Sentences with phrase «abandoned painting»

Miyajima originally trained as a painter in Tokyo, where he was born in 1957, but soon abandoned painting for performance art.

Around 1940, he abandoned painting to concentrate on studying ornithology and art history.

[7] By 1960, Rosenquist abandoned painting signs after a friend passed away by falling from scaffolding on the job.

Hill began as a painter but two years after he made his first relief in 1954, he abandoned painting completely.

Installation view Photo: Genevieve Hanson, NY March 5 — April 18, 2009 Curated by Peter Ballantine When Donald Judd very reluctantly abandoned painting in 1961 - 62 in favor of working in three dimensions, it was because he had finally concluded that a philosophically tenable painting was not possible — philosophically in the empirical - perceptual sense of being entirely available visually, and tenable in the sense of being free of abstraction or any other kind of representation.

Although Mack never completely abandoned painting, the experience propelled the artist on a life - long path toward experimentation with color and light as it relates to space and movement.

In addition, during this early postwar period, Rosenberg gave financial support (in the form of purchase contracts or small stipends) to a number of needy Cubists, who might otherwise have abandoned painting altogether.

In his later years, having abandoned painting, instead of depicting mementoes and lost memories as images in the form of pictures, Tonoshiki closed in on the very waste materials that formed their basis.

10 Nick Mauss, «Abandoned Painting,» Artforum (October 2008), p. 359.

A student of the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990s, Wateridge abandoned painting until 2005 when he embarked on a series of dramatic disaster paintings that fused B - movie aesthetics with the romantic sublime.

John Divola (b. 1949), Abandoned Painting B, 2007.

But unlike the Minimalists, she never abandoned painting, rather seeing neon light as a model for new optical possibilities and an expanded notion of the medium.

He abandoned painting for a series titled «Linopanel,» using linoleum as a material that mirrored cultural traditions of flooring (Rococo patterns, Colonial wood, generic tiling, etc.).

Since the beginning of the 1980s, when Rockenschaub abandoned painting by hand, he has trialed his compositions on a computer screen before having the results produced industrially.

Martin left the New York art scene and abandoned painting in 1967 amid growing interest in her work.

In the «20s she abandoned painting and took up weaving.

In the exhibition Nothing Will Corrupt Us, Nothing Will Compete Stürup, who had completely abandoned painting from 1994 to 2011, will be showing several new paintings produced since then, as well as new drawings in Rotring pens and coloured pencils, but also a series of three sculptures made from second hand furs.

He abandoned painting for two years while concentrating on songwriting, and a number of his songs were published.

In 1923 he abandoned painting and printmaking, in favour of various types of art, including experimental photographic techniques.

Though, by 1961, Manzoni had abandoned painting and had caused a stir by exhibiting cans of what was supposedly his own excrement, priced at the weight of gold, it was through his friend that Castellani became acquainted with the Zero movement.

However, inspired by earlier avant - garde artists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, she abandoned painting in favor of assemblage and book arts in the 1960s.

In 1967, Martin suddenly abandoned painting and moved back to New Mexico.

Under Fontana's influence, he abandoned painting, and began creating physical objects that occupy a real and tangible space.

He abandoned painting in 1982, studying art history at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (1982 — 6), and spent three years experimenting with video and film until 1985.

During this time, she temporarily abandoned painting for sculptural and material investigations that pursued a more distinctly feminine art.

By 1922, Zorach had abandoned painting in oil but remained committed to watercolors while continuing to find his voice as a sculptor.

He abandoned painting for a series entitled Linopanel, using linoleum as a material that mirrored cultural traditions of flooring (Rococo patterns, Colonial wood, generic tiling, etc.).

Eventually he abandoned his painting practice entirely in favour of mixed media installation.

He made his first relief in 1954 and abandoned painting for relief - making in 1956.

Having abandoned painting for over two decades, Mack resurrected his practice in 1991 and began his Chromatische Konstellation (Chromatic Constellation) series of large - scale paintings and works on paper that explore colour, tonal scale, light, rhythm and abstract patterning, which he continues to this day.

Aside from his cinematic work, Lynch never totally abandoned painting.

When Donald Judd very reluctantly abandoned painting in 1961 - 62 in favor of working in three dimensions, it was because he had finally concluded that a philosophically tenable painting was not possible — philosophically in the empirical - perceptual sense of being entirely available visually, and tenable in the sense of being free of abstraction or any other kind of representation.

After seven years, he abandoned painting and became a wine merchant.

Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona Starting in the late 1950s, the Argentine master abandoned painting to make assemblages chronicling the tales of Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel, two fictitious characters he created and constructed out of trash, machine parts, and other castoffs.

It was not until 1952, when he met Claude (née Dupeux) at his first gallery show, that he abandoned painting for sculpture.

While peers in the loosely delineated movement of Light and Space in California from the 1960s onward abandoned painting in favor of more immaterial installation strategies, Norman Zammitt made a career of reasoned, deliberate canvases informed by floaty sensorial aspirations.

The subject would turn out to be Monet's last confrontation with modernity, before he abandoned the painting of modern life, and started to pursue pure landscape painting.

As he abandoned painting for sculpture in the early 1960s, he wrote the manifesto - like essay «Specific Objects» in 1964.

But I haven't abandoned painting completely either.»

Haas writes:» [Quaytman] has never once considered abandoning painting, «because I think it's really the best problem in art.

Young artists such as Donald Judd, Robert Morris and Dan Flavin were drawn to these Modernist movements, eventually abandoning painting in favor of unconventional installation - based works that utilized clean lines and modular forms.

The installations in the 2008 Whitney Biennial really do abandon painting for the problems.

Less overtly political, John Divola treats abandoned paintings like abandoned people.

Partly, as with Stella's 2003 show, I still prefer the paradox of painting's logician driven by his own logic to abandon paint.

The demands of running the apple orchard forced him to largely abandon painting and what time he set aside for art making he used mainly for sculpture.

Abandoning painting, he concentrated on prints, watercolors and drawings.

Born in Nüremberg, Germany, to Polish - Jewish parents, Metzger was evacuated to England with his brother as part of the Kindertransport in 1939 (his parents disappeared in 1943); 20 years later, after a period of study with the painter David Bomberg, he would abandon painting to seek ways of working that would recognize the destructiveness of the twentieth century: «artists have a special part to play in opposing extinction, if only on a theoretical, intellectual basis,» he wrote.

This epiphany, which would eventually lead the artist to abandon painting altogether, inspired his first films, a tetralogy of short animations in which forms previously locked down on canvas were freed to morph and dance about the frame.

At Betty Cuningham Gallery the early works, the shared assigments and the inventive job applications shed light on the beginnings of the careers of Pearlstein and Warhol, while Cantor, with a promising beginning, chose to abandon painting to raise a family.

On one hand, the exhibition offers several models of togetherness and collectivity, most poignantly in John Divola's «Abandoned Paintings» (2007 — 8) photographic series of unfinished student paintings hung in deserted homes, and most pointedly in the Occupy Museums display of work by artists in debt.