While Stella's paintings were indeed concerned with the purity of
abstract visual experience, the titles of his works were often extremely resonant, frequently alluding to specific places («Arundel Castle»), historical figures («Avicenna»), or grand themes («The Marriage of Reason and Squalor»).
Some of the works use language as part of
an abstract visual experience and do not rely on the linguistic aspect of the word itself.
Form and creativity convene throughout the exhibition with beauty, color and shapes coming together to initiate
abstracted visual experiences.
Not exact matches
The simple, predictable gameplay is one barrier, the
abstract nature of the story another, creating an
experience that's big on audio -
visual power and artistry but short on the stuff that made Journey truly magical.
In a classic 1946 textbook on Audio -
Visual Methods in Teaching (later revised in 1954 and 1969), Dale introduced a model called the Cone of
Experience, which classifies educational media and methods along a continuum from the most concrete
experiences (at the base of the cone) to the most
abstract (at the top):
In all these senses he is provisional, almost with a capital P. Where Wragg differs — or at least the most crucial of the many ways in which he differs — from those artists gathered under Rubinstein's rubric is in his evident and overriding belief in art, and in
abstract art, as a place of meaningful and compelling
visual experience.»
By pairing the first - an
abstract painting whose flat forms are schematic and derived from markings observed on a soccer field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical painting photographed at an angle, Uglow creates a
visual experience charged with the potential of both abstraction and representation.
It's in the
abstract rhythms of form, whether in the
visual arts or classical music, where we
experience the pure, universal structure and pulse of art.
The artists who exhibited in Ideal are committed to an
abstract art practice that communicates directly through the
experience of pure
visual information.
Adam Craemer is a South African artist who devised a practice of creating pieces of portraiture and adding
abstract elements that further the
visual experience.
The pieces include interpretations of microscopic forms, expressive manipulations of unusual angles of vision, playful placements of figures whose points of view contrast with that of the artist and more
abstract presentations of a
visual experience.
It is the paired - down interplay of form and color that makes Resika's work both
abstract and evocative of our
visual experience.
Longtime
abstract painter Robert Yasuda's newest works verge on the lush, with an expanded palette, richer surface tonalities, and contours that are increasingly undulant, offering a more nuanced and fluid
visual experience.
Riley's formally taut,
abstract compositions yield a singular sense of
visual pleasure for the viewer, a notion derived as much from the artist's formative encounters with Old Master and Impressionist painting as from her early
experiences with nature.
The artists presented in Ideal are committed to an
abstract art practice that directly communicates through the
experience of pure
visual information.
An imagery full of textures and directional clues such that a
visual beaded journey, no matter where one begins in one of my beaded pieces, can be as rewarding when
experienced as beaded
abstract expressionism, as the journey of following the storyline of the images.
The figurative painter tries to illustrate striking
visual experiences; the
abstract painter internalises them and let's them permeate the whole imaginative process, trying to create striking
visual experiences of their own, which will measure up to the original «magic moments».»
He said he's fascinated with
abstract painting, architecture and the composition of things as a
visual experience.
Rail: Do you think that your previous
experience as an
abstract painter, which requires a much more
visual and unorthodox painting process, affects the way you paint representationally?
Van de Velde expands this
experience of traditional projected image by taking advantage of recent technological advances in both hardware and software to combine light, non-pictorial
visuals, color and
abstract geometric forms into three - dimensional environments.»
Her
abstract paintings are
visual representations of deeply personal emotions, inspirations and
experiences.
They are
abstracted visual assemblages of the artist's dreams and memories, portraying an inner landscape in which the viewers can enter to form new interpretations based on their personal
experiences and imagination.
In this series of works, Ahmed has focused on collective human
experiences, transposing and translating them using her captivating and distinctive
abstract visual language.
Thus, in African Art, the mask is naked or incomplete without the costume, the music, and the performance, which is a correlation we can establish with
abstract expressionist painting in which all parts must come together (medium, movement, color, etc.) for the whole
visual and metaphysical
experience to emerge.
Modisakeng explains: «The real work for me is in relating the
visual signs and symbols of the
abstract — be it in music or in my dreams — into a narrative that resonates with the collective social
experience.»
Her tangled calligraphy leaps and coils across the paper like vines, folding in associations with
visual language; the disparate sensations of walking through dense vegetation and reading a scrawled manuscript are flattened into one
experience, such that the idea that the two were ever separate seems like an
abstract theory.
The American
abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, who has died aged 92, created sharply defined compositions that were, at least initially, linked to his
visual experiences — «a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone's legs...» In the early 1950s, his style anticipated the unbroken colours and clear lines of hard edge painting by some years.
The sense I get is that your more tightly - expressed work and your more
abstract work are polarities of your
visual / tactile approach to painting: the tighter work has more to do with vision and the more
abstract work slips deeper into the
experience of space as explored through touch.
The lingering intrusion of semiotics, and, more recently, provisional and post-studio theories have elbowed to one side
abstract painting as a sensually based
visual experience.
While Tyler's work shows the influence of iconic
abstract artists of the twentieth century such as Josef Albers and Philip Guston, his work is also unmistakably of its time, formed in an age when daily
visual experience takes place in digital space and painting has to assert its immediacy.
If
abstract painting, to quote Matthew Collings on Mali Morris, is about «constantly coming up with
visual metaphors for
experience», and the artist's job is to produce this metaphor - world «in the form of
visual pleasure, or beauty», that's a great metaphor for what Mali Morris does.
At its core, this formal experiment presents an opportunity to
experience an
abstract concept — a numerical figure and the economic possibilities it entails — as a
visual object and an immersive physical environment.
Using examples of artistic clothing and costume design as a starting point to present his own set of models for
abstract form today, McElheny investigates the connections between the history of
visual abstraction and the clothing created by artists over the past century, whose work proposed a more subjective, less universal
experience of abstraction.
Rather than articulate universal
visual codes for collective mobilization, these works reduce the specific lives and
experiences of those represented in the images to a pictorial field for the artist to play upon; the fetishized beauty of documented protest rendered even more beautiful, and even less capable of stimulating social change, by its sublimation through the commercially - viable language of
abstract painting.