Sentences with phrase «abstract painting world»

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There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.

Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make paint.

And in their talk about an abstract show, called The Painted World, the students are concerned with how the art — and the world — makes them simultaneously laugh and lWorld, the students are concerned with how the art — and the world — makes them simultaneously laugh and lworld — makes them simultaneously laugh and learn.

The problem I found with most of these paintings is that they're all either the very traditional detailed oil paintings, or they're the modern abstract cartoonish looking paintings, which is fine if that's your thing, but that seems to be the extent of the Judaic art world.

Among the shows opening by emerging artists, it is hard to ignore the trend towards abstract painting that has swept over the art world.

Behind the black gate was a world of color, hundreds of abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start as a painter in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to paint.

Alongside letter - based graffiti, Myne paints abstract images that fuse elements of the organic, natural world and the rigidity of man - made structures and architecture.

Question: I would like someone to ask me why, in an art world that loves fashion, entertainment and spectacle, and in an age that loves movies and social media, I keep on painting small abstract paintings.

Hop into the colorful, poetic world of Angel Otero's abstract paintings during an afternoon of family art - making activities.

They became more colorful and less representational, leading to his first totally abstract piece, Composition I, a colorful painting destroyed during World War II, known now only through a black and white photograph.

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.

His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged paintings that acted as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract nature of the technological world we now live in - as prisons or cells.

Exploring social and political themes, Bradford's abstract collage paintings have been exhibited around the world, but the Los Angeles native has never had a solo museum show in his hometown.

Through Aug. 16, 2014 Mark Bradford at White Cube Hong Kong Known for his abstract, layered collage paintings, Los Angeles - based Mark Bradford is presenting «a series of new works about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning, in the world's most densely populated city.»

Le Grice abstracts from nature and architecture «the patterns which form part of our everyday world» making paintings in acrylic or mixed media, that are quite modest in size.

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.

She uses odd humor, interior logic, and palimpsest - like surfaces — evidence of her working everything out on the canvas, to create paintings of abstract characters in imaginary worlds.

«Among the wildly disparate features of today's art - world landscape, two modes of pictorial thought with venerable lineages have recently re-emerged: materials - oriented abstract painting, and a linear approach to the investigation of the third dimension that may conveniently be referred to as «drawing in space.»

The disarray that characterizes the art world of today makes painfully clear the need for a show that expresses the real strength of the art of abstract painting.

Seeing a second view of the scene implies that even an abstract painting promises some other, continuous world inside its frame.

Holland Cotter: With abstract painting again in the art world's eye, the time is right to renew an acquaintance with the American artist John McLaughlin....

As in those landscapes, Soutine's world has no firm foundations left, not even an abstract artist's faith in paint.

These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previopainting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previoPainting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previopainting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.

Thibaut de Reimpré belongs to the second generation of the French School of abstract painting after the second World War.

I may yet remember Jason Gringler's shattered mirrors as painting from Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Sheila Gallagher's painting in plastic from Dodge, Rachel Beach's abstract sculpture of reclaimed wood from Blackston (like Dodge, on the Lower East Side), videos by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook of art students from Tyler Rollins, or Patrick Jacobs's peepholes onto constructed other worlds from The Pool NYC.

Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

For over four decades, Nozkowski has produced richly colored, intimately — scaled abstract paintings that derive from his personal experiences and everyday encounters in the world, using shapes, lines, and color to depict his immediate environment in an improvisational manner.

Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800 artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the likes of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are opinion - makers, as we've seen with Hernan Bas among others).

Is it, perhaps that the certainties of abstract monochrome paintings as the clean, minimal sign for painting has slipped, perhaps messily, into a world of commodification, of lipstick, whale stomach contents and selfie poses.

A new exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky's work shows how the artist used his synaesthesia - the capacity to see sound and hear colour - to create the world's first truly abstract paintings.

The Whitney calls a show of abstract art «Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Painting and Drawing.»

While drawing on the language of 20th century abstraction, White's pattern paintings temper that language's impulse towards epic, auratic significance, and emphasize, rather, the endless adjustments that are made when abstract forms encounter the world of the everyday.

For example, included are the exhibition are two preparatory drawings and their related painting, Blue, Black and Grey of 1960, which reveal her sensitivity to abstract forms in the natural world and her debt to Dow, five decades after studying his methods.

There is in the history of abstract painting as it pulled away from representation, a certain cool posture of detachment from the world.

She explains, «Having run away from seemingly inadequate definitions for abstract painting, I find myself immersed in a relationship that tracks, exchanges, and shreds the world of news, front - page photography, design, and pictorial memory into a subject-less pictorial mash - up.

The Chicago painter Miyoko Ito (1918 - 1983), who was born in Berkeley and interned during World War II, is one of the latter: her strange abstract paintings, informed as much by Giorgio Morandi's sallow still lifes as by the legacy of Surrealism, come as a revelation.

Although these painters started out painting in what was called an objective style, deploying abstract shapes in large space, they soon migrated to using the physical world and representative subjects to experiment with shape, color, texture and temperature in their painting.

Back in the 1990s, when many in the art world had turned their back on painting as a «dead» medium, Amy Sillman was one of the leaders of an underground revival, combining cartoonish imagery, a draughtsmanlike line, and jazzy color combinations to give new life to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

In her playful abstract landscapes, Barbara Demsar paints the natural world with a vivid, childlike optimism.

For her second solo exhibition at Magician Space, Beijing - based Liang Wei presents a series of abstract paintings generated from her constantly - evolving imaginative world.

This exhibition also features The Last Painting of the Century (1999) and Ultrazoomazipzamapopdeluxa (1998), two large paintings depicting retro - futuristic worlds of animated plants, monsters, abstract forms, and graffiti.

At a time when the world is increasingly abstract, Borremans submits his paintings as evidence that this particular form of painterly expression retains its validity.

'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»

The three artists share an interest in depicting — in hard - edged artworks of pulsating abstract painting — the vibrating, undetermined power of the universe and the movement of the world as reflected in everyday life, according to the gallery press release.

Named after a type of Arabic alphabet, this exhibition proves that abstract painting still makes sense in our postmodern, digitally mediated world.

Willem de Kooning's abstract painting Untitled XXV, 1977, broke a world record at auction when the painting sold for $ 66.3 million at Christie's evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on November 15, 2016 in New York.

Georgia O'Keeffe created abstract paintings that distilled the natural world to its most basic elements.

Painting a landscape on the face of an old hand saw or polishing an extraordinary tree root into an abstract sculpture reflected one's access to free time, materials, the natural world and tradition.»