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As a student and early in his career, immersed himself in the art of earlier eras, from the Renaissance and Baroque onward. One of his recurrent themes was the reinterpretation of subjects from the Old Masters, synthesizing masterpieces of the past with his interest and engagement with contemporary culture, including jazz , poetry and the arts.
Post-painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg [1] as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964, which subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toronto.
Fluxus – early 1960s – late-1970s; Happening – early 1960 – Video art – early 1960 – Psychedelic art – early 1960s – Conceptual art – 1960s – Graffiti – 1960s – Junk art – 1960s – Performance art – 1960s – Op Art – 1964 – Post-painterly abstraction – 1964 – Lyrical Abstraction – mid-1960s – Process ...
Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
Minimalism in visual art, generally referred to as "minimal art", literalist art, [2] and ABC Art [3] emerged in New York in the early 1960s. [4] Initially minimal art appeared in New York in the 60s as new and older artists moved toward geometric abstraction; exploring via painting in the cases of Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Al Held ...
Overstreet's early work of the late 1950s to the mid 1960s assimilates his interests in Abstract Expressionism, jazz, and the painful realities of African-American history, in works such as The Hawk, For Horace Silver (1957), Carry Back (1960), Big Black (1961), and Janet (1964).
Tony Smith, Free Ride, 1962, 6'8 x 6'8 x 6'8 (the height of a standard US door opening), Museum of Modern Art, New York. By the early 1960s, Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity ...
Meyer Schapiro and Leo Steinberg along with Greenberg and Rosenberg were important art historians of the post-war era who voiced support for abstract expressionism. During the early-to-mid-sixties younger art critics Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, and Robert Hughes added considerable insights into the critical dialectic that continues to grow ...