Edward Avedisian's Normal Love # 1, 1963 is an involving image of a zygote breaking off from two gamete cells, a biology illustration
used as an abstract painting with warm and somewhat passive colors.
Not exact matches
Using our easy to replicate
abstract painting instructions — pumpkins will quickly come to life
as their own little works of art this fall.
In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such
abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells
used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make
paint.
You can see that from the lock screen, which
uses the same
abstract oil
painting image
as the Note 3.
Artist Sandra Lauterbach
uses fabric
as her
paint and needles
as her brushes to create
abstract designs.
In 1965 he
painted thin plywood reliefs, with stretched canvas
as surface, and three years ago he
used plywood, minus canvas, with a
painted abstract surface.
Meg Lipke and Sangram Majumdar
use plants
as a vehicle for
abstract paint handling.
As an
abstract expressionist, West often
used hard edged and bold brushstrokes in her
paintings.
Jeff Elrod (American, b. 1966) creates
abstract paintings using basic computer software
as a starting point for his artistic process.
She
used these manufactured setting
as still - lifes, transcribing them into larger scale oil
painting of
abstract space - scapes.
As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new wor
As in his earlier Storm
paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again
uses abstract elements
as building blocks for his new wor
as building blocks for his new work.
Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each
painting that make it look so realistic and
abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every
painting (piece) and every small detail in the
painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the
abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions,
as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is
used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.
Using a palette of the same four colors, Cranston reworks an
abstract painting by one of the key figures in Modernism, Swiss / French artist, architect and designer Charles - Édouard Jeanneret, better known
as Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) in six variations, identical in form and composition but in different color combinations.
Echoing lessons in
abstract expressionism, Benfield
used a cell phone
as an icon to drive her
painting.
The original common
use refers to the tendency attributed to
paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and
as a way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American
abstract expressionism.
«Northern Village» is one of the many
paintings Klee created that demonstrates his
use of the grid
as an
abstract way to organize color relationships.
Lerma
uses layers of figurative
as well
as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of
paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.
She currently has work in a group show at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn called Another Gesture / Um Outro Gesto / Eine weitere Geste /, which «moves away from the dominant male legacy of
abstract expressionism, in which gesture was
used to champion the uniqueness of
painting as a medium.»
Use the strong lines in this electricity tower (photographed from below)
as the starting point for a geometric
abstract painting.
Indeed her works, which would be characterized
abstract art rather than
abstract painting, share some common ground, such
as the spectacular
use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful
use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her
paintings a rough surface by
using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.
Hugo McCloud (b1980, Palo Alto, California) is known for his large - scale
abstract paintings that
use materials such
as tar paper and metal, and engage with traditional woodblock printing techniques.
Adolf Gottlieb, the
Abstract Expressionist,
used bursts of red pigment
as image and
as structural element, while Josh Smith now churns out messy
abstract paintings like child's play — or like an emerging artist's assembly - line product.
Silver's goal
as an oil painter is to freely
use color and shape to create
abstract paintings that he transforms into imaginary landscapes.
Jasper Johns (born 1930) made his major breakthrough
as a painter in the mid-1950s when he started
using iconic, popular images in his
paintings — an explosive move at a moment when advanced
painting was understood to be exclusively
abstract.
In the end I decided to
use just the tree bark and the smooth white stone, without any of its underside,
as the basis for an
abstract painting.
Using a variety of different materials such
as spray
paint, foil, ripped paper, and even hydrocal, Anthony Pearson crafts
abstract artworks.
Through
abstract paintings, such
as Abstract Painting No. 20 (1942), many of which
use forms from landscape, he sought to portray a binding and healing conception of the universe and to make the sublime visual.
He
used to say, «There is no such thing
as representational
painting and
abstract painting: there is only intelligent
painting and stupid
painting.»
At a time when we have become desensitised to an image - saturated world, Tony Swain (born Northern Ireland, 1967)
uses familiar sections of newspaper that are pieced together
as a support for
paintings of fragmented landscapes and
abstract patterns.
Schnabel
used abstract expressionism
as one point of departure for his own work and almost singlehandedly brought expressionist
painting back into the fore earlier in his career.
Yet sometimes,
as in the early series of
paintings,
using the shape of a pitched tent, the
abstract pattern can seem loaded with meaning.
In his richly hued, minimalist works, Kim seeks to push the edges of what we understand
as abstract painting by
using the medium to develop an idea that typically gets worked out over the course of an ongoing series.
She often compares the rhythm of her
painting as akin to weaving in which she
uses representational elements made of
paint, textiles or plastics to build
abstract paintings where each element is recognizable but does not behave
as it should.
APEX (b. 1978, San Francisco, CA), also known
as Ricardo Richey, is a street artist who creates colorful
abstract patterns through the
use of spray
paint.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized:
Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to
abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
painting as the dominant style of
painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded
Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe:
abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative
Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work
as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or
Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-
Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual
painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How
painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-
Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and
abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus
painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc
painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists
use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly
uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such
as the curvy
abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921
painting Le Grand Déjeuner.
Every day he is garnering more and more attention with his shadowy
abstract paintings created in rather unique and unusual manner,
using unconventional materials such
as lipstick, drywall mud, dirt and even lidocaine.
With the artist's subtle
use of different shades of
paint,
as well
as his careful attention to the variegated surface of the canvas, the
painting stands
as a successful intervention into the terrain of
abstract expressionist
painting.
In her
painting practice Earnest
uses unconventional materials such
as aluminum tape, carpet fuzz, insulation, drywall tape, cement, contact paper, latex gloves, and joint compound, and she seeks to explore how
abstract spaces such
as «home» can be defined through the complex relationship between objects and memory.
Mark Bradford
used abstract painting as an architectural intervention, literally transforming the building for this installation «Tomorrow is Another Day».
except, art «fans» do
use painterly or hard edged or tron to describe or recommend
abstract painting, and in an exactly analogous way
as music fans.
In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock
used the drip
painting method
as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of what became known
as abstract expressionism.
Famous authors, such
as the above - mentioned painter Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, and Helen Frankenthaler
used it to produce flowing, most often
abstract paintings and compositions which celebrated pure color, or the pure quality of the canvas surface
as was the case during the Post-Painterly Abstraction movement.
Xie Molin combines two traditions in his machine - generated
abstract paintings: his classical training in fine arts and his
use of a tri-axial linkage
painting machine, continuing his father's legacy
as an engineer.
Using the
abstract technique of dot
painting as a means to a figurative end, Boyd
paints portraits and landscapes in oils, watercolor, or charcoal, before overlaying the
painted surface with dots of archival glue.
«The exhibition will showcase the early collages that combine
abstract painting, text, and image; and a selection of many of the artist's best - known blackboard
paintings, in which a faux blackboard surface is
used as the ground for realistic,
painted vignettes adjacent to fragments of different stories that suggest variously ambiguous meanings.
Today, nearly two centuries since Turner's visits to Margate, see first - hand how his dynamic concept of landscape, unconventional
use of colour and near
abstract watercolours and
paintings secured his place
as the artist of the elements and the founder of modern landscape
painting.
In 2008, Vavrek started experimenting with
using sculptural geometric forms
as the basis for imagery
painted in glaze, which is something he developed further when he started his
abstract sectional wall works in 2012.
Instead of
using process and materiality
as metaphor, I want to reinvigorate the notion that
abstract paintings can in fact be directly engaged with the world.
Frequently
used in the past by major
Abstract Expressionist artists, such
as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, this element, in most cases, also defines the contemporary
abstract painting production of our time.