Sentences with phrase «aim of every abstract artist»

Not exact matches

As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.

The first solo show in an Italian museum of Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of about forty paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most important abstract painter in contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present day to the public.

Based on four artists represented in the Berardo Collection — Malevich, Mondrian, Josef Albers and Ad Reinhardt — this exhibition aims to analyse abstract art, and the vast range of actions and expressive possibilities it gave rise to, through the tension that exists between its various branches (non-objective, non-figurative, absolute and concrete).

Cubism: Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who aimed to bring different views of subjects together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

«With Toilet... Arneson aimed a biting satire at the abstract expressionist aspiration of letting everything within the artist spill out freely in the work.

'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»

Joyner, a former Wall Street executive turned arts patron, is currently touring works from her and her husband Alfred Giuffrida's collection of nearly 400 works by black abstract artists including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Mark Bradford, Shinique Smith, and Kevin Beasley, with an aim «to rewrite art history,» as Joyner described it in a recent interview.

An investigation of two 1971 exhibitions — Contemporary Black Artists in America at the old Whitney, and The DeLuxe Show, an abstract art show in a Houston movie theater — English's book «looks at many black artists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibiArtists in America at the old Whitney, and The DeLuxe Show, an abstract art show in a Houston movie theater — English's book «looks at many black artists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibiartists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibition...

Where the abstract expressionists sought harmony and purification of the pictorial space, his neo-avant-garde instead aimed to diminish the authorial role of the artist and bridge the gap between art and life.

Committed to new abstract and conceptual art, PS aims to provide a platform for the work of upcoming international artists in an environment that exists between the conventions of an artist - run space and a commercial gallery.

«Haptic Tactics» aims to develop new ways of thinking about and engaging with contemporary abstract work made by queer artists.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago aims to canonise the Color Field painter Howardena Pindell as an activist artist dedicated to her era's social and political causes while equally committed to the serious art of abstract painting.

Perhaps abstract has to be capable of escaping the «representation» of form in a positive way by taking on the presentation of form (therefore not actually seeking to escape anything) and maybe not being able to tell what one is looking at is in essence a good measure of what some abstract artists are aiming for.

This exhibition aims to revisit the achievements of wide array of artists from the Americas and Europe and to open a dialog on the importance of the geometric abstract style in the development of what we know as contemporary art.

Spanning the six decades in which O'Keeffe was at her most productive and featuring over 100 major works, the forthcoming exhibition at Tate Modern will chart the progression of her practice from her early abstract experiments to her late works from the 1950s and 1960s, aiming to dispel the clichés that persist about the artist and her painting.

Until 1988 he worked in a figurative manner, but after a stay in Amsterdam, where he was confronted by the uncompromisingly abstract work of such artists as Barnett Newman and Lucio Fontana, he abandoned the mythological themes in his art and aimed at greater honesty, clarity and directness.

Gravity, extreme force and painterly chemical reaction work together alongside the artist's intervention to make works that aim to split, break and reinvigorate the possibilities of abstract painting.

Abstraction - Création was an association of abstract artists set up in Paris in 1931 with the aim of promoting abstract art through group exhibitions