The majority of the paintings in the Lyrical Abstraction show were created in 1969, and all were at the time a part of Larry Aldrich’s collection. As Larry Aldrich researched this lyrical trend, he found many young artists whose paintings appealed to me so much that he was impelled to acquire many of them. Image for illustrative purposes only - see listing for. These paintings all represent a distinct shift to an expressive interest. Use the search feature at the top of any page on Song Lyrics Art to find more Van Morrison artwork. European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean Jos Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of Tachisme when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art Paris 1945. Surfaces are never anonymous in minimal paintings they are delicately nuanced and often suggestive of cloudy void. Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting. The artist’s touch is always visible in this type of painting, even when the paintings are done with spray guns, sponges, or other objects. Though they were not going back to any previous style, these new young painters related to men who have been doing painting of a more painterly nature for twenty years or more–Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and others. Painters were creating, in significant numbers, works that were visually “beautiful”–up to then, in the art world of the sixties, a dirty word.

All lyrical artwork ships within 48 hours and includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. Often using rich color, evoking the natural world, the works were more balanced, animated, and often elegant. Shop for lyrical wall art from the worlds greatest living artists and iconic brands. Early last season, it became apparent that in painting there was a movement away from the geometric, hard-edge, and minimal toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions in colors which were softer and more vibrant. Abstraction lyrique, or Lyrical Abstraction, was a predominantly French substyle of Art Informel it favored loose gestural painting with a more sensuous, romantic, or overall more 'lyrical' effect.

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