Kyong Lee

Emotional color chart 149 (Abstract painting)

2021

Emotional Color Chart 135 (Abstract Painting) Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed. This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is in...

Emotional color chart 150 (Abstract painting) Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed. "This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is i...

BP37, INEXISTENTEIDEEN, 2019 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, graphite on paper - Unframed. Daniel Gottin's interest and concept are to examine the subject...

BP18, BORINGCAPITALIST, 2019 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, graphite on paper - Unframed. Daniel Gottin's interest and concept are to examine the subject...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C 1968 Acrylic and graphite on paper 15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins) Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism.  Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams.  The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy.  Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind. Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level. Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions.  In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form.  The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Pulling imagery and motif from organic form, architecture, media and design I create densely layered, mixed-media paintings that ar...

Artist: Lloyd Martin Title: Grid 15-16 Size: 30 x 22 inches Medium: Mixed media, acrylic, pastel, graphite, collage on paper Year: 2015 Price: 3,500 American artist Lloyd Martin, kn...

Unique blue striped abstract painting. Acrylic and graphite on paper. Signed on top right by the artist. Offered unframed Mark Zimmermann's work is based on the fusion of meditat...