Sentences with phrase «abstract art of some kind»

But those who were trying to make a new art were all pushing toward abstract art of some kind or another.

Not exact matches

There can be many kinds of truth relations, thus justifying the use of the term both for art and mathematics, as well as for concrete impressions and abstract speculations.

Do people feel alienated by certain kinds of art, like abstract or minimal painting?

Then, in the late fall of 2015, I was awestruck by a post I saw on Instagram — just an abstract piece with some words laid over top that writer Elizabeth Gilbert shared — and I knew I had to go back to art and that being any kind of coach was not the right path for me.

In her recent show with the Beijing satellite gallery of New York's Chambers Fine Art, she has concentrated on what she calls landscape paintings, which don't present landscapes so much as a kind of floating abstract world reminiscent of the work of the Chilean modernist, Roberto Matta, in their atmospheric effect.

She really helped pull art out of the angst and trauma of the abstract expressionists, the wartime generation, and into a lighter, more lyrical kind of modernism.

«She really helped pull art out of the angst and trauma of the abstract expressionists, the wartime generation, and into a lighter, more lyrical kind of modernism,» says Betsy Broun, who directs the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. «I think it was a relief, a liberation.&raqart out of the angst and trauma of the abstract expressionists, the wartime generation, and into a lighter, more lyrical kind of modernism,» says Betsy Broun, who directs the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. «I think it was a relief, a liberation.&raqArt Museum in Washington, D.C. «I think it was a relief, a liberation.»

Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds of diverse young artists with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic abstract gestural expressionism, such as calligraphy — in their contemporary works of art.

On the contrary all kinds of abstract art, from painterly to constructivist, were possible.

In the 1950s Allan Kaprow began to explore the possibility of a new kind of art developing out of abstract expressionism.

There have been persistent murmurs in the art world about the imminent (market) demise of the so - called Zombie Formalism movement, a kind of colorful, undemanding type of abstract painting that's commanded astronomical prices for the past few years.

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

«I specialize in one of a kind contemporary abstract art created by using acrylic paint and a glass - like pigmented epoxy resin,» Bilotta wrote.

As the curator, Anne Ellegood, states, ``... in the 1950s, [abstract art] was used as a kind of propaganda tool to promote American values around the world.

By contrast, abstract work at adjoining galleries — Meg Hitchcock's fine - grained collages made from printed Koran and Torah pages at Studio 10; Andrew Zarou's silvery geometric collages at Robert Henry Contemporary — is characteristic of a kind of hands - on, somewhat hermetic, kitchen - table - scale art that the neighborhood has a lot of.

In most work that we know and respect, particularly abstract art which has broken all kinds of links with the observed world, and which could be said to be about the nature of the medium itself — the two dimensional canvas, the colours, the drawing, the frame of the canvas — the medium is absolutely essential — is crucial — in terms of my appreciation of a work of art.»

At IdeelArt, we like the idea that words can not easily depict an art whose very essence is precisely to be beyond any kind of representation, but we position ourselves very much in the «non-figurative» side of the Abstraction continuum, featuring works by some of the best international abstract artists.

This Caro (and many like it) are on the cusp of being conceptual art themselves, so little do they contribute real content to any kind of progression in abstract sculpture.

It's the most abstract of all art expression» The paintings by Hugonin and Martin share many qualities: they operate with a kind of interior musicality and balance their apparent precision and control with a fragility that suggests a very human touch.

Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience of the war more accurately than other painters and, in a way, different form the paintings of the abstract expressionists.

The earnest «reflexivity» of the narration, which constantly draws attention to its modes of discourse; the smug female voice - over artist, who bizarrely mispronounces the numerous French words; the use of another medium — in this case dance — to create a kind of abstract demonstration of the film's content — these things all hark weirdly back to the «materialist» theory that influenced art school teaching in the Nineties, and further back to the frequently soul - destroying «deconstructed narrative» cinema of the late Seventies and early Eighties.

This year, Rob Delamater and Gaetan Caron's Lost Art Salon provides 30 low - cost works next to a roomful of pricey Bay Area figurative and abstract works by famous alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute (and supplied by the San Francisco Art Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local aArt Salon provides 30 low - cost works next to a roomful of pricey Bay Area figurative and abstract works by famous alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute (and supplied by the San Francisco Art Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local aArt Institute (and supplied by the San Francisco Art Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local aArt Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local artart.

Saloua Raouda Choucair, born in 1916, pioneered abstract art in the Middle East and was the first artist of the kind in her country of birth, Lebanon.

The exhibition makes two things very clear: the abiding influence of Postminimal sculpture from the late 1960s on today's abstract sculpture, and the way that influence has helped to create a lively, somewhat kooky kind of contemporary nonfigurative 3D art that stands in contrast to the male dominated geometric tradition.

The exhibition represents a narration of some of Parlá's most significant life experiences embodied in expressive calligraphic abstractions, some kind of journal that recounts everything from his childhood memories to his extensive travels around the world told through his «method of conceptual and abstract storytelling» and that in many ways have shaped his art.

There were three kinds of works in Beatrice Caracciolo's recent exhibition: exquisitely animated abstract expressionist drawings; others that look more like landscapes (and which introduce art - historically familiar material in the form of allusions to Chinese landscape and Japanese calligraphy), and unexpectedly bold suspended or freestanding sculptures comprised of zinc sheets mounted on wooden substructures.

And since I had just been doing drawings throughout graduate school, mostly abstract and process - based drawings with all kinds of unconventional methods to make various marks on the paper, I thought of land art or earthworks, which I had never done.

A lyrical and open interaction between form and space creates rhythmic movement of a musical, even jazzy kind, achieving modern art's frequently declared intention to create visual analogies with the abstract yet palpable language of music.»

Those kinds of simplistic political art gestures make one long for something more abstract, vague, and contemplative, whether it be the ancient geometric forms of Donald Judd or the opaque and cold beauty of Mark Rothko.

In the end, the book works best as a kind of Lost Weekend for abstract expressionists, an appalling glimpse through the studio skylights at the terror of an artist who fears he has lost the capacity for making art.

Miller will trace the arc of his work from its origins in picture theory — in which even abstract art can be understood as a kind of figure — to that which addresses the discourse of public space.

To draw people in and make the kind of East - West, ancient - contemporary connections that the museum is increasingly exploring, Knight, the senior curator of Chinese art, has integrated works by three Asian - influenced American abstract artists into the gallery where Zhang Ruitu's giant scroll hangs: Franz Kline, Brice Marden and Mark Tobey.

A Fishtown native who's studio is in the Crane Arts Center, Browning obviously takes full advantage of the large work space to create massive paintings, this color field of speeding urban images, like you see out of the corner of your eye as you zoom down the Expressway, is abstract expressionist yet a kind of contemporary cubism with obtuse angles and cracked spacial warps.

A lot of this kind of art, as well as commercially successful abstract painting, is now coming out of Los Angeles.

The only gallery of its kind in the United States, MINUS SPACE specializes in reductive abstract art on the international level.

His movements, while expertly rooted in traditional physical comedy, were abstracted to the point of becoming a kind of performance art gesture in their own right.

However, I do agree that new kinds of spatiality might be imagined in abstract art, both in painting and sculpture, and that the ability to be read spatially in different ways is not necessarily an ambiguity.

It's probably not quite fair in an art - historical kind of way (but then I'm not an art historian) to crit Calder from the point of view of where we are now in abstract sculpture, but it's all I can do and it's all I'm really interested in — what has Calder got to offer now?

I think that what distinguishes abstract expressionism from other abstract art, say like that of [Piet] Mondrian's, is simply its rejection of geometric patterning — that it looks for a freer kind of form then geometry gives to it.

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.

I need not speak in detail about this new manner, which appears in figurative as well as abstract art; but I think it is worth observing that in many ways it is a break with the kind of painting that was most important in the 1920's.