Painting After Art is Dead

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was the baby of abstract expressionism. Youngest of his generation’s greats, he was also the most literate, the most eloquent, and the most fully reflective of the movement’s diverse roots in European modernism, including not only surrealism but also Matisse.

Probably the most political, too.

#robertmotherwell

J.Au.Floyd

Recent IG hashtag find. J says they are “blackness abstracted.” As a creative who is “still learning” I can’t wait to see where his work goes!

#jaufloyd

Glad to know that academia has mostly been doing a good job recognizing significant #blackartists- most of the creatives featured in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art at BMA earlier this year weren’t new to me. Glad to “discover” Kevin’s work.

#kevinbeasley

Robin Greenwood

discusses his own newest on the occasion of his 70th.

#robingreenwood

Stephen Maine

Stephen says about below as a series that “conveying paint to canvas by means of a system that uses printing plates instead of brushes would save a lot of time and trouble. This indirect, intentionally imprecise production method yields the great pleasure of surprise while providing a concrete way to think about color, surface, scale, seriality, figure/ground, original/copy, and the psychology of visual perception.”

#stephenmaine

Bram van Velde

was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme, and Lyrical Abstraction. He is often seen as member of the School of Paris but his work resides somewhere between expressionism and surrealism, and evolved in the 1960s into an expressive abstract art.

#bramvanvelde

Clarence Holbrook Carter

was an illustrative painter for most of his career. He evolved into a surrealist and started painting some really great ovals in the ’60s that look like Buddhist prayer mandalas.

#clarenceholbrookcarter

Peter Gregory

A friend of mine picked up some Peter’s work recently.

Jason Stopa

Like Amy, some artists can write (and curate), too.

#jasonstopa

Kes Richardson

Below is the newest in Kes’ IG feed.

#kesrichardson

Kimber Smith

The online edition of Artforum nods to a recent showing of this painter’s work.

#kimbersmith

Hiroshi Sugimoto

I love me some artwork about light.

#hiroshisugimoto

Celia Johnson

You know you look at a lot of art when you get excited about seeing an artist you think is new to you in another artist’s feed and then you search them on IG and you already follow them.

#celiajohnson

Paul Corio

I’ve followed Paul on IG and see he is in Chrysalistasis with Amy.

#paulcorio

Ying Li

Ying would probably say these are abstractions and not abstraction. Buttery goodness regardless. From #hyperallergic (of course).

#yingli