Guyton stood out as the artist least involved
with painterly traditions.
I fuse the domestic
with the painterly tradition of painting by staining, mopping, throwing, printing, spraying, dragging, imprinting, brushing, washing and bleaching pigments onto fabrics, drop cloths and canvases forming expressive abstract patterns.
Not exact matches
The three paintings and a collage, all featuring the same figure
with folded arms, seem to be rooted in the
painterly tradition reminiscent of Otto Dix and even early Tair Salakhov.
In the aftermath of the Mexican revolution, the country's artists forged a new
painterly vocabulary, which fused European modernism
with local folkloric
traditions, and became a global phenomenon.
Through a process of forming paper pulp into shapes and painting
with pigmented pulp, Liu cultivates chance and embraces a stylistic looseness that playfully mines
painterly traditions.
Jewish Museum Members are invited to an early Members - only viewing of Chaim Soutine: Flesh, featuring Soutine's remarkable paintings depicting hanging fowl, beef carcasses, and rayfish, imbued
with the unique visual conceptions and
painterly energy that the artist brought to the
tradition of still - life, considered among his greatest artistic achievements.
While the formal still lifes may conjure associations
with Audubon and are occasionally mistaken for watercolors or drawings, the consequence of motion is a startling and surprising range of subtle colors, suggesting
painterly strategies that refer to a long
tradition of European still life painting.
There, she developed a highly personal
painterly style - synthesizing an Abstract Expressionist tendency
with the
traditions of high European painting.
By not painting from life, Doig and most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally different relationship
with modernist
painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.
Rauschenberg challenged this
painterly tradition with an egalitarian approach to materials, bringing the stuff of the everyday world into his art.
There is no easy way to define Franz West's art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty that speaks
with equal fluency to the
tradition of
painterly abstraction and the aesthetics of trash art.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the
painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely
with the figurative
tradition.
«Besides suggesting kinships to Edward Hopper's scenes of solitude and the meditative still - lifes of the Italian modern master Giorgio Morandi, Gallace's way of painting — it hardly seems a style — has affinities
with a New York
tradition of
painterly realism that was developed in the nineteen - fifties by Fairfield Porter...» - Schjeldahl, Peter.
The overall concept of Dummy Vexillography seems a means to an end — a pretense that allows Robinson to indulge in material experimentation and formalist preoccupations, engaging
with and reveling in material culture and
painterly styles and
traditions, rather than political discourse.
Hannah is a self - described «idiosyncratic» painter, having emerged improbably from New York's punk 1970s demimonde as a figurative artist obsessed
with painterly technique and single - mindedly focused on reviving the narrative
tradition in painting.
An interview
with the artist reveals the nuances of Fischl's
painterly perspective and his extensive knowledge of art history, and places him squarely in the great
tradition of artists who have defined the iconography of their age.
His use of broad loose strokes and translucent colour - fields shows a profound connection
with the rich history of painting, as an acknowledgement and observation of those
painterly traditions.
In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting
tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of
painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.
The Lisson Gallery exhibition presents for the first time a new series of earth works of varied formats: table sculptures modelling micro and macro-landscapes, wall and floor sculptures evoking the natural forms of rock and coral, and works on canvas coated
with pigments mined from the earth in a gritty take both on
painterly traditions and on Kapoor's own earlier pigment sculptures and void forms.
By engaging
with the
traditions of
painterly practice but normalising the almost exclusive presentation of black people within her work, Yiadom - Boakye's formal investigations of composition, structure and palette also raise questions of identity, visibility and representation, pointing to the dearth of such depictions in the Western art - historical canon.