The art world was transitioning from the rough gestural abstraction practiced by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning to a new phase: Color Field painting, sharp and precise, meant to extend ...

How Norman Bluhm Reinvented Gestural Abstraction Long an admirer of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, Bluhm sought to recreate their sensual forms, unearthly light, and infinite space in abstraction.

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When the landmark Abstract Expressionism show “The New American Painting” arrived at London’s Tate gallery in 1959, it featured work by 17 artists: all of them American, and 16 of them men ...

But now, there are signs that abstraction is roaring back in galleries after a period of relative dormancy. Gestural strokes and off-kilter color fields are becoming the norm, ...

That it thereafter drops the term Abstract Expressionism (though the show includes AbEx artists like Lee Krasner and Grace Hartigan), and instead refers interchangeably to “gestural abstraction ...

Though self-taught, Guez’s work resonates with echoes of gestural abstraction, action painting, Art Informel, and Abstract Expressionism—movements that, while not formally studied, seem to ...

The drawings here, most from the 1960s, came amid a period when Bloom had ceased painting, a temporary and intentional reset.

Hirshhorn head curator Evelyn Hankins says, “He works through ideas about conceptual art, minimalism, gestural abstraction, to a point where the video shares a lot of the same conceptual and ...

I have been an acquaintance of seasoned artist Tajuddin Ahmed for over two decades. He rose to prominence as an artist in the 1970s and discovered his true passion for gestural abstract art in the ...

Kurdish tapestries serve as a starting point for Kara’s gestural abstract paintings, but she freely appropriates, manipulates and reinterprets her cultural heritage, reviving it through an act ...

Second, gestural abstraction was bound up with masculine aggression and feminine objectification, most notoriously in Willem de Kooning’s painting Woman I.