Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell, a famous painter/printmaker, born in Chicago, moved to New York where she became known for working around post war art movement. She was leading American abstract expressionist and some of her works are layers of paint and brush strokes and marks made, with her themes or inspiration of nature like her work Sunflowers in 1991 with different colours in the artwork. While she was in New York, she worked and spent time with painters/poets and it was when she developed these abstract expressionism paintings and a different style. In 1955, Mitchell moved to France, and from living in the city she moved to a small town called Vetheuil near Paris, she had more space paint and was surrounded by nature with a lot of trees, flowers. She had so many dogs and they were special to her, and some of their names are often found in the titles of her artworks. Mitchell painted her whole life, made some drawings, had some works with pastel and watercolours, and also a lot of other printmaking works.
In this artwork, Mitchell has made brush strokes with the greens and blues creating a rhythm with these colours flashing through the artwork almost referring to a tree, with the title from a poem called Domination of Black by Wallace Steven ‘heavy hemlocks’. But also the white that is exposed in the foreground and background and all of this which is conjuring by light, sound, and movement. A lot of Mitchell’s works were all around nature and landscape and it’s evident by titles of her works such as Sunflowers, No Rain, Hemlock, City Landscape, and many more.
Gerhard Richter
A well known German visual artist who is famous to emerge from post-war Germany. Gerhard Richter is known for wide influential paintings and creativity, he has explored art through paintings and photography, making work that incorporate with visual effect of photography and found images. Richter studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany. He has made glass panels and stained glass windows. Layering and erasing are critical to his art practice. Some of his works have been sold for tens of millions of dollars and it was 1962 that Richter had started painting.
The scraping and streaking of paint in Abstract Painting(726) produces a reminiscent of photographic blur. It shows his use of photographic imagery. In his work he adds paint, he presses, he squeezed, and scrapped across the surface, then using a squeegee and dragging it across the canvas. When he moved to Dusseldorf, he began making paintings from photographic imagery.
Silvia Bachli
Silvia Bachli, a swiss artist and photographer. In her drawings, she explores the very edges of the world, trying to understand how everything works and establish. She focuses more on detail of the drawing rather than big parts of it, focusing on fragments or the reflection of the image. Bachli works with sheets of white paper, India ink, charcoal, oil pastel, and gouache.
Most of her drawings are either zoomed in or cut off. She works on each piece one by one, then sorts them out or arrange then before displaying it. It is time consuming as it takes a year to make 1 or 2 installations.
Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman is an American painter and her art practices involve cartoon, drawings, iphone video, and collage. Sillman layers and erases bold brushstrokes, she combines precise references to the body, and fills it with a sense of humour. She reinterprets works of Abstract expressionists like Lee Kresner, Jackson Pollock, and Joan Mitchell. Sillman uses silkscreen, ink, chalk, gouache, acrylic, linen, and paper.
Sillman is known for her paintings, but she also has drawings, animated films, and collage. She has exhibited in New York, Berlin, Paris, London, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. Her works belong to collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Morderna Museet, and Saatchi Gallery.