Lyrical Abstraction is either of two related but distinctly separate trends in Post-war Modernist painting, and a third definition is the usage as a descriptive term.
Lyrical Abstraction
(1945 -1960)
Lyrical Abstraction is a French style of abstract painting current in the 1945 -1960. Very close to Art Informel, presents the European equivalent to Abstract Expressionism.
Lyrical Abstraction along with the Fluxus movement and Postminimalism (a term first coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in the pages of Artforum in 1969) sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting and Minimalism by focusing on process, ...
lyrical - A quality applied to various art forms (poetry, prose, visual art, dance and music), referring to a certain ethereal, musical, expressive, or poetic quality of artistic expression.
Lyrical Abstraction (1960s-1970s): painting. After World War II, artists in Europe believed that it was their duty to develop a new concept of humankind.
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A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
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Seated in a lyrical landscape, Venus, goddess of love, seems to be exchanging something—exactly what is no longer clear—with her son Cupid.
Botticelli: lyrical precision
Late works
Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy and Dravings ...
"Voluptuos and lyrical, pulpy and tender as though to mak the painter's reconciliation with nature... his canvases became a song of participation and adherence to nature and the joy of living symbolized by his women like fruit." ...
The Sienese are the first lyrical painters of modern art. As they imparted to their pictures a orderly and elegant element and a splendor of color and gilding that recall Byzantine art, ...
Isay that there exists a lyrical element that conditions for onepart the psychological and moral structure of human society, thathas conditioned it at all times and that will continue to conditionit.
In contrast to the dramatic tone of Crucifixions of the preceding period, here the basic atmosphere is sorrowful and lyrical, the scene being submerged in a "dreamlike silence and refinement" (Worringer).
In England it became the fashion to publish lyrical eclogues, usually in short measure, a class of poetry peculiar to the nation and to that age.
"The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic" Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
1995 ....."Trees" Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, Ma
1992 .....Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Ma
1990 .....
The Persian element in Islamic Art is perhaps most difficult to define; it seems to consist of a peculiarly lyrical poetical attitude, ...
In the teens he became a member of the editorial board and participated in the circles of artists and activists now termed the "Lyrical Left." Unlike Sloan, a committed Socialist, Bellows allied himself with the anarchist side of American radicalism.
Related to American Lyrical Abstraction it developed in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic art of the 1970s.
His later works are more peaceful and lyrically contemplative, and Eastern influences are more apparent, as in Portrait of Grandson Dan (1983, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Art Museum), ...
Although many modern artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Noland, Francis Bacon, and many other Color Field painters, Lyrical Abstractionists and others sometimes paint onto the bare, unprimed canvas, called "raw canvas".
In this painting of love in the open countryside Titian has surpassed the delicate lyrical poetry of Giovanni Bellini or Giorgione and attributes a classical grandeur to his figures.
Colour Field painting is a form of Abstract Expressionism, created by artists concerned with the lyrical or emotional effects of large 'fields' of colour.
A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas. Newman, Rothko, and Frankenthaler painted in this manner.
CONCEPTUAL ART ...
"probably embodies what a lot of people think abstract art is about-kind of ethereal, lyrical, abstract and luscious".
Describe the characteristics of Rothko's composition, particularly his divisions of colours on the canvas.
Term derived from the French word Tache [Stain or spot] to describe, in the mid-1950s, French lyrical painting of an abstract nature. Tachist works were sometimes relaetd to those of the American abstact Expressionists.
color field painting A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas. Newman, Rothko, and Frankenthaler painted in this manner.
Paris. Poet Guillaume Apollinaire applied the French term Orphisme to the visionary and lyrical art of Robert Delaunay and his followers. Related to Cubism. Related to Synchronism.
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An early series of works were large canvases of small flowers. It is the lyrical abstraction of these flowers that make them personal statements rather than simply reproductions of what the eye sees.
Alberto Burri was a 20th-century Italian abstract painter and sculptor. His life's work has been characterized into Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction and Art Informel.
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Piero Manzoni ...
Although he has also used other kinds of debris scavenged from the industrial environment, such as paper bags, urethane foam, and Plexiglas — he is best known for his lyrical, evocative assemblages of twisted, crushed metal.
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