Visiting Whitechapel Art Gallery, London - Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists, Global Abstraction

here I am today at the White Chapel Gallery in London at the Press view of action and gesture paint women artists and Global abstraction 1940 to 70. let me just give you a little quick glimpse of it and um and then we'll get into looking at it a bit more carefully how big how far does this go on yeah it goes on through into these other rooms though just how big the exhibition is yet but we will find out more as we go along anyway let's kind of have a little look at what it's all meant to be about so this exhibition celebrates the women artists of mid 20th century gestural abstraction and shows how they shaped a modern painting the story of abstract art to get a radical turn in the 1940s fusing bodily gestural and emotive expression with color Mark making in the materiality of paint it's a new movement was termed in the USA's abstract expressionism it's obviously that's what you'd think of like um I guess like Jackson Pollock and um that crew so I guess this is the sort of female taken here which is good as often thought of being sent in New York where it was definitely mainly by the work of white male artists yeah sort of quite Macho as well however this new style of painting was a global phenomenon as much by the local culture and political context despite International Exchange and dialogue the contributions women have long been marginalized in modern art the paintings Princeton demonstrate how women across the world will fundamental and involving the story of abstraction incorporating experiences of turbulent social change into their work and promoting freedom of expression her art was made in a period of great historical shifts the ultimate the second world war Global industrialization the rise of civil rights and post-colonial movements in a cold war marked by the threat of nuclear Extinction between capitalist democracies and Communist States against this backdrop the USA promoted abstract art as a form of a western propaganda encounter the influence of communism I don't really do that anyway exhibition exposure artists made the canvas and arena for experimentation on Personal Expressions through form and color focus on five themes painting some chilling process symbolic languages drawn from myth and ritual distraction is an expression of the self paintings Moon and dance and the canvas's environment okay let's go on and get into some of it let's have a look at this one here so biggie is a long big painting is that by Helen frankenstal people always Rave about Alan Frank and Tyler um yeah I mean it's kind of nice it's got a sort of fun sort of Inky um Vibe of the sort of paint pouring around on the canvas major for a girl of American obstruction she's known for invention of the silk stain technique in the 1950s often working on the Porsche applied thin down paint on Pride canvas just those at least look like watercolor describe this body of workers drawing with color made increasingly Monumental paintings leading to the color filled movement where she pinted I didn't know she pioneered her interesting I can't like this but here this violetty bit here where goodies around there a bit ah it's quite a nice nice section kind of funky but now I keep saying funky what I'm trying to say is I like B lighter tonality of that a lighter Violet section there and then that darker red a bit that's what I think it's funky it's a bit weird that blue in the center is a bit odd it's a bit like a sea which is a bit odd off it looks like it's a landscape I'll stroll on around here business are more Helen Frank and Tyler let's get back a bit give a little look at it that looks like a sort of weird dwarf zombie that looks like something on a skateboard and that's our most ludicrous comment but [Music] I'm afraid to know much about roof armor that's the beauty of coming to these exhibitions a pioneer of non-objective painting California Armor's atmospheric process orientated work includes a series of sympathetic early abstractions and Associate the emotional and oral oral characteristics listed from sound into color and line interesting I'm into that kind of sound and coughing her works are widely exert in the earth during her artistically active years is interesting so What's this called I had just done title I was irritating so we can't see if it is directly related to the sound [Music] feel like it's related to sound this one's hard to say a nice texture up close very controlled colors isn't it I mean it's very acceptable to fit into a room is not going to cause any durbins with anybody sort of got those big nickel scene colors but interesting quite sure what five I'm getting off the whole thing yet and I said fire beginner sort of a Latin that way I can't quite get it I'm gonna love abstract art but I just I want to be gripped by a kind of like this Violet one over here who's this boy Tommy odake attack I traveled to Brazil to visit her brother and unable to run to Japan when the Pacific War broke out which made a new life for herself in Brazil known for her paintings prints and sculptures he can begin to paint the age of 39 and encouragement of the Japanese artist Kea sugano interestingly I actually moved from figurative into creating abstract shapes and color Fields interesting but this one here in particular I don't know why it's got a sort of weird Moon and that weird kind of sort of black covered with white it's quite funky that but um [Music] strolling in a bit of a no it's not exactly Following the show around but I'm just trying to pick up on the bits that grab me I do like that jillionaires on who knows just because I've seen with jillionaires before maybe it's because it's got a bit more of a formal abstract Vibe being a patriot everything with a big Square in the circles interesting london-born air started a Campbell School of Art 46 to 15 exhibited with the young interpreters in 49 ages 19. one of the leading exponents of the radical development and abstract painting dominating British in the 50s and 60s a heavily worked canvases were like reflected how she claimed to see the world in ambulent shapes and colors I know she was in the White Chapel art gallery's groundbreaking 63 exhibition British painting in the 60s and purchased by the Tate in 1972 I think interesting I like that one let's just look out and look into it a bit more he got all that crazy sort of it's nice to actually isn't it you got a bit of that so Helen Franken Tyler uh uh sort of Inky pory Vibe but you've also got a more on straight up hunks of paint churning into it as well I shall do like like the combo of the um like the combo of the thicker paint and the thinner paint that's one of my face so far but it could be because I'm pretty sure I've seen it before somewhere it's easier to sort of get into stuff you've seen before that Frank and Tyler over there there's a big one actually looks much better from here that's not not the one that looks like a kid on a skateboard because I didn't want to know these two paintings by this once I think I don't know oh it's difficult to talk about oh these are gillionaires again that's quite interesting so these two oil and has been on board with these two also jillionaires it's just quite nice to have a little look at these different I don't quite like them as much and I think I like it's not what we should be talking about and quite I don't engage me as much as the others um I don't know why how close they're quite fun you've got these nice little sort of rivulets of paint you've got those little Blobby bits flying around you've got a sort of glossy black oh that's quite fun um a lot of texture in it I don't see me like that dark blue doesn't get me actually then you can't even look at this one it's a bit lighter all right so that's got a bit more of a Zing today with that kind of swirly Brown in it this Julia's one's quite different actually looks more sense of movement and chaos and flying things like it's actually quite like the different Blues within that picture and you've got that nice of raw scenery bit in that white red section see the canvas interesting interesting not quite sure what vibe is on it I can look at this big Alan Frank and Tyler here there's a lot I'm like I'm making ludicrous comments but that actually does look like a person with hair at the top then I sort of I don't know Table leg after Reuben's okay yeah so it is well I can't unsized on Prime camera so it is definitely meant to be a figure in it I actually kind of prefer it when there's going to be a figure because um that gives you a bit more I don't know obstruction and stuff is abstracted I sort of cutest things for sort of pulling it apart okay hang on here so let's get back over here so this was the sort of that's got some faces in it I'd say Sylvia Snowden like an American Artist abstract painter developed a singular body of work which is characterized by the visceral and sculptural application of paint and densely worked under layers often working a series expressive paintings conveying emotional force and tactile quality as she explores the struggles and triumphs of communities around her in 2018 her work was featured in The Landmark expression magnetic fields expanding American abstraction the national immune museum for women in the Arts and drinking she's still alive oh yeah still alive Conjuring that's from 42 acrylic oil pastels got a bit of oil pastel in there just got some oil pastels I think quite hours I'm gonna be it looks to me this is meant to be abstraction like two sort of people and a little pod looking at each other intriguing let's head over here it says by Sandra blow so she's another more classic British quite interesting I've never seen these ones before Sandra blue one of the partners of the British abstract movement blows paintings a characteristically large-scale colorful abstract collages incorporating discarded Studio materials that just sort of sackcloths and pasta and loose tea she painted large geometric shapes which emphasized surface textures creating a textile quality blows quality with introducing a new expressive informality to abstract painting in Britain through it improvise A3 approach to materials partly shaped by the influence of Italian art in formale let me see oh yeah you can see this um and if you see it cloth that's a sort of piece of cloth that's stuck in there throwing a really thick black paint to the side uh it's already scratched into this bit over here black and red and white [Music] I just don't know if I saw these out of the blue if any of them would blow me away well on board this is another Sandra blow and I think this one here is also a cylinder blow oh it's quite cool oh kind of far now you got really heavy more sort of like concrety textures up there a funky kind of sorry not funky it is kind of uh interesting visually it's actually quite um grabs you as well as um sweating the way your eye can feel that texture contact I can delve into it actually this almost works better texturally than color white as your eye can sort of get rustled on that sort of concrete then it bounces over these white slabby chunks and it comes down to this sort of scratched sort of surface intriguing whereas this one feels like it was a burning lava pit I find quite interesting not quite sure in a way uh stupid oh my gosh I had a look at these pictures Audrey Flack is she still alive as well still a Student Art School super Union New York which became a regular member of the influential group Eighth Street and the legendary artists haunt Cedar Tavern through abstract expressionism that she forged her artistic identity and created highly original works that were structurally ordered yet gestural and fluid capturing the core sensibility of the age of the naming paintings after artists she admired homage to France Klein this one's called later in a career she became a pioneer of a photo really isn't absolutely bizarre I actually quite like this one almost like so far no that means it's better or worse than anything else I just I kind of quite like the structure to feels a bit more I don't know it's more like I can oh I can sort of move through the different movements of it it's interesting they've got quite a lot of similar techniques they've got a little drippy bits of paint pouring over a more slab sections I guess there's a language isn't there of abstraction this is quite flat it's nothing like it's worked as the Sandra blow ones still got nice brush marks you can see the paint underneath like here you've got that sort of green and that yellowy flying over the top you can go around it I thought I'd stick around what makes a good painting is the almost impossible discussion but I quite like that one you can flow around it quite happily into the different things Martha minujin Argentina lives in our Geniuses still alive as well Pioneer of happenings performance arts soft sculpture and video often these Urban debris and found objects such as cardboard Fabric and food in work both money management fragile that's just specific lineage of Argentinian protest against the dictatorship [Music] you see that's very hard when you've got the glass on top of it and messes it all out really and that's like a huge massive slabby kind of concrete thing chopped into this must be another one I've heard of his still covered in glass irritatingly enough um interesting that quite like this bit here that's got a sort of weird sense of old Egyptian pictures to me which kind of attracts me to it interesting that's weird I don't know I mean they're very textual aren't they just trying to think what it what it does these little holes kind of these little holes but they're sort of almost drilled in and like a little sort of subtle detail in there I mean it's very heavy isn't it it's very bang look at me look at this weight of what I've produced that's quite sort of striking in that way what's this one isila Sanchez Cuba Elsa and karamco it's a really weird picture Gloria Gomez Sanchez mixed media including in treating waste and consumable materials into amazing and then she went to conceptualism and then her rejection of professional art circuits a few works by her survived she's destroying many of her paintings and sandwiches the quite where I can't quite tell how it's made it seems to be like kind of must be more sort of concrete he kind of I know something's all worked onto it certainly this one has a similar kind of vibe as to how it's been created interesting [Music] the ones can't fund these little ones that's a little work on paper it's got a really nice five piece of paper it's kind of worked into you like a sort of temporary glue sounding graffiti on camera so it's a piece of canvas study decorate Arts at the Venice School of Fine Arts I followed crew and applied Arts freedom what these must well I was I was by the same person as that one here but these are not I don't think let me just see these are Fanny sun in Colombia lives and works in the USA oh it's got wow that's it like a bit of Frank and Tyler kind of vibe but more sort of blockiness to it this one I thought was so much like the other painting over there this is all working Joy career train autism new to the US in the early 1960s interesting short perfect clip for a tragic death in the age of 45. it was about Korean art informal as well as abstract expressionism pop art come on use a bold calling to play with Organic and linear shapes yes I suppose she's got other Stripes into it [Music] I don't mind at all I can't like um I got these darker blue bits and then you've got the white oh of white like a light green very light green coming over the top of what's there it's got a nice sort of build up and then you've got a nice sort of you know chunkier more put on and then flow of a mix of the paint there [Applause] [Music] one's quite cool like that kind of green over the top and then you've got almost got like structures people or something something buried in the center of here [Applause] let me try to think about this exhibition actually is you can really get into the paint really get into the brush strokes and the paint where it dribbles and the smaller dashes of paint look at that and then you've got a nice on there with a brush them up here some more ordered the greens come over the Green's splattered then you've got a little blue it's quite nice actually it's rather imaginative it's a paint to use quite differently almost all the time which is interesting actually just going to go back and look at the other one that reminded me of it I quite like those ones growing on me so far [Music] I say so far so obviously it's meant to be a review of the exhibition it is actually quite interesting and you really got a rule paint that's actually nice to see people painting look at the paint feel the paint get the whole vibe of it as you walk around right we're gonna move into this next room it easily just can't resist looking at these little teeny watercolors I wrote a color here I did rather like smaller abstract works and what colors are these These are quiet men are quite but it's got a Cool vibe to a nice sort of um a Cool vibe again what I like is like the Simplicity the structure and yeah the color and something about all the colors are fun interesting and this one she's left little spaces in between it and the same year Intrigue quite radical to leave those white spaces in that one and not leave them here all right let's move on into this room here okay so I think that first room was more about materiality of paint actually let's just go and check what it was about yeah so the Franken towers and the pieces we were just looking at are all about that was a material process time artists exploring the materiality of painting its own right and as we move on through to this next bit is myth symbol and ritual painting this section and characterized by systems of marks or forms of addressed and non-representational language track signs and symbols legacies of European and Latin American movements such as surrealism I find it easier when you're just talking about just have a quick teams around all of it [Music] is quite interesting [Music] oh it's Lee Chris Lee krasn obviously was married to Johnson Pollock these don't look like the Lee krasners I would recognize she got them in the tape modern obviously actually quite interesting these look at that oh that's quite mad or like that jacket easy Vibes here whole thing bunching and jumbling and shoveling around in itself it feels kind of mad in front I think it says chopped up stuff yeah it is isn't it so these are chopped up bits of canvas have been stuck on here just quite interesting because I remember that in a late period she actually took uh what is called life drawing she done chop them all up and saw them together it was rather amazing actually um that's actually a pretty cool painting I like that her as well but the other one and it's got a similar kind of vibe to it but [Music] I know what it is that without Feathering this one's called what's the other one called it's called bald eagle yes I thought there might be a little bird in the center there's the eagle almost better without the eagle in reality but I can see why you can help calling it The Eagle actually it's even got a little wing and gorillas it's here there's the eagle head you go down there you've got a wing in the body lighter before the eagle more that's a highly Cruiser again very controlled use of color oh very controlled easy color well I suppose these are quite bright these red ones here right so many people in this exhibition Charlotte Park this is USA Ethel shush started Scopes initially turned to painting taking art classes in New York seriously and again I think what's nice about this is the paint handling but there are different Reds as well I love it when you've got different how many bits and bits and kind of different red so either linking over laying on each other look at that this one's quite wild all those Reds pounding on over that sort of green background obviously got classic running green Vibe and a bit of a blue and orange Vibe so you're playing with kind of foreign [Music] colors but [Music] I mean you'll love about these pictures is just that the paint the paint handling the sense of paint and it's moving it's all cracked since the paint flowing underneath over and around it's got a nice vibe to I mean it's got it it's nice to see the paint being used and you can see the hand of the artist in forward don't get a lot of that these days necessarily because it's hot again another one another one again when you've got a real paint vibe to I like those little bits of pink snuck in there as well they're quite nice I think a little bit of green snuck in there cool look at it all right the color wise I much prefer this one actually like that yellow and the red black and white is quite hardcore into it another Helen Frankenstein oh but I guess this is more of a symbolistic symbolist I suppose oh he's crazy uh Francesca temerson Poland so this is quite interesting aren't they is a cooler very actually out of everything here are a bit more sparse and um enigmatic rather coarse let's see so temerson was a Polish avant-garde artist who came to London with a Polish government in Exile in 1940 where she spent the rest of her life primarily a painter she also worked in illustration the design graphic designer avant-garde films with her husband Stefan temerson subscribe to what she described as by abstract pictures using plaster and cloth and relief works and pulled enamel paint onto paper and improvised drawings relying on Charles nice I love it when it's a chance so this is I can write enamel paint that's really cool yeah that will paint on the paper's got a wild plan they thought it would mangle the paper but the paper survived These are nice they've got a sort of controlled and spare feeling to oh look at that it's cool isn't it this swoop here look at that lovely way you can see through that swoop and then the way that black enamel's all sort of crinkled up no that one that is really quite as fast but cool oh this is gorgeous in this one actually it looks like that red line actually goes up and through the black line which is kind of funky [Music] interesting very interesting and kind of got a bit more space and then a lot of the other things are quite heavily worked and cluttered these give a bit of everything but um they're really nice really good those ones okay so we just got the stairs um and this Gallery presents more intimate studies and paintings although there's still attract expressionist we're saying all the actual expression is my American thought is often epic there were also works on a smaller scale let's just have a cool these are actually almost scale better it's had a little stroll through these Alice [Music] Margaret mellis a big sort of color field ones there on around here like this one here it's a cooler Switzerland it's sort of like a sort of weird abstracted City from the future Swiss art emigrated New York with a family where she couldn't became part of the artistic avant-garde surrounding surrealist immigrate Andre British tourism Indian folklore sloped style [ __ ] on abstract patterns and lines it's quite cool it's almost a bit Cuba's dinner sort of falling apart into different worlds not like that sort of print down there that's almost like a sort of airplane that's just sort of fly both by the same person figure or thrower Poland Poland country I've got a sort of her only figurative work depicted social themes however in 53 she began focused on scratch abstraction in print making spy by Keys it is Suzanne interesting I don't know why you get a Vibe of that why you feel it's got to keep his fight be fairly looking at things from different angles maybe it does have a sort of frenetic multi-dimensional feel to her that sort of lives and works in Syria interesting what is that called Requiem for a city key figure in the development of 1960s Syrian abstraction interesting I wish to murder the time of social change in the Arab world and this growing opposition to Western influence and a search for New York City Identity [Music] began painting cityscapes moving away from realisms using more abstract forms and just for expressionist marks and then it's about Arabic poetry a featured female figures drawn from mythology hurricane for a city so I don't think that's got a female figure of Mythology in it but interesting pretty chunky painting rather like this one up here oh is that Nazarene mohammedi Pakistan amazing but you can't ever see anybody from Pakistan I mean Expressions recognize for a significant contribution to Indian modernism Muhammad he studied as Martin School of London from 50 seven Works in Europe before returning to India in the 70s in the 60s she wrote an abstract language of the flu just used for learning color but she does as far as I can see she must be Pakistan born in Pakistan or rather like that it's actually quite cool you've got a lovely sort of sense of oh sort of flowing loose you know drippy Frank and tile a bit sections more organized sections and this bit down here comes up robbed out scraped through it can't quite tell but it's got a nice interesting structure to her I do like that top one though I don't know why it sort of feels like there's something there sort of kind of is distracted in what I would say abstraction you could call it where it does look like a building or something that's out of reality and focus this one's got these crazy eyeballs in the center of it look at that right and then that hasn't quite got human hair that's actually really weird right let's have a quick Glimpse around here protecting Val nice thick paint on that colors but it kind of pounds out at you that little canvas she'd rather go and then let's go right now look at these Janet Sobel look at that let's go sort of kind of crazy poured paint and then bits of that paint look together in the background are sort of like crayons cool I still like these ones by Janet so well Ukraine it makes me doing canvas board it got kind of weird kind of can't quite work out what's going on looks quite cool but these black lines float over Atop The Pink lines and then they suddenly start circling the pink lines sort of going in and out of Sanity or Chaos and Order very cool right let's stroll on through here see what we get to next being expression empathy and ruins violence and displacements of the second world war let's in the cultural psyche of the 50s it was in this era of existentialism phenomology and nihilism observed as dominant themes of philosophy we can see the manifestation of trauma feelings of emptiness or brooding anxiety about a future defended with nuclear weapons through a dark palette curtic fragmentation congested overwhelming compositions these artists are investigating the very nature of existence triggering non-leguistic empathetic responses in the viewer okay so these are all sort of doomladen sort of things one of francaise nonetheless they got good I don't know it's just me I have a problem with our as a means of directly trying to communicate something I want to get communicates so much more strongly just to something visual yeah okay it's got a sort of scarred Earth vibe to it I mean it does communicate that but I suppose you've got to try and put it into language and somewhere oh that's quite cool that's actually rather weirdly sort of emotionally quite overwhelming I think what a strange picture sort of weird sort of birth for Mad thing in the vortex of space and time it is actually bi and yeah get your I'm sorry these ones over here well we can focus on every single peace oh sorry I did say that didn't I right come back around to these these they're rather like these and they're quite cool and exciting because they are like these weird creatures being birthed into space Francesca Temple said all right so that's quite interesting actually so downstairs with the temisans which were the um the four abstract uh and now on paper this one's quite different intriguing canvas and plaster relief interesting look at the canvas you can see it quite nicely in the background weaving itself around I like that Violet interesting it's actually like a sort of um it gave me like a flat abstract picture that's formed into a 3D piece which is quite intriguing you can see it easily is a flat sort of almost Cornish British piece and then turning it into 3D makes it quite different she can't understand the idea to take some of those sort of powdery hair and pictures and 3D them uh art structure it's also intriguingly in this crazy frame that's quite attractive look at that you've got a little sort of yellow um thing you'd Hammer into the edge of a canvas to hold it together which is quite nice you've taken the sort of materiality of the um priority colors he's framing something and maybe that part of the art I should just really like that violet color it fits there rather nicely and the colors are kind of rather attractive inside that it's actually rather a nice piece you can quite easily look at that I'm being intrigued by it it's good it fits really well with these big crazy bits as well because it's got a similar Vibe or something exploding out and these are by I'm born Korean West West attended the Cincinnati conservative music for enrolling like a contemporously translated adopt a masculine name oh I see it was so respect based on the murder of the work for even basis agenda interesting shows a linear approach baiting front use the paintbrush to almost drawn to her canvas wildly different mostly this one's quite flat and this one's got masses of texture for the flower look at these These are big is by Mercedes and the other one's not bad is it I mean it's quite let's go horrible sense of movement up here in the top right hand corner with these Big Brush toes flying around lurking about look at it a giant creatures like a mad horse Galloping through a field actually quite fun to remember it's going to be laid in the room but it's actually got quite a Vibe of sort of freneticism and excitement in it quite good actually it's a bit more Punchy than some of the bits downstairs performance gesture Rhythm also described as action art the paintings here are conceived as events I often paint at the scale of the human body are made through physical movements throwing jabbing jumping and dancing these wants to be these onesies but it's been that's quite oh it's got big moves but this actually rather like this painting Miriam Shapiro all on canvas painted sculpture printmaker and Pioneer of feminist art involved filling her paint created a substantial body of work in the gestural language and involved filling the payment to open time before spreading it across the canvas important swipes although these Works were abstract and based on works by all Masters specifically referencing male artists and recreating their Works remain Style from an equal playing field as a male forebears interesting I actually just think it's rather a good painting it's um I don't know what it is it's got a nice movement but it's got a nice fluid move between the thinner lines and the thicker painted sections getting all these nice sort of bits of quite vibrant paint here and then you've got these thinner lines flying around it's got just kind of a nice movement actually look at that and it's contrary Alma Thomas here this is Lane De cooning it must be tuning inequality over time such as designer Works edk to avoid her paintings being labeled as feminine in a traditional mask environment as well as to distinguish her work from her husband William the king I'm mainly working abstract abstraction she'll return an interest in figuration bring the expressive gesture of abstract expressionism and prepare on figurative subjects such as bull fights and portraits of friends and family actually Rollins I think it was actually a really wonderful painting I think small but really I don't know strangely um is it painted on oil on paper on canvas looks like it's just on the back of a little board I like it it's got a kind of it's kind of simple but it's quite attractive doing these I think this is one of hers as well like it oh that's not bad I don't like as much as this more yellow one but this one's quite good though the bull that's got a nice feeling to it look at that you've got really nice brush Strokes here then swirling around there I saw a bizarre comment but got this whole feeling of almost like it might be like hard Hodgkin nice big smashed in Brush strokes and you got quite a little sort of abrupt moments in it interesting painting and these are by oh look at that that's actually rather a nice painting as well oh me oh great great import like a misty morning with Godwin okay Shinoda China oh wow these are quite cool look at those oh you got so much painting in here amaranth Aaron halt so she wrote a nice painting as well rather like the way you've got these little sections in it it's interesting that that is always really interesting is the paint here really makes this picture because it's really it's quite thick it's holding its own little positions each section holds its own position due to the sort of thickness of the paint being placed on it interesting now these are the ones I found considering PAT pass love rather like these they've got such a nice painterly feel to them look at that orange Strokes in there and you can actually really lose yourself now because it's just such nicely yeah still I know some reason it feels well painted you can really feel those Strokes of paint same hair feel those Strokes of paint and actually feel the arm moving and paint appearing boy there's more of it right environment nature perception lived experiences of the environment are expressed here through campuses exercise are still a momentary impression Observer remembered using a palette draw with those surroundings Yvonne Thomas I didn't think so things I said exclamation Lillian Holt Miko nakano at least I like these ones else Fletcher hunts Denmark that's kind of cool herzl controlled in that yellow and chunky slabs of it sort of delicate and I'm sorry that must be a Mika nakano this yellow one sorry whereas these ones Elsa Fisher hunts in Denmark they've got a real kind of rather good sort of delicate that looks like a summer Runway nightfly though it is like a painting of a airplane fight what it feels like Jessica piala Maria and I'm very hard to Silver these ones almost like sort of giacometti drawings but not Maria Elena Pierre de Silva Marjorie Raymond oh look at these Lee nickel train it's real funky like this one here I like that well I can't have kind of spacious feel to it but it feels quite near your nice thick bits of paint you've got best thinner bits of pain you've got a bit of space you've got a bit of stuff that's almost real it almost isn't kind of yeah well I think abstraction Works quite well when he's kind of abstracted oh John Mitchell giant Mitchell I must have seen some of these people in real life but they are good actually don't like that one so much but this one's good I've got a nice movement how in the world do you know when to finish one of these just go on doing it can you all right he got up close actually it's got a nice kind of really solar piece sections of paint slurping through it which is good nice and then this one Joe Mitchell again actually this is actually quite a nice painting black and white and you guys a little bit of dark green snuck in there for the cool Brown it's actually a really good painting I like that one black and white but then hints of all the color coming through interesting matters isn't this an audio exhibition so there we have it so massive exhibition genuinely quite fascinating so my paint and that is wonderful that is really good actually just to look at these paint and the paint on it loads and loads of paint paint everywhere to look at which is uh frankly wonderful because you don't often get a lot of paint and these things exhibitions but it is full of paint and that is 100 fantastic reason to come see it it is um really good for that you really get to see people actually painting which you don't get to see a lot these days um so yeah 100 recommend it obviously it is showing all the sort of female abstraction that went that yes probably is not recognized anything like as much as the male abstraction which is a shame is you've got so many female abstract artists you don't know anything about it's good to have them all here so you can see them um absolutely fascinating but it does show you just what wonderful paintings they made um and are making stuff um so yeah so it does change your view of female abstraction and uh the wonderful things um painted and also it is just a wonderful exhibition as far as the paint itself so if you like painting come and have a look at it because it's probably one of the best shows of actual painting for ages to see just actual paint in different ways and different styles and how different people have have put it down so thoroughly recommend it come along and blow your mind so as ever like And subscribe to this this art top10.com for art exhibition reviews interviews with artists and to my other channel travel talk for food reviews and uh travel uh reviews um so uh as ever and harvest I've been saying bye

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Keywords: whitechapel gallery, art, london, exhibition, lee krasner, lee krasner art, jackson pollock, lee krasner life, elaine de kooning, willem de kooning, abstract expressionism, abstract art, abstract artist, acrylic painting, abstract art tutorial, london art show, london art exhibition, Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940 - 70, Robert Dunt, arttop10, art top 10, art top ten, arttopten, arttop10 action gesture paint, oil painting, painting, art exhibition

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Length: 50min 57sec (3057 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 11 2023