An
"abstractionist" is someone who creates or appreciates art that does not represent things exactly as they appear in the real world. Instead, they focus on ideas or emotions and use shapes, colors, and forms to convey their message. They simplify or distort reality to make a deeper point or evoke certain feelings in the viewer.
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While the gallery has been recognized as a proponent of important historical abstraction from the 1960s through the 80s, as a contemporary art gallery it also exhibits younger generations
of abstractionists who explore alternative media and supports and push the boundaries of expression.
At the Rose, which is located on the campus of Brandeis University, the show is the latest in a series of exhibitions of African
American abstractionists of Eversley's generation, including Jack Whitten and Melvin Edwards.
In Paris, Bluhm met other American
abstractionists such as Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis, as well as members of Europe's artistic and intellectual avant - garde, including Jean Cocteau, Antonin Artaud, and Alberto Giacometti.
Titled Source and organized by curators Melissa Staiger and Susan Ross, the group show features work by seven contemporary
abstractionists who share concerns of feminine influence, antecedent and identity.
In the 20th century, watercolor was widely used by the Fauvists and
early abstractionists like Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and then later in figurative painting by the likes of David Hockney and Francesco Clemente.
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abstractionists like Thomas Nozkowski, Stanley Whitney, Carrie Moyer, and Chris Martin.
Simultaneously, the Weimar Bauhaus provided a home
for abstractionists seeking like - minded collaborators.
The death last week of 71 - year - old New
York abstractionist painter David X. Young was briefly noted by the wire services.
The drawing on paper with a pretty self - explanatory title belongs to the astounding oeuvre of one of the
greatest abstractionists of our time.
Tworkov's answer is complex, a sign of the intellectual subtlety he brought to painting even when he was a
gestural abstractionist of the kind certain European critics had dismissed as untutored primitives in 1958.
For most of the female
abstractionists working in New York — even Krasner, who seemingly had all the right connections — it was difficult to gain lasting support.
Christopher Dean, Middle Age Hard Edge
Abstractionist from St Marys Seeking Same, 2007 Oil on canvas, 45 x 45 cm February 27 — March 8, 2007 This exhibition focuses on Christopher Dean's ongoing examination of monochromatic painting using the colour pink.
The range of artists that he initially chose — from Painterly Realists, such as Jack Beal and Fairfield Porter, to hard -
edge abstractionists such as Joseph Albers — was an early clue to the versatility and scope that have characterized his productive career.
«Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,» on view at the Brooklyn Museum through July 6, includes works by several
committed abstractionists who found ways to meld their art and activism.
Tracing the artist's evolution since the beginning of the 20th century to the late 1970s, this monographic exhibition highlights her work in the applied arts, her distinctive place in Europe's avant - garde movements and her major role as a
pioneering abstractionist.
A student of the geometric
abstractionists Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky, he found his way toward geometric forms that served as vessels for vibrant washes of color stained into the canvas.
Marter also charts the few exhibition opportunities that were open to
women abstractionists in the 1950s including the Ninth Street Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture in 1951 and the annual exhibitions at the Stable Gallery from 1953 to 1957.
For the past five decades, Alabama - born, New York -
based abstractionist Jack Whitten has been working magic with acrylic paint, combing it, carving it, and casting tiles, membranes, and objects out of it to use in tessellated or collaged compositions.
Jackson's process for these works originated in the study of transcripts from historic American Civil Rights court cases, such as Brown vs. the Board of Education, alongside works and writing by
mid-century abstractionists such as Josef Albers and Barnett Newman.
Recently, John Molloy, owner of his namesake gallery in Manhattan, hosted an exhibition called «Geometries,» that showed 19th - century Native American parfleche next to 20th -
century Abstractionist paintings, which sparked our interest in the beautiful saddlebags.
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veteran abstractionist Mary Heilmann is famous for what may at first look to be fast, brushy messes but which hang together with the mysterious cogency of free jazz.
Paul Reed the last living member of the Washington Color School also referred to as post
painterly abstractionists has died age 96.
Artists who subscribed to a black nationalist agenda argued that Thomas (along with the other well - known
black abstractionists) created works that did not challenge the aesthetic sensibilities of the white cultural mainstream.
His bars and blocks of stained color also have precedent in the work of the California
abstractionist John McLaughlin.
She had the first solo show at Ferus Gallery in L.A. in 1957, was photographed by Hans Namuth, married the brilliant, under - known artist James Kelly and was once so angry she threw her inebriated lover, the Bay
Area abstractionist Ernest Briggs, down a flight of stairs.
Berry is an American
abstractionist known for explosively colorful, visually dense, multidimensional canvases and installations that conjure complex universes existing within and without the time / space continuum.
Many of the most prominent
female abstractionists socialized with their male counterparts, or were involved in relationships with male artists.
The James H. and Lillian Clark Foundation has donated a number of works by Dutch
abstractionist Piet Mondrian to the museum, which now has one of the broadest collections of this artist's work outside of Holland.
This approach to design became a hallmark of Minimalism, important because it was a departure from the more relational approach of
European abstractionists such as Mondrian.
Gilliam (born 1933) is a color field painter and lyrical
abstractionist artist associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.
In his 2008 article Painting by Other Means Joe Fyfe characterized Bishop's work alongside the French Support / Surface movement, noting, «This movement, the most radically generous of the many
reductive abstractionist tendencies of the 1960's, proposed a radical concentration on the material attributes of painting while allowing for allusive content» (Art in America, Oct. 2008).
In fact, Diller served as director of the WPA Federal Art Project's New York mural division from 1935 to 1940, overseeing more than 200 public works, providing employment for
fellow abstractionists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky and Ilya Bolotowsky.
There is no outsider art here, for example, not even the visionary insider - outsider Forrest Bess, although labels note that the
Brazilian abstractionists Ivan Serpa and Abraham Palatnik taught art in a psychiatric hospital and were influenced by the patients» artworks.
Assembling selections from six decades» worth of Cy Twombly's production, including paintings, works on paper, and sculptures — some never shown before — this exhibition will, incredibly, be the first major solo presentation in Latin America of the
late abstractionist's work.
Sam Gilliam (American, b. 1933) is known for his involvement in both the Color Field and Lyrical
Abstractionist movements.
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