12 Facts About Lyrical Abstraction

Art movement Lyrical Abstraction lyrique was born in Paris after the war.

Lyrical Abstraction was opposed not only to "l'Ecole de Paris" remains of pre-war style but to Cubist and Surrealist movements that had preceded it, and to geometric abstraction.

American Lyrical Abstraction is an art movement that emerged in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and then Toronto and London during the 1960s–1970s.

Lyrical Abstraction led the way away from minimalism in painting and toward a new freer expressionism.

American Lyrical Abstraction is related in spirit to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting and European Tachisme of the 1940s and 1950s as well.

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Lyrical Abstraction was the title of a circulating exhibition which commenced at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut from April 5 through June 7, 1970, and ended at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 25 through July 6, 1971.

Lyrical Abstraction is a term that was used by Larry Aldrich in 1969 to describe what Aldrich said he saw in the studios of many artists at that time.

The majority of the paintings in the Lyrical Abstraction exhibition were created in 1969 and all are a part of my collection now.

Many years the term Lyrical Abstraction was a pejorative, which unfortunately adversely affected those artists whose works were associated with that name.

In 1989 Union College art history professor, the late Daniel Robbins observed that Lyrical Abstraction was the term used in the late sixties to describe the return to painterly expressivity by painters all over the country and "consequently", Robbins said, "the term should be used today because it has historical credibility".

Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.

Lyrical Abstraction's paintings were closely aligned with Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.