{"id":361617,"date":"2026-03-01T00:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/361617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:23:24","slug":"explore-abstract-works-by-richter-shiraga-riopelle-and-hodgkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/361617\/","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":361618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[37991,168503,168502,29054,365,362,363,364,168504,366,18,117,44585,19,17,168505,168499,168501,168500],"class_list":["post-361617","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-artsdesign","tag-christies-london","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hodgkin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-painting-auction","tag-richter","tag-riopelle","tag-shiraga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116151071690417254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}