#Abstract expressionism

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, No3/No13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange), 1949, Oil on canvas, 7' 1 3/8" x 65" (216.5 x 164.8 cm)

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society ARS

[jareckiworld]

David Smith (1906-1965) — Steel Drawing II [steel with paint, 1945]

[jamesusilljournal]

Dusk Till Dawn, Josh E Wylie, 2023

[the-cricket-chirps]

Untitled (Green Paintings)

Cy Twombly

ca. 1986

[germanpostwarmodern]

Cy Twombly, Nini’s Painting, 1971, emulsion paint, crayon, colored pencil and pencil on canvas, 250.3 x 300.4 cm, Munich, Museum Brandhorst. Photo from May 2024.

[suhaylah]

The Spinning Pines (2023) oil & acrylic on linen Instagram: @ suhaylah.h Shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com Patreon: patreon.com/suhaylah_h

[patrickelvinart]

Early mornings

black sharpie and water color

Westwood 1986

Let me try to explain myself.

When I was a young man I loved illustration.

Perhaps the two illustrators who had the greatest influence on me were Aubrey Beardsley and Jean Giraud aka Moebius. Both artist drew with a fine line and I tried to emulate that.

Here's an old drawing of mine.

pencil drawing

Venice CA 1978

So back then I saw myself as an illustrator.

Then sometime around 1980 I was introduced to Abstract Expressionism and I had an epiphany...

Could I approach Abstract Expressionism with an illustrator's line?

A new world opened up to me and I started having fun with my drawing.

And then, for about 35 years I never drew an identifiable object.

No joke.

Still Life

black sharpie

Westwood 1985

Attitude Adjustment

pen, colored pencil and watercolor

Duarte CA 1996

Time never began

black sharpie on bond paper

San Francisco 2003

Dan's drawing

black sharpie

Rosemead 2011

i did a lot of these drawings. And I really enjoyed making them. For over thirty years I completely liberated myself from the rigors of drawing something that had to look like something. And I loved it. But then...

Sometime around 2015 I returned to illustration. Why? I'll be honest with you, I started to miss it.

Call it full circle but that's where I'm at now.

I still treasure my line though.

little boxes

black sharpie on paper

Los Angeles 2019

Thank you Aubrey and Jean.

Aubrey Beardsley

Jean Giraud aka Moebius

[burnt-cheese-toastie]

collapsing star AU

☕|🧀

twilight with the absorbed magic of celestia, luna and cadence has been "gifted" a rank just under god, above the animals, ponies, and angels. a demi-god

but this "gift" is a mere curse onto twilight, not being good enough, but high above the rest where even her friends feel like ants under her hoof. the truths of everything burns a horrid hole into her mind.

just a straw away from collapsing under the phycological, physical and social pressure.

[woundgallery]

Cy Twombly, Goethe in Italy, 1978

[oncanvas]

Mars Dust, Alma Thomas, 1972

Acrylic on canvas 69 ¼ × 57 ⅛ in. (175.9 × 145.1 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

[bal-bullier]

Lee Krasner

City Verticals (1953)

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled (red on black and orange above), 1962

oil on canvas

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

donations

[jareckiworld]

Janet Sobel (1894-1968) — The Illusion of Strength [oil, canvas, 1945]

[jamesusilljournal]

Untitled, Gerhard Richter, 1990

[the-cricket-chirps]

Helen Frankenthaler

Midnight Shore

2002