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 Abstraction (1960s-1970s): painting. After World War II, artists in Europe believed that it was their duty to develop a new concept of humankind.
Their argument was directed not only at the figurative art of the Neo-Realists but also at "lyrical abstraction" in general; they believed that it involved too much psychological analysis to be compatible with rigorous geometrical purism, ...
"How much Guston's abstraction of the 50s was parallel to his times was something Lawrence Alloway recognized when he stressed the way lyrical abstraction was built up in the rigorous structure of the 'pink paintings' between 1952 and 1954.
Related to American Lyrical Abstraction it developed in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic art of the 1970s.
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".
These individual styles included: Hard-Edge Painting, Colour Stain Painting, Washington Colour Movement, American Lyrical Abstraction, and Shaped Canvas.
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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All the art movements of the 1960s (Tachisme, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism) would be influenced by Abstract Expressionism.
Other names for this movement are l’art informel (similar to Action painting) and abstraction lyrique (lyrical abstraction).
 See also: Lyrical, Abstraction, Painting, Expression, Movement
  
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