{"id":510877,"date":"2026-03-01T02:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:11:21","slug":"explore-abstract-works-by-richter-shiraga-riopelle-and-hodgkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510877\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore abstract works by Richter, Shiraga, Riopelle and Hodgkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The artist\u2019s energised impasto \u2014 predominantly red, yellow and blue, punctuated by elements of pink and white \u2014 creates a depth of field.<\/p>\n

Shiraga made his name in the Gutai<\/a> group, the avant-garde movement that flourished in post-war Japan, producing works in a signature fashion that blended performance art and painting. Created in 1989, Yagenko dates from a mature period in his career. He had been initiated as a lay monk in the esoteric Tendai Buddhist sect the previous decade, and he now chanted a sutra before starting work on each painting, deeming it integral to his artistic process. One might say that the genesis of Yagenko was spiritual, while its execution was utterly dynamic.<\/p>\n

Richter is another artist renowned for a radical painting technique: in his case, applying layers of wet paint to a canvas and then dragging a squeegee across its surface. He began using the method in the early 1980s, and it is associated with his abstract works (he has also painted figuratively<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Abstraktes Bild<\/a> is an excellent example. Its surface is blazing red \u2014 red, that is, in a broad spectrum of shades, from cherry, rose and brick, to burgundy and carmine. Other colours glimmer through the surface like jewels, as if the squeegee has veiled our view of a tantalising world beyond.<\/p>\n

Richter enjoyed the element of chance that his tool introduced. The squeegee, he said, \u2018is a good technique for switching off thinking. Consciously, I can\u2019t calculate the result. But subconsciously, I can sense it.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist\u2019s energised impasto \u2014 predominantly red, yellow and blue, punctuated by elements of pink and white \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[90152,256012,166693,80300,449,458,459,64,63,256013,460,134,256011,256014,256008,256010,256009],"class_list":["post-510877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-20th-century-art","tag-21st-century-art","tag-abstract-art","tag-abstraction","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-christies-london","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-hodgkin","tag-painting-auction","tag-richter","tag-riopelle","tag-shiraga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}