Sentences with phrase «accept that abstract painting»

To escape from that conclusion, one would have to accept that abstract painting and sculpture are sometimes going to produce works that can be interpreted figuratively.

Not exact matches

As well as the generally accepted international stars, there are some less familiar artists here too, from Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife, with a huge swirling abstract, to the exquisite, minutely rendered, tangled, painted embroideries of Mark Tobey.

Alvarado, Donegan, Hachisuka, Hiro, Hansen, Tuttle and Wurtz each offer discrete challenges to accepted subjects and approaches in modern painting: the nonreferentiality of abstract art, the relationships of artist to model and of artwork to viewer, and the conventional roles of the gestural painter.

His inability to accept the work of Frank Stella is just the first indication of how anathema he was to many of the traditions of abstract painting.

By the late forties and early fifties, de Kooning and his New York contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, became notorious for rejecting the accepted stylistic norms such as Regionalism, Surrealism and Cubism by dissolving the relationship between foreground and background and using paint to create emotive, abstract gestures.

Some paintings definitely have an aerial feel but if we accept that as a feeling rather than a figurative truth, it can be abstract.

1924 (first abstract painting, Chelsea) Artist: Ben Nicholson OM 1894 - 1982 Date: c.1923 - 4 Classification: painting Medium: Oil paint and graphite on canvas Dimensions: support: 554 x 612 mm Accepted by HM Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1986 © Angela Verren Taunt 2018.

Additionally, even when he was inspired by Chinese art, notably by a trip he made to China in 1987, and became more gestural and intuitive in his application of paint, he did not accept one of the longstanding, underlying assumptions of New York - based abstraction, dating back at least to Frank Stella, which was the widely accepted belief that abstract painting could be both objective and immediately accessible.

And sometimes abstract painting seems to stall, its devotees settling for cautiously repeating accepted conventions — monochrome, grids, stripes and so forth.

You can not accept what people have said about Motherwell, Abstract Expressionism, and abstract painting until you discover this work for yourself.

NS Philip Guston was totally accepted as an abstract painter, and then stopped being an abstract painter and then did these almost cartoon - like paintings.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

Whether his peers accepted this as a concerted exploration of space in a painting is unknown; but what he ended up with, perhaps accidentally, is a richly textured, beautifully depth - filled galactic series of abstract paintings.

Sandi has been accepted into and won awards at many local and national juried shows, held a solo show of her abstract works, «Urban Edge,» in 2016, and was commissioned in 2016 to paint two abstracts for a large - scale permanent public art installation as part of the «Art Walls» project in Crystal City, Arlington, VA, on view at 12th St. and Army - Navy Drive.