American art's heroic moment Jul 13, 2008
The shift from first-generation, heroic Abstract Expressionism to the artists of the 1960s and 1970s who ran with either of the positions staked out by Greenberg and Rosenberg is made through a reading room, replete with pictures, correspondence, magazines and books. Among the wall panels in this section is a statement by artist Hans Hofmann, in which he declares, Only men have wings for art. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Culture shock, German-style Jul 5, 2008
EXPRESSIONISM had periodic outbreaks throughout the 20th century and seems always ready to burst forth again ... In modern art, there is no more striking example of this than German Expressionism, which began as an outgrowth of the social and artistic turmoil that occurred at the end of the 19th century ... For many years, scholars accepted that Expressionism as a distinct movement ended in 1913, with the dissolution of Der Bruecke; or the following year, with the outbreak of Word War I.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sotheby's contemporary art sale reaches £94.7 million Jul 2, 2008
The violent Expressionism so typical of Bacon's characters is lost here because a disproportionately large space is occupied by the floor and the wall, both handled as geometric surfaces which clash with the spirit of the picture. An enormous painting done by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982 or '83 in his naughty-schoolboy-at-the-blackboard manner later managed to sell for a hefty 5. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Dwindling art supplies generate blindness - and erratic prices Jun 27, 2008
Influenced by German Expressionism, it bears little resemblance to the "Rayist" paintings for which she is famous and stands apart within her uvre. The enormous price presumably reflects the attraction experienced by the buyer and whoever underbid him/her. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The price of Monet: gone for 40m as confidence in the market stays strong Jun 25, 2008
It's a stunning painting from 1910, part of the new wave of German expressionism. An anonymous buyer paid a world record price for an Edvard Munch at Sotheby's last month, spending 15m on Girls on a Bridge (1902). (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
* [ART JOURNA] Seasons of Cy Twombly Jun 18, 2008
His is an act of desecration, vandalization, of bringing the language of abstract expressionism out of the realm of personal expression and into the world of writing and language, the American critic and great Twombly champion, Kirk Varnedoe, wrote of the 1962 painting ... This is not the cool, beautiful continuity of abstract expressionism, but a rather jerky, hesitant, intermittent negotiation of a set of signs. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
An inconvenient truth in Alexis Rockman's work Jun 13, 2008
The idiom recalls both the painterly vigor of Abstract Expressionism and the feeling for the sublime in J.M.W. Turner's late work. The virtuosic paint handling is constantly breaking free from mere description and taking on a life of its own. (Boston Globe)
Uncle plans 15-mile swim to benefit niece at Allied Nursing Center Jun 13, 2008
Mr. Nichols is best known for his unique style of sculpting referred to as spiritual expressionism. His style has been the subject of articles in more than 40 magazines and newspapers over his career. (Scranton Times, PA)
Reviews roundup: Afterlife Jun 12, 2008
Michael Coveney, however, is keen to show us more of the play's subject: "The young Reinhardt championed Gorky and Wedekind, established Shakespeare for a modern audience in Germany and paved the way for Piscator's Expressionism and Brecht's political theatre. But this significant artist is not enshrined in any theoretical legacy, unlike Brecht, Artaud or even Peter Brook. So he's largely forgotten." Spencer, on the other hand, is keener to tell us as soon as possible that Reinhardt was the... (guardian.co.uk)
Jonathan Williams Jun 6, 2008
Vivid, spare and sympathetic, it instantly casts itself as a signature Williams portrait, shot with a Rolleiflex and sensitised by an understanding of the spatial fields of the Bauhaus and abstract expressionism, the two poles of Black Mountain College which shaped the intelligence of this unique American poet, photographer and publisher, who has died aged 79. Williams was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Washington DC. Early exposure to works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Cultural center marks 8th anniversary Jun 6, 2008
The contorted faces remind one of German expressionism even though Jazz Pasay's style is more impressionistic. All in all it was a very interesting evening. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
“Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within” featured at The Menil Collection Jun 3, 2008
During her 70-year career she appropriated from Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and any other canon that served her. An illustrator and cartoonist, he created 85 covers and 1,200 drawings for The New Yorker, hung out with Rothko, his best friend was Giacometti. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
Cline+Dale Fine Art gallery to close May 31, 2008
Dale plans to work from her Scottsdale home and focus on dealing in pieces of post-war, abstract expressionism. "We gave it our best shot to make a statement here," Dale said. (AZCentral -- Business)
YHS art club presents: 'Paint 'till ya faint!' May 30, 2008
The show featured expressionism, acrylic on canvas, figure drawing, self-portraits, surrealism, oil pastels and French post-impressionism. Daily News Photo / David Smith. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
The Dawn of the Horror Film May 30, 2008
The seeds of todays horror film were planted in the early 1900's and began to blossom during German Expressionism ... German Expressionism ... The art form known as German Expressionism directly influenced the developing film industry of Germany in the 1920s. (Suite101.com)
New England artists survey showing May 26, 2008
post-impressionism , fauvism , cubism , exressionism , abstract Expressionism. regionalism : all these isms impacted significantly on the art we observe and contemplate today. (Medfield Press, MA)
S Tharoor: Nudity isn't obscenity May 25, 2008
The judge goes on: "Today Indian art is confidently coming of age. Every form of stylistic expression in the visual arts, from naturalism to abstract expressionism, derives its power from the artist's emotional connection to his perceptual reality." Describing the nude as a "perennial art subject", the judge observed that some paintings have been called 'obscene', 'vulgar', 'depraving', 'prurient' and 'immoral' but it was important to look at art from the artist's perspective. As a judge he... (India Times, India)
British surrealism's greatest hoard, hidden in retired GP's house May 20, 2008
You see things you recognise, unlike abstract art or expressionism, which usually need explaining. You think: goodness, how interesting. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Huntington Hartford II, A&P heir, dies at 97 May 20, 2008
Hartford opened it in 1964 as a showcase for 19th- and 20th-century work that went against the prevailing current of abstract expressionism, which he detested. The building, designed by Edward Durell Stone, was considered a folly or worse: "a die-cut Venetian palazzo on lollipops," wrote Ada Louise Huxtable, then the architecture critic of The New York Times. (International Herald Tribune)
Action Figures May 20, 2008
A portfolio of work from Action/Abstraction, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum about Abstract Expressionism. A collection of motherhood-themed New Yorker covers, from the nineteen-twenties to today. (New Yorker)
More of this story May 17, 2008
"Whether you see him in terms of being the bridge between abstract expressionism and the emergence of pop art, or you see him as one of the real precursors to the age of sampling, of borrowing, of appropriation, these are all things that his work has both anticipated and in effect opened the door for," Schimmel said. With his work in nearly every major museum collection, Rauschenberg's influence will go on. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Only the lonely: Proulx on Edward Hopper May 16, 2008
Hopper had, however, a sure sense of his importance and a strong conviction that his way was the right way to paint, particularly when confronted with abstract expressionism ... Even in the 1950s, when abstract expressionism was in vogue and realism on the defensive, Hopper's professional reputation continued to grow and strengthen. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Final YHS art opening celebrates color May 16, 2008
The show will feature expressionism, acrylic on canvas, figure drawing, self-portraits, surrealism, oil pastels and French post-impressionism. Not only are there more students than ever before, but we have probably the two most engaged presidents we've ever had this year,' Art teacher Richard Rangel said. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
* US art world giant Rauschenberg dies aged 82 in Florida May 15, 2008
With Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg is considered one of the most influential artists to react against Abstract Expressionism, a US painting style characterized by loose brushwork and lack of figuration. This story has been viewed 235 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
$86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's May 15, 2008
This latter-day heir to early 20th-century Expressionism does not say a great deal about the painterly skills of Bacon, but it offers a quintessential example of his obsessions that seem to echo the terrors of World War II and the various atrocities committed by totalitarian regimes. Perhaps the "European private buyer" (as Sotheby's put it) who acquired it over the telephone was driven by a sense of history. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Remembering Rauschenberg May 15, 2008
At the time, de Kooning was emerging as one of the giants of Abstract Expressionism, and Rauschenberg admired him enormously. He asked the older artist if he could have a drawing, not to hang it on his wall but to make into another artwork: He intended, he made clear, to erase it. (Slate)
Robert Rauschenberg, art's eclectic master, dies at 82 May 14, 2008
"Erased" might be seen as emblematic of Mr. Rauschenberg's view of Abstract Expressionism, the school to which Willem de Kooning (who had given the drawing to Mr. Rauschenberg) belonged ... Where Abstract Expressionism brought American art to new heights, Mr. Rauschenberg presented it with new opportunities. (Boston Globe)
Robert Rauschenberg's art challenged assumptions May 14, 2008
They redefined what could be considered high art and introduced conceptual and pop art to a mid-century world then preoccupied with abstract expressionism ... By the 1960s, he was a leader, along with close friend Jasper Johns, in the move away from the angst of abstract expressionism and toward celebration of popular culture. (USA Today -- Life)
Memories of Rauschenberg: 'A giant among artists' May 14, 2008
said his father's work -- considered a bridge between the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s and 1960s Pop art -- tended to confound academics steeped in traditional art history. "Everybody was always trying to deconstruct his work the way they were trained to with medieval painting: 'If there's a dog here, it means this,' " he said. (Los Angeles Times)
US pop art giant dies, aged 82 May 14, 2008
He became one of the most influential artists reacting against abstract expressionism. In the 1960s, he responded to the work of his pop art contemporaries - including Andy Warhol - by incorporating up to the minute photographed images in his works, including pictures of John F Kennedy. (Guardian Unlimited)
China's contemporary artists talk to the past May 13, 2008
How does Bada Shanren -- the master of abstract expressionism influence world art ... The works on display primarily follow the style of abstract expressionism ... Qin Feng, Artist, said, "Abstract expressionism is actually very acceptable to Chinese. It is very evident in our art of calligraphy and free hand painting, as well as the spirit of Zen and Taichi. They are all very abstract.". (Xinhuanet, China)
NYC Museum Exhibits: Summer 2008 May 12, 2008
Drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures in bronze, fabric, latex, marble and wood evoke the influences of her childhood memories, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Post-Minimalism, revealing Bourgeois' highly personal iconography. The Jewish Museum. (Suite101.com)
Belingheri makes you think about absurdity May 11, 2008
Henry Jackson's "Descendants": San Francisco abstract painter Henry Jackson practices what might be called picturesque expressionism, a manner far out of vogue, yet perennially involving when practiced well. Jackson backs up his new paintings at MM with small mixed media works on panel in black-and-white. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art market shows strength at Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern Art May 8, 2008
With its contrasted colors, its simplification of form, and its anticipation of Expressionism, "Young Girls Walking" has a 20th century modernity. The extraordinarily ambitious estimate, $7 to $10 million, could have wrecked the picture, but only contributed to conceal its truly remarkable performance. (International Herald Tribune)
Souren Melikian: A healthy tempo set in Modernist sales May 8, 2008
His color scheme is close to that of the French movement shortly to be dubbed Fauve, and his abrupt simplification of form anticipates later Germanic Expressionism. On its last auction appearance at Sotheby's New York on Nov. 12, 1996, the picture set the then world record for the painter at $7. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Shanghai, where West plus East made style May 5, 2008
When you see a whole run of Shanghai magazines of the time you can see European fashions come and go - Bauhaus, Expressionism, Modernism. " Take a magazine cover from the 1930s in Shanghai, for example, with nude and decorative motifs including peacocks and feathers. This inspires a sweep of prose that weaves Chinese painting traditions, the Decadent movement and the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley with the sphinx motif and Josephine Baker. "It was really thrilling for me to open a Shanghai... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Enrico Donati, 99; sculptor considered last of Surrealists May 2, 2008
Born in Italy, Enrico Donati moved to the United States and worked in several art styles, including Surrealism, Constructivism, and Abstract Expressionism ... Mr. Donati survived Surrealism and moved through other art movements, including Constructivism and Abstract Expressionism, and became a successful owner of a perfume company. (Boston Globe)
New York cool: A transitional generation is given its due May 2, 2008
The words "10th Street" are synonymous with gestural abstraction, just as the East Village is shorthand for '80s neo-Expressionism ... A new show, "New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture From the N.Y.U. Art Collection," subjects the late '50s and early '60s - a period normally seen as a transitional phase between Abstract Expressionism and Pop, Pollock and Warhol - to similarly intense scrutiny ... The show's curator, Pepe Karmel, writes in his catalogue essay, "The evolution of American art from... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The visionary painting of an agonised soul Apr 23, 2008
Soutine (1893-1943), who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career, is generally considered to have a style closely related to early 20th century Expressionism. He kept his distance from the new art movements, even those originating in the French capital, such as Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Takes on the landscape of 'burbs, epic Babylon Apr 20, 2008
Drawing on both naturalism and expressionism, landscape painting became a vehicle for both emotional evocation as well as specific documentation. More than 100 works are included in this exhibition. (Boston Globe)
Page turners Apr 19, 2008
When Tom Wolfe called his polemic on modern art The Painted Word, he was thinking not of artists' books, but of post-1945 abstract expressionism and its enshrinement of theory and text. Some of the exhibits in the V share this tendency: they are more think-pieces than artworks, designed not to please us as art or literature, but to challenge beliefs we hold dear. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Joseph Solman, preeminent painter at crossroads of 20th-century American art Apr 18, 2008
He first made a name for himself as a member of The Ten, a group of artists who in 1935 issued a manifesto attacking the American Scene painting favored by the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art's preference for European Expressionism over the work of American Expressionists ... The art historian Bram Dijkstra wrote in his book "American Expressionism that Mr. Solman "anticipated - and probably helped inspire - the internal luminescence" of Rothko's '50s canvases.Indeed, there were strong... (Boston Globe)
Grace & tension Apr 15, 2008
By then, of course, ceramic sculpture had taken flight from the traditional mode of vases and bowls into the stratosphere of expressionism. American artist Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) is credited with helping raise the form to new possibilities. (Fresno Bee)
Xu Beihong: A Chinese master of styles that straddle East and West Apr 12, 2008
"Xu had an immense influence on the development of Chinese painting in the 20th century because he championed an expansive realism that included Romanticism and Expressionism," said Kwok Kian Chow, the director of the Singapore Art Museum, where an exhibition showcasing more than 90 of Xu's works opened this month. His style, Kwok said, was "predicated on the ocular world as opposed to the literati tradition of text.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Donation marks a collector's life Apr 4, 2008
Rauschenberg, who came to prominence in the 1950s as abstract expressionism gave ground to Pop Art, is now acknowledged as one of the titans of 20th century art. But Kaldor paid "a couple of hundred dollars" for the piece, which sowed the seed for a $35 million collection that he is giving to the Art Gallery of NSW.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pilar of strength Mar 31, 2008
"It wasn't like any sunflower I had ever seen ... I always cared about art from that time forward."She grew up at a time when art took on forms of spiritual quests, and abstract expressionism had emerged as a vital force. Pilar loved the largeness of the work and how it seemed to soar. (Fresno Bee)
Critics' picks - visual arts Mar 30, 2008
Their brooding expressionism shimmers between abstraction and representation. Walker, 69, director of the graduate painting department at Boston University, has an invigorating survey of works at Nielsen Gallery, 179 Newbury St., through Saturday. (Boston Globe)
Feature story: Dynamic design Mar 29, 2008
Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements: All of these filtered into a culture whose relatively uniform aesthetic had been refined over a period of several centuries. Also from Europe came new synthetic dyes, both for printing and for textiles. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Two- and 3-D play puts Porter's works in perspective Mar 27, 2008
"To See Blue III" might depict a deluge, but it also alludes to the painterly, emotive mark making of Abstract Expressionism. Sometimes Porter's work explicitly dives into the perils of relationship. (Boston Globe)
Home gallery Mar 27, 2008
The majority of the pieces are contemporary or postwar San Francisco abstract expressionism. People have told them their house is like a museum, but they don't consider it that way. (Fresno Bee)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
It was in Manhattan that Miles Davis and the nine-piece group he convened in the late 1940s forged a tightly understated alternative to the hot expressionism of bebop and recorded the hugely influential tracks later collected in the album "Birth of the Cool." But it was in California in the 1950s that cool jazz and cool art in general took root and flourished ... What emerges is not just a style but a spirit and an ethos that are in many ways diametrically opposite those of East Coast Abstract... (International Herald Tribune)
A master of outsized ambitions Mar 20, 2008
Their brooding expressionism shimmers between abstraction and representation. Walker, 69, a powerhouse painter from Birmingham, England, director of the graduate painting department at Boston University, has an invigorating survey of works dating back to 1970 up on Newbury Street. (Boston Globe)
The art of the print (5) Mar 20, 2008
"Despite his Japanese name and heritage, Matsumi Kanemitsu was "one hundred percent American," having been born in Utah in 1922, Curator Yoshida said, and was one of the darlings of the New York art scene in the 50s through 70s, along with painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline. "He used to go drinking with Jackson Pollack [the famous "drip" artist of post-World War II Abstract Expressionism]," Yoshida explained. "Pollack gave him the American name 'Mike. It's always... (Malibu Times, CA)
Historic post office mural restored Mar 19, 2008
"An American scene would do better than abstract expressionism," explained Schoenmann. The post office master would usually have the final say in the painting selection. (Shoreline Times, CT)
Beefed-up Oceanside museum off to fine start Mar 10, 2008
As Western as the scenes look in Spring in the Mountains (1927) and San Diego Back Country (circa 1934), they appear topull from influences as varied as Van Gogh and German expressionism. By sheer number of works, these four artists assume large importance in the show. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
‘Mixed Paint' to feature 12 contemporary NY artists Mar 9, 2008
The exhibit will showcase painters working in a variety of contemporary non-representational styles, such as expressionism and minimalism. It will be a colorful, fun spring show, said Stephanie Schuster, assistant director of the Schweinfurth Art Center. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Figuratively Speaking: A Group Exhibition Mar 6, 2008
To capture the human life in a single instant, in a pose, or embrace, Champlin exceeds the bounds of portraiture and inhabits an expressionism reminiscent of fellow Norwegian Edvard Munch. Tides of color roil around his subjects like auras, and are echoed in similar ebbs within the limbs and faces of those he brings to the canvas. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Lukman exhibition marries poetry with paint Mar 1, 2008
Lukman, he said, appeared to lean toward German expressionism when painting Bumi Tempat Kita Menangis (The Earth on Which We Cry). "The colors are heavy and dim as a result of directly mixing two to three colors on the canvas," he said. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Boston Expressionists on display Feb 17, 2008
Boston Expressionism mixes symbolic narrative, mysticism, surrealism, and political and social satire. "I never delved into complete abstractionism because it didn't speak to me of human experience," says Schwartz. (Boston Globe)
Jakarta print exhibition out of this world Feb 17, 2008
Hand and footprints demarcate the boundaries of his compositions, bursting with zany faces and loopy scrawl, in a rough-and-tumble expressionism. His painting-size prints, titled Gariah Jiwa (Passionate Soul), show bodies stretched out, as though on a rack, in a woodsy setting. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Students at Mexican school for Down syndrome winning acclaim Feb 11, 2008
These artists all have their own styles, although many tend toward expressionism and bright colors. Lorena Velez, a student working on a black, gray and bright-blue painting of her balcony, said she favors strong tones and nature scenes. (AZCentral -- News)
Heron's colors obliterate figure and ground Feb 10, 2008
Heron (1920-1999) has an indelible place in the history of 20th century British art as a critic who early championed American Abstract Expressionism in Britain and as a painter in his own right. Heron said on many occasions that he did not believe in the possibility of a completely abstract art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
AUCTIONS: At Christie's Post-War and Contemporary sale, 3 world records, but danger looms Feb 9, 2008
Of late, Frank Auerbach, the British school artist who integrated the legacy of Pre-World War I German Expressionism, had been doing very well. This did not prevent a small portrait painted in 1970, "Head of J.Y.M." from going down unwanted. (International Herald Tribune)
Auction sales booming Feb 9, 2008
Chaim Soutine's "Plane Trees at C?ret," done around 1920 under the influence of German Expressionism, ranks among his masterpieces. Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune)
auctions: At Christies, 2nd highest ever European auction Feb 7, 2008
Done in 1913, it combines the strong colors and extreme simplification that characterized German Expressionism on the eve of World War I. At 3 ... It has all the energy of German Expressionism to which the Paris-based Soutine was heavily indebted, while occasionally injecting into it a wild lyricism, as was the case here ... The likeness of an unidentified girl ("Girl with a Red Ribbon") by Alexej von Jawlensky painted in the harsh, contrasted colors of German Expressionism was well received,... (International Herald Tribune)
