Sentences with phrase «against lyrical abstraction»
He is a tireless searcher who from the outset reacted against Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism and remained faithful to a kind of aestheticism, drawing his inspiration from the history of art.
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He attended a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art and studied at St Martin's School of Art, where the prevailing lyrical abstraction caused him to react and rebel against it.
His work was also shown in the seminal exhibition Véhémences confrontées (Opposing forces), which visually pitted European Lyrical Abstraction against American Abstract Expressionism and for which Mathieu assisted French critic Michel Tapié in organizing at Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris (1951).
After a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, he did a painting degree at St Martin's, where he reacted against the prevailing lyrical abstraction, thinking of himself as a Pop Art - inspired urban narrative artist.
In an interview with Whitewall Magazine in 2010, Seery described the rise of his chosen movement as follows «Many at the time thought Lyrical Abstraction was reaction against some previous form of painting, but in reality it was an affirmation of painting.