Sentences with phrase «even as an abstract painter»

Even as an abstract painter, I felt it difficult not to share this sense of relief.

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This gives him almost the same freedom as an abstract colour - field painter, or possibly even more, since his colour is largely relieved of its space - making duties by the figuration of his drawing.

As such, «Rower's pours come closer to the abstracting nature photos of Edward Weston than to the works of Pollock or de Kooning, painters who, even when most abstract, always left behind traces of the actions of their hands.»

Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play on the language of ancient art as well as modernism and the abstract compositions of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.

I explore things formally and I even describe myself as an abstract painter.

Behnke writes: «For the event, Roach brought together six abstract / non-objective painters whose works offer a dramatic contrast to their ancient surroundings even as formal elements (grids, texture, color and composition) are often reflected in the environment of the crypt.

In your abstract works I see references to, or inflections of, numerous abstract painters such as Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, even a bit of Jules Olitski and Mary Heilmann here and there.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

Even though her mature works are all considered abstract, she often referred to herself as a painter of landscapes.

Even so, he is regarded by some art critics as one of the great abstract painters of the modern era.

In other words, my primary stride at that time as a painter was to make my painting real even though it was of, shall we say, abstract or even nonobjective nature, to make it terribly physical.