Sentences with phrase «scale of abstract expressionist painting»

The mural - like scale of abstract expressionist painting goes along with a suggestive, turbulent, «expressive» release of colour that is so much more moving than Mondrian's impersonal blues, reds and yellows.

Rail: As much as you had reduced your «Big Nude» to black and white while adapting the monumental scale of abstract expressionist painting, did you think you were going against the grain of what was happening at the time?

Not exact matches

While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.

The collection encompasses works from 1945 to the present, including major holdings of abstract expressionist painting, minimalist sculpture, media and installation works, large - scale and conceptually driven photographs, and an impressive representation of works by emerging artists.

Executed in the 1970s as an evolution of his early expressionist canvases, Jack Whitten's large - scale paintings reveal hidden geometrical shapes that emerge from an abstract surface.

Like so many painters, Hodgkin felt liberated by the 1959 Tate show The New American Painting and by the impact of the scale and confidence of the abstract expressionists Barnett Newman and Jackson Pollock, though until the 1990s he continued to paint within a pre-abstract expressionist intimacy of format, and gained power from that containment.

Although he may be better known for his larger - than - life - sized, grisaille, figural paintings, Alfred Leslie spent the 1950s working in an abstract expressionist vein, creating paintings of explosive color as well as small - scale abstract works on paper.

A member of the first generation of abstract expressionists, Conrad Marca - Relli took the epic scale of New York School painting and applied it to collage.

Bhavsar's large scale paintings are bold, bright, beautiful and reminiscent of the abstract expressionists and color field painters of yore but with an undeniably original Indian influence.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

Transferred to video and projected on a scale reminiscent of abstract expressionist painting, the resulting films become a hallucinogenic kaleidoscope of references.

[6] During one of his solo Abstract expressionist exhibitions in 1959, Held's large - scale paintings of colourful, simple abstract geometric forms gained increasing recognition in America and Europe.

An abstract expressionist painter in a grand scale, his work is part of the discourse of styles, issues, and developments in American painting.

David Smith is known for his geometric sculptures like «Cubi VI» (1963), while abstract expressionist sculptor Louise Nevelson is known for creating assemblages whose scale rivaled those of the movement's paintings.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - AmeExpressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - Ameexpressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

The scale of the work, emphatic handling of paint and use of bright colours are testament to the influence of large - scale American abstract expressionist painting, first seen in strength in England in a group exhibition at the Tate in 1956.

I was still painting with my nose in the art history book — the paintings were mashups of Rothko and Redon's boat paintings — symbolism meets abstract expressionist scale.