Sentences with phrase «abstraction as invention»

Dickerman urges against defning abstraction in terms of forward progress... less interested in the invention of abstraction than abstraction as invention.

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26 New laws and new activities result: «Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics, art, calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love — all these activities of inner life are nothing else than the effervescence of the newly - formed center as it explodes onto itself.»

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They are staggering because they move back the invention of abstraction from circa 1910, when Kandinsky was said to have set art on a new path with his first «non-representative» paintings, to 1861, when Houghton produced The Holy Trinity, a dark crisscrossing of red and blue lines up and down the paper that then go left to right, then down again in twists and spirals, and up once more in energetic slashes, a working and reworking of energy fields so layered and physical that it can accurately be described as action painting.

The artist's recent paintings explore relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention.

But as is true for all, young as well as old, their real concern is with the absolute immediacy of visual experience for which abstraction has been the vessel since its invention roughly one hundred years ago.

Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

An abstraction standing as its own creaturely invention, the work grounds many of her current practices.