Painting on Clay: Toshiko Takaezu and the Abstract Expressionist Movement
- ISBN-10
- 0989652289
- ISBN-13
- 9780989652285
- Category
- Exhibition catalogs
- Pages
- 28
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07-31
- Author
- G. Daniel Massad
Description
For more than a hundred years, ceramic artists have kept pace with easel painters in their flight from representation, in their pursuit of abstraction. Before WWI, ceramic artists lead the way, abandoning descriptive decoration on the surface of art pottery several years before the first documented pure abstract paintings. But ceramic art was divided by a cultural bias from the ¿higher¿ world of fine art, and it was only after WWII that American culture saw the beginning of the convergence of the worlds of fine art and craft--or, more precisely, the promotion of craft to fine art. This exhibition pairs the work of some of the most important abstract artists painting in the early post WWII era¿Motherwell, Kline, Frankenthaler, Vicente, among others, with the work of Toshiko Takaezu¿as a witness to one of the most exciting, game-changing moments in American art. It was a period in which the ¿pour¿, the drip, the splash, and the spontaneous gestural mark took center stage.
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