Fred Thieler - European Abstract Art - Art Informel & Abstract Expressionism Painting
Fred Thieler was a German painter known for his engagement with Art Informel styles of painting, including lyrical and expressive abstraction.
Fred Thieler was a German painter known for his engagement with Art Informel styles of painting, including lyrical and expressive abstraction.
“Painting will always remain a super-real world to me, devoid of all modern forms of blasphemy. It is a world in which the immensity of creation moves me to a personal form of prayer and contemplation. It is also a world in which its laws demand a personal integrity of purpose, a simple humbleness, and a sufficient set of experiences as the basic requirement for admission to it.” ( Ralph Rosenborg)
Jacek Sienicki (1928 — 2000 ) — Polish painter, educator.
He graduated from the National School of Art in Warsaw. In the years 1948-1954 he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Artur Nacht-Samborski. For the first time his paintings appeared in 1955, at the National Exhibition of Young Artists «Against war — against fascism.» Then he was an employee and an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1981, her professor. 1992 retired, but in the next he started to work again at 1/3 time.
«His artistic oeuvre marks aparting with the lyrical abstract, with painting which turns to the collective, toward figurative, personal painting. In this sense he is close to other artists born in the 1930s, such as Gershuni and Igael Tumarkin.His best-known series include The Schizophrenics—one of the most beautiful series ever created in Israeli painting, whose free, wild expression,which nevertheless struggles for its cohesion, epitomizes the unity of language and content..»
Nek Chand Saini (1924 – 2015) was a self-taught Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen-acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh. The Rock Garden is one of the most famous sites in India. Chand, its creator, died in 2015, but it is still visited by millions of people every year.
Edoardo Daniele Villa (1915–2011) was a notable South African sculptor of Italian descent who worked primarily in steel, and bronze. Villa moved progressively through stylized figuration to structural abstraction. The universality of humankind is a theme that dominates his work.
Philip Stewart Solomon (1954 – 2019) was an American experimental filmmaker noted for his work with both film and video. Recently, Solomon has earned acclaim for a series of films that incorporate machinima made using games from the Grand Theft Auto series.His films are often described as haunting and lyrica
As one of the key filmmakers of the American avant-garde, Phil Solomon is known for his ability to extraordinarily beautiful, deeply affecting film works that are often composed out of abandoned or lost pieces of celluloid. In many cases, these works employ an optical printing process to further degrade, burn and amplify certain figurative elements, almost to the point of pure abstraction. And indeed, one could easily view many of his films as great painterly efforts with pronounced sensual and dimensional qualities.
Martin Disler (1949 -1996 ) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer.Martin Disler was a Swiss painter best known for his naïve, expressive paintings and sculptures. With affinities to various avant-garde movements such as CoBrA, Neue Wilde, and Art Brut, Disler drew on psychological and mythical archetypes to further convey the angst evident in the formal construction of his works.
Darío Villalba Flores ( 1939 –2018) was a Spanish painter, photographer. «Darío Villalba lives and works in Madrid. He comes from a family with an artistic, intellectual and liberal profile, and at the age of eighteen decided to hold his first exhibition in the Alfil gallery in Madrid in the same year – 1957 – as he embarked on his studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, combining them with other courses in Law and Philosophy and Letters. It was during this period that he began to devote himself to his first photographs. In the mid-1960s, Darío Villalba began using photography in his works, although he does not consider himself to be a photographer as, for him, photography is a medium, a technique he uses as a vehicle for transmitting attitudes and emotions. This decontextualization of photography was a pioneering attitude for this age, a medium through which the artist reflects on the return to the spirit of painting through photographic technique. In the words of the artist himself, “In my work, painting is photography and photography is painting “.