Sentences with phrase «about abstract sculpture»

Tim My suggestion of «Abstract» as a subject is that it could be a better place to start.I say again it matters that you know you are talking about abstract sculpture in the specific role played by space, three dimensionality, gravity etc etc etc..

The thing is, I'm really more critical of Calder than Perl, because sculptural critique is the place where I'm coming from, and I do rather suspect Perl is not absolutely on the case about abstract sculpture.

The knowledge about abstract sculpture is here explained by allowing the reader a clear path of how one got there.

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Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.

Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.

I think that's like a Naum Gabo sculpture, I know there are a lot of arguments about whether geometry is abstract, that sort of thing — but that feels like a more abstract sculpture in certain senses.

I'm kind of lost when Robin talks about one of the main threads of BC17 as «whether or not what we feel as «physicality» in abstract sculpture is inevitably some kind of metaphor for a «bodily» sensation.»

Maybe it is just wrong to talk about physicality in abstract sculpture — maybe it's just more abstract?

The site - specific immersive installation features two 170 foot murals and several abstract wooden sculptures intended to raise questions about the current economic, ecological, and civic state of the nation, as well as the individual's role in it.

The first solo show in an Italian museum of Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of about forty paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most important abstract painter in contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present day to the public.

At one point as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set of blue paintings with some subtle white abstract elements on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.

The same may be said about the more abstract sculptures by Alex Farrar, which are based on abandoned bicycles encountered in city streets all over the world.

I worry a little about the confidence with which Tony talks about «abstract sculpture» and «three dimensional abstract sculpture» and «non three dimensional abstract sculpture» — but when he talks about there being «no guarantees when making new art» I'm with him.

For me there are five individuals being discussed in the Chronicles who make sculpture [much as I wish it were more inclusive of what is out there] This suggestion about Alex strengthens my view as to the ever broadening range of approach in abstract sculpture that I know we are all looking at today.

Just over the weekend, a friend and I were talking about how rarely abstract sculpture excites either of us anymore.

Asserting that abstraction «is always about something... what it is about is beyond confines of language,» Sarah Braman creates abstract geometric sculptures and paintings on pieced - together plywood panels, in which she simultaneously foregrounds the formal qualities of her materials while referencing home, family life, and nature.

As with some of the earlier abstract sculptures downstairs, there's even something vaguely human about the shape when viewed vertically.

At Storefront Bushwick, a former tax accounting office, there's a single abstract sculpture by Drew Shiflett about the size and shape of a suitcase, and exquisite thread drawings by Adbolreza Aminlari that could easily fit inside.

«I wonder about the condition of sculpture in the technological age,» comments DeLucia, who observes that «today we work on the computer, which is an abstract and spatially fragmented place, and 99 % of people will only see an exhibition on - line.»

The exhibit also includes a wall installation with multiple individual fragments, a very large 3 - panel abstract painting on canvas with fabric, paint, and collaged newspaper clippings about UFO sightings, a ceiling — hung mobile and a stabile (sculpture) on a pedestal made with wood, string and found metal.

Works of abstract sculpture by any of these modern artists should give you plenty to think about.

For more about the people involved in the evolution of abstract painting and sculpture, see: History of Art.

We had a lot of visitors — Léger, Picasso, Carl Einstein, Binks Einstein, Petro van Doesburg, Cocteau, Roux, etc. — who all were enthusiastic about «abstract sculptures which move» (toy elec. motors being used).

The large abstract sculptures lead us into a dialogue about labour and the broader micro and macro economies around the processing of natural resources.

The exhibit, which will run through Jan. 3 and was co-curated by grad student Sequoia Miller, is all about artists» relationships, experimentation and juxtaposition — shapely ceramic art pieces backed by modern art's paintings, drawings and even welded - steel sculptures of abstract expressionism.

About 3 or 4 months [ago] M. Fernand Léger came to my house in Paris to see my «mobiles» — abstract sculptures which move — and said he would like to bring you to have a look at them too... I am exposing a few of these «mobiles» at the Julien Levy Gallery 602 Madison Ave N.Y.C. and would be very pleased if you would come and see them.

The critically successful «Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow,» (Nov. 10, 2012 - March 11, 2013) comprised about 20 abstract paintings and domestic - scale sculptures installed in a single room of the mansion.

This is the thing that impresses me most about the field of abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.

I think I am still confused about «space» in abstract painting, I get it when applied to abstract sculpture, but it would be really helpful if you could do your thing Emyr, and post a painting that you felt operated spacially and one that didn't.

The UNESCO's sculpture garden Jardin de la Paix combines the tradition of Japanese Zen gardens with Noguchi's abstract formalism, thus uniting modernistic art with Zen Buddhism's ideas about meditation and UNESCO's political and social endeavours as an organization promoting peace.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate postmodernist abstract sculptors like Donald Judd, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate modernist abstract sculptors like Naum Gabo, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate modernist abstract sculptors like Anthony Caro, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate contemporary abstract sculptors like Mark Di Suvero, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

In fact, it would be of great benefit to an abstract sculpture that you do not recognise anything about it or in it as belonging to a type of something else.

The first of the museum's rotating exhibitions will feature about 108 selections by the famed abstract expressionist artist, including 60 canvases, 45 works on paper and all three of his sculptures.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

Beatrix Ruf, director of the Stedelijk Museum, says about the artist: «Radically inventive in her oeuvre since her early computer - calculated abstract sculptures in the mid-1970s to the assemblages of her latest body of work, Isa Genzken has proven to be one of the most influential artists challenging her artistic media and continuously redefining their aesthetics.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate modernist abstract sculptors like David Smith, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate postmodernist abstract sculptors like Richard Serra, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.

John, I don't think the problems with painting are to do with greater competition — in fact I'm not sure there are that many good abstract painters around anyway — but to a lack of clarity about what making a properly abstract painting really means; whereas that seems to me to have not only clarified somewhat in abstract sculpture, but also, paradoxically, broadened out.

I think the sculpture deserves to be much more widely seen, but proclaiming that a group of more or less unknown artists are making the best abstract sculpture in the world seems a funny way of going about doing that.

If I understand correctly, the Modern gambled on its first show of color photography, and that same year Barnett Newman was about to set aside his «area of competence,» abstract painting, to make the sculpture that now graces the atrium of the remodeled Modern.

But as far as I am concerned, this discussion is about new abstract sculpture and how to progress it.

Alan Gouk: Personally, I see no need to talk about «content» in abstract painting or sculpture at all.

In discussing the place of painting and sculpture in the culture of our time, I shall refer only to those kinds which, whether abstract or not, have a fresh inventive character, that art which is called «modern» not simply because it is of our century, but because it is the work of artists who take seriously the challenge of new possibilities and wish to introduce into their work perceptions, ideas and experiences which have come about only within our time.

If Greenberg's formalism held that all signs point inward, namely, to the medium itself (i.e., that painting is essentially about painting and sculpture is about sculpture), Green affirms abstract painting's capacity to evoke personal feelings from the unconscious.

Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.