So, in order to make a "good" abstract painting, is some element of originality de rigueur, or, because the subject of many an abstract painting appears to have become abstract painting itself, is mere style-copying enough?
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Often, I am trying to violate the abstract painting language.
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Could design and craft be one root of abstract painting?
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This is abstract painting with both hands on the wheel.
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Their overall forms suggest biomorphic shapes in modernist abstract painting.
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He resists institutional notions of what an abstract painting can be.
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Van Houten's outfit looked more like an abstract painting than a dress.
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Something has to come through even if it's a completely abstract painting.
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The history of postwar American abstract painting remains a work in progress.
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On his website, LePage says abstract painting provides a creative escape for him.
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It is a commonplace experience that Petersen has transformed into an abstract painting.
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The large abstract painting on one wall is by Eric Karpeles, a friend.
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He spent his first year doing abstract painting, then dropped that for good.
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I don't know why anyone would give a shit about this abstract painting.
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In the mid-1950s, Tanning started experimenting with a more fractured, abstract painting style.
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Some of the material, like 1960s abstract painting, is little-known outside the island.
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I also saw abstract painting for the first time: de Kooning, early Guston and Pollock.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It isn't easy to make a good abstract painting.
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His daring embrace of an anti-style approach opened up new potential for abstract painting.
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She points out that concepts such as balance and rhythm also structure an abstract painting.
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You can't start the history of abstract painting over, but you can start it elsewhere.
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Art Review To be honest, I wonder what a lot of people see in abstract painting.
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How do people for whom abstract painting is an unknown language get to experience this lift?
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Initially they look mostly blank — some have textures suggesting abstract painting, others have fragments of figures.
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Several of Osman's sculptures even hint at the presence of an abstract painting on a wall.
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And his lessons on abstract painting and spiritual and political regeneration became the academy's hottest course.
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Sussman hung a heavy, midnight-blue curtain from Ikea decorated with an abstract painting she did.
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Allen sold an abstract painting by William de Kooning for $35 million to a very private collector.
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Are we looking at the abstracted image of a mechanical figure, or an imperfect, symmetrical abstract painting?
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But something about the present world has proved congenial to this artist's startling revitalization of abstract painting.
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For the Hublot Fifth Avenue flagship that opened in April, he used an Albrecht Schnider abstract painting.
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Ms. Dyson explores this through abstract painting and sculpture, which in the past often ignored racial implications.
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Up now is "Cutting Edges," a group show of abstract painting drawn from a private Norwegian collection.
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Their discussions of their work illustrate various types of witness, from abstract painting and sculpture to documentary filmmaking.
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The painting is simultaneously a fantastical terrain, a crazy quilt made of beaded swatches, and an abstract painting.
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Color Problems was released ten years before Wassily Kandinsky's Komposition V sparked a widespread interest in abstract painting.
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So maybe when you look at my photographs of human bodies you should find something of abstract painting.
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In the first gallery, I am drawn to "Little Suture" (19923–21992), an abstract painting with assemblage elements.
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The rest of the show includes photographic, sculptural, and abstract painting work by Ron Athey, Byron Kim, Hannah Wilke.
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"Orange Personage" is an abstract painting in yellow and orange that depicts a stick figure staring into the sun.
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They reference geometric abstraction — or the history of abstract painting — where the landscape is taken out of the conversation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It was once a common notion that abstract painting was analogous to music.
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Conversely, Teresa Pągowska's semi-abstract painting "Yellow Room" (1970) shows what looks like a woman melting under our gaze.
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His daring embrace of an anti-style approach in the early 215s opened up new potential for abstract painting.
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One guest bedroom displays an abstract painting by Lynne Golob Gelfman, the other a drawing by Michele Oka Doner.
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This stark geometry is softened in "In the Patio IX" (1950), the all but abstract painting next to it.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The New York-based artist Joanne Greenbaum, is well known for her abstract painting.
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"Each Day" is less an abstract painting than a striped object made of oil paint, raw linen, and wooden stretchers.
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It created a series of 13 works based on what it "learned" an abstract painting is supposed to look like.
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At once ordinary and highly charged, this moment of stillness and metamorphosis is what Tillyer evokes in an abstract painting.
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Aziz has always loved painting abstract painting and this space and the mosque gave him the license to do it.
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Will this painting be shown in regular museums shows at the Metropolitan as a representation of current American abstract painting?
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The slickly manipulated shot makes the German river look like an abstract painting, its multiple layers filled with vibrant colour.
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In this case the narrative that abstract painting was the early-221th-century invention of a few white male Europeans.
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So they become abstract art with quotation marks, or a painting that acts as an illustration of an abstract painting.
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Together, the works chart Hsieh's course away from abstract painting and mark his emerging interests in action, repetition, and serial images.
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I was most interested in the part where Terkel and Mostel relate "challenging the mores of our day" to abstract painting.
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The series began as a star-mapping project Paperno did in the early 2000s (a practice borne out of abstract painting).
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When you craft a Twitter social network it's like an abstract painting that only gains meaning the longer you study it.
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Without any formal training, the artist began work on abstract painting — long before the post-World War II Abstract Expression movement.
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Pictured through a window and from behind, they gaze at a huge abstract painting on the wall in front of them.
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And what looks from afar like a smudgy, multipanel abstract painting proves to be a sculptural depiction of a military disaster.
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David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.
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An abstract painting by Norman Lewis, "Ritual" from 1962, sold for $2.8 million, a record at auction for the artist's work.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In contemporary abstract painting, references to architecture are commonplace — but to housing, not so much.
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Works such as "Deadpan" (2012) seem to celebrate nature, but they also parody abstract painting and a kind of hunting lodge décor.
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Tone's iridescent works combine the tradition of abstract painting with that of street art, creating an aggressive dialect that's all their own.
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On the screen is an image that looks like a garish abstract painting: a sprawl of cotton-candy pastels and burnt blacks.
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In the same years that Lewis was injecting topical stories into abstract painting, Roy DeCarava was experimenting with making photographic portraiture abstract.
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Imagistic nocturnal fragments, hand-painted animation, like a loose abstract painting, mix with the indexical images of subway platforms, highways, and party scenes.
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She was scrolling through her Facebook news feed when she was struck by an image of an abstract painting posted by Julia Schwartz.
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And in the early 20th century, the first abstract painting was an attempt to make something that behaved like music, in visual terms.
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By contract, Mills taps into classic geometric-abstract painting — Kenneth Noland comes to mind — in "Magallanica (everyone wants a piece of it)," 2018.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 1913.
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Unlike those artists, however, Moses eschewed a singular style, embarking instead on a life-long exploration of abstract painting in its many forms.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 2184.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 70833.
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In her abstract painting series, she employs a single vocabulary of forms with often-unusual palettes: rectangles, stripes, waves, and circles of color.
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T_ratteggio_ might work on a Renaissance fresco, but what is the equivalent for an abstract painting, let alone a work of conceptual art?
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 2124.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 21854.
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They could be instructed by painter Matthew Mahler on how to create an abstract painting, which would then become part of his installation.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 1003.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 23575.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 2188.
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The de Kooning work is an abstract painting completed in 1975, around the period when the abstract expressionist's most valued works have been created.
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This is not to say she neglected the canvas altogether; in fact, some of her best work delves into the origins of abstract painting.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Norman Lewis (1909–1979), in the last two decades of his life, fused black struggle with abstract painting.
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By the mid-1940s, Lewis made the transition to abstract painting and joined the Willard Gallery, which would be his first and only representation.
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Chang was born into an ethnically Chinese family of limited resources and worked as a portraitist to make ends meet before pursuing abstract painting.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DUBAI — Samia Halaby is an important and celebrated leader of abstract painting, and a scholar of Palestinian art.
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The Black Arts Movement, formally established in 1965 by a group of politically motivated poets, artists, and musicians, had little use for abstract painting.
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In a downstairs gallery, a 1967 abstract painting by Richard Pousette-Dart, a haze of blue and yellow daubs, reflects that artist's cosmological interests.
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I'm sure there's good writing on this – abstract painting on panels is an absurd thing and I've always loved that in a formal way.
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What makes me confident is the stuff around it — the artifice, putting lipstick on it, dressing up the abstract painting to make it presentable.
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Across the room, a hard-edge abstract painting propped against a wall looks contrived and inert compared to the sinuous geometry of her living body.
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"Norman Lewis is the founding father of African-American abstract painting and has had a significant influence on the painters of today," says Mr Bedford.
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The idea of abstract painting, and the act of making it, as a vehicle of hermetic personal emotion was coming to feel old and limiting.
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"It's actually very painterly, like an abstract painting, but it will change all the time," Christo, 81, a Bulgarian-born American, said of his project.
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Another is the Swedish abstract painting pioneer and mystic Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) who arrives at the Guggenheim with an angel's tread (Oct. 12).
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To eliminate that last hurdle and help you visualize a limited-edition print or an abstract painting on your wall, online art sellers like Art.
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A blue and red futuristic abstract painting from Vargas-Suarez Universal, an artist friend born in Mexico and based in Brooklyn, hangs near the entrance.
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However, Parsons's passion for art also manifested her own abstract painting practice, which is on view in Alexander Gray's second solo show of her work.
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A view of them in black socks is most amusingly countered by Ms. Clayton with an image of an untitled abstract painting by Myron Stout.
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The blue monochrome surface of "Abstract Painting with Shower and Toilet" is a pitch-perfect echo of the hue Robert Motherwell was so fond of.
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The heads are turned toward a figure at a lectern pointing to what is most likely a blackboard, but also looks like an abstract painting.
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Using mostly canvas, rubber, metal grommets, stitching materials (often staples), and the stretcher frame, Furukawa took abstract painting forward by leaving the paint largely behind.
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At Friday's vigil, Morris brought an abstract painting he made for Vicky — whom he said already owns about five of his paintings from over the years.
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Available, for instance, is a signed Robert Rauschenberg exhibition poster, an abstract painting by one E. Victor Gotthelf, and this random plaster bust of Benjamin Franklin.
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Although she painted throughout her life and made her first abstract painting in 230, for all intents and purposes her career lasted less than two decades.
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The lingering intrusion of semiotics, and, more recently, provisional and post-studio theories have elbowed to one side abstract painting as a sensually based visual experience.
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At the very least, attempting to create an abstract painting still evokes modernism's abiding search for something fresh, for the what-has-not-been-done-before.
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In the absence of a Gerhard Richter abstract painting, Christie's offered one of his large-scale abstract tapestries from an edition of eight created in 2009.
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Stockwell's abstract painting — with its playful rhythms and linear structures — acknowledges the co-existence of mathematical order with the bodily, geometry tempered by blood and decay.
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In Western art, the names most often associated with the earliest nonobjective abstract painting are Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, and Frantisek Kupka.
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In abstract painting, grids are often used to hold the viewer's attention on the surface of a canvas, marking its limits and reasserting its nonrepresentational status.
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He's also made 3D neon and graphite/resin castings in addition to more traditionally acknowledged art forms such as abstract painting, performance art, and video installations.
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As things are, though, they seem quite at ease to assume the contrarian position that an abstract painting doesn't have to be big to be ambitious.
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Your painting "Abstraction as a Second Language" (2014), for example, features not just an abstract painting but also a coffee cup, a notepad, and a textbook.
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Like the other Gutai artists, he became aware of post-WWII European, art informel forms of abstract painting but eventually dismissed them as merely resembling walls.
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So far, I could be describing an abstract painting, but, as it happens, it portrays the head and shoulders of a woman in a low-cut gown.
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Across some 19613 works we see 21961 of the artists who formed the group's early reputation, ranging easily among abstract painting and sculpture, installation, environments and performance.
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It would "create a palpable narrative that is more present in the media than some sort of abstract painting that you'd expect to see there," he said.
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It is to say that, for many ambitious artists today, abstract painting springs from the ubiquity of digital imagery as well as from the history of art.
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The continuing proliferation of his art seemed to substantiate his conviction, as he said in 1986, that where Abstract painting was concerned, "we've just scratched the surface."
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It shows, on a horizontal monitor, what an abstract painting would look like if it were quickly done with — if you remember this archaic program — Microsoft Paint.
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It was highly competitive and abstract painting was dominant, although there were other pockets of things; for instance, Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson were there at the time.
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Often when a mid-20th century modernist would make the transition from figurative to abstract painting, it was viewed as partaking in the forward thrust of art history.
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" AMLO is like an abstract painting—you see what you want to see in him," Luis Miguel González, the editorial director of the newspaper El Economista , told me.
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The projecting cuboid forms in Schapiro's "Thunderbird" and Held's "Phoenicia VII" (1969) are very similar, yet there are some significant differences between the two artists' approach to abstract painting.
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The high-color gouache study for his plan, if you didn't know its function, could pass purely as an abstract painting in the manner of Jean Arp or Miró.
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It's a small abstract painting, one of a cluster of works that have been gathered, under Nazi auspices, to be jeered at for their decadence and their moral deformity.
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The piece with Paris includes her partner, Jared, as well as her mixed-race child, as the family lounges on an unmade bed; an abstract painting hangs behind them.
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Although he came of age during the heyday of abstract painting, with its quest for higher truths, he favored an approach that was transparently down-to-earth and diaristic.
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The work is reminiscent of Barnett Newman, and Pendleton consciously visually references older artists in the traditions of abstract painting and sculpture, such as Sol Lewitt and Carl Andre.
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Lewis's innovative, socially-conscious abstract painting, thanks to the work of curators at PAFA and younger scholars, will now play a larger role in the histories of mid-century abstraction.
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And six years later, Michael Heizer created one of his first earth works here, a zigzag trench incised like an abstract painting into the surface of a dry lake bed.
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Along the way, he turned from superb abstract painting to innovative work in sculpture, film, writing, political action, and participatory installation, much of which remains as fresh as this morning.
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Her woven fiber "Scroll" (1962), an abstract "painting" sans paint, with various tones in light and dark brown, glinting bits of gold, and upraised squiggles and patterns, is simply entrancing.
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In "Visions of the Emerald Beyond," a bright orange striped textile has the punch of an abstract painting, even if a woman in a lavender bikini bottom reclines on it.
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REENA SPAULINGS FINE ART There are tons of big, brushy abstract painting around these days, which prompts the question: How satisfying can it be to do warmed-over 1940s Modernism?
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It's evident in this show that although Poliakoff was eclipsed for decades, he had nonetheless mapped out the next 218 years of abstract painting, at least large portions of it.
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What Mosset conceives is not a "found painting" per se, but an abstract painting as a found object — and not, it should be stressed, as a readymade — a significant conceptual difference.
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Abstract painting has been tied, historically, to utopian, spiritual or ecstatic inspirations, but in his show "Tears in abstraction," at Thomas Erben, the Chicago artist Mike Cloud links it to death.
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Unlike the written word or some abstract painting, photography has the power to freeze a moment in time, transport us to a faraway land, or even start an explosive Twitter reaction.
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They indulge in a brand of improvisational image glut that clings to the spontaneous and often arbitrary devices of abstract painting, leaving thematic threads dangling in a fog of blurred ideas.
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Yet there are also flashes of brightness and color, like an abstract painting from an early period recalling a candy and ice cream store named Posner from her youth in Oswiecim.
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"I was thinking a drippy brush stroke is the symbol of an abstract painting and I was going to make it paint a picture by itself," Ms. Steir (pronounced Steer) said.
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The artist combined this material with lake water harvested from the place her great-uncle first learned to sail, in the end creating a large, beautiful, and cellular-looking abstract painting.
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In addition, though the photographs depict objects, much of what occurs within the large (more than six by six feet) images relates to the formal qualities of, for example, an abstract painting.
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European loans include Johannes Itten's abstract painting "Encounter" (1916), which depicts the color spectrum as a spiral, and Gustav Caillebotte's 1876 Impressionist masterpiece "Pont de l'Europe," depicting a massive bridge in Paris.
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One small abstract painting here, bleeding with rivers of white and sweeps of purple and vermilion, is a virtuoso performance of gestures and countergestures, so active you're shocked the paint has dried.
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In line with much abstract painting of the 1950s, their work was premised on the idea that objectivity and visual reality in painting must be replaced by emotionally charged acts of painting.
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Looking around the galleries you can tick off the same contemporary styles and trends — abstract painting, Minimalism, Conceptualism and so on — that you'll find at MoMA, or the Guggenheim, or Art Basel.
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For decades, officials for the city of Munich, citing a variety of arguments, had resisted returning Klee's "Swamp Legend," a dreamlike abstract painting punctuated by childlike imaginings of windows, trees and crosses.
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Beautiful lyrics, for example, can heal and inspire us, while a colorful, abstract painting has the power to transport us into a new realm, allowing us to view things from a different perspective.
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It's like an abstract painting inspired by the Canadian Arctic, but it's not a picture of a typical polar scene where the viewer is given reference points on which to base their experiences.
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Examples here include an ostensibly abstract painting by Brian Buczak (292-21962) depicting white blood cells, and pictures by Anthony Viti brushed with a mixture of oil paint and potentially dangerous body fluids.
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By the 19603s, the American imperial project had turned its attention to South America, through "Operation Condor" — but the export product was not abstract painting but rather a virulent form of anti-Communism.
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Spanning 60 years via more than 100 works, the exhibition will present his seminal "blur" works like "Uncle Rudi" (1965) as well as his splattery, painterly and colorful compositions like "Abstract Painting" (2016).
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It is glorious and timely to see them here, and not only because New York is undergoing a revival in abstract painting; one should always question stories of painting that put America first.
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Let's begin with "Abstract Painting with Shower and Toilet" (2008) in the exhibition William T. Wiley: Real Eye on Change at Gordon Robichaux, through the gallery's exchange with Parker Gallery in Los Angeles.
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The beauty of a pun is that, in order to work, it must exposes its own mechanisms, which Wiley also does visually when he juxtaposes a toilet and shower with an abstract painting.
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In the largely yellow, square, abstract painting, "Meditation on the Vertical" (1962), I encountered a field of subtly shifting, vertical yellow lines with a few lightning-like clusters of orange ones interspersed throughout.
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Historians now believe that Hilma af Klint, an obscure Swedish artist born in the late nineteenth century, created one of Europe's first abstract painting in 1906, beating Kandinsky to the punch by seven years.
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If resolving the composition of an abstract painting has become a rather easy thing to do — largely because the figure-ground relationship and the painting's physical edges are routinely ignored — Stephan challenges that orthodoxy.
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Upload an Japanese woodcut of fishing boats, for example, and the system offers waves and water sounds; load an abstract painting of nightingales, and you're given a garden soundscape of wind chimes and birds.
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His early work is considered a bridge between photography and abstract painting; one series of photos was taken under water or through sheets of ice; another used human and animal hair as the medium.
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This divine noise was the full-rotunda exhibition of the paintings of Hilma af Klint, which drew thousands of visitors and irrevocably altered the understanding of the genesis of abstract painting in the West.
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French abstract painting of the 22014s, dismissed at the time by chauvinistic American critics, is having quite a moment in New York: Elsewhere in town now are exhibitions by Martin Barré and François Morellet.
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Suddenly, the most sacred genesis tale of Modernism — the invention of abstract painting — has acquired a female actor who actually got there several years ahead of the revered triumvirate of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.
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Mr. Sandler was pursuing a doctorate in American history at Columbia University in 1952 when, wandering through the Museum of Modern Art one day, he came across "Chief," an abstract painting by Franz Kline.
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Within a decade — after first meeting Isamu Noguchi and Jasper Johns, and living at the YMCA, the Chelsea Hotel, and the Westbeth Artists Housing development — his investments in abstract painting hit a turning point.
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Looking through this lens of blackness, the history of abstract painting takes on some new meanings, and it was a stroke of genius to include historical works in this show alongside more contemporary pieces.
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Today, both women remain very active, making extremely distinct bodies of work: while Lara's practice is very much rooted in abstract painting and printmaking, Mayer's tends to feature elements of interactivity, performance, and social practice.
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I'm perversely trying to cultivate the thread that comes out of pareidolia, the creation of images, a facial image out of a random stimulus, basically, because random stimulus is the basis of abstract painting, right?
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While Annie sits in a brightly lit space in an Eames-ish chair, an abstract painting on the wall, Alvy lies on a couch in a somber room with heavy drapes and dark wood paneling.
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This kind of romanticism helps us understand the radical impetus of abstract painting in the early and mid-20th century as a reaction to a recalcitrant aestheticism (something that wouldn't be obvious to our contemporaries).
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In addition to his abstract painting-sculptures of sliced and reassembled monochrome canvases — several of which are on view nearby — Scarpitta was known for his passion for racing cars; he even owned a racing team.
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It's an interesting and humorous tension — the representation of an abstract painting, perhaps understood as emotionally "real" or "authentic," but leaning up against the studio wall or printed on a torn page in a textbook.
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In this case, the art consists of dinnerware designed by Jono Pandolfi, a ceramist in Union City; an abstract painting by the Canadian artist Mélanie Simard; and tables reclaimed from structural I-beams by Brooklyn Reclamation.
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Each of Hackett's panels play with their components of paint, gesso, marker, and clay in decidedly different ways, some taking on the appearance of straight abstract painting while others veer off into a rackety, outsider-ish groove.
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That same year, in the region of Thonburi on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River near Bangkok, the self-taught Thai artist Tang Chang (also known as Chang Sae-tang) made his first abstract painting.
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When he writes "Blinky Palermo" in white paint on a scrap of wood and affixes it to the front of a moody abstract painting, the browns and the dark and pale greens obliquely evoke the German artist.
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Satellite When: December 1–4 Where: The Parisian Hotel (1510 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) When your eyes are hurting and you can't look at another colorful abstract painting or mirror-cum-sculpture without crying, head to Satellite.
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Asked why he had expanded to these dimensions — whether it had to do with the New York School's change in the scale of abstract painting — "he said, 'It's when we got a station wagon,'" Mr. Leiber said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A mainstay of New York abstract painting, Andrea Belag's latest exhibition, Inheritance, includes four large format canvases from 230-23, supplemented by a pair of smaller works on wood from 22.
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The facing wall is broken up with a single abstract painting, a doorway to the kitchen and a long opening behind which the four people who make up the entire kitchen staff can be seen at work.
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They have started to look for new works, even buying a black-and-white abstract painting during a recent trip to Venice, but on a December afternoon, the canvas was still leaning against a dining room wall.
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While some critics and curators might consider what Voisine does as old-fashioned, I see its refusal to celebrate entrepreneurship's penchant for displaying its capacity for excess as a commitment to the radical roots of abstract painting.
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She died at age 81 in 1944, but it took 42 more years before her works were featured in an exhibition (The Spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1890–1985, organized by Maurice Tuchman in Los Angeles in 1986).
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A terrific, roughly hourlong reel of 12 films and videos shows Ms. Schwartz's debt to abstract painting, and a book written with her son, Laurens, "The Computer Artist's Handbook" (1992), makes references to van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso.
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Stronger recent arrivals are Judit Reigl's foreboding "Guano (Menhir)" of 1959-5353; Ilona Keseru's pink, red and purple wall hanging, inspired by tombstones but resembling open mouths, from 1969; and a handsome shaped abstract painting by Robert Mangold.
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The Nova sector, dedicated to younger galleries and their artists, feels particularly rich thanks to unexpected pauses like the ethereal mix of Dawn Kasper's glowing, dangling sculptures and a monumental abstract painting by Lucy Dodd at David Lewis.
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How did some of these films — including her first known one, "Untitled," a kind of abstract painting along the film surface, made around 1971 when she was a student at the University of Iowa — remain unknown for so long?
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This year's Hong Kong fair kicked off Tuesday with a sale of incredible magnitude: Microsoft co-founder and US-based billionaire Paul Allen sold Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XII, 1975 for $20013 million to a private collector.
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He wants to subvert the standards of judgment integral to our understanding of abstract painting, while being committed to the act of making: he wants to inhabit his doubt and certainty without seeking a one-size-fits-all solution.
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But by rendering Emmett Till's face in energetic, slashing brushstrokes, and slashing and manipulating the canvas so that it becomes unrecognizable as anything but an abstract painting, Schutz obscures what the boy's mother wanted to remain visible and untouched.
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To paraphrase one of the many friends who share stories of Mr. Fields in this anecdotal, loosely structured movie, he's the guy who would talk you into buying some sort of abstract painting before the work was widely understood.
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With the pans' rudimentary lines, corrugated ridges, and concentric circles, this largely dark ensemble is a riveting post-minimal abstract painting sans paint, while die-cut holes and speckles of light play across the surface, conjuring the glittering cosmos.
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Circular dry plough tracks resemble the concentric circles in Aboriginal dot paintings that tell of an ancient mythology, starving cattle queuing for feed look like an abstract painting and their black shadows stretching across the land a surrealist image.
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At a time when crafts inform the shape of so much contemporary artwork, it seems clear that Mr. Gilliam's achievement has been to celebrate the under-acknowledged overlap between the history of fabric and the history of abstract painting.
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The videos on Mr. Bukele's Facebook page alternate between packaged clips showing him speaking before large crowds and awkward appeals from his living room, where he sits on an off-white sofa in front of a giant abstract painting.
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All the artists I came to know well — David Reed, Sean Scully, and the late Thomas Nozkowski were the most prominent — had to wrestle with the often-beleaguered situation of painting, and most especially abstract painting in New York.
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Or perhaps it did have a sort of dated function, that of eliminating the opposition between abstract painting and the painter, as Tinguely's Méta-matics (1959) drawing machines presented a pastiche of the Abstract Expressionist painting of the 63s.
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The AI matched a photo of industrial robots assembling Ford cars with abstract painting Mars Ascends by Bryan Wynter, and a photo of riot police standing guard in Harare, Zimbabwe with a more peaceful landscape by watercolour artist William Henry Hunt.
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Fine art photography, like Diane Arbus and the Snapshot aesthetic, can be demonstrative of Modernist or Abstract painting, a time when artists began questioning the act of painting, moving away from creating portraits and landscapes so prominent in the Enlightenment period.
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CARMEN HERRERA: LINES OF SIGHT Spanning over 50 years, this survey of Carmen Herrera (born in 1915 in Havana) also helps fill in the narrative of post-World War II abstract painting migrating from Europe to the Americas. Sept. 16-Jan.
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"Mosque of Isfahan (B)" (22014) is an exquisite abstract painting inspired by Islamic architectural elements, while in "Untitled" (22008), Pilaram turns traditional calligraphy into a meditation on movement; his letters swirl on the canvas, emphasizing the beauty of form itself.
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Joe Overstreet, an artist and activist who in the 1960s took abstract painting into the sculptural dimension and later created a home in New York for artists who had been ignored by the mainstream, died on June 4 in Manhattan.
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While the focus is art, the grasp is wide, including an abstract painting by Frank Stella not far from more folk art pieces like fabric ball toss targets painted with sardonic smiles that are somewhere between a grimace and a grin.
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That research led eventually to "Working Space," his 1986 book derived from a series of lectures that he delivered at Harvard in the early '80s, in which he framed his new work as an answer to a crisis in abstract painting.
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That research led eventually to "Working Space," his 1986 book derived from a series of lectures that he delivered at Harvard in the early '80s, in which he framed his new work as an answer to a crisis in abstract painting.
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So let's just say Mr. Mogensen's recent efforts in the front space at Karma form one of the best displays of abstract painting in New York right now, for their rigor and pleasures and their illumination of the act of looking.
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You have to assume that Ma spent countless hours staring at the floating blobs inside a lava lamp as a kid before developing her abstract painting technique, which involves pouring layer after layer of acrylic paint mixtures on top of each other.
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While attending art school, Mr. Haacke took a summer job as a security guard at the second edition of Documenta, Kassel's large-scale exhibition of international art — where he photographed befuddled visitors, obsequious dignitaries and hardy cleaners amid the abstract painting and sculpture.
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As such, it not only is one of the earliest examples of abstract painting, but demonstrates the artist's interest in mystical correspondences between painting and spiritual notions that Charlene Spretnak hones in on in her important book The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art.
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Recently, I was invited by the Brooklyn Museum to check out Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, an exhibit of more than 150 works sweeping aesthetic range, including figurative and abstract painting, assemblage, sculpture, photography, and performance.
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And there is one instance of coherent curatorial logic: A small gallery with one seemingly abstract painting per wall, two big ones by Ed Clark and Gedi Sibony, and two small ones by Whitney Claflin and Eiichi Shibata, a Japanese outsider artist.
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He begins the show helping to invent abstract painting and sculpture — and ends as a brilliant photographer and graphic designer, most impressively, of the arts journal Novyi LEF, or Left Front (1927-28), whose covers, images and layouts were mostly his doing.
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"Up close it will be abstract, like an abstract painting, but as you move away and look across the theater, it all of a sudden appears," said Bill Mensching, the creative director of EverGreene Architectural Arts, the company that is executing the design.
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It may mean something that almost all the abstract painting in the show is by women, from Ulrike Müller's small geometric enamel-on-steel pictures, as precious as antique cameos, to Nancy Brooks Brody's black-and-white grids radiant with half-hidden color.
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One only needs to consider Simon Hantaï's extensive exchanges with historians and philosophers such as Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Derrida, or Jean-Luc Nancy to understand how closely connected abstract painting was to philosophy, and how curious the philosophical world was of the painted world.
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Starting on the far left edge and running along the bottom of each of the five sections, a band of deep violet further implies that this is a landscape we are looking at, not an abstract painting where everything sits on a flat surface.
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Two of the first works in "A Constellation," organized by Amanda Hunt, an assistant curator at the Studio Museum, are a geometrically abstract painting by Al Loving, "Variations on a Six-Sided Object" (28), and a figurative sculpture, "Mother and Child" (1993), by Elizabeth Catlett.
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Hasegawa called calligraphy "a great treasure house for abstract painting," and the exhibition has several of his scrolls and screens, including "The Butterfly Dream—from Zhuangzi" (1956), which shows the black ink characters flitting on the tan background, suggesting the movements of a butterfly.
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Two examples of Rayonist painting — a style preoccupied with thatches of diagonal lines, seen as rays of light — indicate that Goncharova and her husband devised Russia's first abstract painting style (although explosive brushwork of Goncharova's slightly earlier but related "Landscape, 47" is better than either).
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She was able to study art at French academies — off limits to women in other countries at the time — and in 1930 wrote a manifesto, "Perspectives and Thoughts on Abstract Painting," in which she asserts that avant-garde art could uplift people morally and spiritually.
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Born and raised in a middle-class family in Boyle Heights, Romero captured the pulse of Los Angeles through his pictorial and more abstract painting of decorated cars and the vast freeways (portrayed as our cultural shrines) connecting the different parts of the city.
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Af Klint's work was first seen when sixteen of her paintings were included in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 21886–21888, organized by Maurice Tuchman with the assistance of Judi Freeman, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (November 21906, 21915 – March 3, 217).
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His work is usually abstract painting and sculpture that looks like it was either carved from, dreamed up by, or vomited out of a computer, and he's shown it at nerd Meccas like Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and bitforms gallery in the Lower East Side.
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In terms of how it looks, what it has to say and how it says it, with its intended or implied meanings ranging from the ambiguous to the sublime, abstract painting has long been and still can be almost anything an artist wants it to be.
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Despite their distinctively cyberpunk aesthetic of visual static and fragmentation in a palette dominated by blacks, pinks and techno greens, the images are powered by the same careful counterbalancing of color and form you would see in any good abstract painting of the past 50 years.
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While the former is more visually exciting and conceptually rich, placing textiles in free-flowing forms and referencing everything from protest camp sites to laundry lines, the latter feels more directly in dialogue with the conventional parameters of art history and abstract painting, which isn't the artist's sweet spot.
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One way he does this, formally, is in repurposing antique quilts, which were signposts used on the Underground Railroad and have been central more recently in Southern African-American collectives like Gee's Bend, whose work, for many, created a link between African textile patterns and modern European abstract painting.
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Adams's amalgamation of structure, line, and color places her in the strain of abstract painting that seems to have originated in New York in the mid-1980s, when Mary Heilmann began showing again after a long hiatus, and dates back earlier to Lee Krasner's paintings with floral forms.
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As Mark Titmarsh notes in his book Expanded Painting: Ontological Aesthetics and the Essence of Colour (2017), where abstract painting could once only reach out to what it constitutes on a material level, it can now reference everything it is not: sculpture, photography, digital media, video, performance, VR, and so forth.
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Bonnefoi's alternative to the quagmire of dead-end formalist narratives, on the one hand, and to the escape into a sculptural context on the other, has been thoroughly ignored in the discussion of the future of abstract painting on this side of the Atlantic (and not just because of the language barrier).
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Although the exhibition roughly isolates three distinct techniques within Chang's practice — purely abstract painting, poems and "poem-drawings," and a hybrid of both — it insists on the abiding influence of poetic strategies on his paintings and of painting on his writings throughout his life, rather than positing that one discipline led to another.
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Southwest of Little Haiti, in Allapattah, is Spinello Projects' group show featuring Clara Varas, who begins her process with an abstract painting (often done on a bedsheet) and then adds all manner of found detritus from the city streets, amounting to sculptural Frankensteins that are fascinatingly more than the sum of their parts.
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"It's almost like a good abstract painting," Hyde told On Motherboard: I Paid This Company $30 to Break Up with My Girlfriend After snaking through the museum and reading the stories of real people being discarded and clinging to the objects that were left behind, I was on the verge of a panic attack.
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Why you don't hear the comparison anymore is partly due to the many popularized theories available to any and all visual genres, including abstract painting, that do not encourage the idea that the time a viewer spends before a canvas ought to relate in some way to the time the painter expended while painting it.
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As any deeply realized abstract painting is ultimately about itself, "Ancedote of the Jar" is a poem about poetry; its meaning develops as its internally directed language manifests a harmonious interface between the manmade (the jar) and the undomesticated ( "the slovenly wilderness") : I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill.
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Many of these artists emphasized everyday materials and processes; most rejected the expression of subjectivity and emotion that prevailed in the gestural abstract painting and figurative sculpture that immediately followed World War II. Mr. Castellani's art consisted of reliefs in the form of monochromatic canvases with row upon row of taut, protruding, tented points.
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At the fair's V.I.P. opening last Wednesday inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, one big-ticket sale came early at the Gagosian Gallery's booth as a couple dressed in shabby chic — complete with a military-style field jacket for the gentleman — snapped up a 2180 untitled abstract painting by Sam Francis for $6.5 million.
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And upon completing the first draft of "Life Is Like a Musical," Mr. Federle bought a large abstract painting at an antiques shop in Hudson, N.Y. "In publishing, as in showbiz, you don't know if something is going to hit or tank, but I thought, 'Well, at least I'll have a painting,'" he said.
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Last month at her first event there, Ms. Chicago spoke with Jori Finkel — a contributor to The New York Times and the author of "It Speaks to Me: Art That Inspires Artists" — about a source of inspiration for her own work: female pioneers of abstract painting, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton.
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For example, if we assume the context of "Power and Country 2" has something (however vaguely) to do with the Chinese state apparatus, while its paint extends outward from of the canvas, twisting and cracking at various angles, is it then our responsibility to extract the relationship between the supposed "content" of the title and the (completely abstract) painting?
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It's self-referential, almost like an abstract painting, so to speak … Back in the day, for me it was all about the coincidence and the necessary colliding together — meaning for coincidence, me framing up some kind of task or condition or gesture, and the necessary was putting it next to something else to have it in conversation with something.
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The work in the two-person show at TSA, organized by Vincent Como, is fairly conventional in format, even if its use of materials is not: Joy Curtis cuts and shapes abstract sculptures from cotton duck fabric of a kind that many artists paint on, and Terence Hannum makes something like abstract painting from audio cassette tape.
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Photograph by Albin Dahlström; courtesy the Moderna Museet, Stockholm The least of the excitements is a case being made by some art historians, and advanced by the show's fine curator, Tracey Bashkoff, that af Klint, working secretly in Stockholm in 21910, was the inventor of abstract painting, beating Wassily Kandinsky, in Munich, to the title by five years.
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What ties the work of Lois Dodd and Neil Welliver to the period that saw the rise of Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella is a shared bias toward directly applied and unadulterated color, and it is on this same ground that Janet Fish has thrived for decades, exploring in subtle ways the boundaries of representational and abstract painting.
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Now celebrated as a pioneering abstract painter working years before the modernist male titans Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and others supposedly "invented" the concept of abstract painting, af Klint was virtually unknown until a few of her paintings were included in the 1986 exhibition "The Spiritual in Art" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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In her lucidly written catalogue essay for As in Nature, guest curator Alexandra Schwartz, in an attempt to tread the slippery line between form and content in Frankenthaler's work, wades deliberately into a now-forgotten tempest-in-a-teapot, namely the degree with which an abstract painting should be seen as referencing the world outside its edges.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Sonia Gechtoff, who lived in San Francisco from 1951 until 1959, actively contributed to the burst of abstract painting that became a worldwide phenomenon in the late 1940s and '50s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism in San Francisco and New York City, Art Informel in Europe, and the Gutai painters in Osaka, Japan.
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But that same year, in 1930, the explosive exultation suddenly is pared way, way down, as in the startlingly simple and meditative "Abstract Painting" (1930): just three thin black lines on a stark white background, painted at a time when he was joining the Abstraction-Creation group and connecting with De Stijl (aka Neoplasticism) artists and the Bauhaus Design School.
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They include an impressively competent stockbroker reciting Futurist manifestoes with a slight Queens accent; an icy chief executive quoting manifestoes on abstract painting as if announcing the company's latest strategies; and an imperious Russian choreographer who rehearses a troupe of silver-garbed aliens more appropriate to Twyla Tharp, interspersing her impatient corrections with rebellious aphorisms from Fluxus and Performance artists.
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Although Mullican could make what many would consider a purely abstract painting, such as the nearly monochrome "Meditation on the Vertical," he could also be semi-figurative, as in "Caravan to the Sun" (1957), or evoke an otherworldly landscape, as in "Meditation on a Southwestern Landscape" (1962), or be inspired by improvisational music, as in "Meditations on a Jazz Passage" (1964).
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Despite his admiration for abstract painting in general and Pollock in particular, Kaprow continued to hold onto the image well into the 1950s, when it was considered passé by many critics and collectors — a stance that can be taken as evidence of his investment in "the outer world," which he would ultimately pursue at the expense of the handmade object.
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In the piece, the kitchen is empty; in the nursery, a monster fills the cradle and a giant black spider climbs over an open egg shape; and in the studio, the artist's husband, naked except for his cowboy boots, models for an abstract painting that's a miniature of "Silver Windows" (1967), a grid-based work from the hard-edge period (that's also included in the show).
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In spending time with the late work of John Opper (1908–1994), a New York School painter, in a current exhibition at David Findlay Jr, it became apparent to me that when abstract painting was more open to theme and variation and less concerned with stark novelty, it inspired a viewer to share in the complex string of decisions that gave rise to the final image.
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In many ways Stella's work is still tethered to the powerful certainties that ruled abstract painting when he was a young man, and the force of his conviction and the depth of his resourcefulness to keep the dream alive are truly remarkable, but these certainties have long lost their sheen, leading to the unavoidable question: Does the world really need another piece by Frank Stella?
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There were also eye-filling and thought-provoking explorations of abstract painting by Ivo Ringe at Hionas Gallery, Jonathan Lasker at Cheim & Read, Monique Mouton at Bridget Donahue, and Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann at Gallery Nine 21975, while two of Minimalism's most radical sculptors were responsible for two of the year's most impressive shows, Richard Serra at Gagosian and Fred Sandback at David Zwirner.
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In light of the wide berth the First Amendment affords artistic speech, the ADF lawyers claim, "Phillips is as shielded by the Free Speech Clause as a modern painter or sculptor, and his greatest masterpieces—his custom wedding cakes—are just as worthy of constitutional protection as an abstract painting like Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, a modern sculpture like Alexander Calder's Flamingo, or a temporary artistic structure like Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence".
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"I had been working non-objectively for many years, but I felt that contemporary abstract painting as a continued practice couldn't be made specific enough and that after a 100 years of so many other artists exploring this area, that it was time to move beyond this and to create work that was both more personal and imaginative in origin and which addressed those questions more directly of what it means to be human," he explains.
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A really excellent Donald Judd floor sculpture, made of red enamel paint on galvanized iron and with an open space in its center, shares one room with a diagonal yellow Dan Flavin neon, a Richard Serra sculpture made of lead plates balanced against one another, an atmospheric white-on-white painting by Blinky Palermo, a black-and-white abstract painting by Ad Reinhardt, On Kawara's "July 5257, 220," and a four-part Fred Sandback sculpture in which small horizontal and vertical planes are delineated not by yarn but instead by thin steel rods coated with purple enamel.
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