Sentences with phrase «abstract classicists»

It had never occurred to me before to connect the works of these two abstract classicists.

It was, however, as one of the four Los Angeles «abstract classicists» in 1959 that he achieved renown.

The abstract classicists painted forms that are, in Langsner's words, «finite, flat, rimmed by a hard clean edge... not intended to evoke in the spectator any recollections of specific shapes he may have encountered in some other connection.

The term «abstract classicists» was coined in 1959 by curator and critic Jules Langsner to define these four southern California painters whose work he grouped in a seminal exhibition that year at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park (prior to LACMA's existence as an independent art museum).

The oil on canvas composition is by the renowned California abstract classicist Karl Benjamin (1925 - 2012).

This original oil on canvas composition includes blue, purple, red, orange and pink colors in interacting geometric shapes and is by the renowned California abstract classicist Karl...

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Frederick Hammersley was a Southern California abstract painter who appeared in an important exhibition in 1959 called Four Abstract Classicists, curated by the art critic Jules Langsner at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Switching styles with Picasso-esque insouciance, he goes from being a wild abstract expressionist at the start of the decade to a precise classicist at the end.

His death came just a few days after an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery placed his work alongside the French classicist Nicolas Poussin, an indication of the esteem to which his abstract style is held by even those with more traditional tastes.

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) Impressionist, classicist, his work looked forward to abstract art and backwards to the Italian Renaissance.