Sentences with phrase «schools of abstract expressionist painting»

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.

Europe's answer to the New York school of abstract expressionist painting was Art Informel, a movement that was - like its American counterpart - a rather general umbrella term for a new style of abstract painting which did not have any intellectual baggage or methodology.

All the above individual styles emerged out of the dominant school of abstract expressionist painting during the late 1950s, early 1960s, and in some ways reacted against it - or at least were precipitated by it.

Not exact matches

# New York school: abstract expressionists: artists choice by artists: a complete documentation of the New York painting and sculpture annuals, 1951 - 1957

As an emerging Abstract Expressionist painter, Melinda happily acknowledges that abstract painting was in her blood long before she studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City under Frank Roth.

In the late 1940s, she began teaching at the California School of Fine Arts, where she met Clyfford Still, whose abstract expressionist paintings had an important influence on her approach to sculpture, and she began to allow more room for the accidental and the spontaneous.

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.

But among the things they had in common was a rejection of the gestural painting favoured by the abstract expressionists and other abstract painters, and the personal agonising associated with Auerbach, Bacon and what would come to be known as the School of London.

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

As an abstract expressionist born, raised and established in Southern California, Michael, who counted Mike Kelley among one of his grad school professors, uses super thick layers of acrylic paint on canvas and arms himself with plastic blades - never brushes - to create deep, saturated abstract pieces that are laborious, well - thought out and carefully composed.

Like Rhoney's prints, Blackwood's photographs are inextricably linked to the traditions of painting; she cites among her influences the abstract expressionist painters of the New York School.

Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member of the New York School and is regarded as one of the prominent figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline, whose gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the abstract expressionist movement in America.

The first international modern art movement to come out of America (it is sometimes referred to as The New York School - see also American art), it was a predominantly abstract style of painting which followed an expressionist colour - driven direction, rather than a Cubist idiom, although it also includes a number of other styles, making it more of a general movement.

An inheritor of the San Francisco Bay Area School of abstract expressionism, her paintings... are at once of this time and also firmly rooted in the uniquely American abstract expressionist tradition.»

• WILLEM DE KOONING (1904 - 97) Dutch - born American abstract expressionist painter, member of the New York School, best - known for his style of gestural painting, as exemplified by his semi-abstract images of women.

Together with Kenneth Noland (b. 1924) and Frank Stella (b. 1936), he is considered to be one of the leaders of the generation of American painters that succeeded the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, except that his development differs markedly from the others because, from the beginning, he rejected the influence of US abstract expressionist painting and turned directly to a personal re-examination of European, and especially French, sources of postmodernist art.

Abstract Expressionism Originally a diverse style of abstract art developed in the USA during the 1940s and 1950s, and particularly associated with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock; abstract expressionist painting is sometimes known as the New York School.

Neither purely abstract nor expressionist, the style embraced two broad groupings: the school of «Action Painting» (a style of gestural painting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko andPainting» (a style of gestural painting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko andpainting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko andPainting practised by Mark Rothko and others.

New York School artist Kyle Morris» paintings embody the artistic incubator of mid-century East Hampton, where he spent time with fellow abstract expressionists.

In addition to his close friendships with abstract expressionist painters and sculptors, he was one of the «Irascibles» made famous in Nina Leen's 1951 Life photograph, and in 1948, together with Motherwell, Hare, and Mark Rothko, he co-founded the Subjects of the Artist School, an artists group that provided a forum to discuss the issues at stake in contemporary painting.

Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member of the New York School and is regarded as one of the prominent figures, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, and Franz Kline, whose gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the abstract expressionist movement in America.

Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) was a founding member of the New York School and is regarded as one of the great artists, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline, whose gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the abstract expressionist movement in America.