EASY TROUBLE
Located in Fresno, CA
EASY TROUBLE is an abstract expressionist painting by Larry Hill. Acrylic on canvas. 60" x 48" x 2
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Larry Hill
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RIFT
Located in Fresno, CA
RIFT 30' x 30" x 1.5" Acrylic on canvas. Abstract expressionism. Unframed. Larry Hill is an
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
ODYSSEUS
Located in Fresno, CA
ODYSSEUS. Oil on Canvas. 24" x 48" x 2" Abstract expressionism. Framed. Larry Hill is an abstract
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
DELTA
Located in Fresno, CA
color. Larry Hill is an abstract expressionist in the purest sense of the word. Hill exhibited his work
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Roger Moore at Beverly Hills Health Club Fine Art Print
By Larry Barbier
Located in Las Vegas, NV
, captured by photographer Larry Barbier Jr. at Beverly Hills Health Club. Roger Moore was an English actor
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment
Shelter
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
, Larry. You have to get that part, what the guy must have been thinking. I doubt he even showed up at the
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Those Sunny Streets, Up, Down, and Back
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
, Larry. You have to get that part, what the guy must have been thinking. I doubt he even showed up at the
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Shigoto
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
, Larry. You have to get that part, what the guy must have been thinking. I doubt he even showed up at the
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Building a Dream
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
, Larry. You have to get that part, what the guy must have been thinking. I doubt he even showed up at the
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Cormac's Meridian
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
, Larry. You have to get that part, what the guy must have been thinking. I doubt he even showed up at the
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Out the Gate
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
It’s 1963. I’ve quit my teaching job ($4,000 a year) at Fresno High to try working full time as a commercial artist. Got a new home (Trend Homes by Spano, $12,000). Decide my birthda...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walk on the Wild Side (Diptych)
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Rosarito
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Macau
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil
San Antonio
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Down by the River
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Alamo Heights
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Riff
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Baja
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Da Capo
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
“I’ll find me a place by the river now and give up all my story lines.” – Van Morrison All of these paintings originated in the past year, but I suspect they truly began in 1955 af...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Giclée
Bird
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
Limited Editio Giclee Prints 1986 "ART TRIO JAZZ SERIES"
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Giclée
Detour
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
“I’ll find me a place by the river now and give up all my story lines.” – Van Morrison All of these paintings originated in the past year, but I suspect they truly began in 1955 af...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Off Broadway
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
“I’ll find me a place by the river now and give up all my story lines.” – Van Morrison All of these paintings originated in the past year, but I suspect they truly began in 1955 af...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Acrylic
King
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
Limited Edition Giclee Print 1986 "ART TRO JAZZ SERIES"
Category
1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Giclée
Townes
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Cedar Bar
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tom's Jersey Shore
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Rehabilitated
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Divisadero
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
All The Old Familiar Places
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Laguna Seca
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
New Tokyo Beerhall (A Moment in Time, 1953)
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
New Tokyo Beerhall (A Moment in Time, 1953)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Xanadu
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
Free Fallin'
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
In a Dark Room Someplace
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Malibu
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Powder River
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Ellington
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Kind River
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
"There's the blues, and everything else is zippity doo-dah." Townes Van Zandt During the past few months, I felt a fierce desire to spend more time at work in my studio. Maybe I ha...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Roger Moore in Suit Fine Art Print
By Larry Barbier
Located in Las Vegas, NV
photographer Larry Barbier Jr. at Beverly Hills Health Club. Roger Moore was an English actor. He is best
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment
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Discharged from the Army in 1955, and having been exposed to what had become the renowned New York School of Painting, I was desperate to paint. It wasn’t until I’d graduated from Fresno State and had accepted a high school teaching contract that I set goals toward becoming an abstract expressionist. Simply put, I’d seen the work of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, and my life had changed.
While opening Art Trio, a commercial art business, I tried to raise the level of graphic art and illustration in Central California and at the same time pursue my love of painting. That meant buying canvas at Pacific Tent and Awning, stretching and prepping it myself, and hauling the final products to exhibit areas where nothing of their size and ilk had ever been seen before. In 1959, my large black-and-white painting “Madrid” won best oil in the first San Joaquin Art Fair and the newspaper columnist asked me to act surprised in the photo celebrating my victory.
At that time, Fresno had no venues where artists could show their work. In 1961, claiming to live in Southern California, I had three paintings accepted for viewing in the Los Angeles Art Institute. Martin Janis, a respected Los Angeles art dealer, invited me to hang another four pieces in his contemporary gallery, and I felt like I had an avenue upon which I could pursue my dream. Then real life came thundering into the picture. The Institute found out that I resided in the San Joaquin Valley, a place far from any dreams, and Martin Janis called to tell me he hadn’t sold any of my paintings.
However, his brother, the famed Sidney Janis in New York, had visited Martin, taken all four and sold them in his Manhattan gallery, where he’d hung them along with Kline, deKooning, and Pollock. Sidney Janis and a select number of art dealers, writers and critics had convinced the world that this group of wild men with brushes had taken the New York school from nothing to an explosive phenomenon that gave the world a new art expression that was truly American.
I have always painted, sometimes more than others, sometimes, in spite of the uncertainty that plagues all artists, finding encouragement at the time I most needed it. One such time was at an Ikebana Society show where author/playwright William Saroyan left me a note describing my work as “heroic”. My one-artist shows include a 35-painting, full-gallery show in the Fresno Art Museum in 1979. My bio contains many fractures, full-out breaks, and a couple of miraculous reparations.
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive.
A Close Look at Abstract Art
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Finding the Right Abstract-paintings for You
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
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If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.