Sentences with phrase «as an abstract painter became»

The language I developed as an abstract painter became stuck.

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«In the course of his long life as a painter, Jack Tworkov became an important figure in the maturation of abstract art in America.»

Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.

Things become further complicated when that autonomy is itself called into question as it has, for example by abstract painters such Jonathan Lasker, Francis Baudevin, Ingrid Calame or Fiona Rae, to name only a few.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

And yet, this American painter managed to forge his own path and become one of the most famous abstract artists, who stood toe - to - toe with titans such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman.

Just as Ms. Blaine was becoming known as a promising abstract painter, and gaining the admiration of such critics as Clement Greenberg, she started to shift back to representation.

He began his career as a painter, drawing on the work of the abstract Expressionists, but as time went on he became increasingly dissatisfied with painting, a medium that he came to believe was a thing of the past.

He became known as an early, articulate champion of American abstract painters Jackson Pollock and Adolph Gottlieb and sculptor David Smith.

Trained as a realist painter, he became a pioneering abstract artist after seeing works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, and other European modernists at the Armory Show in New York in 1913.

His early landscapes, portraits and still lifes were characteristic for their dark palette, but soon his style became distinguished from pictorial elements and by 1950 he considered himself as an abstract painter.

His Low Tide, from 1976, hanging in the RA, shows heel - like shapes resting on a red ground, like body parts of abstract expressionist painters, revealed as deep waters become shallow.

For a new generation of abstract painters, the process of making an artwork often becomes an indispensable part of showing the work as well.

Albert Irvin, the painter, who has died aged 92, started out in the 1950s as a figurative artist of the kitchen sink school, but after discovering Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko at a famous Tate exhibition in 1956 he reinvented himself as an exponent of a dazzlingly vigorous abstract expressionism, becoming one of Britain's most respected abstract artists.

After a few moments amongst the paintings in his recent exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery it becomes clear that Gabriel Orozco doesn't intend to take up a dialogue with the history and medium of painting; he is painting not as a painter, but rather employs the format of abstract painting as a possibility for depicting his geometrical thought.

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It became a serial motif for her and linked her practice in New Mexico with that that of younger New York abstract painters, such as Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly, who created multiple works around a repeated form.

Marden, who became famous overnight in the mid -»60s and is now regarded as one of the world's leading abstract painters, was in town recently as a guest of SFMOMA's Director's Circle.

Before becoming one of the most eminent abstract painters of her generation, Mary Heilmann arrived in New York as a sculptor in 1968.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

Sandra Blow, who has died aged 80, found her direction as a painter in 1947, when the Italian abstract artist Alberto Burri became her lover.

Meanwhile, he became known as one of the most promising young abstract painters in his home country, Germany.

While his monochrome grounds align his work with those for whom monochromatic painting became the next logical step in the advancement of abstract art toward a reductive purity, Motherwell was sharply, yet graciously, critical of those painters who had studied his work of the 1940s, specifically The Little Spanish Prison (1941 - 1944) and Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive (1943) and employed stripes as a modular unit in their paintings.

I really became an abstract painter because of Blinky Palermo's work, but it could just as easily have been because I quit smoking.

These contours are sensually coloured with pastel chalk powders, make - up, soap and bath - bombs, Black here acting in the capacity of an abstract painter: but, as a three - dimensional work, this work is traversable, the viewer invited into the folds of the canvass to become immersed.

Irwin began as an abstract painter before becoming deeply engaged in pushing the boundaries of art as the experience of perception itself.

«I see myself as a still - life painter trying to become an abstract painter,» he has said.

Pryor, an abstract painter, has been curating the unique shows at the gallery for two years, creating shows such as «Fashioned: One Becomes Another,» in 2011, which saw him collaborate with Project Runway designer Christopher Straub to turn his abstract images into fashion pieces that were like mobile three - dimensional sculptures.

The term new spirit painting became used particularly in Britain and is useful in that it also embraces aspects of new painting at that time that do not fit quite comfortably into the category of neo-expressionism, such as the American painters David Salle and Eric Fischl and in Britain Paula Rego, Stephen McKenna, Steven Campbell and the abstract painter Sean Scully.

I see myself as a still - life painter trying to become an abstract painter.

Known as the «pope of modern art», Read became Britain's leading interpreter of abstract paintings and abstract sculpture during the three decades 1930 - 1960, championing a number of modern artists like the painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) and the leaders of modern British sculpture like Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959), Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013).