Landscapes and abstraction
Pictural genres reinvested
11.10.2017 | Victor Monnin
Focus
Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2014, oil on canvas, 34.5 x 45 cm, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, Paris, © Etel Adnan
Between landscapes and abstraction, there exists an intimate place that a number of women artists have never ceased to explore. In Etel Adnan’s mountains or Pat Steir’s waterfalls, nature’s shapes and movements are inspired by the means that painting has to hand. Contrary to figurative landscapes, the places, phenomena and elements are no longer there as subjects. They blend in and become part of an experience that the very properties of a colour, a mark, a line or a streak have the function of transforming. Far from being limited to a single fashion or style of interpretation, the affinities between landscape and abstraction manifest themselves even in works such as Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s stations and terraces. The plurality of techniques and materials, such as the metal foil used by Anna-Eva Bergman or Helen Frankenthaler’s engravings on wood, are a witness to this plastic research carried out by women artists, between the outside world and the subject to be portrayed.
1925 — Lebanon | 2021 — France
Etel Adnan
1923 — 2021 | France
Geneviève Asse
1909 — Sweden | 1987 — France
Anna-Eva Bergman
1940 | United States
Pat Steir
1908 — 1989 | France
Marie Raymond
1908 — Portugal | 1992 — France
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
1925 — 2006 | United Kingdom
Sandra Blow
1904 — Indonesia | 1971 — France
Christine Boumeester
1877 — 1952 | United States
Katherine Dreier
1892 — Poland | 1966 — France
Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss
1937 — Pakistan | 1990 — India
Nasreen Mohamedi
1887 — 1986 | United States
Georgia O’Keeffe
1886 — 1961 | Russia
Nadejda Oudaltsova
1922 | United States
Beverly Pepper
1885 — Russia | 1963 — Germany
Alexandra Povórina
1904 — France | 1987 — Mexico
Alice Rahon
1918 — South Korea | 2009 — France
Seund Ja Rhee
1892 — 1966 | Russia
Antonina Sofronova
1882 — Ireland | 1978 — United Kingdom
Mary Swanzy
1913 — Iceland | 1968 — United States
Nína Tryggvadóttir
1914 — Philippines | 1994 — France
Nena Saguil
1937 | Austria
Tess Jaray
1929 — 2015 | Norway
Inger Sitter
1903 — 1974 | Turkey
Aliye Berger
1885 — 1963 | United Kingdom
Helen Saunders
1936 — 1998 | United States
Bernice Bing
1896 — 1983 | United States
Charmion von Wiegand
1946 | China
Wang Gongyi
1934 | China
Yang Yanping
1910 — 1974 | Denmark
Else Alfelt
1924 — 2015 | Australia
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
1927 | France
Colette Brunschwig
1946 | United States
Alice Aycock
1925 — United States | 1992 — France
Joan Mitchell
1959 | Switzerland
Valérie Favre
1943 | Brazil
Cybèle Varela
1957 | United States
Emmi Whitehorse
1964 | China
WONG Lai-ching Fiona
1944 | Uganda
Theresa Musoke
1952 | Suriname
Dineke Blom
1949 | Israel
Deganit Berest
1973 | Lebanon
Lina Jabbour
1904 — 1992 | United States
Delilah W. Pierce
1971 | France
Julie Bessard
1953 | United States
April Gornik
1931 | Australia
