Sentences with phrase «series of abstract expressionist paintings»

In 1955, living in Berkeley, CA, Diebenkorn began working figuratively, drawing from the model, painting still lifes, landscapes and interiors, much to the surprise of those who were familiar with his earlier Berkeley series of abstract expressionist paintings leading up to that point.

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Mixed media abstract expressionist painting using brush work, montoype, gouache, acrylic paints to blend an expressive work from her «Plains Series» based on her visions of the weste...

Pollock's energetic «action paintings», with their «busy» feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's figurative paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstract).

Louis began his first series of Veil paintings in 1954 before moving into a somewhat less successful period of increasingly gestural abstract expressionist paintings over the next few years.

Bound by their 50 x 50 cm paper and defined by their pencil planometrics, the evocative title of the series pays a debt to Frank Stella, but they also make nods to other abstract expressionists, notably Barnett Newman, to the earlier suprematist paintings of Kazimir Malevich, to Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, to ancient Chinese cities as squares, to Islamic caravanserai and Italian cloisters, to the houses within houses of Oswald Mathias Ungers, and even to the composition of Greek chorus and 1970s CBGB punk — that is to say, to all the good things in life.

It was the third in a series of six paintings by de Kooning, an abstract expressionist, done between 1951 and 1953.

The latest body of Mina Cheon aka Kim Il Soon paintings are her Dream Sequence painting series where she is painting hot pink drip, Western style abstract expressionist, paintings in her dreams.

Even though Burri was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his abstract «unpainted paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests of Abstract Expressionists, while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its use of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish melting of form).

Motherwell (1915 — 1991) was an abstract expressionist painter best known for his decade - long series of paintings titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic.

Oehlen followed his rude, provocative Neo-Expressionist attacks of the 1980s with a cooler brand of computer - based images in the 1990s, followed by a subsequent series of painted - over advertising and his more recent, abstract expressionist works, all while striving to maintain a balance of painterly passion and critical distance.

The artist even created a series of fake abstract expressionist paintings out of decorating fabric to contribute to the ironic humor of the piece.

Note: Abstract Expressionism refers in general to those artists who were working in New York in the 1950s, even if their work was not especially expressionist or abstract: so it encompassed Mark Rothko, and his Colour Field Painting, as well as the gesturalism of Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97) and his Woman series.

Charged by the energy of the exploding art scene and discovering the works of his American contemporaries while in New York, including Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman and Ad Reinhardt, Douaihy moved away from his earlier academic style and began his much sought - after series of minimalist abstract paintings.

These early paintings were again abstract, however in a different way to the later «Ocean Park» series, in that they were more rooted in the biomorphic forms of the Abstract Expressionists, more specifically in the work of fellow Americans, the painters Arshile Gorky and Robert Motherwell.