1970s Art
Period: 1970s
Color: Blue
Canadian Post Modern Pop Art Lithograph Vintage Poster Memphis Galerie Maeght
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage gallery exhibition poster.
The Galerie Maeght is a gallery of modern art in Paris, France, and Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The gallery was founded in 1936 in Cannes. The Paris gallery was started in 1946 by Aimé Maeght. The artists exhibited are mainly from France and Spain. Since 1945, the gallery has presented the greatest modern artists such as Matisse, Bonnard, Braque, Miró, and Calder. In 1956, Adrien Maeght opened a new parisian venue. The second generation of “Maeght” artists was born: Bazaine, Andre Derain, Giacometti, Kelly, Raoul Ubac, then Riopelle, Antoni Tapies, Pol Bury and Adami, among others.
Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ (7 October 1923 – 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international recognition.
Born in Montreal, Riopelle began drawing lessons in 1933 and continued through 1938. He studied engineering, architecture and photography at the école polytechnique in 1941. In 1942 he enrolled at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal but shifted his studies to the less academic école du Meuble, graduating in 1945.
He studied under Paul-Émile Borduas in the 1940s and was a member of Les Automatistes movement. Breaking with traditional conventions in 1945 after reading André Breton's Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, he began experimenting with non-objective (or non-representational) painting. He was one of the signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1947 Riopelle moved to Paris and continued his career as an artist, where, after a brief association with the surrealists (he was the only Canadian to exhibit with them) he capitalized on his image as a "wild Canadian". His first solo exhibition took place in 1949 at the Surrealist meeting place, Galerie La Dragonne in Paris. Riopelle married Françoise Lespérance in 1946; the couple had two daughters but separated in 1953. In 1959 he began a relationship with the American painter Joan Mitchell, Living together throughout the 1960s, they kept separate homes and studios near Giverny, where Monet had lived. They influenced one another greatly, as much intellectually as artistically, but their relationship was a stormy one, fueled by alcohol. The relationship ended in 1979. His 1992 painting Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg is Riopelle's tribute to Mitchell, who died that year, and is regarded as a high point of his later work.
Riopelle's style in the 1940s changed quickly from Surrealism to Lyrical Abstraction (related to abstract expressionism), in which he used myriad tumultuous cubes and triangles of multicolored elements, facetted with a palette knife, spatula, or trowel, on often large canvases to create powerful atmospheres. The presence of long filaments of paint in his painting from 1948 through the early 1950s[8] has often been seen as resulting from a dripping technique like that of Jackson Pollock. Rather, the creation of such effects came from the act of throwing, with a palette knife or brush, large quantities of paint onto the stretched canvas.
Riopelle's voluminous impasto became just as important as color. His oil painting technique allowed him to paint thick layers, producing peaks and troughs as copious amounts of paint were applied to the surface of the canvas. Riopelle, though, claimed that the heavy impasto was unintentional: "When I begin a painting," he said, "I always hope to complete it in a few strokes, starting with the first colours I daub down anywhere and anyhow. But it never works, so I add more, without realizing it. I have never wanted to paint thickly, paint tubes are much too expensive. But one way or another, the painting has to be done. When I learn how to paint better, I will paint less thickly."
When Riopelle started painting, he would attempt to finish the work in one session, preparing all the color he needed before hand: "I would even go as far to say—obviously I don't use a palette, but the idea of a palette or a selection of colors that is not mine makes me uncomfortable, because when I work, I can't waste my time searching for them. It has to work right away."
A third element, range of gloss, in addition to color and volume, plays a crucial role in Riopelle's oil paintings. Paints are juxtaposed so that light is reflected off the surface not just in different directions but with varying intensity, depending on the naturally occurring gloss finish (he did not varnish his paintings). These three elements; color, volume, and range of gloss, would form the basis of his oil painting technique throughout his long and prolific career.
Riopelle received an Honorable Mention at the 1952 São Paulo Art Biennial. In 1953 he showed at the Younger European Painters exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The following year Riopelle began exhibiting at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York. In 1954, works by Riopelle, along with those of B. C. Binning and Paul-Émile Borduas represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. He was the sole artist representing Canada at the 1962 Venice Biennale in an exhibit curated by Charles Comfort...
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"Ciel" by Antoni Clavé, Blue, Sky, Abstract Print
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Köln, DE
Color etching with carborundum by Antoni Clavé
"Ciel", 1971
76,4 x 57,2 cm
Copy Artist's Proof
Edition 95 copies
Antoni Clavé (Barcelona 1913 - 2005 Sai...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Etching
Brigitte Bardot, Spain-Colourised
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edition 5 of 50
Digitally Printed Signature and Edition number on Front.
Posthumous Estate Print
Terry O'Neill - photographer / French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of ‘Les Petr...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
C Print
Variant VII (from Ten Variants)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Variant VII (from Ten Variants)
Screenprint in brilliant Colors on wove paper, 1972
From “Josef Albers: Son Oeuvre et Sa Contribution à Figuration Visuelle Au Cours Du XXe Siècle”
Pr...
Category
Minimalist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Su One Eye, Palm Springs, CA
By Kali
Located in New York, NY
Estate embossment on the front and
estate stamped on the reverse
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Face and Leaves, CA
By Kali
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped on the reverse
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Polaroid
Pastel Face, Palm Springs, CA
By Kali
Located in New York, NY
Estate embossment on the front and estate stamped on the reverse
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Infinity Field - Olympia II
Located in New York, NY
The Greek American artist, Theodoros Stamos, was born in 1922 in New York City into a family of Greek immigrants. He was a member of The Irascibles group which consisted of the first...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Infinity Field - Delphi I
Located in New York, NY
The Greek American artist, Theodoros Stamos, was born in 1922 in New York City into a family of Greek immigrants. He was a member of The Irascibles group which consisted of the first...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Observation in Echo Park
By Kalman Aron
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna.
Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected.
Observation in Echo Park...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Another Footprint
By Sam Francis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original lithograph printed in colors from four aluminum plates on BFK Rives wove paper.
Hand-signed in pencil, Sam Francis.
A superb trial proof impression, one of only five such...
Category
Post-War 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Untitled, " Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas
Located in Houston, TX
This work was one of Long’s earliest compositions as an artist. Even earlier in his artistic career, Long was interested in exploring the intersection of various media, branching out into new innovative spaces. This work demonstrates the technique and forms at play that have since germinated into Long’s signature style.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Long decided to devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create a unique body of work, attracting the attention of Jim Harithas, then Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and artists John Alexander, Salvatore Scarpitta and James Surls. His life spanned an era of radical change in the American social climate, the influence of which can be seen clearly in his work.
Long’s paintings and sculptures incorporate a high level of skill and sophisticated knowledge of art history, along with complex philosophical and social issues. Long describes the philosophy behind his work as "a quest to help people diagnose their inner self," believing his art to be "the vehicle to help facilitate the process."
“As artists we have the obligation to provide the world with art which communicates as truth. I believe that art has the power to heal our souls of their afflictions. I try to create art which helps to diagnose the prevalent conditions within our societies, hopefully providing an insightfulness which will help us all become brothers and sisters united in equality and compassion”
- Bert L. Long, Jr.
The late Peter Marzio, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, said of Bert Long during the major retrospective of Long’s work at the museum:
“Bert Long does not avert his gaze from that which is painful, but as [his artworks] testify, he also brings a spirit of joy and redemption to his art. We can all learn from this great artist.”
Over Long’s 33-year career as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, he had several solo exhibitions at respected museums and was awarded many significant awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1987 and the prestigious international Prix de Rome fellowship in 1990. Other notable awards of Long’s include the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award in 2009, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant in 1997, the Houston Art League Texas Artist of the Year in 1990, the NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1987 and the Bemis Foundation Residency in 1998. His work can be seen in over 100 private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain.
With a recent solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and an exhibition overseas which is pending featuring his work, plus interest from several national museums, Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally.
Bert L. Long, Jr.
"Untitled"
1977
Acrylic and Paper Collage on Canvas...
Category
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wind, from Weather Series
Located in New York, NY
1973
Lithograph in colors
Sheet: 40 x 30 7/8 in. (101.6 x 78.4 cm)
Edition of 98
Signed, dated and numbered in red crayon on lower margin
Category
Pop Art 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Greece : Hugging Couple (New York Coliseum) - Original lithograph, 1979
Located in Paris, FR
Alekos FASSIANOS
Greece : Hugging Couple
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 114 x 77 cm (c. 46 x 31 inch)
Printed in Ate...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Calvesi 50)
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 16 3/4 x 13 5/8 in. (42.6 x 34.5 cm)
Edition of 90
Signed and numbered in pencil on lower margin
Published by 2RC, Rome
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Sphere and Cube
Located in Missouri, MO
Victor Vasarely
"Sphere and Cube" c. 1970
Serigraph
Signed and Numbered Ed. 250
Framed Size: 42 x 31 inches
Image Size: 28 x 21 inches
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Blue Smoke' SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION
Located in London, GB
'Jimi Classic II' SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION
1967 by Gered Mankowitz
C print - signed and numbered and stamped on the face of the print in the border below the image.
HUGE 40 x 40" ...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
C Print
Concert Hall Set III
By Sam Francis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original lithograph printed in 6 colors (yellow, yellow-green, light blue, magenta, turquoise, dark blue) from 6 aluminum plates on BFK Rive wove paper
Hand-signed in pencil lower r...
Category
Post-War 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lost Vegas
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
Category
Outsider Art 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Concert Hall Set III
By Sam Francis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original lithograph printed in 6 colors (yellow, yellow-green, light blue, magenta, turquoise, dark blue) from 6 aluminum plates on BFK Rive wove paper
Hand-signed in pencil lower r...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Torso II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Keep your Cool
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Keep your Cool, 1978: Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank Brandstetter in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico
Staley-Wise Gallery ...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
C Print
Hotel Taormina Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sicily, 1975.
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and author...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
C Print
Color Chart for Chinatown Nighttime
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Color Chart for Chinatown Nighttime
Year: 1977
Medium: Acrylic on Paper , signed and dated l.r.
Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2...
Category
Conceptual 1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Vase of Flowers with Cherry bole (After)
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
Chagall (After) offset lithograph, printed in circa 1970.
Signed in the plate, numbered in pencil 448/500.
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Intrusion of Blue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil