I saw the de Koonings and the Pollocks, the Klines and Newmans, and I thought, this is a whole world that I don't know anything about, and it seems so interesting and exciting, and that was the first thing that made
abstraction kind of a possibility.
Not exact matches
By 1965 he took an interest in elementary geometry and abandoned his spontaneous flamelike brush strokes, shifting to a less subjective and more controlled diagrammatic form
of abstraction that he found to be «more creative than working in a completely nihilistic way,» where «the limits impose a
kind of order, yet the range
of unexpected
possibilities is infinite.»
«Through an innovative process
of layering, embellishing and eroding materials, Bradford's paintings are a
kind of an archeology
of the present, even as they explore the limits and
possibilities of abstraction.»
Treating color more like a three dimensional substance, Moyer pushes its
possibilities past the concrete, and the obvious towards a
kind of «embodied»
abstraction.