-LSB-...] «Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows
about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».
In previous shows, I was loosely alluding to those things but primarily talking
about abstract painting.
Then, one day, I was thinking
about abstract painting again... Then, suddenly, I abandoned the figure altogether.»
In the little temporal space in - between celebrating the success of Truth to Power and the stress of the upcoming new projects, I speak to the artist
about abstract painting and trauma.
I was chatting with someone
about abstract painting and contemporary art and, intending to say «post-modernism» it came out as «post-Mondrianism»
It is not quite a year ago that I wrote
about the abstract paintings and watercolors of Stephen Mueller.
It is a particularly tough question
about abstract painting, because iconography, through which meaning and intention are found, is missing or concealed.
Ann Knickerbocker blogs
about abstract paintings seen recently in San Francisco including works by Indira Martina Morre, Teo Gonzalez, Judith Foosaner, Patrick Wilson, Marilyn Levin, Lora Fosberg, and Reed Anderson.
Specifically how it seemed to describe something true
about the abstract paintings she created.
Jeff Elrod -(pictured above) After a disastrous train wreck of a lecture at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2009, I started to think differently
about his abstract paintings that are part elegant monochromatic gestural works and part nostalgic elegy to early digi - art, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st century.
Jennie Jieun Lee is known for her evocative, visceral ceramics composed of organic freely thrown forms, encased in layers of oozing glaze; often times bringing forth conversations
about abstract painting in relationship to the history of ceramics.
It encourages us to entertain several questions
about abstract painting today: What are contemporary abstractionists holding onto?
• For information
about abstract painting, see: Homepage.
• For more
about abstract painting, see: Homepage.
If we were talking
about abstract painting she could discuss the major abstract painters of Yugoslavia in the Fifties.
I had a terrific time with Joan Waltemath, Raphael Rubinstein (who has a new article
about abstract painting underway), Jennifer McCoy, Archie Rand and so many other interesting artists.
All that stuff
about abstract painting... like the Malevich paintings are outer space paintings, like this weird idea that the place to be is in outer space with nothing else around, and that's what's really great and abstract.
It's great to hear a young artist speak so frankly
about abstract painting that is accessible.
At a time when abstraction is regarded in certain quarters as a dated style, the exhibition promises to raise fundamental questions not only about Frankenthaler's career but
about abstract painting as a whole: Does abstraction have any meaning today?
We all know
about abstract painting in which color and line are each other's best friend.
What is important
about abstract painting is an idea.
But what
about abstract painting?
Youthful memory: the first time some jerk, upon overhearing talk
about abstract painting, held up a blank sheet of paper and jokingly claimed, «Look, it's a landscape in a snowstorm.»
Abstract part 2, a spirited show of small, colorful work at Marcia Wood Gallery through January 18, continues the conversation
about abstract painting begun with its predecessor, abstract part 1.
Painting Too, at Harrington Mill Studios, forms part - two of a duo of shows
about abstract painting, demonstrating that, to quote its curator David Manley: «current abstraction is in rude good health».
But still, what is
it about abstract painting reduced to a (almost) single color, small in size, with exposed canvas and a relatively thin surface?
Not exact matches
It is a dance of African American origin characterized by a This is typical of
about 250
abstract paintings dating from 1917 to 1944.
It allows students to find
about artists using similar approaches and aerial photographs to explore making an
abstract painting, so covers AO1 2 and 4 nicely.
And in their talk
about an
abstract show, called The
Painted World, the students are concerned with how the art — and the world — makes them simultaneously laugh and learn.
Woven throughout are stories
about everything from roofers to rock stars to
abstract painting.
Austin, TX
About Blog Local Austin
abstract artist specializing in large oversized and commissioned
paintings.
Portland, OR
About Blog Fine artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful
abstract paintings, intricate line drawings, pattern design & hand lettering.
About Blog Ellie Harold
paints representational and
abstract landscapes in oil.
Some ideas for writing
about abstract art... How did you
paint it?
I've only recently started
painting abstract and have found it especially challenging to define a story
about these
paintings.
Think
about Mad Men — the
abstract painting that is installed up in the executive's office.
Moving from figurative to
abstract painting, British painter Cecily Brown thinks
about the qualities of
paint itself:» When the body disappears it's almost like there's no» there» there,» she explains.»
And good
abstract painting is
about that as well.
The essay «
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak
about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around
painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, especially
abstract painting in this
painting in this country.
We began talking
about it, and they were astounded because they had been
painting abstract art, so I had twenty years they didn't remember, they didn't realize anybody remembered that they made collages with matchsticks and tried to look like Picabia.
Through Aug. 16, 2014 Mark Bradford at White Cube Hong Kong Known for his
abstract, layered collage
paintings, Los Angeles - based Mark Bradford is presenting «a series of new works
about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning, in the world's most densely populated city.»
The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier figurative work, but these
paintings, on view through July 7, aren't
about garden design or
abstract composition.
Danto's definition of art as being
about something is so entrenched it is hard for the counterexample of
abstract painting to be appropriately appreciated.
Someone said that they would like to know more
about the link between systems thinking and my
abstract paintings.
I've been making
abstract paintings for fifty years and I don't think they're
about anything.
In my mind, that's still
abstract painting; it's not really
about....
Discover more
about the
abstract artist's style of
painting and the influences behind her ground - breaking work
Challenging and re-inventing ideas
about pictorial space, the
paintings on view relate to Color Field
painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking
abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
We were trying to explain to some people what a so - called
abstract painting was
about, and what
Abstract Expressionism was all
about.
And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war
abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced in a brief «manifesto» of the rising movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times in response to a negative review of the new style: «There is no such thing as good
painting about nothing.