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Ed Moses the 86 year old American abstract painter considered one of the most innovative and central figures of postwar West Coast art has been interviewed by Alanna Martinez for Blouin Artinfo. During the interview Moses describe his painting practice as “It’s all sort of intuitive: arbitrary and intuitive and intermittent, in terms that I may choose one color to do everything. And if I don’t like it I hose it off, or the assistants scrape the paint off. Before it dries, I start introducing paint again in various methodologies of marking: pouring, foam brushing, making a crisscross pattern and not liking that, and hosing that off and then starting over. I work on about 8 to 10 paintings simultaneously. …Sometimes I’ll work on a painting over a couple of months, and sometimes I hit it right off the bat. When I do, what happens is at the end of the day, I drag the painting, kicking and screaming, into my studio, tilt it up along the walls. I have two viewing spaces; they’re about 20-by-30 to 40 feet long with 16-foot ceilings, and the lights are all on tracks. I use incandescent lights. I don’t like paintings lit by fluorescent lights. …The painting is the issue, not the environment in which the painting exists. Fluorescent light neutralizes. There’s no drama to it, there’s no romance. But that’s not a popular attitude at this particular point. People are more interested in ideas than the romance of painting. I’m still old-fashioned in that sense. I’ve been painting 50 or 60 years, so that has something to do with being still in that situation.”

 

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John Hoyland the 76 year old UK abstract painter whose Color Field paintings defined as lyrical abstraction that were closely aligned with Post-Painterly Abstraction, has died. Hoyland was influenced by the American abstract painters Mark Rothko and Barnet Newman following a visit to New York. His resulting works in the 1960s was characterized by simple shapes, bright colours and a flat picture surface. During the 1970s his paintings evolved to become more textured in their surface appearance. He had a long career as a highly influential teacher with many Art Colleges while still maintain a prolific schedule of exhibitions. Hoyland was appointed Professor of the Royal Academy Schools in 1999, exhibited at the London Waddington Galleries, and his works are held in many public and private collections including the Tate. Inspired by the artnewspaper ow.ly/5Xz9J image source Nick Smith ow.ly/5Xz8J Could have become the next Turner (August 8 2011)

John Hoyland the 76 year old UK abstract painter whose Color Field paintings defined as lyrical abstraction that were closely aligned with Post-Painterly Abstraction, has died. Hoyland was influenced by the American abstract painters Mark Rothko and Barnet Newman following a visit to New York. His resulting works in the 1960s was characterized by simple shapes, bright colours and a flat picture surface. During the 1970s his paintings evolved to become more textured in their surface appearance. He had a long career as a highly influential teacher with many Art Colleges while still maintain a prolific schedule of exhibitions. Hoyland was appointed Professor of the Royal Academy Schools in 1999, exhibited at the London Waddington Galleries, and his works are held in many public and private collections including the Tate.

 

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