Karin Goeppert

Detachment, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2022

AMAZING COLOR - DEPTH - TECHNIQUE This colorfield painting is all about texture and contemplation. Very layered with plaster over gesso and using palette knives to create rich tex...

Ambient Odyssey Triptych 150 x 50cm Acrylic, texture, structure, Blue, Turquoise, Emerald, Pale Blue, Green, Brown, White Overall Size 150 x 50 cms Each Painting 50 x 50 cms Gal...

As an eclectic artist with wide-ranging interests, approaches, techniques and tools, Hunter's work can be a challenge to classify. "Rumble" shakes with gestural color in an infinite...

Step into a realm of thought-provoking contemporary art with EVera's latest series, where each canvas serves as a portal into the complexities of human decision-making. Utilizing a c...

Unique and ONE-OF-A-KIND. Original Contemporary Abstract painting. My artwork is all about positive energy, balance and harmony. Each stroke and layer I applied with passion and desi...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C 1968 Acrylic and graphite on paper 15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins) Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism.  Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams.  The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy.  Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind. Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level. Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions.  In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form.  The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...

Burnt Orange Gestural Expression About the Artist: Beth Barry was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1955 and started making art as a young child. Exposed to love of making things by her father, she used to make furniture and clothing for her troll dolls...

John Hoyland Untitled 12 1981 Acrylic on paper 75 x 106.7 cms (29 1/2 x 42 ins) JH5623