Sentences with phrase «abstract tradition»

Jazz, too, became an important site of convergence where memory, history, and a black American abstract tradition met.

Behnke quotes Floyd Herman who wrote of Hine's work: «His abstractions synthesized a keen sensibility of an accomplished draughtsman with the poetry and inventive structure that linked his work to the American abstract tradition of Stuart Davis, Al Held, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

With a background in graphic design, his work seems part of a Western abstract tradition but also freighted with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzzles.

In this respect, her work continues the Romantic abstract tradition established by Malevich, Mondrian, Kandinsky and Rothko but, differs in one fundamental way: Martin insists that her art is not romantic but classical.

The seven drawings created for his exhibition at the Hammer Museum clearly demonstrate the artist's fluency in various dialects of the common abstract language, resonating with Constructivist and Minimalist tones and with a few refrains in less analytical abstract traditions.

Eastern art, through the intervention of the West in its own abstract traditions, created a new art form, bringing about a new trend in Eastern contemporary art.

He was highly influential in the emergence of Minimalism and Pop Art in the US, but had learnt from the European abstract tradition in post-war Paris — and it was France that he spoke memorably about to Louise Nicholson, when she interviewed him for Apollo in October 2013, shortly after his 90th birthday.

This is primarily the result of two things: first, even though Lisa was a very prolific artist, he never exhibited during his lifetime, and second, the forms of abstraction he developed do not easily fit into the recognized modern abstract traditions that arose in Argentina and Latin America between the 1940s and 1970s.

But most critics have been weary of comparing Rosa and his contemporaries — such Rebecca Morris, Joe Bradley and David Ostrowski — to this older abstract tradition, known for its conviction and spiritual depth.

The modernist abstract tradition where the words «big» and «abstract» belong together has clear resonance with Morris» work, yet in these little paintings she almost turns the theory of colour - field abstraction on its head.»

Castor Gallery's first official exhibition will open January 15th, with a two person show by Heath West, whose algorithmic paintings combine digitally - inspired patterns with abstract traditions; and Elizabeth Winnel, whose self - portraits take the form of sumptuous, juicy lips.

Meanwhile, gallery exhibitions by Simon Aldridge, Ingrid Calame, Pat Steir, Valerie Jaudon, Jean - Paul Riopelle, and Ernst Haas revive a wealth of contrasting abstract traditions.

While some emphasize the power and spiritual intensity felt when viewing Sime's works, others note the figurative and abstract traditions of Ethiopia's modern history, evident in the objects Sime creates.

«Matino... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization.»

Working within an abstract tradition closely linked to minimalism, Innes appears to limit his vocabulary, but in doing so explores the possibilities inherent in his varied and dynamic process.

In fact, Jinchi's mystical aesthetic is traceable to the abstract tradition of qit «a, an Islamic pictorial genre based in the word or verse fragment, and originating in the late 15th century.

Working within an abstract tradition closely linked to minimalism, Innes» strategy is to limit his vocabulary to explore the inherent possibilities of his process.

Connie Fox, a descendant of America's abstract traditions, has exhibited her work in museums and galleries across the country, among them the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY; the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY; Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro; the University of Florida in Gainsville and at numerous other venues.

While other painters may parse pictorial or abstract traditions, the Singaporean artist Jane Lee plays with the stuff and stuffing of the painting.

Through this extraordinary approach, Smith addresses painting through various historical references and deprives his canvases of representational and abstract traditions to boldly question the function of the medium itself.

«He is universally regarded as the current dean of the abstract tradition.

Untitled (P 492), from 2005, is a beautiful example from the oeuvre of Christopher Wool, the seminal figure at the forefront of the new generation of the abstract tradition of the New York School.

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

These rebar grids reference an abstract tradition closely linked to minimalism and have a painterly quality that recalls the work of Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman and Donald Judd.

Consistently inventive, Stella, now 74, is one of the most significant artists to work in the abstract tradition of painting, sculpture and print making over the past 50 years.

The review described his technique as watercolour, gouache, ink and gold leaf pressed down with sealing wax and Strauss, later to be head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's, said the combination of shapes and colours represented «the best of abstract traditions».

This Berlin - based artist is part of a young generation that has developed fresh approaches to painting and has distinctive solutions in the geometric - abstract tradition.

Always taking as his starting point familiar images from contemporary culture, stylistically Thomas Scheibitz works in the abstract tradition, using vibrant colours, geometric forms, fragmented type and deconstructed shapes.

SO The reason I raised that grouping is that they represent an abstract tradition based on the figure.

Petra McCarthy is a master of expressionistic, abstract traditions.

It enriches the abstract tradition in Western art with fresh political and spiritual content, and deepens our understanding of the background of major trends in recent African American art, from the material - loving, politically conscious abstractions of Mark Bradford to the politically and spiritually charged sculptures of Betye Saar and Vanessa German.

Ironically, one of the places where this fresh approach to abstraction was germinating was the studio that might seem the farthest from the practice of the abstract tradition, Andy Warhol's Factory.

This art is all on its own in its confident and captivating continuation of the abstract tradition.

I was still rooted in the abstract tradition.

To be a young artist who engages with the daunting abyss of the abstract tradition, these artists critique and burlesque the enormity of the philosophical trajectories of abstraction, while not quite wanting to let them die.

The earliest works in the exhibition, a series of works on paper in the Concretist tradition, illustrate the indebtedness of Clark's early practice to the abstract traditions of Modernism that had come to be assimilated into Brazilian culture in the 1940s.