Among the many artists whom she met at the time, Fairfield Porter, older and more established, became especially important to her, as his commitment to modernist
representational painting supported her return to landscape painting Wilson's career as an artist began to take off in the early 1960s.
Not exact matches
She has made gestural as well as hard - edge abstractions, word
paintings (her Angry Women series of 1973), and
representational self - portraits, sometimes using such unconventional
supports as rug samples, sandpaper, and canvases folded like accordion books.
Although Mr. Tillim wrote on a wide range of topics, he was most identified with
representational and figurative
painting, which he
supported at a time when esteem for that sort of work was at its lowest ebb.