{"id":322667,"date":"2026-03-01T00:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:42:31","slug":"explore-abstract-works-by-richter-shiraga-riopelle-and-hodgkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322667\/","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":322668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9212,149922,149921,7585,307,304,305,306,149923,308,93,17906,61,60,149924,149918,149920,149919],"class_list":{"0":"post-322667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-20th-century-art","9":"tag-21st-century-art","10":"tag-abstract-art","11":"tag-abstraction","12":"tag-arts","13":"tag-arts-and-design","14":"tag-artsanddesign","15":"tag-artsdesign","16":"tag-christies-london","17":"tag-design","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-hodgkin","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-painting-auction","23":"tag-richter","24":"tag-riopelle","25":"tag-shiraga"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}