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Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting:
European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José 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 Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945–1966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969.[2][3]
A second definition is the usage as a descriptive term. It is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism; in use since the 1940s. Many well known abstract expressionist painters such as Arshile Gorky seen in context have been characterized as doing a type of painting described as lyrical abstraction.[4][5][6]
- ^ Tate Collection - John Hoyland
- ^ Aldrich, Larry. Young Lyrical Painters, Art in America, v.57, n6, November–December 1969, pp.104–113.
- ^ [1] Thomas B. Hess on Larry Aldrich, Retrieved June 10, 2010
- ^ Arshile Gorky a Retrospective at the Tate Modern
- ^ Kemper Museum Retrieved June 5, 2010
- ^ interview with Richard Bellamy, 1963, Archives of American Art, retrieved February 1st, 2009