Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations

Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations
ISBN-10
3863352467
ISBN-13
9783863352462
Series
Mary Heilmann
Category
Art
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Walther Konig
Author
Mary Heilmann

Description

Mary Heilmann is a typical example of a leading American artist who is not a household name outside the art world. The pioneering painter, famous mainly in artistic circles, has been injecting abstraction with elements from popular culture and craft traditions since the 1970s.Heilmann's straightforward, seemingly nonchalant approach to painting belies an astute and witty dialogue with all sorts of art historical preconceptions; an attitude that now serves as a shining example for artists all over the world – both young and old.The huge critical interest in catalogues of Heilmann's work and the corresponding long queues of people waiting to hear her public lectures speak volumes.Since the 1970s, Mary Heilmann has also used ceramics to make objects and pictures, and she also integrates ceramic surfaces into her paintings.This mix of techniques – glazed clay and oil painting, with their different surface structures, colour qualities and feelings of depth – enables her to achieve a physical spatialisation of the two-dimensional picture. When her round ceramic forms are presented directly on the wall, the latter transforms into the picture carrier.

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