It seems more like many (post) graffiti writers move closer towards
an abstract way of working.
You have your traditional
abstract way of working images and you have your traditional way of representation, but I'm somehow trying to find that in - between zone.
The «Long - Term Memory Storage» duet is a slight left - hand turn from Charneco's typical
abstract way of working.
Not exact matches
As Whitehead suggested, if this view
of location is taken as a complete and concrete account, it
works badly: for, taken in this
way, it equates a highly
abstract selective construct with a full concrete reality.
America's Roman Catholic bishops write that the «challenge
of today is to move beyond
abstract disputes about whether more or less government intervention is needed, to consideration
of creative
ways of enabling government and private groups to
work together effectively» (Economic Justice for All) The truth
of this declaration is evident in the U.S. housing...
America's Roman Catholic bishops write that the «challenge
of today is to move beyond
abstract disputes about whether more or less government intervention is needed, to consideration
of creative
ways of enabling government and private groups to
work together effectively» (Economic Justice for All) The truth
of this declaration is evident in the U.S. housing crisis.
And like a gallery wall, you can do a mix
of photography prints,
abstracts, and typographic art... If the thought
of accumulating enough framed pieces to pull off the look scares you, just take it one piece at a time (like the last photo), start out symmetrically (like the first photo) and
work your
way ledges and large groupings (all the photos in between!).
There are times when I already feel like I'm wearing the same things over and over — in an obviously repetitive
way — and while no one at
work has commented on it (or, I expect, noticed it), I just don't feel inclined to take chances for the sake
of some
abstract goal.
Recommended Strategies: Supportive Provide opportunities for students to discuss concerns with teachers and counselors Address issues
of motivation, self - perception and self - efficacy Accommodate learning styles Modify teaching styles (e.g.,
abstract, concrete, visual, auditory) Use mastery learning Decrease competitive, norm - referenced environments Use cooperative learning and group
work Use positive reinforcement and praise Seek affective and student - centered classrooms Set high expectations
of students Use multicultural education and counseling techniques and strategies Involve mentors and role models Involve family members in substantive
ways
As an Indie author (which really means «self - published» but we say «Indie» because it sounds
WAY cooler, like we're SO artsy we have no use for
abstracts like success and money,) I'm required to
work the big room, über - conscious
of marketing, promoting, publicizing, advertising, and, ultimately, selling my humble
work.
«Though I've ranged from Alaska to New York, the influence
of those years spent on Padaro Lane has figured into the
abstract and representational
work I've made over the years in almost every
way.
What the XRGB Mini helps facilitate, and what it's helped me experience first hand, is that the
work of generations past doesn't just inform what's being made today in a distant and
abstract way.
The current exhibition
of work by the late Alan Uglow (1941 - 2011) at David Zwirner highlights the
way Uglow's
abstract paintings engage with each other and the viewer to create subtle, shifting apprehensions
of flatness and illusion.
After seeing hundreds
of shops and meeting thousands
of people on this journey, I have all the confidence in the world that letterpress printing will remain a viable art form; I'm especially thrilled by people who are doing experimental and
abstract work - those novel
ways of working with the medium are what will carry it into the future and keep the art form vibrant.
He admired Philip Guston's «artless
way of painting,» and the fact that his
work,
abstract at this point, wasn't at all psychological.
Artwork for Bedrooms draws a parallel narrative from the same moment
of young artists who were similarly invested in «poor» materials, but who put them to
work in more
abstract, fragile, or conceptual
ways.
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.
Conversely, one
of the advantages
of abstract sculpture is that it does not impose itself in this
way: it demands and rewards a different, more considered, more open - ended form
of contemplation (an exception to this is the vertical monolith, one
of most venerable forms
of abstract sculpture and seen in City Sculpture Project in the
work of Peter Hide (b1944), Bernard Schottlander (1924 - 99), Kenneth Martin (1905 - 84) and Liliane Lijn (b1939)-RRB-.
You would be forgiven for missing it — Harris Lindsay does not possess a shopfront, and, picking one's
way through a beautiful assortment
of antiques, it seems unlikely that a collection
of Jaray's minimalist
abstract works lies in wait.
Referred to as «
abstract figurative drawings,» by Mr. Owens, the new
works are produced in
ways that are «similar to the process
of making photographic prints in a darkroom» but using everybody's favorite petroleum jelly, Vaseline, and everybody's favorite drug, coffee.
I don't know if it is an appropriate
way to look at or experience
abstract sculpture but I felt there was a sense
of movement when I saw Mark's two
works discussed here.
In this tour
of the 2014 Biennial, families will explore the many
ways painters are creating
abstract works today and will try their hand at creating bold, expressive marks
of their own.
The entire show consists
of six different chapters, each showing different relation between the body and the space, from a large 8x2 meter charcoal studies depicting football hooligans fighting, four paintings
of the skaters in a modern art museum breaking a series
of paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, six black paintings representing the infinite space beyond the surface
of the
abstract paintings, a cast resin sculpture and a drawing
of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, all the
way to the interactive app that allows viewers to interact with the
works on view.
Thus when the viewer sees the red date and signature
of one
of Mr. Kim's recent paintings the first association may be with the chop signature
of a traditional Korean ink drawing, but it may just as easily be considered as a formal addition to the painting much in the
way that Robert Ryman has continued in his
work of 1996 to incorporate the date into his own seemingly minimalist,
abstract paintings.
His most recent
work dealt in more
abstract ways with themes
of love and isolation.
For those familiar with Otero's
work, it might come as a shock to realize that his contemporary
abstract paintings originate by
way of figuration and in this particular case, visual translation
of ornate, narrative paintings made during the period
of the French Baroque.
Schnabel's
works frequently reference history and art history, and take on the scale, and in certain
ways the appearance,
of abstract expressionism.
The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a
way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose
works related to characteristics
of contemporary American
abstract expressionism.
Each piece loses its
way in the midst
of the various urban detritus and
abstract illumination cast from a multi-channel video
work (Period, 2018).
I'd go part
way along with you, in as much as I absolutely agree that
abstract painting has to get over the iconic
works of the last century and discover some new territory.
On the one hand, you have these really beautiful, minimalist,
abstract works (in the kind
of traditional sense
of thinking about Donald Judd, Anne Truitt, that kind
of concern for color and form), and then you have your video
works, or your use
of flowers, like the
way a flower or an arrangement
of flowers can stand in for something.
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.
With their giant drips, smears, and splatters that spread towards the edges and corners
of the canvas,
abstract artworks generated a new
way of looking and viewers were left to consider the enormity and boundlessness
of the
work before them.
A lot
of your
abstract works are quite figurative in a
way.
Their
works show that the Moon can be seen from a scientific, literal, or poetic point
of view, and also that the
ways in which it affects humans can be demonstrated through various interpretations and phenomena, figuratively or through
abstract landscapes and shapes.
Similarly, the
work of Constantin Brâncuși at the beginning
of the century paved the
way for later
abstract sculpture.
One
of things that's interesting about having a survey show is that it attempts to clarify some things in the
work, and the relationship between these
works is something that only became clear in the show, but we didn't do it in a pedagogic
way — we didn't say, «Here's step one where it looks like a figure, here's step two where it looks
abstract - y, and here's step three where it is purely
abstract.»
With the show
of his
work at Ameringer - Howard Fine Art, we are reminded that Louis is, in many
ways, a key figure in terms
of how
abstract art is currently practiced.
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WW: I saw a talk with you and Thelma Golden, and something I thought was interesting was you said, «I don't believe the rhetoric around
abstract painting,» which I took to mean as you simplify interpretation
of your
work as a
way of approaching it.
I live and
work in a small village in Saxony - Anhalt, in the middle
of beautiful Germany — and am often inspired by my location and surroundings — using a variety
of mediums and techniques to express my feelings in my own uniquely
abstract, and intuitive
way.
His early
work, inspired by European Intimism, gave
way in the 1970s and 1980s to
abstract canvases that explored the light filled colors and sensibilities
of the Mediterranean.
This is a thoughtful and blessedly jargon - free trip back to the days when American women began to think, act and express themselves in
ways which were very different from their mothers, Having some
of the
work to see along with the words sends home the message that these paintings remain intriguing, challenging and vital to the understanding
of abstract expressionism in the US.
It is not known if Untitled [glossy black painting] was produced as part
of the first or second campaign.8 But the
work's facture resembles that seen in paintings associated with the first group, such as the Whitney Museum
of American Art's Untitled [glossy black four - panel painting](fig. 4), and it explores the ambiguities
of «monochrome» in
ways that seem more closely tied to the
abstract expressionist project than to the later paintings» concern with the degradation
of materials, an interest often linked to Rauschenberg's 1953 visit to Alberto Burri's (1915 — 1995) studio in Rome.9
This exhibition proposes a new reading, emphasizing that the achievements
of her training in the field
of abstract painting did not disappear when her
work turned to textiles, and that the artist addressed pictorial abstraction in a unique
way, manifesting itself very quickly through an openness to spatial concerns.
The struggle to understand the minimalist or
abstract works in the past was replaced by the fetishism
of the artistic process as the only
way of creating something truly original in our time like the first ever painting done by applying paint with fire extinguisher.
I'm not saying that we should all start
working with
abstract painting, there are
ways to explore these concerns within contemporary art and this doesn't mean we abandon contemporary concerns, not at all, but rather recognize that there can be a mixture
of inspirations from «old» and «contemporary» and that both are valid.
At the Saatchi Gallery, spellbinding shows
of American minimalists and
abstract painters such as Donald Judd and Brice Marden gave
way to displays
of more recent contemporary
works by emerging artists.
That isn't entirely true — his
abstract paintings include pigments and materials
of many colors — but it is close enough that it remains the easiest
way to describe Mr. Ryman's
work.
Influenced by both Urban Art and
Abstract Contemporary, we present
works from a group
of artists who merge the
way between these styles focusing the energy and rawness
of classical graffiti with
abstract expressionism.