Sentences with phrase «abstract art in general»

Just like abstract art in general, color field paintings are favored by the collectors and the rise of the movement might be explained by the current art market demands.

«Starting in the 1970s, there was a terrific reaction against Color Field painting and abstract art in general, which was in turn a rejection of Clement Greenberg,» said the art historian and critic Michael Fried, who organized the exhibition «Three American Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella» at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard in 1965.

By positioning themselves in opposition to a particular image, a particular artist, a particular movement, or to abstract art in general, a person can be defined according to that opposition.

Dated three years before the start of Surrealism, it again raises questions about whether, and how, photography was actually responsible for influencing the trajectory of abstract art in general.

If you had to choose one artist who personified Abstract Expressionism — someone who put New York on the map as the epicenter of the art world in the post — World War II era, and whose passion literally exploded the restrained, modernist mind - set of abstract art in general — that artist would be Jackson Pollock.

During this period Piet Mondrian's painting Composition No. 10, 1939 — 1942, characterized by primary colors, white ground and black grid lines clearly defined his radical but classical approach to the rectangle and abstract art in general.

Essentially, abstract art in general stood to prove that artworks do not only have to depict the usual topics like people and nature, with a firm grip on reality and everything representational.

Not exact matches

1: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another 3: the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art

It shall be a part of the business of these general meetings to receive the Address of the President of the last meeting; to hear such reports on scientific subjects as, from their general importance and interests, the Standing Committee shall elect; also to receive from the chairman of the Sections abstracts of the proceedings of their respective Sections; and to listen to communications and lectures explanatory of new and important discoveries and researches in science, and new inventions and processes in the arts.

While abstraction seemed to be moving in new directions, the longevity of the group itself can be attributed to its lack of dogma, rejection of any party line or adherence to any manifestoes, and a general open enthusiasm for abstract art in all its variations.

In the 1950s, Hare's work turned away from the general abstract trajectory of modern American art when he began painting mythological scenes.

Originally aspiring to become an abstract painter, [6] Holzer's studies included general art courses at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (1968 — 1970), and then painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of Chicago before completing her BFA at Ohio University, Athens (1972).

Between abstract painting's mid -»70s Minimalist crescendo and the mid»80s, when proclamations that it had reached a dead end were rampant, abstraction, and painting in general, relinquished its status as the dominant mode of postwar American art.

Although known for his minimalist and abstract works, Imi Knoebel always takes as further, and almost as a prophet introduce us with the most pressing and fundamental questions of painting and the visual arts in general.

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RL: I think making art in general is a political statement, whether abstract expressionism or pictures of fucking daisies.

DOPPLER STOP: a series of exhibitions of 19 abstract artists working between 2D and 3D 2012 DOPPLER STOP, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL DOPPLER STOP, Kunst en Complex, Rotterdam, NL DOPPLER STOP, Fluctuating Images at General Public, Berlin, DE DOPPLER STOP, trenutak.39 in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR

For example: recently I have been captivated by young abstract artists, and in general by any work of art that is magically and powerfully present.

The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of marks on a flat surface.

Along with her contemporaries Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), and Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Hepworth was a huge influence on the development of modern art in general and abstract sculpture in particular - especially biomorphic abstraction.

It's hard, now, in these artistically eclectic times, when anything goes, to understand just how hostile then the general public was to abstract art and how dominated art schools were by an academic approach.