Remember this from the previous post? The ballet fail that I exorcised with a large dollop of white primer? Well, I’m taking another run at light, this one based on a photo reference because it’s clear that imagining how bodies … Continue reading Light revisited
I had just posted my piece on abstract expressionism, noting the missing women, when I found this article on Artsy net. Alongside a very accessible article about what you need to appreciate abstract art – it turns out you need to know something of the context, the historical background, provenance, and the cultural realities artists were working in. Also their significance as innovators – was a short paragraph concerning the missing women. “The truth is I did not set out to do a women’s show; I really set out to see who’d been left out of the canon of Abstract … Continue reading Part 5, research point 2, AbEx – the missing women and people of colour
I had to look up abstract expressionism and discovered it was a movement that arose from a group, largely of men, whose aim was to shift the post-WWII balance of contemporary art from Paris to New York. Titled the New … Continue reading Part 5, research point 2 – abstract expressionism and tachism
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