The work of abstract painters of this time, such as Frederick Hammersley and Lorser Feitelson, embraces similar color choices.
Seldom, however, does one get the opportunity to view
the work of those abstract painters on the West Coast whose work was every bit as strong, and every bit as compelling as their East Coast contemporaries.
Whatever else they may or may not have in common with
the work of abstract painters and sculptors from elsewhere, the artworks shown here were made to be exhibited as such.
The Contemporary Art Society - commissioned Century Egg by Bedwyr Williams will be showing at British Art Show 8 in Leeds, whilst in London Damien Hirst's new gallery opens with an intriguing look at
the work of abstract painter John Hoyland.
Many of Strobert's paintings and drawings are inspired by
the work of the abstract painter Alma Thomas.
Composer Nathan Hall is fascinated with
the works of abstract painter Clyfford Still.
In a new and unusual approach to color in
the work of abstract painter Josef Albers, David Zwirner's first London exhibition devoted to Albers focuses on one color that held a pervasive place in the artist's oeuvre.
Siegel credits the High for helping her obtain a curatorial fellowship from the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to research
the work of abstract painter Moira Dryer, who died in 1992 at age 34.
The styles embraced by this term include Hard - Edge Painting, illustrated by
the works of abstract painters like Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Frank Stella (b. 1936), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926); Colour Stain Painting, exemplified by Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Joan Mitchell (1926 - 92), and Jules Olitski (b. 1922); Washington Colour Painters, such as Gene Davis (1920 - 85), Morris Louis (1912 - 62) and Kenneth Noland (b. 1924); Systemic Painting, which covered the work of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67), as well as Stella and Youngerman; Lyrical Abstraction, including works by Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), Frankenthaler and others; Colour Field Painting, illustrated by the works of pioneers Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), as well as Frankenthaler, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 93); and Minimal Painting which referred to pictures by Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), Brice Marden (b. 1938), and Robert Ryman (b. 1930).
Not exact matches
The pioneering
abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky (whose
work is pictured) suggested that the emotional effects
of abstract art are «objective, determined by the characteristics
of the colours and their interactions».
English character actor Timothy Spall plays the
painter over the last 25 years
of his life as his
work began to grow more
abstract.
In 1989 the newly opened Art Gallery purchased a
work by
abstract painter Barnett Newman titled, «Voice
of Fire».
Pennsylvania, United States About Blog Taryn Day's style
of painterly realism is inspired by the
work of modern
painters who combine realism with a strong emphasis on
abstract design, such as Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Dickinson and Edward Hopper.
In the early 1990s, as a young artist out
of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the
work of mainstream
abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the
painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed
work by African American artists.
«Generations
of black
abstract painters never seem to be celebrated,» says Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she recently organized «Black in the
Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused on the history
of African American
painters working in abstraction.
Neal notes that «it is interesting that 8
Painters, comprised
of all figurative painting, and timed to run concurrently with The Forever Now, offers an alternative to the mostly
abstract works at MoMA.
Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web
of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range
of his smaller
abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding
of his
work as that
of an «action»
painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a
painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding
of his
work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement
of the artist's hand.
«There's a wonderful group
of collectors who are more receptive to the
work of black
abstract painters now,» says Kelly.
Five from LA «features paintings by... Whitney Bedford, Kirsten Everberg, Alexandra Grant, Iva Gueorguieva and Annie Lapin... all California based
painters who meld representation with abstraction or the mediation
of pigment... Mitchell - Innes & Nash presents
works by a trio
of reductive
abstract artists that blur the boundaries between painting sculpture and installation.»
His themes, processes, personas, and approach to making art are evident in everything from the ready - mades and Pop portraits
of his direct descendents to the
work of some
of the most boundary - pushing conceptualists,
abstract painters, and video artists
working today.
As a cerebral
painter, this body
of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history
of hard - edged
abstract, geometric painting.
Among a new generation
of abstract painters who emerged combining color field painting with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new elements
of complex space and surface into their
works.
Behind the black gate was a world
of color, hundreds
of abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start as a
painter in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to paint.
It features
works by
abstract and figurative
painters and sculptors, as well as pioneers
of installation and performance art.
For BOS, Julie has been organizing a community
of international as well as American
abstract painters and curating their
works.
George McNeil was not among the most well known
abstract expressionist
painters, but he was in the thick
of it in the 1940s and 1950s, showing his brash, bright, gushing abstractions alongside
work by de Kooning and Pollock.
A studio visit with the New York - based
painter and drawing maker David Row, who presents his recent
work, traces his development, and reflects on
abstract painting's open - ended possibilities
of meaning.
Although these sound like the fighting words
of a hardcore
abstract artist, Matthiasdottir was a realist
painter who, like all significant artists
working in this mode, reinvented it.
For 2015 BOS I've invited two dear
painter friends, Scott Robinson and Meredith Hoffheins, to show new paintings with me in a presentation we've titled, Land Ausländer (which roughly translates to «foreign country» or «land alien»), because the three
of us each incorporate
abstract forms into a physical or imagined environment in our
work.
For this program,
abstract painter and Yaqui Indian Mario Martinez sat down with Steven O'Banion, Director
of Conservation at Glenstone, to discuss his life,
work, and personal philosophy.
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting features the
work of thirteen intergenerational emerging and mid-career
abstract painters,
working in studios across the United States.
This is the first major exploration
of the
works of American
abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement
of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance
of her art.
In late March, LA Louver will open an exhibition
of work the by the late
abstract painter Frederick Hammersley.
Established in 1993, The Joan Mitchell Foundation increases recognition
of the
work and life
of pioneering
abstract painter Joan Mitchell.
As such, «Rower's pours come closer to the
abstracting nature photos
of Edward Weston than to the
works of Pollock or de Kooning,
painters who, even when most
abstract, always left behind traces
of the actions
of their hands.»
But in her
work, and that
of other
abstract painters I've mentioned, the issue
of whether there is anything already in such paintings, as opposed to what we might «read» into them, is often raised.
He attended Columbia University, the American Artists School, and the National Academy
of Design, after which, from 1936 — 40, he became one
of the few
abstract painters to
work for the easel division
of the WPA Federal Art Project.
In 2009, the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau - Cambrésis presented a brilliantly conceived exhibition titled «Ils Ont Regardé Matisse» (They Looked at Matisse) that examined how 15
abstract painters, Francis and Kelly among them, in the U.S. and Europe responded to the
work of Matisse.
Piero Dorazio (Rome, June 29, 1927 - Perugia, May 17, 2005) was an Italian
painter, whose
work was related to Color field, Lyrical Abstraction and other forms
of abstract art.
More recently, multiple paintings and
works on paper by Lewis, the late
abstract painter whose first museum retrospective debuted last fall at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts (and opens June 4 at the Amon Carter Museum
of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas), have appeared regularly and covered the April catalog.
About Joan Mitchell Foundation The Joan Mitchell Foundation increases recognition
of the
work and life
of pioneering
abstract painter Joan Mitchell.
It should be noted that while the overall effect
of Murray's
work is one
of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an
abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg:
works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized
abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and is in the canon
of historically significant women
abstract painters working in New York since the 1970's.
Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian
painter, teacher, and art theorist who was one
of the first artists to explore nonrepresentational art and, in 1910, created the first totally
abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction.
Tseng has spent a great deal
of time studying
works by
abstract painters, exploring in depth both their compositions and their «mark - making.»
There has never been a better year to look at the
work of Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer
of abstract art often seen as the greatest Russian
painter of the twentieth century.
Currently the official story
of avant - garde
abstract painting and sculpture in America that is on view at the Whitney Museum, denies
works of scores
of artists that demonstrate that American
painters and sculptors by the late sixties went beyond minimalism creating a new expressionism.
Coming off the David Zwirner London showing
of Cuban
abstract painters from 1950s and in anticipation
of next year's first - ever US showing
of Cuban post-revolutionary
work at the Bronx Museum
of the Arts, there was a good representation
of the
work of Wifredo Lam and Amelia Peláez
of the Vanguardias (vanguards) movement.
Working before Kandinsky and Malevich, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was arguably the first
abstract painter in the history
of modern art
While she describes herself as a
painter and has won international recognition for her
abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body
of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.