● Katharina Grosse German, born 1961
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2015, Acrylic on canvas 229.0 × 161.0 × 4.0 Size (cm) [Online] Available from: https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/20530/Katharina-Grosse-Untitled [Accessed 23/09/18]
Just reading about Grosse I ‘saw’ (realized) the idea of going beyond the canvas. These thoughts already were there but I was not sure about the idea in whole. I prepared a small draft and will try on the bigger surface.
The artist calls it ‘immersive painting’ (somehow the last couple of years seems everything tends to be immersive…). As most of the works are big or they are simply covering all the space of a hall or a room, a viewer really physically surrounded by the colour, form and shapes.
● Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
Helen Frankenthaler, Summerscene, Provincetown, 1961 [Online] Available from: https://americanart.si.edu/blog/eye-level/2012/09/762/we-remember-helen-frankenthaler-1928-2011 [Accessed 08/05/19]
Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, oil and charcoal on unsized, unprimed canvas, 219.4 x 297.8 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. [Online] Available from: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/abstract-exp-nyschool/new-york-school/v/frankenthaler-sea [Accessed 23/09/18]
The artist was influenced by Greenberg’s theory, so she wanted to create a non-illusionist image. An amorphous colour which absents the gesture of the artist. It was intended two-dimensionality.
My personal taste still more about bold colour, though Frankenthaler uses a variety of it anyway the depth and substance, if I can say like that, is not there. The artist developed the soak-stain technique and later applied it to printmaking, woodcuts as well as to acrylic painting.
Again, as an artist I mentioned before, she works on the big scale canvases which affect the perception of a person and the creation involves the whole body movements.
"Snow Pines" by Helen Frankenthaler, from the Weatherspoon's collection; the artist at work in her studio. [Online] Available from: http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/blog/collection/artist-helen-frankenthaler/ [Accessed 08/05/19]
Being modern for her time in an artistic approach, the artist still founds an inspiration in nature. This aspect bothers me a lot, as today being under the pressure of “Instagram art” content, I am keep asking myself – what can be an inspiration for the artist in our days and is it a material surface which needs to be on the wall or it is an art in the internet as our is the future?
● Elizabeth Joy Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter
The Age Of Innocence, Elizabeth Peyton, 16 Pages, 19.5 x 25.5 cm Color Offset, First Edition 2013 [Online] Available from: https://nieves.ch/810/the_age_of_innocence [Accessed 08/05/19]
The artist works with a portrait with both personality and history. I find it interesting to develop the theme of the personality in only one portrait, for example, as in the series with Prince Harry, but it seems to me that working with oil, watercolour and etching does not convey a modern approach to the technique. For example, plastic, reflecting surface for me elements of the modern sample. Hockney, for example, works on an iPad, which today is also not the most modern one. And yet, Payton copies portraits from a photograph using “historical” materials. I'm not sure that this is the most modern language. Although what is valuable as a result - to do what you like or run for a fashion? It seems to me that the artist must create this fashion and introduce new momentum and technology.
Redrawing photos that look like a magazine or movie is kitsch for me. Propaganda of values that are dubious is not the task of art. Seeing the image with the figures endowed with the stage image does not allow a person not versed in art to perceive the value and vocation of art.
Perhaps this is the difference in the mentality of different cultures, but for me, there is some kind bud-veiled criticism of society.
● Per Dybvig Born: January 27, 1964, Stavanger, Norway
Per Dybvig, Following, Untitled, 2017, Ink on paper, 162 × 115 cm [Online] Available from: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/per-dybvig-untitled-35 [Accessed 08/05/19]
Most of the proposed author, I studied the book "Vitamin D" Dexter. The illustration requires uninterrupted long work. I respectfully refer to artists working in this genre, and especially to artists with a sense of humour. Works are extremely detailed and satirical. I thought that only a woman can depict such a flow of elements in a limited space, but Dydvig draws the flow of information physically and rhetorically, without restricting it.
Per Dybvig, Following [Online] Available from: http://seb098.blogspot.com/2011/03/per-dybvig.html [Accessed 08/05/19]
Bibliography and references
· Gagosian KATHARINA GROSSE [Online] Available from: https://gagosian.com/artists/katharina-grosse/ [Accessed 23/09/18]
· https://www.theartstory.org/artist-frankenthaler-helen.htm [Accessed 08/05/19]
· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peyton [Accessed 08/05/19]
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