Structure and Imagery notes Ann Purcell’s Kali Poem Series at Berry Campbell
#annpurcell
Tag: gesturalabstraction
Edwin Aitken
I first encountered Edwin’s work through Prosaic (which you should be following on IG if you aren’t). Looks like he’s a Beep Prize winner.
#edwinaitken
Andreas Eriksson
Frank Holliday
John Yau at Hyperallergic says Frank is a painter for a heated world and then elaborates on some of Frank’s fantastic new work.
#frankholliday
Lee Krasner
The blog about Robert inspired me to look back into the last century. Regular readers know I often make Pinterest boards of artists as I’m looking at their work- here’s one of Lee’s work. I’ve always felt she got the lamest deal of any of the AbEx generation as her work is some of the strongest of the group. Here’s some quotes from her that help illustrate how she saw her place.
#leekrasner
Philip Guston
Since Philip has been in the news…
I’ve looked at Guston’s cartoonish paintings in the last year since the cubes I paint often take on a cartoonish quality- he was of course considered by many to be a first rate abstractionist for a time (and I would agree).
#philipguston
Howard Hodgkin
Was reading in this great article on #cecilybrown (who is not an abstractionist and is IMO one of our best living painters) that she is influenced by Howard (quite literally as in she met him several times), who is another member of the canon that I’ve not previously covered here.
Howard is no longer with us but his estate has an IG feed and here’s more and more.
#howardhodgkin
Cy Twombly
One of my favorite things about living in Houston was visiting the Cy Twombly gallery at the Menil museum. I can’t think of many other artists whose work can create the kind of visceral connection that his does- I think of it first when discussions veer towards work that is beyond words or language.
BTW- you should also check out this good read about the importance of time he spent with Robert Rauschenberg.
#cytwombly
Judit Reigl
Joshua Hagler
de Kooning
Both Elaine and Willem were painters which I haven’t yet blogged about. As readers are likely aware it has taken some recent academic pushes to rewrite Elaine’s (and others) deserved place in the narrative of NY-based painters in mid-century America (with the Denver museum making perhaps the biggest move although not the only one).
There’s been no shortage of words written about her husband of course. When I first noted their absence from this blog I immediately became curious about how their relationship informed their work.
More #elainedekooning
More #willemdekooning
Nava Lubelski
Wols
After blogging about Bram I decided I should brush up on Tachisme. Which leads one to (among others) Wols.
(From above- Tachisme “is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (American abstract expressionism tended to be more “aggressively raw” than tachisme). It was part of a larger postwar movement known as Art Informel (or Informel), which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to action painting.“)
#wols
Robert Motherwell
Probably the most political, too.
#robertmotherwell
