Abstract Painting – Page 2 – Painting After Art is Dead

A recent trip to Europe and encountering Olivier’s work lead me to André’s work – the influence of André awakened Olivier’s marked fondness for colour. More to come soon on Tachisme, a school of painting about which I know too little.
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Minjung Kim

The nature of Kim’s work is such that it requires hours, often days of calm solitude, a room of her own, as her watercolours, calligraphy and paper works each require the exercise of extreme control, both of her breathing or of her brush.

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Jean Messagier

Messagier is often associated with Lyrical abstraction, Tachisme (like Oliviér and André), Nuagisme, Art informel and paysagisme abstrait, though the artist himself had never accepted any labels, and had always refused the distinction between abstraction and figuration.

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Otis Jones

American painter first seen in Paris at Semiose.

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Olivier Debré

Like Shirley and Yaacov, Olivier’s work was new to me from a recent trip to Paris.

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Shirley Jaffe

First encountered Shirley’s work at the Pompidou Center where a brilliant retrospective of her work (An American Woman in Paris) was installed.

Shirley studied art at Cooper Union Art School in New York, then in Washington. She discovered Kandinsky at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and admired Bonnard’s later work. In 1949, she settled for good in Paris. Her friendships with Kimber Smith, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Jean-Paul Riopelle and many others helped her to discover American abstract expressionism, of which they were the “second generation” representatives in France.
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Bernard Saby

First ran across Bernard’s work at La Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles while on vacation in Paris. There is little in English about him on the internet. According to this site (copied and pasted I to Google Translate) Bernard Saby (1925-1975) is a French painter and draftsman. After having studied musical composition in his youth with René Leibowitz, he developed a singular and suggestive abstraction, nourished not only by his research in the field of serial music, but also by his experience of drugs, mescaline or hashish in particular, or again by his in-depth study of lichens and ancient Chinese texts.

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