Irving Kriesberg, painter of dreamlike landscapes; 90 Nov 20, 2009
NEW YORK - Irving Kriesberg, a much admired American painter whose work combined the intense colors of abstract expressionism with haunting images of human and animal forms, died of complications of Parkinson s disease Nov. 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. (Boston Globe)
Frank Lobdell drawings on exhibit at Stanford Nov 13, 2009
Frank Lobdell, a key figure in the great days of Bay Area abstract expressionism, met weekly for several years to draw a live model with Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, and until 1960, David Park - all now deceased. "Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings," which opened Wednesday at Stanford University's Cantor Center for Visual Arts, surveys the output of those years. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark Nov 5, 2009
When Jackson Pollock, for example, was emerging as the face of abstract expressionism, he was doing so at a time where form and training defined art. Had it not been for the help of and his wife, Lee Krasner, Pollock's work would have continued to be overlooked. (Suite101.com)
Arshile Gorky: The Shape Shifter Nov 2, 2009
In the seven or so years before he took his life in 1948, he produced some of the greatest, most explosive works of the 20th century, a synthesis of Surrealism and abstraction that unlocked voluptuous new possibilities for painting and opened the way to Abstract Expressionism. It wasn't a long life, but it was lit by fire. (Time.com)
* Rebel artists think in ink Oct 28, 2009
This dogmatic conception of the genre began to lose steam at the end of the 1950s, when Taiwans ink painters broke with tradition and came under the influence of surrealism, abstract expressionism and pop art. The examples exhibited in Open Flexibility demonstrate that modernist experimentation freed Taiwanese artists from the formal constraints of the past and enabled them to employ ink in a revolutionary manner. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
What will happen to the reputation of Hyman Bloom, one of Boston’s most celebrated artists? Oct 11, 2009
Why, despite tremendous acclaim in his 20s and 30s, is he not as well known as Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning, both of whom admired him and even credited him with helping to kick-start abstract expressionism ... Ab Ex [abstract expressionism] met a huge cultural need, to express the pain the US and the world felt at the end of the war, the Holocaust, the Bomb, and the need to express it in avant-garde (e. (Boston Globe)
ROW: Reflections on Water at Touchs... Oct 4, 2009
The images are quite representative, yet become almost abstract through the process of composition, a similar style of abstract expressionism to another local peer. Transformation from Element to Resource. (Suite101.com)
Gorky collection finds unusual home in Whistler House Museum Sep 26, 2009
But through one historical quirk and another, a small museum in Lowell that commemorates the birthplace of James McNeill Whistler is now in the possession of almost 30 early paintings, drawings, and prints by Arshile Gorky, the Armenian-born progenitor of American Abstract Expressionism. What does Gorky have to do with Whistler. (Boston Globe)
Bernie Fuchs, 76; illustrator of magazines defined an era Sep 22, 2009
He even experimented with bold designs based on the abstract expressionism movement popularized by painters Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. One vivid example, commissioned by McCall s magazine in the late 1950s, was a portrait of two young couples relaxing in a small room after dinner. (Boston Globe)
Art.view: Bedfellows Sep 21, 2009
Warhol was one of the first artists to bring subject matter back into art after Abstract Expressionism, explains Cheyenne Westphal of Sotheby's. He documented and manipulated his world just as Gursky documents and manipulates ours. (The Economist)
Images show a South in the grips of the Depression Sep 15, 2009
Abstract Expressionism, an art movement not to his liking, was on the rise, and the drive to make a living won over the one to continue making prints. Hired by the Atlanta advertising firm Burke Dowling Adams (later bought out by Batten Barton Durstine n) as a commercial artist, he handled the Delta Air Lines account for two decades. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the Present Sep 7, 2009
Contemporary artists worked in the medium in unprecedented ways; they created large-scale color woodcuts featuring people, landscapes, geometric abstraction, or organic forms, in styles as varied as abstract expressionism and minimalism. Blocks of Color continues up to the present day with prints by 43 other artists, including Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Bosman, Francesco Clemente, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Karen Kunc, Sherrie Levine, Michael Mazur, and others. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Monet Water Lilies at MoMA Sep 5, 2009
In a quintessential case of contemporary art transforming attitudes toward earlier art history, the large scale and gestural freedom of Abstract Expressionism illuminated the late Monet as a predecessor of great relevance. The copyright of the article Monet Water Lilies at MoMA in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
James Dormer and Paul Flippen Sep 2, 2009
I personally began to think about this issue a few days ago when I was confronted about a prior article that I wrote, Graffiti, Abstract Expressionism, ous Auction Returns. Asserting that the criticism in the post was incomplete, he complained that I overlooked key issues. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Hyman Bloom, 96; painted works of grisly Expressionism Aug 28, 2009
Pamela Allara, professor emerita of contemporary art at Brandeis University, called Mr. Bloom certainly one of the best post-war American painters, one whose work was, through accident of timing, eclipsed by Abstract Expressionism ... But by mid-century, Abstract Expressionism had put Mr. Bloom s career in the shadows ... Without him, Abstract Expressionism would not have existed in the way that it did, French said of Mr. Bloom. (Boston Globe)
Three gallery exhibits with pop craft, experimental, and young artists’ works Aug 26, 2009
Warhol had produced the paintings with a semi-mechanized silkscreen process, and his commercial subject matter spat in the eye of abstract expressionism s soulful evocations of its artists ids. Back then, pop was a radical upstart. (Boston Globe)
Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy Aug 25, 2009
Hofmann moved to America from Germany in 1932 and acted as midwife to the birth of abstract expressionism. He taught in New York and, during the summers, from 1935 to 1958, in Provincetown, where his work can still be seen (and bought) in local commercial galleries such as the Julie Heller Gallery. (Boston Globe)
Farnsworth Art Museum surveys the career of Robert Indiana Aug 21, 2009
There he became friends with Ellsworth Kelly and other young artists kicking against the dominant style of abstract expressionism. The show s first room features two striking paintings, Source I and Source II, that suggest the influence of Kelly, with their flat, severely reduced shapes in beautiful combinations of two or three colors, inspired by natural forms (in this case, avocado seeds). (Boston Globe)
• Reconsider 20th-century modernism at new exhibit Aug 14, 2009
"I find it fascinating that in the arcs of their careers we can track so many of the last century's major art movements, from realism and surrealism to abstract expressionism, Op Art and constructivism.". If all that sounds like too much art-history jargon, Gilbert says not to worry: The paintings hold up fine on their own. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Eyeing P-town’s place in American art Aug 5, 2009
Still, it s a delirious rush through Provincetown s place in American art, from the more academic work of Charles Webster Hawthorne, the art colony s first great teacher, through the Post-Impressionism of Edwin Dickinson headlong into Modernism and Abstract Expressionism ... Hofmann, Provincetown s second great teacher, arrived there in the 1930s and brought Abstract Expressionism with him. (Boston Globe)
Old master, from Riverwood via Rotterdam Jun 5, 2009
In the 1950s and '60s, the young Riske quickly established himself as a leading exponent of abstract expressionism. He held exhibitions at John and Sunday Reed's Museum of Modern Art in Victoria and Sydney's important Clune and Blaxland galleries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Museum Mile Festival 2009 in New Yo... May 29, 2009
The intersection of photography with art movements from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism is explored through pictures of street grids, monumental buildings, storefront windows' nocturnal reflections and illuminated signage. Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City (May 20-October 12) describes the abundant flora and fauna of the "island of many hills" discovered by Henry Hudson and his fellow explorers in 1609. (Suite101.com)
* Huangs mission: to seek out new art forms May 27, 2009
The paintings at IT Park are a fine example: They obviously reference 1950s abstract expressionism, but when viewed with Huangs interest in organic patterns and the texture stroke in mind, they appear more exploratory than derivative. Wang has said that Huangs art carefully follows art market trends X most notably his shifting of emphasis from installation to ink painting in the 1990s. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Artist doubles as curator Apr 28, 2009
He selected works by artists he describes as "the great modernists who developed their styles before the advent of abstract expressionism in the late 1940s and '50s." And he selected realists who, he says, like himself, "developed into non-academic realists, creating individual approaches to painting the world around them.". He chose works to represent pop art, realism/surrealism, romantic realism and the classical genre. (NJ.com -- Times)
Pair finds bond in S.F. furniture shop Apr 20, 2009
Shaffer was influenced by Hans Hoffman and postwar abstract expressionism. He moved to San Francisco in the 1980s. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas Apr 11, 2009
And there's a brisk little chapter in the history of Abstract Expressionism that could fairly be called de Kooning vs. Pollock. Related. (Time.com)
Organization brings women's art to gallery Apr 3, 2009
Roth, who came to the United States from Japan in 1962 and began her career in abstract expressionism, said she paints primarily landscapes. Her painting, "Rainbow Fall, WG, NY," depicts a place near Cornell University where there are about 20 waterfalls within a single mile, she said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
They took our money and then our stories Mar 16, 2009
I want to hear the Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit rattle off the definition of iambic pentameter, and tell me why Abstract Expressionism was a leap forward, and what he thinks about Conceptualism. And while he takes another $10-billion to help prevent Citigroup from crumbling, I want him to explain to the U.S. Congress why they need to expand the annual appropriation of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts beyond a pathetic $150-million. (Globe and Mail)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers to Offer Property from Renowned Chicago Gallery Robert Henry Adams Fine Art Mar 14, 2009
Specializing in Abstract Expressionism, Precisionism, Modernism, African American and Regional Art, Adams' gallery achieved international recognition over the years, with thanks to Adams' strong conviction and sophisticated eye for talent. Adams was a member of the Chicago Art Dealers Association, served as chairman of the Ethics Committee and sat on the Association's board for two terms. (PR Newswire)
Cubism: Early Twentieth-Century Art... Mar 11, 2009
Regardless, the movement became a catalyst for modern art that further developed abstract and non-representational forms such as Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and to a lesser extent, the Abstract Expressionism of artists like Marc Chagall. Only Picasso, who endured Nazi occupation in France during the 1940 s, remained true to Cubism s ideal until his death in 1973 at the age of 91, father of four children and numerous artists who were, and continue to be, influenced by his work. (Suite101.com)
TV by design Mar 9, 2009
TV and its role in popularizing modernism in America - International Herald Tribune. A United States serviceman viewing television with his family at the U.S. Limestone base in Maine in 1954. (International Herald Tribune)
Artist to provide trip through rabbit hole Mar 2, 2009
Rim said her painting covers realism, realistic figure, figurative paintings and abstract expressionism. "My work began in a very realistic manner of traditional figure paintings, moved into sculpture of the body, simplifying the torso and abstraction," she said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
Jackson Pollock's "Seven Red Paintings" is one work in the exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artist Rights Society). (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
