Postpainterly abstraction is a broad term for a variety of styles that were a. Brief overview of 1960s abstraction including postpainterly abstraction. Abstract expressionism or painterly abstraction, as i prefer to call it was very much art, and rooted in the past of art. The term post painterly abstraction was coined by the influential american art critic clement greenberg to describe the work of artists from the generation after. Postpainterly abstraction encompasses a broad group of american. It came to be used as a label for any art that clement greenberg was presumed to advocate. Post painterly abstraction exhibitions locks gallery. Postpainterly abstraction is a broad term that encompasses a variety of styles. When abstraction became painterly in a new way in the. Panelists are gerald nordland, robert irwin, john coplans, and jules langsner, moderated by henry hopkins. Catalogue intro greenberg on post painterly abstraction. It came to be used as a label for any art that clement greenberg. Instead, the player is encouraged to work out the system on her own. Contemporary art trends arts 315, jon anderson clement greenberg and postpainterly abstraction september 2, 2011.
This exhibition with its accompanying essay was greenbergs attempt to describe a period style that appeared to replace the painterly abstraction of the preceding generation known popularly as abstract expressionism. Professor jon anderson explains conventions and schools of thought that have been prevalent in modern, postmodern, and other contemporary art. Postpainterly abstraction movement overview theartstory. Post painterly abstraction is a blanket term covering a range of new developments in abstract painting in the late s and early s, characterised by a more rigorous approach to abstraction. See more ideas about larry, abstract and post painterly abstraction. The essay may not have remained current, but the phrase post painterly abstraction stuck. Post painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic clement greenberg as the title for an.
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