Tag: Abstract

Charles Bunnell came to embrace abstract art

COURTESY PHOTOL.S. found this abstract work by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968). Paul Durand-Ruel, Joseph Duveen, Peggy Guggenheim, Edith Halpert, Julien Levy, Pierre Matisse, Paul Rosenberg and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler have the place of honor of the top art dealers who shaped the way we show and represent art and artists.  And so did a little guy in Amarillo, Texas, in the 1950-1970 with the unlikely ...

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Wellesley arts news: Davis Museum previews fall exhibits; Abstract art welcomes you to the library

Our roundup of the latest Wellesley arts news: Davis Museum previews fall exhibits Wellesley College’s Davis Museum, closed as usual for the summer, will return this fall with a handful of new exhibits open to the school community and the general public. Among the exhibits, slated to be shown from Sept. 15 to Dec. 18: Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit Of Venus The exhibit ...

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Mary Obering, Abstract Painter, Dies at 85 – ARTnews.com

Mary Obering, a painter whose geometric abstractions brought her a small but loyal following, has died at 85. New York’s Bortolami gallery, which added her to its roster in 2019, said that Obering died in New York of natural causes on July 29. Obering’s paintings merged the pared-down aesthetics of newer movements like Minimalism with techniques and styles that date back multiple centuries. Though ...

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Pace Gallery Takes on Pioneering Abstract Painter Virginia Jaramillo – ARTnews.com

Pace Gallery now represents Virginia Jaramillo, a pioneering abstract painter who has been making work for over six decades but has only recently seen a resurgence in interest. Jaramillo will continue to work with Hales Gallery, which has locations in London and New York. With this representation, Jaramillo will become one of the few U.S.-born Latina artists to be represented by a mega-gallery. Pace ...

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Wild waves, perfect pipes: Milton Avery, the original abstract expressionist – review | Exhibitions

It doesn’t take long to start seeing the Rothkos hidden in Milton Avery’s beach scenes and landscapes. They loom as eerie empty vistas of sea and sky, turning what seem to be figurative compositions into abstract masterpieces. Man With a Pipe, for instance, is a deliberately bizarre scene painted in 1935. But remove the people and you would have three layers of abstract colour: ...

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Milton Avery—who linked American Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism—gets first major European show

“You always feel better after looking at a Milton Avery painting,” says Edith Devaney, the curator of the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe dedicated to the American painter (1885-1965). “He’s one of those artists—and there aren’t many of them—for whom there’s an element of joy in every work. There’s something life-affirming about them, and I hope people respond to that.”Devaney felt compelled to bring ...

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Gagosian Now Represents Jadé Fadojutimi, Fast-Rising Abstract Artist – ARTnews.com

Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, now represents London-based artist Jadé Fadojutimi, whose ascent over the past few years has made her one of the most closely watched abstractionists working today. Fadojutimi’s first presentation with Gagosian will be an installation of new works at the gallery’s Frieze London booth in October. She will continue to be co-represented by Cologne’s Galerie Gisela Capitain and Tokyo’s Taka ...

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The intense life of abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell

"Perhaps if I hadn't had to fight, I would have quit," the artist Joan Mitchell once said. "I don't know. I doubt it, though."Mitchell's work may have been born out of struggle, but there is no question that she was able to prevail, creating paintings now considered 20th century masterpieces. And Katy Siegel, who co-curated a show of Mitchell's work for the Baltimore Museum ...

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What Was Abstract Expressionism? – ARTnews.com

By the time the Second World War ended, in 1945, some 70–85 million people had died, and cities across Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Economies were devastated in countries around the globe, with one huge exception: the United States. Although Japan had brought the war to America’s Pacific protectorates and German U-boats had prowled off the East Coast, the U.S. mainland had ...

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