"In 1950 he declared: 'New arts need new techniques'"
"So although this work might initially appear to be a childish scrawl, it actually conveys the preoccupations of the time."
Vitamin P2
Read Vitamin P before, only skimmed P2
Best recent work in the medium
1st Vitamin P came about when painting was in need of re-evaluation, inaugurating a vibrant new period for painting and helping to ignite an explosion of interest in the medium.
New generation of painters - presented in P2
geometric minimalism to gestural expressionism
bridge the figurative and abstract divide
Some experienced artists, some brand new
Everyday Painting, Barry Schwabsky
Before there was art, there was painting
Richard Aldrich
all painting is to a greater or lesser extent conceptual, but, equally, its concepts crystalize in the realm of the visual, and that is where they ultimately succeed or fail.
Thinks deeply about what it means to be a painter today
Most of the time works intuitively
If I Paint Crowned I've Had It, Got Me [2008] large section of canvas cut away (something I've experimented with in my studio See Reflective Journal > Studio Work) and thin strips of wood on top, almost becomes sculptural. One radical gesture of cutting into the canvas - thus revealing the painter's stretcher and the wall beneath
Tauba Auerbach
Unafraid to bridge many different disciplines in her work
Abstract but a concern with our reading of different modes of visual information.
Fold paintings are crumpled canvas, sprayed to record the creases then stretched out taught - poised between 2 and 3 dimensions. Compellingly perplexing as well as beautifully resonant abstract surfaces
Auerbach's work takes time to unpack visually, giving us cause to consider the implications of, and the intentions behind, her processes of reversal and revealment.
Rafal Bujnowski
Question the validity of his chosen medium
Detached from the old guard of highly politically involved artists, and with the prospect of laying the foundation for a new wave of artists
Played with the notion of perspective
Exploration of painterly gesture undergrids his entire oeuvre.
painterly effecrs through violent performative actions that straddle the line between creation and destruction
Bring to mind Hans Namuth paintings of Pollock in studio - spontaneous work and erratic process
'artistic play'
Love how he layers the glass frames over these ones, presents them off the wall
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| Party Swede [2013] |
Hubbard is a restless experimenter, an artist who deliberately avoids predictability and resists a market in which repetition and signature style are often demanded
Uses everyday household objects
Nathan Hylden
At first glace appears devoid of content, pared down colour palettes, singular stand alone gestural mark
Nods to early Frank Stella as well as to Peter Halley and Phillip Taaffe
black and white set off by fluorescent colour. Pre-planned v improvised
Even when they are juxtaposed side by side or pushed to the point of intersection and overlay, they nevertheless continue to assert a fundamental sense of apartness. Avoiding reconciliation without reverting to all-out polarization
Aesthetic conflict
Jon Pestoni
Drawing is integral to Pestoni's canvases, which fuse the medium's subtle fragility with the formal concerns of painterly abstraction
Spontaneous approach to drawing that informs paintings
Works instinctively
Layer by layer. Although he doesn't rush to finish them he strives to resolve them
Their super matte finishes are a result of mixing cold wax medium with oil paint
Prepares each canvas with multiple layers of gesso and moulding paste which are sanded down until glassy smooth
Rich palette of colours
Gestural brush strokes
Although working abstractly, Pestoni considers his paintings as pictures. His descriptive titles stress this by referring the works back to the real world. eg. All Ways [2010] attempts to describe the painting's wandering brushwork. Red Sweep [2009] alludes to the light red marks sweeping across the work's surface.
Charline Von Heyl
Gleeful and frenetic with energy
Von Heyl's pictures are at war with themselves in ways that are distinctively her own
The styles and motifs that appear in her paintings are of contrasting and odd couplings
destroy, transform and manipulate
Kelley Walker
His paintings often move free of the canvas, his images floating from the wall
Bricks have been a central motif for him
From a distance seem to have the same rough and uneven texture of bricks but up close they are completely flat, silkscreened onto the canvas - 2 and 3 dimensional
Use newspaper and magazine panels
Underlying political ideas
I don't want to delve too much into the meaning behind the colour pink, it is not something that is vitally important to my practice, however pink has often provided me with struggles as it is such a taboo colour. I thought it would be interesting to find out why.
Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture, by Barbara Nemitz
"complexity and controversy"
"somewhere between skin and raspberry yoghurt" - so many connotations and expectations
"My interest began to arise when I realised that many people have little regard for pink"
"subject to taboos"
"close links to biological contexts"
"explore its unique aura"
"we should be able to look at the colour without preconceived notions" - something I am passionate about in my work, I use pink as I like the way it appear aesthetically and find I have mastered using it, there is no other reasons and I don't wish my work to have any connotations to pink's taboo.
Difference in the different shades of pink. Pastel - sensitive, sweet. Pink = beauty.
"emotional and often contradictory components"
"produced a number of powerful, striking works that display this subtle colour brilliantly"
"peaceableness quality, which, however, should not be confused with powerlessness"
unreal, dream, false
poverty and pain
"pink is revealing"
"unimaginative mass-produced goods"
original nature of pink is flowers, delicate and light
"assertive in whatever context it appears"
"it makes no attempts to disguise itself"
"intensity of possibilities"
"an especially aesthetic colour"
Showing Pink - Biological Aspects of the Colour Pink, Karl Schawleka
"Why is pink so important to us? Isn't it simple enough to say light-red or pale red? Neither does the colour pink appear in the rainbow nor in the standard colour wheels."
"the colour pink meets the requirement of prominence and serves as a stimulus for instinctive behaviour"
"connection between pink and vagina"
"even though the colour pink no longer triggers fixed sequences of instinctive behaviour one cannot help but notice how firmly entrenched pink is in the field of meaning that revolves around the process of fertility and procreation."
"another secondary sexual characteristic relates to blushing"
"paradoxically, because pink is so often viewed as vulgar or kitschy and is one of the most vehemently rejected colours of all, it underscores its unusual, biologically-based effectiveness"
"Pink reveals its power of attraction and its charm because it does not actually call something by its name. Instead, pink suggests 'between the lines.' the motive of concealment, indirectly exposing what is concealed, as Freud masterfully analyzed it, is affirmed by the countless pink cloths with which female nudes modestly cover themselves. Pink conceals and reveals a different pink, and the extent to which a given person is aware of this relationship depends upon his or her cultural background and personal experiences."
Diverse range of images in the book:
Joseph Beuys, Walking Girl [1949] sublet
Bubblegum pink (interior) [1996] Bigert and Bergstrom
De Kooning Two women 1964
Regula Dettwiler Cherry Blouson 2005
Peter Doig Figure in Mountain Landscape II 1998
Roe Etheridge ink Bow 2002
Sylvie Fleury Untitled 1997
Gotthard Grabner (skin Glowing) 1985
Philip Guston painting table 1975
Marcia Hafif Seeigel 1990
Gary Hume avery 1997
Yves Klein Pigment pur rose 1960
John Lasker Fke Freak 1988
Portia Munson pink project table) 1994
Andy Warhol untitled double portrait 1957
Erwin Wurm Fat car 2002
Hideto Fuse -
uncovers tradition of cherry blossom in Japanese painting
Contemporary Pinks - On the Individuality of Shades, Thomas von Taschitzki
explores the intentions and ideas of artists who have worked with pink
"complex relationships between diverse artistic positions"
"wide range of possible tonal graduations and mixtures in the pink spectrum"
"emotional characteristics associated with the colour pink"
"virtually no other spectrum of neighbouring shades covers a comparable range of culturally encoded qualities, from the delicate, sweet and sublime to the romantic and the erotic, and even the vulgar and obscene."
"involve not only specific colour tones but also depend upon the context in which they are used"
Pink - taboo colour, lots of associations, interesting because not in the rainbow, not even a mix of colours like purple = blue+red, pink is just a lighter shade of red - so much stigma and issues
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| Social media demonstrating all the stereotypes attached to pink - created a piece of art from it |
The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists, Edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner
Introduction: Michelle Grabner
"mysterious place"
"joseph Albers's workshops, Thomas Lawson's 'skylit rooms', Charline Von Heyl's 'alchemic labratory', and David Robbin's three laptops and a green upholstered swivel chair"
The Persistence of Abstraction
"greater authority but also left the distinct impression that it was the source from which all other paintings in the room emerged" - about Malevich, Black Square
"artists presented their works as 'new painterly realism' a claim that may have been difficult for some people to accept"
"any full reading of an abstract painting must include the reading and negotiation of the title, if there is one" - titles of my pieces are physically descriptive of the work, means the paintings are read for what they have on show
"an image that hovers between representation and abstraction" - people often find figures and pictures in my work that are unintentional, some say my work can be seen as figurative
"is it painting which is abstract, or is it life?"
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