Sentences with phrase «modernist idea of painting»

Minimalism also fought Greenberg's orthodoxy at the same time as conceptual art — by rejecting the Modernist idea of painting and instead working with industrial materials — but contained the dialogue within the gallery system.

Influenced by Cezanne, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard, Heron made a significant contribution to the dissemination of modernist ideas of painting through his critical writing and primarily his art.

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I view it as an artwork less to do with the ideas evident in modernist abstraction, even though the deconstructed language of democracy and freedom (Neoplasticism) and a meditative and immersive void (Color Field Painting) hovers on the surface.

By the 1960s modernism had become a dominant idea of art, and a particularly narrow theory of modernist painting had been formulated by the highly influential American critic Clement Greenberg.

Trying «to join modernist flatness with a street art vocabulary in an attempt at finding value in the idea of painting,» Hendrick paints on garbage produced by art institutions, including discarded paintings by undergraduates.

Incorporating many of the ideas set forth in his paintings and drawings, his prints form an extraordinary compendium of a career spent investigating the modernist tradition of the power of color and contemporary abstraction.

Where the Abstract Expressionists had still been wedded to the modernist concept of the masterpiece, the postmodernists suggested that there were alternative ideals and possibilities to the Greenbergian idea of the perfect painting.

They confirm the ideas of the formalist critic Clement Greenberg, who suggested in «Modernist Painting» (1960) that artists should respect the limitations of each media.

It includes a plethora of educational activities and playthings as well as paintings, drawings, digital prints, videos, and architectural components by Eamon that not only reference Fröbel's learning methods, but also the aesthetic ideas of the game - changing Modernist artists, architects, and designers so influenced by his teachings — particularly Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Charles Eames.

His process questions the changing definition of painting, and utilizes every day home office tools such as the scanner, inkjet printer, and creative computer software to explore modernist ideas of composition, color, and form.

David Row, Robert Sagerman, Kate Shepherd, Robert Swain, John Zinsser — pursue, in the words of Richard Kalina, «an investigation into a grammar of abstraction that takes into account formal strategies, wide - ranging references, and the set of ideas that have swirled around modernist painting and the art that followed it.»

The 1920s, meanwhile, saw the newly - wed Ben and Winifred Nicholson bouncing ideas off each other and their fellow artists in a ferment of creativity, while over on the other side of the planet the redoubtable Emily Carr battled against isolation and rejection in British Columbia to create one of the most powerful legacies of modernist painting in Canada.

That was a body of work I made a couple of years ago where I started to really question some modernist ideas, particularly those related to painting.

As evidenced by the paintings in her current retrospective at the Whitney, she keeps a toolshed of effects and objects — drop shadows, large modernist grids, drips, bicycle wheels, squiggles, text, impasto that rivals cake frosting, and even wallpaper — that appear predetermined to keep every possible idea of «mark - making» alive.