"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...
"By the turn of the 1950s Rothko had arrived at the pictorial format which was to serve him for the rest of his career; horizontal lozenges of soft-edged color hovering in a large vertically oriented field. These clouds of color were seen by...
Photographs; Portrait photographs; Portraits; Men; Women; Artists; Painters (Artists); Sculptors; Historians; Scholars; Critics; Art dealers; Authors; People associated with commercial activities; People associated with education &...
Photo Fred W. McDarrah. Visible are Harriet Janis (left), Franz Kline, William Baziotes (eyes only), Robert Goldwater, Louise Bourgeois (with hat), Ethel Baziotes (right), Mark Rothko (with hat), David Sylvester (rear centre), Willem de Kooning...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In the mid-1980s Richter produced abstract paintings as well as realist 'photo-paintings'. […] he appeared here to be recapitulating the ideological options underpinning postwar modernism in so far as his own transplantation from Eastern to...