Talk:Draped painting

Fair use of a draped painting?

Two famous draped paintings are in use on Sam Gilliam; a canonical one, such as an image of Seahorses (which is no longer in existence so no CC photos are possible), might be appropriate here.[1] – SJ + 20:24, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Addl. artists working in this style - more sources needed

Just dropping in examples here of other artists making draped paintings as I come across them; need more sourcing, but these artists were identified as having made works in this style at some point.

• Pre-origins of unstretched paintings or fabric abstractions (multiple art historians point to these artists/groups, more sourcing needed obvi)
  • Quilters/folks artists (Gee's Bend, Amish quilters, etc.)

• Historical artists experimenting contemporaneously to Gilliam/others (pre-1980s)
  • Painting on fabric/canvas
    • Alan Shields
    • Richard Tuttle
    • William T. Wiley
    • Supports/Surfaces
  • Fabric assemblage/fabricabstraction more generally
    • Howardena Pindell
    • Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • Sam Francis: Quick searches didn't surface any sources mentioning his draped works, but a Saint Petersburg Independent review of a show from 1973 (which included Gilliam) also included a picture of a draped painting attributed to Francis. I'll be honest, the work looks like a Gilliam, so clearly there was a decent amount of intermingling going on at the time. But Francis, as far as I can tell, didn't widely use the technique (or those works didn't make it into the history books/museums). I take that back, the picture is almost certainly not of a Francis work - it looks like a caption error in the printed newspaper, the dimensions and description in the caption match the Gilliam work described in the article, not the two Francis works the author described. source

• Contemporary artists (1980s-present, regardless of notability, just dropping them as I find them, will need more sourcing for notability + reviews that confirm and describe their style/the influence of the "draped painting" / "painting construction")
  • Multi-dimensional abstract fabric assemblage/installation
    • Clara Varas (NYT compares her to Gilliam)
    • Natalie Ball (via Whitney Museum)

--19h00s (talk) 22:55, 23 February 2024 (UTC)