Mark Rothko, No. 1, 1961

Oil and acrylic on canvas.

Taken at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gift of the Mark Rothko Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Art Resource N.Y.

seri tanaka / I need some breathing room, 2023

acrylic, dermatograph and pen on paper 400 x 547mm

Thinking about old #art that stalled and wasn’t finished… an #ExpandedPainting based on #text by #SamuelBeckett. New #studio, a new look at lingering ideas. . #painting #abstractpainting #abstractart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #textart #colorfield #colorfieldpainting #Beckett https://www.instagram.com/p/CncVs0frYKK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sam Gilliam - American Contemporary Art Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s. His works have also been described as belonging to abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction.[2] He worked on stretched, draped and wrapped canvas, and added sculptural 3D elements. He was recognized as the first artist to introduce the idea of a draped, painted canvas hanging without stretcher bars around 1965. This was a major contribution to the Color Field School and has had a lasting impact on the contemporary art canon #art #americanartist #artistic #fineart #artwork #painter #visualart #painting #abstraction #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstractartwork #colorfield #lyricalabstraction #contemporaryart #visualculture #culture #blog #artblog @expositionblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CisBx2moaOD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint VII

"PPM VI" 55x46 Acrylique Sur Toile 2022 #victorpoirelstudio #victorpoirel #acrylic #acrylicpainting #painting #smallpainting #artnow #artgallery #paintingoftheday #abstractart #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractexpressionism #expressionism #automatism #surrealism #green #colorfield #newart #newartist #artcollector #2022 #parisfrance #canvaspainting #frenchartist #frenchcontemporaryartist (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqf09GuIL9b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

untitled no. 49, 2021

150cm x 120cm

Acrylich, varnish and spray paint on canvas

Call Of The Ocean.

Untitled (Centrifugal in green)

2022 41 × 31.8 cm Acrylic, tea on paper, mounted on wood panel

Helen Frankenthaler

Pioneering abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler was born on this day in 1928. She has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. 

Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow.

Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century.

“A line, color, shapes, spaces, all do one thing for and within themselves, and yet do something else, in relation to everything that is going on within the four sides [of the canvas]. A line is a line, but [also] is a color. . . It does this here, but that there. The canvas surface is flat and yet the space extends for miles. What a lie, what trickery—how beautiful is the very idea of painting.” —Helen Frankenthaler

1. Helen Frankenthaler, Ocean Drive West #1, 1974

2. Helen Frankenthaler, Zone Blue, 1994 

3. Helen Frankenthaler, Stella Polaris, 1990

Working on some large paintings from “Land and Sea”. Boy do they take long to dry even with the wood stove running high! I’ll be honest. I don’t love being in pictures preferring to be behind the camera. But inserting myself gives a sense of scale. It’s funny how much one color impacts another; constantly tweaking and altering as a response to the canvas before me. Anyway, back to work! #painting #minimalistpainting #largepaintings #colorfield #color #oilpainting #curated #artwork #selfiethoughts #fridayart https://www.instagram.com/p/CloWMrSLK34/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen 52 3/4 x 41 in. (134 x 104.1 cm) Estate/Inventory Number2028.69 Collection Jon and Kim Shirley. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

seri tanaka / Let’s turn the page, 2023

acrylic, ink pen on watercolor paper 12” x 9”

A small #painting based on #MobyDick; thinking through ideas for a large work, this was completed earlier in the year and recently revised (although only slightly; if I’m left looking at Amy #paintings in the studio, I always want to make changes). . ‘Depth Study.’ Oil, oil crayon, paintstick, wax & alkyd on wood panel. 20” x 16” . #art #contemporaryart #abstractart #abstractpainting #contemporarypainting #text #textart #colorfieldpainting #colorfield https://www.instagram.com/p/ClZLPIILFTz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sam Gilliam - American Contemporary Art Sam Gilliam (1933 – 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s. His works have also been described as belonging to abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction.[2] He worked on stretched, draped and wrapped canvas, and added sculptural 3D elements. He was recognized as the first artist to introduce the idea of a draped, painted canvas hanging without stretcher bars around 1965. This was a major contribution to the Color Field School and has had a lasting impact on the contemporary art canon #art #americanartist #artistic #fineart #artwork #painter #visualart #painting #abstraction #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstractartwork #colorfield #lyricalabstraction #contemporaryart #visualculture #culture #blog #artblog @expositionblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CisBI7_I81d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

銀座のコバヤシ画廊にて開催中の「湯川雅紀展」ですが、明日が最終日になります。湯川氏も終日在廊予定だそうです。最終日は11；30から17時までのオープンです。わたしも16時ごろから撮影のためにお邪魔する予定です。 Tomorrow is the last day of the Masaki Yukawa exhibition currently being held at the Gallery Kobayashi in Ginza. Mr Yukawa is also scheduled to be at the gallery all day tomorrow. On the last day, the exhibition will be open from 11:30 to 17:00. I will be there from around 16:00 to take photos. #gallerykobayashi #コバヤシ画廊 #masakiyukawa #湯川雅紀 #exhibition #oilpainting #paintings #gallery #Japan #展覧会 #modernart #contemporaryart #現代美術 #銀座 #ginza #art #Tokyo #colorfield #colorfieldpainting (at Ginza Tokyo Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cht2BF6vyR_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=