The «Watercolors «show, curated by Kristin Sancken, Phillips de Pury features 92 watercolors by a diverse group of artists and includes emerging
young painters like Willy Bo Richardson, Ben Blatt, Eva Lundsager and Annika Connor as well as such heavyweights of the art world as Eric Fischl.
In contrast to
younger painters like Joe Bradley or Oscar Murillo who merely ape a vapid simulacrum of abstract painting's vocabulary, Jensen incorporates a larger and deeper understanding of the history of his chosen style.
The point was taken up by
younger painters like Held.
Mr. Winkfield's cryptic symbols and hyped - up color is itself a precedent for the flat representational styles of
younger painters like Caitlin Keogh, Derrick Adams and Orion Martin.
His peers were the second - generation followers — «A host of
younger painters like myself who were struggling, fighting, full of energy and argument and drive, demanding, assertive, trying to make an original mark.
Resnick's allegiance to the physical properties of paint, its viscosity and «actuality,» was predictive of
younger painters like Robert Ryman and Frank Stella.
Not exact matches
Others had stayed,
like Karlstadt; and a brilliant
young painter, Lucas Cranach had stayed in his service to adorn the interior of the castle.
Like graffiti, the cave paintings must have been tremendously challenging physical work, and, like most graffiti artists, the cave painters must have been young peo
Like graffiti, the cave paintings must have been tremendously challenging physical work, and,
like most graffiti artists, the cave painters must have been young peo
like most graffiti artists, the cave
painters must have been
young people.
The contemporary collectors who cut their teeth on
younger artists are going back to wonderful figurative
painters like Neel.
In the mid»70s when I was a
young painter trying to find my way in New York, I especially
liked visiting an uptown gallery that has since become legendary, the Bykert Gallery at 24 East 81st Street.
We have talked with him about his drive to work from life, the painting challenges that come with diminished vision, how to use the inspiration you get from other
painters, and what it was
like coming to New York City as a
young artist in the nineteen fifties.
Like a lot of
younger artists, Shara deeply admires the work of Dana Schutz — a
painter who never succumbed to the siren call of «festival art.»
Larry Groff: What lead you to become a
painter and what were your early years
like as a student and
young artist?
In a disconcerting way, he remains relevant by being,
like so many
younger artists today, not necessarily a
painter per se, but an artist who uses painting coincidentally, as one of many other potential mediums available at any time; a phenomenon which in itself would merit its own investigation.
Like many
younger painters working with abstraction, Matt Connors (American, b. 1973) engages freely with the histories of his medium without depending upon them.
The departure was short - lived, however, ending when Hoptman returned to the city as a senior curator at the New Museum, bringing in works by
painters like Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, and Tomma Abts while also organizing seminal exhibitions including «Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century» — the influential show of provisional - looking sculpture that famously included a lot of paint — and «
Younger than Jesus,» the first iteration of the museum's Triennial.
A canvas
like Mountain of Heaven, 1961, illustrates how Bearden was indeed an experimenter, but not in the iconoclastic sense of the AbEx group, nor in the Greenbergian formal sense favored by the
younger color - field
painters.
Dealers
like Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend and Mary Boone championed artists such as David Salle and Julian Schnabel, whom critics labeled Neo-Expressionists, and whose style appealed to a growing art market willing to pay large sums of money for
young painters.
There is a tendency to overstate traces of influence that declare each
painter's generational moment: de Kooning's abrupt calligraphy for an older group
like this one; Elizabeth Murray's rounded cutouts for many
younger painters.
Then came the 1980s and a generation of
young painters,
like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Jean - Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and everything changed.
The «heroic» moment of abstraction is long gone, and although senior figures
like Bridget Riley still command respect, it's easier for most to accept the sceptical squeegee - ing of a Gerhard Richter or a Christopher Wool, while
young painters get plaudits for the slightest of chuck - it - at - the - canvas conceits.
Like a lot of people, my fantasy when I was
younger was to be the kind of
painter that that made big abstract paintings.
Like the
young Italian
painters, such as Francesco Clemente, Schnabel draws on art history, current events, other cultures and religion for his imagery.
In a letter to a
young artist seeking advice, the abstract
painter Thomas Nozkowski wrote in 2006, «Recognition, when it comes, sometimes can seem
like a misunderstanding.»
The current Chelsea landscape sometimes feels more
like a marketplace than a home to creativity, where tourists take art selfies in front of reflective Murakami sculptures, and bright,
young painters fetch extravagant sums.
The
painter Hope Gangloff specializes in portraits with strong contour lines, jewel -
like color and abundant decorative interest — works that have earned her frequent comparisons to Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt (especially when her subject is a pale
young woman with flowing locks and a striated dress, as in the painting above from her current show at Susan Inglett in Chelsea.)
The result is paintings whose vibrating color space, where image and afterimage interact, recall the utopian optical constructivism of
painters like Wojciech Fangor, as well as the meticulously Photoshopped, if blithely neutered, color field photography of
younger artists
like Cory Arcangel.
Bo had come out of the Pennsylvania Academy as a sort of wunderkind, alongside other dedicated
young representational
painters like Vincent Desiderio and Wade Schuman.
Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French
painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.
The show opens with a row of portraits from 1980 of Hoffmann, looking radiant and determined, by Andy Warhol, and then jumps back to the beginning, when she was picking up the work of the Belgian avant - garde, whose participants are seen infrequently stateside,
like Floris Jespers and Frits van den Berghe, whose punchily colored works here from the 1920s — respectively, a dandyish scene in a cafe with burning red walls and a terrifyingly gigantic floating above a rainbow — look curiously on point with what so many of today's mischievous
young figurative
painters are up to today.
While it's true that he was a slightly
younger contemporary of
painters like Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente, who were making a mark with figurative works at the beginning of the 1980s, most of the outstanding black
painters of the generation preceding Marshall's own — Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Jack Whitten — were committed abstractionists.
Henrique Faria Fine Art from New York aims to create a dialogue between Latin American midcentury modernist artists
like the Brazilian
painters Willys de Castro and Judith Lauand; historic conceptual artists
like the Argentine asemic writer Mirtha Dermisache; Marisol, a forgotten star of the Pop Art movement; and new works by
younger artists from the gallery's stable.
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague Opened in 1822, this art museum which specialises in masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age, has oils by Dutch
painters like Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals and works of the German
painter Hans Holbein the
Younger.
As Matthew Israel writes in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings seem
like they could have been made by a current
young abstract
painter.
Katz» work is said to have influenced many fellow
painters,
like David Salle, Peter Halley and Richard Prince, in addition to
younger artists,
like Peter Doig, Julian Opie, Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Peyton, Barb Januszkiewicz, Johan Andersson and Brian Alfred.
New exhibitions introduced audiences to
younger painters such as Josephine Halvorson and re-introduced masters
like Willem de Kooning, whose retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art remains on view until January 9.
See the excellent first show by Brent Wadden, a
young Canadian - born
painter who has set aside his brushes and taken up weaving, making thick rug -
like abstractions whose jagged, interlocking shapes have the wobble of Op Art except softened by vagaries of color, texture and edge.
This week I would
like to encourage you to see a show which opened last night in the West End, featuring the work of a
young painter recently graduated from the Royal Academy Schools.
As Matthew Israel writes in the full - color catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings seem
like they could have been made by a current
young abstract
painter.
The
young painter who is still attending high school already has many future plans — he would
like to enroll at Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, which would allow him to learn more about fine art and brush up his already enviable painting skills.
When I was in art school in the late»70s, I saw it begin, but the
young painters today, unlike my generation of
painters, find it almost impossible to locate truly inspiring contemporary artists for whom painting's meaning can be derived from what a painting looks
like.
Like the Jewish Museum's «Primary Structures,» Michael Fried's «Three American
Painters,» or even Damien Hirst's «Freeze,» «Pictures» seems less an object of history than of folklore in the minds of those too
young to have seen it firsthand.
Like Theodore Robinson (1852 - 96), Twachtman died quite
young, and his fellow artists of The Ten American
Painters wrote sincere tributes to him which were published in the North American Review in 1903.
But in the late 1870s the most promising
young painter from the east of the country, Arthur Melville (1855 — 1904), shared a vision of what painting could be with
like - minded counterparts in Glasgow.
More recently, we have the arresting neo-expressionism of Chinese
painters like Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958) and Yue Minjun (b. 1962), landscapes by Peter Doig (b. 1959) and the Ukrainian artist Dmitry Kolujny, the extraordinary «egg» pictures of Alexander Vlasenko, as well as numerous portraits by a range of
young painters, including the Irishmen David Nolan (b. 1966) and Conor Walton (b. 1970), among many others.
Snyder: I was somewhat aware of Twombly as a
young painter and since then have always
liked his work.
Craig - Martin, Michael (b. 1941)
Painter and installation artist, senior tutor at Goldsmiths College in London where he exerted a significant influence over members of the
Young British Artists group (
like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw and Gary Hume) during the 1980s and 90s.
The newly bicoastal gallery also represents a range of artists from
young new - media practitioners
like Tabor Robak to provocateurs
like Santiago Sierra and good old - fashioned
painters like Stanley Whitney, whose 2012 show made Raphael Rubinstein's «Top 10 in Painting» in A.i.A. that year.
Since then it has organized 16 exhibitions ranging from works by leading 20th - century artists
like George Grosz and Martin Kippenberger, to
younger generation artists such as the
painters Oliver Clegg and Adrian Ghenie.
Walking on «Pitch,» it's impossible not to think of how heavily this, and the work of many
young like - minded sculptural
painters, treads on the legacy of Carl Andre.