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"Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work".(Brief Article)
"Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work" at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. January 27-March 10, 2001
Like Walker, the American artist Nell Blaine (1922-1996) was also concerned with the interplay of abstraction and representation, although she eschewed pure abstraction for most of her painting life, preferring instead landscape, still life, and portraiture --the work upon which her reputation rests. Encountering Blaine's abstractions from the Forties caused a jolt of delighted surprise. Completed before she turned thirty, Blaine's abstract phase began while she was studying with Hans Hoffman and continued through her inclusion in Peggy Guggenheim's important "The Women" show at Art of this Century (when Blaine was only twenty-one) and her first solo exhibition at the Jane Street Gallery, ending around the time the Jane Street Group dispersed at the end of the decade.
Despite her obvious indebtedness to Leger and Mondrian, Blaine's abstract work--hard-edged, favoring pure colors, black outlines, and biomorphic forms--shows both remarkable plastic ability and far more individuality than other followers of Mondrian. In 1946, Blaine wrote "of giving the effect of a decorative pattern even though my main effort has been to bring the picture to life with the most plastic and rhythmic means available. I enjoy hinting at repeats without making them." The evidence of her canvases proves the perfect accuracy of her ...
- Nell Blaine: Her Art and Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Olson, Ray November 1, 1998 700+ words
Sawin, Martica. Nell Blaine: Her Art and Life. Nov. 1998. 156p. index. illus. Hudson...BKL O 15 98] arrived in New York, they all met the ebullient Nell Blaine, who was making her name with colorful abstractions that showed...
- Nell Blaine at Tibor de Nagy.(youngest member of American Abstract...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Levowitz, Cathy May 1, 2001 700+ words
...of 38 rigorously abstract paintings and works on paper by Nell Blaine (1922-1996) offered a chance to reexamine the career of...by Thomas Hess, who, as editor of Art News, published "Nell Blaine Paints a Picture," by Lawrence Campbell (May 1959). That...
- "Nell Blaine, artist in the world: works from the 1950s" at Tibor de Nagy...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Panero, James May 1, 2003 700+ words
Nell Blaine (1922-1996) can tell a story through a remarkable economy of language. Her best work is lyrical, self-aware, in control...
- Nell Blaine at Tibor de Nagy.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Pardee, Hearne September 1, 2003 700+ words
Nell Blaine's paintings of the 1950s are of interest not just in themselves, but for the glimpse they provide of that decade, when modernist...
- Nell Blaine: Her Art and Life.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Art Journal Platt, Susan June 22, 1999 700+ words
...men in twentieth-century art history and contemporary art criticism. These new books on Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Nell Blaine (1922-1996), and Alice Neel (1900-1984), along with books such as the current Phaidon series, which so far includes...
- Nell Blaine at Fischbach. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Henry, Gerrit December 1, 1993 700+ words
Blaine has long been one of those stalwart types who go by the sobriquet of "painterly realist," and she's long been one of the best. This show perpetuated Blaine's usual subject matter - still life, the gardens and land and sea around her summer home in Gloucester, Mass., and views of Riverside
- Art in an attic: Craig Klinedinst curates "9 Takes" at his Walnut Street...
- News wire article from: Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS) February 23, 2007 700+ words
...were happening among the work, and to bring that together and see what kind of dynamic it created." "9 Takes" is mostly abstract work, and the show is an easy-on-the-eye progression from one bright object to the next. "The way this show shaped up...
- Art Beyond Tradition: Abstract work finds audienceat new exhibit.
- News wire article from: Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, SC) September 29, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Justin Paprocki Sep. 29--The Hilton Head Island art world has a tendency to focus on scenes of Lowcountry life -- marsh views and the rising tide. The upcoming Art Beyond Tradition exhibit takes a different take on similar subjects. As the artists say, they don't paint the marsh -- they
- McDaniel graduates showcase abstract work in 'Reversed Polarity'.
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) December 31, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Arin Gencer Dec. 31--Opposites attract in Carroll art exhibit A gallery exhibit at the Carroll Arts Center in downtown Westminster shows that opposites can pair in art as well as they do in life. Called Reversed Polarity, it features the work of two artists who are McDaniel College
- Brightness falls: a traveling survey of Jennifer Steinkamp's mesmerizing video...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Miles, Christopher March 1, 2007 700+ words
Imagine yourself adrift on the ocean after the god Poseidon has swirled its surface with red and other bold hues, like a craftsman preparing to marble paper. This sea rocks with swells that deny you a view of the horizon, but there is none anyway, for where there should be sky, it appears instead
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