physical and rapid, and that you are working on the floor.
Directly confronting the emotional impact of violence against women, Emily Smith's
paintings reveal the psychological and
physical trauma of being attacked by a male stranger
processed through
paint, fabric, and memory.
Fractured and swift, each stroke clearly distinguishes the artist's
physical gesture, revealing the anatomy of Guston's painterly
process of constantly applying and removing areas of
paint.