Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ab-Ex with Clyfford Still

The Abstract Expressionists were never a unified voice, and characterizations are invariably fluid, as each artist developed one or more signature styles.  Painters sought to avoid predefined limits and to express the greatest possible range of meaning through their own visual language ... by the mid-1940s Clyfford Still was developing his signature style of colour fields that join in jagged interfaces.
- Image and text from The Art Museum (2011) Phaidon Press, p. 381
Clyfford Still "1957-D No.1" (1957) oil on canvas, 9 ft 5 in x 13 ft 3 in