After nearly two decades of making paintings and drawings depicting heads, hands, and torsos, she rigorously pursued quiltmaking, and then created a final group of
architectonic abstract paintings a decade before her life was cut short by a debilitating neurodegenerative disease.
Not exact matches
The Sainte - Foy cycle perfectly illustrates the central concern with light that has always suffused Soulages»
abstract paintings, and vividly affirms the strong
architectonic urge that had always been present in the artist's work.
Tegeder, who was born to a family of steamfitters, easily evokes the trade's
architectonic schematics in everything from her early
abstract drawings to her paintings of post-apocalyptic realms.
I wanted to introduce more
abstract elements — some type of
architectonic framework that could support the complex spaces I was constructing within parts of these new pictures.
By melding these diverse and humble sources with polyester resin as a binding agent, Mallary sought to reconcile structure, gesture and content, in ways not unlike his
abstract expressionist forebearer Franz Kline, whose paintings combined energetic brush work with
architectonic forms originally inspired by his surroundings.
But these early examples already contained a rationalist
abstract language that pointed to an awareness of the most daring rationalist
architectonic experiments of Edoardo Persico and Giuseppe Terragni.
For forty years Len Bellinger's work has been committed to the exploration of
abstract / non-representational painting and the ambiguous space inherent in the concept of «abstraction,» from early icon - shaped minimalist panels trimmed with gold leaf as a P.S. 1 studio resident in the late» 70's to thickly manipulated paintings rich with byzantine color and an underlying
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