Sentences with phrase «as an abstract painter in»

It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.

Laurent went on to study art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and work as an abstract painter in Montparnasse.

Not exact matches

The show pits «abstract» painters vs. «realist» painters in a tongue - in - cheek mock battle; a clash as obviously senseless as any taking place around the world today.

«In the future, I hope when people talk about me, it's not as an abstract painter, but that I came to abstraction through the study of very concrete objects,» Zhang said.

In the early 1990s, as a young artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artistIn the early 1990s, as a young artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artistin Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artistin New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artists.

As early as 2013, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami introduced a host of Chinese abstract painters to American audiences in an exhibition called «28 Chinese.&raquAs early as 2013, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami introduced a host of Chinese abstract painters to American audiences in an exhibition called «28 Chinese.&raquas 2013, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami introduced a host of Chinese abstract painters to American audiences in an exhibition called «28 Chinese.»

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintinAs a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintinas a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric painting.

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Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive in this context, with a selection of small skewed and abstracted figure - in - landscape paintings.

Behind the black gate was a world of color, hundreds of abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start as a painter in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to paint.

But in her work, and that of other abstract painters I've mentioned, the issue of whether there is anything already in such paintings, as opposed to what we might «read» into them, is often raised.

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.

Gene Davis also was a painter known especially for paintings of vertical stripes of color, like Black Grey Beat, 1964, and he also was a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s known as the Washington Color School.

Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt and Arshile Gorky (in his last works) were among the prominent abstract expressionist painters that Greenberg identified as being connected to Color Field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.

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.

These successes launched Hoptman back to MoMA in 2010 as curator of contemporary art in its painting and sculpture department, and since then her landmark show has been «The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,» the 2014 conversation - starter billed as the first contemporary painting survey at the institution in some 30 years, featuring 17 contemporary abstract painters — including Mark Grotjahn, Kerstin Brätsch, and Mary Weatherford — who notably remix the techniques of painters from previous eras.

Guston achieved fame in the 1950s as a part of the first generation of abstract expressionists, although the painter himself preferred the term New York School.

Looking at painters who came to prominence in the 1960s,»70s and»80s, this book shows how abstract painting has developed in the wake of postwar movements such as Art Informel.

The other version came in March at the Whitney Biennial, as a likeness of Emmett Till in his coffin was included in a series of abstract paintings by the white painter Dana Schutz.

While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.

Whatever else they may or may not have in common with the work of abstract painters and sculptors from elsewhere, the artworks shown here were made to be exhibited as such.

Harold Cohen (1928 — 2016) Harold Cohen, an abstract painter best known as a pioneer of computer - generated art, has died at home in California aged 87.

Richter's technical aptitude has led to his reputation as one of the outstanding painters of our era and Abstraktes Bild, which lays testament to his relentless technical explorations in the field of abstract art and to the painterly and intellectual elasticity unique in his work, is estimated at # 500,000 - 700,000.

Painter Arshile Gorky, who committed suicide in 1947, is described as the last of the surrealists and first of the abstract expressionists.

Jack Bush started off as an illustrator but fostered his love of abstract art in his spare time, playing a role in the Toronto - based abstract expressionist group Painters Eleven (1953 — 60) and winning the attention of Clement Greenberg in 1957.

Stella continues to influence contemporary artists, such as the American Mark Grotjahn and the German abstract painter Tomma Abts, who won the Turner Prize in 2006.

Visiting abstract painter Mike Elsass in his Front Street studio By Bill Franz Photo: Mike Elsass» signature rusted steel paintings hold as many as 40 layers of paint; photos: Bill Franz Mike Elsass may be Dayton's most colorful artist, and he works in what is definitely Dayton's most colorful studio.

The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American abstract expressionism.

As an emerging Abstract Expressionist painter, Melinda happily acknowledges that abstract painting was in her blood long before she studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City under Frank Roth.

I was reminded of one of my favorite abstract painters, the Californian John McLaughlin, who was born in 1898 and whose career as an artist also began when he was 50.

The Chicago painter Miyoko Ito (1918 - 1983), who was born in Berkeley and interned during World War II, is one of the latter: her strange abstract paintings, informed as much by Giorgio Morandi's sallow still lifes as by the legacy of Surrealism, come as a revelation.

As the MCA Chicago preps for its 50th birthday in 2017, Beckwith is in the beginning stages of planning a project with abstract painter Howardena Pindell, who — like the MCA, as Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 yearAs the MCA Chicago preps for its 50th birthday in 2017, Beckwith is in the beginning stages of planning a project with abstract painter Howardena Pindell, who — like the MCA, as Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 yearas Beckwith points out — has been working with art for 50 years.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

While the movement is closely associated with painting, and painters such as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and others, collagist Anne Ryan and certain sculptors in particular were also integral to abstract expressionism.

The term «abstract classicists» was coined in 1959 by curator and critic Jules Langsner to define these four southern California painters whose work he grouped in a seminal exhibition that year at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park (prior to LACMA's existence as an independent art museum).

Though Mitchell abstracted nature, gleaning only its essence, her advocacy for the natural world as a subject finds precedence in the plein air and Impressionist painters a century before.

While Blinky Palermo's reputation as one of the foremost post-war abstract painters is well established in Europe, his work is rarely seen in North America.

Although Ms. Buchanan came to art as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Bearden.

Chris Moon is an outsider artist making serious waves as a painter with abstract work that recalls the intensity of Francis Bacon in its stretching of anonymous human forms into the endless void of the canvas

She studied art in Tours, France under the direction of a former assistant to and student of Hans Hoffmann and evolved as an abstract painter.

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

David Reed is a grandmaster — no painter has contributed as much in terms of expanding the vocabulary of abstract painting and maintaining its relevance during this era of marginalization, although there are many in New York who currently enjoy greater status.

Jasper Johns (born 1930) made his major breakthrough as a painter in the mid-1950s when he started using iconic, popular images in his paintings — an explosive move at a moment when advanced painting was understood to be exclusively abstract.

A possible correction: I don't know abstract painters or surrealists but I do know photographers: Ernst's other woman «Dorothea» is likely not Dorothea Lange as stated in the first part of the article but the Dorothea Tanning mentioned in the second.

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size of the paintings.

Odili Odita, an abstract painter who grew up in Columbus, Ohio, used to regard Cleveland as «the big city,» but said that now he reflects on both its grandeur and its decline.

The monograph, designed by Takaaki Matsumoto and authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years, describing the highly unorthodox arc of his life — from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence as an exceptional abstract painter of the late 20th century.

As with many abstract painters of the 1940's and 1950's, think Rothko and his Subway Series, the path to abstraction for Richard Diebenkorn lay in taking familiar objects and views and finding new ways of interpreting them.

Under new curator Clara M. Kim, a few trends have emerged among the 15 participating galleries: firstly, reappraisals of African - American artists later in life, among them abstract painter Jack Whitten (Alexander Gray Associates); secondly, «Global Pop», a nod to Tate Modern's autumn show «The World Goes Pop» (17 September — 24 January 2016), with Brazilian and Japanese Pop artists, such as Keiichi Tanaami at the stand of Tokyo - based Nanzuka.