Sentences with phrase «abstraction as a theme»

Abstraction as a theme was both too broad and too cautious.

Sass chose abstraction as the theme of the exhibition because it runs throughout her entire artistic practice, which includes paintings, collages, graphics, textiles, books and texts.

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And Whitehead's reopening of the theme used this concept only in passing, as an arbitrarily chosen case - study of the difference between scientific abstractions and adequate common - sense.

Rich with significant examples of both gestural abstraction and post-painterly abstraction, the evolution of mark - making rises to the fore as a major theme in MOCA Jacksonville's collection.

Architectural subjects, including paintings of the weathered barns and buildings on the Stieglitz property that blend the descriptive and the abstract, emerged as a theme, as did a number of panoramic landscape paintings and bold, color ‑ filled abstractions that often visually related to the subjects she was working on at the time.

Critical and historical context is provided in the form of five thoughtful, themed essays, interspersed throughout the book, by Whitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blazwick on the subjects of «The Found Object», «Performance», «Abstraction», «Knowledge» and «Power Structures», which, alongside an introduction by curator Bruce Ferguson and an endorsement by Yoko Ono, add up to an artist's monograph that's as intimate as it is expansive.

[35] The Istanbul Biennial in 2011, instead of choosing a theory or theme as a unifying rubric, mounted five group shows around the main themes that inspired Gonzalez - Torres's work — love, death, abstraction, contested histories and territories.

The abstraction in his paintings and sculpture amounts to a physical, tangible anonymity, a theme often developed and explored in his work as it relates to the anonymity and obscurity Avini often feels as he straddles American and Persian cultures.

Important figures in the revitalization of painting today, Taaffe and Tomaselli have separately explored many of the themes central to Smith's prescient aesthetic; one rooted in the theosophical and spiritualist origins of European abstraction as evidenced in the works of Kupka, Kandinsky and Mondrian.

Meditations on process, pattern, and material, the works engage within themes of abstraction, the body and gesture, race and politics, as well as landscape and geography.

Yet, non-Western influences are cited only in discussions of the works by artists of color, while the overarching themes of industrialization and geometric abstraction as American art's primary interests in that period are preserved from earlier presentations of the collection.

In addition to Abstract Expressionism, the exhibition Amplified Abstraction offers us the opportunity to explore styles and themes such as geometric abstraction, Cubist legacies, and nature Abstraction offers us the opportunity to explore styles and themes such as geometric abstraction, Cubist legacies, and nature abstraction, Cubist legacies, and nature simplified.

Widely heralded as a new vanguard in contemporary German art, Reyle's work explores themes of appropriation and abstraction.

Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite - abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in drawing real things in the world.

Hilla Toony Navok's work explores themes of high Modernism and abstraction as they appear in consumer products, as a way of examining the ideological underpinnings of design and the assimilation of the history of Modernism in contemporary consumer culture.

This exhibition demonstrates his protean reach as an artist, pushing not only the boundaries of abstraction but also bringing modern vitality and innovation to landscape, cityscape, and portraiture, themes that preoccupied him throughout his working life in Barcelona, New York, Paris, Madrid, and Montevideo.

Combining classical influences with Neo-Expressionist features and processing themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, death and belief, Schnabel plays with both abstraction and figuration with the use of found materials, fragments of language, paint, and digital reproduction.

Loosely organized by general themes unobtrusively embedded in the wall text such as «Abstraction to Figuration,» «Biomorphic Abstraction,» and «Abstract Expressionist Ceramics,» the curatorial rhetoric deployed in The Ceramic Presence is one of showing rather than telling.

Cohn will present a group of new paintings which will address the interaction between figuration and abstraction, surface and depth, and the juxtaposition between traditional painting themes as they are realized within a contemporary context.

Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.

The artist's oeuvre exploits the innumerable possibilities of interpreting and visualizing our physical present, while engaging with diverting themes such as abstractions and form, perception and reality, motion and structure.

Her work successfully embraces indigenous traditions and themes current in international contemporary art such as her use of abstraction, colour and form.

He has been represented in many group exhibitions devoted to abstraction, among other themes, as well as the Whitney Biennial (1975, 1987, and 1989), Biennale of Sydney (1988), and Carnegie International (1988).

«Her new work is a distillation of themes she has pursued throughout her career, including an examination of motion and music as translated onto canvas and the subtle interplay of form and abstraction.»

In an exhibition celebrating 10 years of his career, Mr. deCordova curated his oeuvre in groupings by theme: floral, energy - fueled abstraction, compelling immigrant narratives that explore diversity and figurative works that include pets as memory connections to childhood pasts.

Bowling, the Guyanese - born British painter, is widely celebrated for his contributions to the field of abstraction and his advocacy of black artists internationally, created a number of paintings in the 1970s characterized by his use of world maps as organizational tools to explore color as its own subject — a recurring theme in his work.

Four themes operate as a framework within the exhibition: body, objects, abstraction and display.

And in relation to the abstraction theme, it seemed obvious that the images could be abstracted by simply zooming in on them until their origins became unrecognisable and they appeared as abstract shapes and colours.

Stephen Gurtowski is a painter based in New York City whose work explores the history of abstraction, as well as themes of queer identity and queer experience within an urban society.

«Hide / Seek» considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art — especially abstraction — were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society's evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment.

Lichtenstein continued to refine his technique and expand his subject matter in his later work, turning to such unexpected themes as mirrors, abstraction, the female nude, and landscape painting in the Chinese style.

Bowling, widely celebrated for his contributions to the field of abstraction and his advocacy of black artists internationally, created a number of paintings in the 1970s characterized by his use of world maps as organizational tools to explore color as its own subject - a recurring theme in his work.

Becomes interested in objects as a theme and experiments with abstraction based on the figure.

The works on view showcase her investigations into abstraction and the body through a wide range of media, from bronze and marble to mahogany and aluminum, and a wide range of themes, such as the relationships between mother and child, man and nature, and the individual to the group.

These performances show Pope.L working in a space between community organization and an artistic practice — mobilizing individuals while attempting to address societal concerns through an abstraction of imposing themes such as labor, identity politics, and basic civil and fundamental rights.

While Rubinstein characterizes his curatorial efforts in Reinventing Abstraction as an attempt to chart a different genealogy of abstract painting than the one traced in the «Provisional Painting» essays, I find that many related themes and aesthetic preoccupations continue to connect these distinct critical and aesthetic exercises.

Through observation, handling, and documentation of archival materials, she hopes to collect and re-present imagery and language as a reflection around themes of abstraction and emergent technologies.

Abstraction, as the term is generally used in the art world outside of academia, is a broad designation that embraces many variations on the theme of non-representational art.