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)[reply]

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
- 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)[reply]