Layered Abstraction - Whitney 2014

Charline von Heyl

Folk Tales

36 piece collage

acryl, ink wax, charcoal,  paper

based on Russian and Polish folk art photos 

and the visual qualities of increased scale

Whitney Biennial

2014

New York

Robert Motherwell Early Collages

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Robert Motherwell

Early Collages

Guggenheim

New York

After a trip to Mexiko in 1941 and under the tutorial of Roberto Matta Motherwell started the cutting, tearing, layering and glueing of decorative and special papers, maps, wooden veneers and textile pieces, painting them with the mastering of pastel colours... with fire oranges, ochre and golden yellows, dark blood reds, ultramarine and cobalt blues, mortal greys... light and dark tones... shiny and matt surfaces... he created a dark and raw abstract collage art with a touch of surrealist improvisatory technique.

Mask Exorcism of Eva Hesse

eccentric abstraction,

stuffed expressionism,

anti illlusion:

paintings full of life and death, 

comedy and tragedy

haunting doubts and nightmares

Eva Hesse

Mask Exorcism of Margit Anna

magic puppets 

expressing tragedy,

fear, solitude;
symbolizing man in the storm of history:

colourful naive paintings
surreal abstraction 
grotesque expressionism

Margit Anna