Sentences with phrase «abstract art moving»

Like Willem de Kooning, he has an ability to keep abstract art moving in seemingly unpredictable ways that appears miraculous.

Not exact matches

Cubism enabled Picasso and Braque to solve certain basic problems left to them by 19th century artists, especially Cezanne, by moving into abstraction; but also, having achieved an abstract art, they were able to open the door to the whole abstract movement in the 20th century.

After spending time in California and gaining notice for his increasingly abstract paintings, he moved to the hub of the American art world: New York.

The faded surface of «Corrupt Diptych» is haunting, like the distinct sensation of déjà vu, the dirt and gravel is metaphorical not material, moving this artwork away from hyphenated arts (art - and - environment) towards something more mysterious with its abstract lines that race past the corner of the gallery's gyprock wall; themes of time and movement that have more in common with land art than abstract painting.

Although he exhibited with optical artists in 1965, by 1966 he had moved away from the optical art towards looser and more painterly abstract canvases.

Gibson, now 43, moved from abstract painting to multi-disciplinary works intermingling traditional Native American elements with contemporary art.

Indeed her works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.

Although many of the artists in this exhibition moved away from Van Doesburg's notion of geometric abstraction, they all championed a purely non-representational abstract art that was not derived from observed reality and began with the idea that abstract art is the search for the absolute and the struggle for pure meaning.

While these highly complex and laborious constructions (she often called them «three - dimensional paintings») moved her well beyond the vocabulary of the improvisatory, so - called «action painting» usually associated with American abstract expressionism, they also had virtually nothing to do with the pop art and minimalism which were then the rage of the 1960s New York art scene.

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialisart - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialisArt, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialisArt Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

From its sponsor alone, Saatchi, you know that this is art designed to move, from tattoo designs to celebrity faces and abstract noodling.

Perhaps artists, like Mr. Kreimer, by exhibiting both realist and abstract works of art, are moving the subject of painting away from presentation of an image and toward the act of perception.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1977, she continued her studies in drawing, printmaking and photo etching at UCLA as well as figurative and non-objective abstract expressionist painting at the Brentwood Art Center.

A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from figurative to abstract art.

Yet, when Godwin moved to New York in 1953, few women had gained acceptance in the art world, particularly those who were abstract painters.

As artist - in - residence at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Harris moved progressively through drawing into non-objective art, a now dated term for abstract art.

In Paris, Leduc developed a friendship with the painter Jean Bazaine, whose art was moving into the category of abstracted landscape.

A prominent figure in the New York art world since he emerged as a second - generation abstract expressionist, Michael Goldberg moved to the Lower East Side in the early 1960s.

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.

Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as so often before, ahead of his time.»

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

But if you know where to look there are elements of the excitingly different yet 1950s - abstract - rooted, as well as statements on current popular culture that move Abstract Art out of the past and into the relevant and the now.

Stella is considered to be a pioneer within the minimalist art movement and one of the most influential painters of his generation, a generation moving from abstract expressionism towards minimalism.

In introducing Murray that evening, Varnedoe referred to her work «as dramas of form and color that accept, indeed demand, to play on the more austere terrain of high abstract art, in decisions about push and pull, bright and dark, fragmented and whole, planes and volumes, sculptural and painterly, that move us before we know what they are about.»

Move over abstract art, figurative painting is back big time!

What I've discovered as I moved into this work is the essentially abstract nature of the art fair spaces.

I was especially pleased to see that abstract art that builds upon, comments on, and widens the modernist project has the ability to move us so emotionally and intellectually.

AC Project Room, which began life in an office in a Broadway mall building in 1991 and moved to Broome Street last fall, is the brainchild of Paul Bloodgood, an abstract painter, and Alissa Friedman, a graduate student in art history.

Sunrise Sunset moves like a colonizing force of imagery and art history, taking no pause to explain its position, and instead inducing an abstract discomfort.

At the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery, a retrospective of Seattle - born artist Doris Totten Chase (1923 — 2008) pairs her early abstract paintings and wood sculpture with her experimental computer - animated works of the 1970s and 1980s, which she made after moving to New York at age fifty - two.

The show, which will go to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, will explore how abstract expressionists moved the centre of the art world from Paris to New York.

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

[59][60] Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see the late works of Picasso as prefiguring Neo-Expressionism.

He was one of a rising tide of English critics that began to grow uneasy with the increasingly abstract direction J. M. W. Turner's landscape art was moving in.

As Dalek became more Marshall, that is, he dropped his moniker and made art under his birth name and moved from NYC to North Carolina, and began exploring color in abstract compositions.

The very idea of abstract representation deeply moved Howard Hodgkin and over the years his impressive body of work became characterized as one of the finest examples of post-war modern art from the Islands.

«Since moving here in 1991, the art that is now presented in Santa Fe has grown to encompass contemporary, abstract, cutting - edge [and] avant - garde, which blends well with the Native American, Southwesten and cowboy,» adds Pippin.

Milton favored those turbulent interlocking forms of Rubens that prefigure the abstract art that interested him, and he talked of Ruben's high space — aspirational space — which I took to mean the sense of ascendancy, the forms moving up and out; a feature of much Baroque painting, but not really present in Rembrandt.

Holzer was originally an abstract artist, focusing on painting and printmaking, but after moving to New York City in 1977, she began working with text as art.

Though abstract in form, the paintings reflect Binion's experience: his childhood in the rural South, living in a two room house, with eleven siblings, moving to Detroit, and being part of the nascent art community in ew York.

However, by the time of his return, the art world had moved on from the American abstract expressionism that had so deeply impressed him in the 1950s, before he had gone to Spain.

They moved on to art of their own time, newcomers such as Jasper Johns, and the abstract expressionists Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko.

Acclaimed artist George Morrison graduates from the Minneapolis School of Art and later moves to New York, where he joins a circle of abstract expressionists that includes Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning.

Affected by surrealism and also by Picasso, he moved toward a highly abstract art in order to express, rather than illustrate, feeling.

But after she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947 she moved to New York and was exposed to the work of gestural abstract painters like Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock.

Some areas of Chaffee's scholarship interests include abstract painting and conceptual art, and engaging directly with emerging to mid-career contemporary artists to realize exhibitions with the intention of moving their artistic practices forward.

The Russian - born American abstract sculptor, Louise Nevelson (born Louise Berliawsky), who moved to the USA in 1905, only took up art seriously at the age of 30.

After moving to New York City in about that time, he joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists who were exploring the limits and possibilities of art by experimenting with new techniques and ways of organizing pictorial space.

Moved by an enthusiasm for intense colour and bold expressive gestures, Thomas Olbricht has spent the last 30 years collecting abstract art in a wide variety of styles.

She didn't so much move away from Light & Space art as incorporate its challenge to visual perception itself into abstract painting.