Wallace Whitney

Artforum;  November 1, 2008 ;     530 words ......is alive to the curious allure of gestural abstraction, to the drama and theatricality...offers the intricacies of aggressive gestural abstraction in a less egocentric manner, as...part of his endeavor to practice gestural abstraction while turning away from the solipsistic...

Two artists in one show

Filipino Reporter;  November 7, 2002 ;     341 words ......11-07-2002 Set eyes on the stylistic and personal nuances of gestural abstraction as Rock Drilon and Briccio Santos get together in a two-m...though both express themselves through the language of gestural abstraction, Santos and Drilon work independently from each other...

DON'T TAKE ME ALIVE

Boise Weekly;  April 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......The question today is, how does gestural abstraction fare when you take away the audacity...experimental and intuitive qualities of gestural abstraction. But where most abstract work stresses...sanity as well. But they also show gestural abstraction rubbing up against its ...

French painter Georges Mathieu, 87 poses in his 1936 black Mercedes...

Getty Images;  February 8, 2008 ;     68 words ...JEAN AYISSI Getty Images 02-08-2008 French painter Georges Mathieu, 87 poses in his 1936 black Mercedes... Full Size JPG (2078 KB) French painter Georges Mathieu, 87 poses in his 1936 black Mercedes 500K Convertible Cabriolet, on February 8...

Obituary: Jean-Paul Riopelle Most celebrated Canadian painter of the last...

The Independent - London;  April 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Riopelle also met the flamboyant French painter and promoter Georges Mathieu, who included him in his exhibitions of the new abstraction...Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Hans Hartung, Riopelle, Wols and Georges Mathieu - to explore the international tendency towards gestural...

Tachisme

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms;      146 words ......Like their contemporaries, the American Abstract Expressionists , the practitioners of Tachisme (such as Jean Fautrier, Georges Mathieu, and the German-born Wols) attempted to be spontaneous, gestural, and instinctive in their art. The term is generally accepted...

MY POP: Richard Hawkins

Artforum;  October 1, 2004 ;     188 words ......painters, they adapted and hybridized some of the looseness and ambivalence of '40s figuration and the game-playing of gestural abstraction. Either way, it had more to do with painting than literalizing a Newman zip into a flag's stripe. Peter Saul and Joe...

Antonio Puri, Far-Out Man

The Washington Post;  December 23, 2006 ;     124 words ...Antonio Puri claims to be infusing gestural abstraction with Buddhist mindfulness, though you can't really tell by looking. Most of Puri's big canvases derive from the blob-drip-splash...

What the mind's eye sees: action painters were postwar exemplars of...

American Scholar;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......counted among the canonical works of Western art. The terms gestural abstraction and action painting have been used to describe the sort...meaning to the experience of an abstract work. But perhaps gestural abstraction is just not intriguing enough to activate the mind of...

Talk talk

The Village Voice;  November 12, 1996 ;     263 words ......much in ART All their gestures are so refined. There were some hideous examples of European abstract expressionism, like Georges Mathieu. Frederic Tuten: How about Tapies? Eric Fischl: Julian Schnabel has made Tapies look like a genius. Schnabel's work just...

NANCY SPERO'S WORK FILLED WITH LIBERATING STRENGTH

The Boston Globe;  October 23, 1988 ;     700+ words ......The gallery is open noon-6 p.m. weekdays, and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. weekends. During the late '60s, Philip Guston abandoned the gestural abstraction of his painting of the previous decade and began producing figurative works. Based on the cartooning he had done as a...

Ian Whitmore

Artforum;  October 1, 2007 ;     566 words ......DC Ian Whitmore G FINEART Ian Whitmore paints skillful pastiches of decadent, rococo confections, sprinkling them with gestural abstraction and hints of Koonsian kitsch. His cauldron of references contains essences of, among others, Cecily Brown, Karen Kilimnik...

bending reality Robert Vickrey's take on the nature of things is a playful...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 9, 1996 ;     700+ words ......illustration" used to be lobbed like an artillery shell at anyone who dared to work representationally in a world dominated by gestural abstraction. Once launched, it destroyed, totally: reputation, salability, personal credibility. No longer. Today, with dogmatism...

Photo shows a 1936 black Mercedes 500K Convertible Cabriolet...

Getty Images;  February 8, 2008 ;     69 words ......Cabriolet... Full Size JPG (1902 KB) Photo shows a 1936 black Mercedes 500K Convertible Cabriolet owned by French painter Georges Mathieu, 87, on February 8, 2008 in Paris during the auction of the car which is estimated at one million euros. AFP PHOTO JEAN...

Action Painting

Artforum;  January 1, 2008 ;     164 words ......Expressionism ultimately had more staying power than Rosenberg's "action painting," his argument popularized the idea that gestural abstraction-as practiced by artists such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock-embodied spontaneity, individual...