Not exact matches
I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I
came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in
abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from
others in my interpretations.
I think it is plausible to say that at least some of the assertion of
abstraction (or self - sufficiency) in modernist painting
comes from stressing paint's materiality, so suggesting that illusions of space or light (or
other allusions to the wider world) are in fact inherent properties of the material.
Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Post-Minimalism, Eccentric
Abstraction, Neo-Expressionism and whatever
came next were influenced directly by the German artist Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Giorgio Morandi, and
other European painters and sculptors.
Walker's
other work
comes closer still to Pop rather than
abstraction, but it continues to play with the same multiple sign languages.
It was a characteristic that I think clearly marked his work throughout; all his drawings, the early delightful «
other world» still lives of fish, eggs and utensils, his progress towards
abstraction and the final large paintings where austerity, essence, geometry and evocation
come together.
Photographs by Rory Donaldson and
others aspire to
abstraction's «Strange Magic,» while paintings aspire to something always about to
come into focus.
When it
comes to
abstraction, we know about Howard Hodgkins but not about Hoyland or, for that matter, William Tillyer and
others.
While his reign eventually
came to an end, with opinion turning against his dogmatic edicts, his ideas — which he published in the pages of the Partisan Review, the Nation, and Commentary — remain a critical touchstone for anyone trying to grasp the Abstract Expressionists, the Washington Color School painters, and
others who were engaged in formalist, «non-objective» art, as
abstraction was called back then.
When he
came to New York, he found a studio among
others on Fulton Street, and he just had to drop in on the
Abstraction Expressionists at the Cedar Bar.
The most fascinating response was that of Philip Guston, who seemed to
come out of the
other side of
abstraction into an alternative world of figuration, ironic, often amusing, but at heart deadly serious about human failure, and how hollow the pose of artistic heroism had become.
Instead of human - machine interactions and a viewing pace hinged on proximity, here the dramatic encounter of two megaphones from opposite side of a hanging rail gradually approaching each
other singing a duet of female and male voices and causing a pile of neon tubes to flare and extinguish until the two megaphones
come to a stand - off midway, exploding into a thundering
abstraction and dazzlingly white light as if the harmony is pixelated into fragments of destruction.
Her inspiration
comes from a passion for plein air painting as well as classic paintings of the renaissance and
other periods that serve as a springboard for her conceptual
abstractions.
Parkinson notes that «the works, whilst
coming from varied places of logic around
abstraction, at some point in their realisation share a notion of object and placing them in proximity to
other objects, persons or spaces, new relationships emerge inviting us to look again.
Along with Picasso and
other turn - of - the - century, avant - garde artists, he jettisoned recognizable content, contributing to a form of art that would
come to be known as «
abstraction.»
Perhaps we're
coming out the
other end of a decade - long reign of
abstraction?
Out of a combination of influential emigrant Europeans - such as Max Ernst (who married Peggy Guggenheim), the ex-Bauhaus painter Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), and the Armenian Arshile Gorky (1904 - 48)- plus unique American painters such as Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), and
others -
came Abstract Expressionism, with its variants of «action - painting» (Pollock and Lee Krasner), Colour Field Painting (Rothko, Still, Newman, Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland), Hard Edge Painting (Frank Stella) and Post-Painterly
Abstraction (Ellsworth Kelly).
Some of these rules and restrictions
came from Greenbergian formalism, while
others came out of Abstract Expressionism or geometric
abstraction.
She
came to know
other artists who, like her friend Ms. Bartlett, were combining
abstraction and imagery.
We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer,
came to San Francisco on «
other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious
abstractions?»
Some of the
abstractions in the exhibition, which he produced after a trip to Europe in 1950 where he visited with Picasso and
other modernist artists,
come from public and private collections.
One of the few political statements at the fair
came from the veteran performance artist Pope.L (he recently dropped the «William» from his name), who combined
abstraction with found objects steeped in racial caricature in this painting and invoked cops and doughnuts in
other text - based works.
They've gone the
other way from us, because they've
come to
abstraction, I suppose, last.
And The Painting Factory:
Abstraction After Warhol — which I caught at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles just before it closed the
other day — is about as nutty as they
come.