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A representative figure associated with Lyrical Abstraction in Paris, Georges Mathieu (1921 – 2012) adopted a gestural abstract style distinguished by his predominant use of calligraphic signs and unusually rapid mode of painting. In Black and White Abstract (La mort de la Reine Edith) (1957) the entangled swirling lines were applied directly onto the surface of the canvas from a paint tube. The artist’s sprouting, rhythmic, scribble-like marks sometimes interlace with larger brush strokes. From the early 1950s, Mathieu began to make art before large public audiences, documenting his performative actions through photography and film.
Photographed in the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
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Though Paul Jenkins (1923 – 2012) briefly worked among the painters of the New York School, he remained committed to representational art until 1953, when he moved to Paris. There, he discovered the lyrical painterly style of abstraction known as Tachisme. Many artists associated with this movement attempted to express the unconscious mind directly through the act of painting. Jenkins, a devotee of the era’s popular writings on Zen, sought to join this ideal of unmediated expression with his spiritual convictions, aspiring to uncover metaphysical truths by relinquishing conscious control. His early explorations of this approach yielded turbulent, atmospheric compositions like The Prophecy (1956), that seemingly envision a plane of existence without articulated material differentiation.
Photographed in the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
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