They would not look out of place around 1970, when critics and aspiring artists worried ever so much
about pure painting.
For whatever reason there are many artists right now who are really good at making abstract works of various kinds,
whether pure painting or the materials explorations seen here.
These paintings can often be read in formal ways, as a sort
of pure painting, but obviously they do also have these representational aspects, which carry political and social meanings.
There are also echoes of Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, but Saccoccio's exploitation of every conceivable mode of applying paint to canvas simultaneously grounds the work
in pure painting and distinguishes it as a post-painting phenomenon.
• Neo-Impressionism (1884 - 1904) Group noted for its use of small dots of
pure paint pigment.
Interrogating figuration, works by Kara Walker and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye defy systems of racialization and the certainty of representation
through pure painting.
It has those familiar mesmerizing flourishes of swirling lines dribbled on with sticks or brushes, but it also has thicker pools of
pure paint as well as broader underlying areas of color that seem to parallel — or prefigure — Helen Frankenthaler's breakthrough works with paint on unprepared canvas of the same time.
Substituting virtuality for Fried's opticality, Relyea proposed that the dematerialized effulgence of the computer monitor was the impetus for yet another stab
at pure painting, and he cited Los Angeles — based painter Laura Owens as the pervasive influence.
Ironically, those earlier works were theorized as
embodying pure painting, supposedly stripped of extraneous worldly concerns.
For those looking for the triumph of
pure painting out of Clement Greenberg, her staining made painting inseparable from the canvas.
KA: I think that numbers in my works lose their power of signification in the sense of pure shapes and
pure painting components.
But given all that, the work at Marian Goodman still feels like a decisive swing
toward pure painting.
Although Wayne's shaped panels ornamented with heavily layered, scraped, manipulated, and re-formed paint may, with quick judgment, be chalked up to this current painting trajectory, instead they are more so the unbridled and passionate outcome of primarily
fetishizing pure paint.
His aim has been, as Miro once said, to «remain
within pure painting» while «at the same time going beyond it.»
In short, Stella seems to
want pure painting, but also Johns's way of putting icons of Modernism far too close for contemplation of the sublime.
Upstairs a number of works by Bruno Munari demonstrate his playfulness with typography, representative of an Italian tendency to combine art and industrial design — although this is not true of many in the exhibition, who
valued pure painting.
But I think this was tempered over time, as his work shifted from collage to
pure painting then to the cutout metal works.
He enclosed vast panoramas in abstract lines of color that created an oscillation
between pure painting at the edges and moments of illusionistic space at the center of the work.
Each canvas was «timeless, spaceless, changeless» (1960)... «the most extreme, ultimate, climactic reaction to, and negation of... abstract art» (1963)... «the logical developmeny of... Eastern and
Western pure painting» (1966).
Ms. Halvorson's art adds, as yet infinitesimally but credibly, to visions of late Manet, Morandi and William Nicholson, all of whom
enlivened pure painting with reality.
Karen Gunderson's most recent large - scale, black works on canvas serve as a reminder that despite the growing shifts in internet and digital art,
pure painting still has the capacity to animate a space with movement and vibrancy.
He thus constructed his practice in a constant back - and - forth between the physical impulses of work in the studio and the resurgences of a sensorial memory, between the transcription of the sense of nature and the conception of
pure painting fundamentally liberated from any kind of imagery.
They are jokes with received imagery and
pure painting splatted one atop the other, though in truth — and true to Prince — the paintings aren't painted at all, but rather inkjet prints of painted collages of the original cartoons.
Like Clement Greenberg, you may
think pure painting must be flat, call attention to itself as two - dimensional manipulation of color and form on a wall.
«It's an exciting exhibition because the viewer is confronted
by pure painting,» Naar says.
This, her eighth solo exhibition at George Billis Gallery, marks a return to
pure painting after working in collage — painting's alter ego — for several years.
Still, Hicks is not
making pure painting or pure anything else, no more than another woman in Minimalism, Rosemarie Castoro.
Web of Desire # 1 (Large Study
for Pure Painting), 2013 Acrylic on canvas 76 x 84 inches Signed, dated and titled on verso.
* Hans Hofmann, «The Color Problem
in Pure Painting — Its Creative Origin,» first published in Hans Hofmann: New Paintings, exh.
Each has the potential to pleasantly surprise the viewer, even when you are often stuck with an image a fraction of the actual size,
through pure painting and / or the juxtaposition of color.
Artists are working differently now, like Wade Guyton, whose work is about process, not
just pure painting.
NASA to Probe the Heavens Natural Chemicals (1988) sources text from two New York Times articles and combines it with a painterly image that also suggests deep space, but Moses left this direction quickly to
explore pure painting.
Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature
of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.
These are often mixed together in what I want to be a spontaneous blend of images rich in cultural references, I hope held together by passages of
pure painting and lyrical colour in a «new representationalism»
They make people look at a painting for what it is —
pure painting.»
Yet Louis was quite comfortable with metaphor, even in the heyday of «
pure painting.»
Philip Guston had already abandoned «
pure painting,» for the Klan patrolling City Limits.
By turning back to the birth of «
pure painting,» in all its contradictions and impurity, one can appreciate how much was at stake.
If these artists were about reduction of form and
pure painting, Biltereyst's abstractions employ references to contemporary everyday life and evoke familiar shapes: logos on currency, advertising on the sides of trucks, or fences on a country road.
The only trick is that it has come back as more than
pure painting.