Not exact matches
Along with the White Paintings, which Rauschenberg completed in 1951, the Black paintings signaled the young artist's awareness of the status of the monochromatic
canvas within the lineage of modernist painting, particularly as it was developing in the late 1940s and
early 1950s at the hands of artists such as Barnett Newman (1905 — 1970), Franz Kline (1910 — 1962), and Willem de Kooning (1904 — 1997).4 Although the White Paintings and the Black paintings explored
related formal strategies, the Black paintings in particular have been read as a response to the innovative rethinking of the monochrome that was occurring in those years.
This publication is the first to comprehensively trace this thread in Bartlett's practice, reproducing her newest paintings on
canvas, the Blob paintings, and gathering works from three pivotal series in her career:
early plate pieces from the 1970s, shaped
canvases from the
early 2000s, and plate pieces
relating to the 2008 - 2010 room - size installation Recitative.
This exhibit is the first to comprehensively trace this thread in Bartlett's practice, debuting her newest paintings on
canvas, the «Blob» paintings, and gathering works from three pivotal series in her career:
early plate pieces from the 1970s, shaped
canvases from the
early 2000s, and plate pieces
relating to the 2008 — 2010 room - size installation Recitative.
Biography: Since the
early 1950s, Judith Godwin has been using gesture and color to
relate her life experiences in her Abstract Expressionist
canvases.