In this respect Wright was very much working in
the constructivist tradition, as developed by artists in revolutionary Russia — the work of El Lissitzky, for example - or by those in Holland after the First World War, artists such as Theo van Doesburg in the movement known as De Stijl.
Kelly's rational and formal style of painting is drawing on the Russian
Constructivist tradition, in particular Kazimir Malevich, as well as Piet Mondrian of the De Stijl movement, in addition to artists from abstract movements such as Jean Arp, Richard Diebenkorn and Ellsworth Kelly, among others; all are known for working skilfully with simple shapes and lines.
Four exquisite paintings by abstract American artist Robert Kelly will be exhibited alongside, establishing a dialogue between the Russian
Constructivist tradition and American contemporary art.
To celebrate her fifth year in business, she has organized «Structure,» a theme show that features artists from Germany, Switzerland and the United States who work to one degree or another in
the constructivist tradition or foreground structural issues in their work.
Through them he became versed in the work and theories of
the constructivist tradition which, in St Ives, was becoming associated with a form of abstraction based on landscape sources.
In a further nod to
the Constructivist tradition, nearly every object here was originally a tool traditionally used for measuring or manipulating materials.
The final installment of this series will turn to the international artists from Europe and Latin America who constituted a major component of that exhibition, bringing
Constructivist tradition, a «concrete» aesthetic, and an experimental and often collaborative ethos to the discourse of perceptual art.
This is evident in the understanding of the buildings as undressed cubic volumes of geometry, descendants from sculptural minimalism; also, in the exploration of color and their application in visual rhythmic structures that invokes the legacy of the pictorial
constructivist tradition, but from a clear awareness of the use of the camera as a working tool.
Not exact matches
He notes that the artist's off - kilter, hand - painted geometry — unlike the hard - edge look created by applying and peeling off tape — places him in «a
tradition that goes back to early abstract painting by Mondrian and Malevich,» adding, «I see his ties with
Constructivist painting.»
The seven drawings created for his exhibition at the Hammer Museum clearly demonstrate the artist's fluency in various dialects of the common abstract language, resonating with
Constructivist and Minimalist tones and with a few refrains in less analytical abstract
traditions.
Inspired by
constructivist approaches to art and mass production, Muñoz also continues the
tradition of body and durational performance, here synchronized to the steady rhythm of a metronome.
Frank Badur, this young artist develops his works in the
tradition of the Concrete and
Constructivist art.
There's a good review of it at Saturation Point in which James Campion discusses the selection of works, reflecting on some individual pieces, specifically the Spiral Track works (1984), Colour Spiral Track no. 2 (19) and Jungle Sphere, (1988), and briefly considers Dower's relationship to the
tradition of
Constructivist and Systems art.
Later he established Taller Torres García, a progressive educational art community that could be considered in the
tradition of Bauhaus, its fundamental aim was to develop a distinctive Latin American artistic language based on
constructivist theories.
I realized then that Reinhardt had come out of the European geometric
tradition, and that the black paintings to which his
constructivist trajectory had led were not manifestations of Dadaist nihilism or even Abstract Expressionist anxiety, but the logical conclusion of that purist
tradition.