Drawing vs. Painting: More Artists to Look At

Published April 1, 2005

Painting by Susan Rothenberg "Triphammer Bridge" 1974 Synthetic polymer paint and tempera on canvas 67 1/8" x 9' 7 3/8"

Painting by Susan Rothenberg
“Triphammer Bridge”
1974
Synthetic polymer paint and tempera on canvas
67 1/8″ x 9′ 7 3/8″

Class Notes from Art School, SAIC, 1991

More artists to look at:

Leon Golub: lots of layers, painting, disrupting it, etc.
Roche Rabell
de Kooning
Rothenburg: investigation of same form; break it down, open it up, more abstracted. Space horse is in; deconstructing, reconstructing. Another layer of movement added by lines.
Donald Sultan, Clyfford Still – idea of shape.
Palladino
*Louisa Chase; Frankenthaler
*Forest Bess – visionary abstraction.
Phillip Taffe – simplified landscape.
Baziotes, Jonathon Lasker – the role of line.
Louise Bourgeois
Gary Stephen
Terry Winters

Figuration and abstraction.
How ideas are developed.
Comes from nature.
Look at source periodically.

Can you not go back and be very particular after moving fast, getting abstract?

Look at:
Diebenkorn (Diebenkorn’s missing works) – colors on cigar box top – beautiful: Yellow, lavendar, green, pink, peach, white – very pale with strip of red, brown. Archeological presence of landscape – strata, layers.

Giorgio Morandi – simplicity of shapes. The less there is to look at, the more you look at it (a specific edge). Drawing aspect vs. painting aspect – how to find out from different material.