Sentences with phrase «aesthetic categories by»

The Letter Paintings, by incorporating the names of mainly male and female African - American musicians, undermined prevailing aesthetic categories by conflating many contemporary movements including Conceptual Art, Color Field, Pattern and Decoration, diary entry and social commentary.

He puts the political proposition of consumption into an aesthetic category by re-painting these weapon models.

Not exact matches

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

The vibration and rhythm of these enduring objects is explained by the category of reversion, which is in turn explained in terms of Whitehead's aesthetic principles.

In an essay about the Quogue Gallery exhibition, Charles A. Riley II notes that the show «calls for an aesthetic that traverses the boundaries of artistic categories» and suggests that an understanding of the «tectonic» weaving together of materials as described by architecture professor Kenneth Frampton can be useful in enhancing the appreciation of beauty in different media.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

Video art however has gone through so many changes in its brief history that it does not have much aesthetic coherence at all: does an installation by Gary Hill from the early 1990s belong in the same category as a more recent work by Cory Arcangel?

Benning's work speculates on an aesthetic sphere uninhibited by fixed categories, in which images are always read next to, through or over one another, locked within composite forms that refuse medium - specificity.

Works by African American artists Jean Michel Baquiat, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Charles Gaines, Richard Hunt, Rashid Johnson, Norman Lewis, Adrian Piper, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, and Charles White, among many others, appear throughout the exhibition in various categories alongside their aesthetic, theoretical and generational counterparts.

Fuelled by a deeply felt antipathy toward nostalgia, and incorporating references to personal, folk, and collective histories, these works were formally realized in ways that evoked tropes of modernist aesthetic practice and theory, while critically reflecting on the criteria and categories through which recent art historical memory has been forged.

Perhaps the art market and institutions have by now weighed so much so on the freedom of aesthetic production, forming and informing our personal and collective comprehension of what constitutes abstract painting, that today abstraction as a formal category often lapses into familiar territory.