Sentences with phrase «abstraction over representation»

These movements, he explained, reveled in the physical nature of materials and touted abstraction over representation.

What are some of the reasons you prefer abstraction over representation?

Not exact matches

«Everything that usually serves representation and illusion is left to serve nothing but itself, that is, abstraction; while everything that usually serves the abstract or decorative — flatness, bare outlines, all - over or symmetrical design — is put to the service of representation.

And then there's that thing between abstraction and representation I so often mull over.

While he would continue to focus on social inequalities over the course of his life and never fully abandon representation, Lewis became increasingly interested in exploring the expressive potential of abstraction, and became an important part of the downtown art scene of the Abstract Expressionists.

In announcing its representation of Williams, the gallery described the development of his practice over the years and how he expresses personal, political and cultural narratives through abstraction:

Art is no longer exclusively European or American, but there are still those who debate about the supremacy of representation over abstraction and vice-versa.

Etel Adnan and Gerard Richter, two pioneering contemporary painters blurring the line between abstraction and representation, have both delivered transformative bodies of work over the decades, discovering new paths in painting.

Callahan, Dawid, Sugimoto examines black and white photography's ability to seamlessly merge objective representation and formal abstraction with a selection of over 20 gelatin silver prints.

Over a series of events Melia explores how changes in a virtually - inclined world impact on our bodies and the places we live; reflecting on the relationship between physical and social movement, the abstraction of self and the shifting nature of representation.

Over the course of nearly four decades and working across various media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, Eisenman has restored to the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the twentieth century.

Breslow's panels, which favor atmosphere over specificity, are about the artist's genuine affection for the city she lives in, and also represent a painterly exploration of the balance between representation and abstraction.

Yet here the line of representation inevitably blurs, as the artist nudges his forms toward abstraction and surrealism through softened edges, shifts in scale, lush but strange colors, manipulated perspective, and shapes and imagery that repeat but become altered over time.