Sentences with phrase «as nonrepresentational»

Without the title, the painting would be interpreted as nonrepresentational gestural abstraction.

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At the time, I imagined that our nonrepresentational, process - or - performance - based, and conceptual art would save Chicago from a group of artists whom I now love, the figurative surrealists — Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, Gladys Nilsson, and Jeff Koons's teacher Ed Paschke — known as Chicago Imagists.

As you get farther away from New York, the more they are like abstract expressionism, the more abstract they are, the more nonrepresentational they are.

Perhaps that's why, as Bob Nickas points out in his new book Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (Phaidon Press; $ 75), «so many contemporary artists who paint nonrepresentational pictures reject the notion that their work is in fact abstract.»

While it's true that every artist expresses their own presence as well as the presence of the» subject» no matter what the medium or genre, the sort of rupture that existed between representational (mimetic) and nonrepresentational (gesture or phenomonological) in Carone's generation was so abrupt that it seems a good way of identifying the issues.

A mysticism of the senses is indeed brought forth in these paintings by Jenkins, who uses the nonrepresentational to demonstrate the priority of the metaphysical — in life, as well as art.

Il Lee works serve as primers on nonrepresentational form, active mark making and a conceptual yet hands - on approach to contemporary drawing.

The pieces often include obscure text as well - a technique that adds additional texture, as well as a human element to the otherwise nonrepresentational paintings.

In Linear Abstraction, the SCAD Museum of Art negotiates the status of nonrepresentational work as it exists in the 21st century and includes work in various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formats.

In Mitchell's case, metonymy involves an empathetic response to nature that led her to use memories of taking her dog to a swimming hole as the impetus for the nonrepresentational, but allusive and expressionistic George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold (1957; Albright - Knox Art Gallery).

As the art in this exhibition demonstrates the «new art» could be abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective, and / or nonrepresentational.

She'd been creating process - oriented, abstract paintings, and the diagrams of seismic events in the book struck her as its own nonrepresentational language.

As in all nonrepresentational art, even though one can never quite tell what exactly is being portrayed, the fact that one is neither here nor there is all the more intriguing.

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).

Masullo cites Oct. 27, 1977, as a benchmark in his biography; a printmaking instructor explained the concept of negative and positive space, opening up the idea of nonrepresentational art.

An example is her most - recognized work, Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (1918), which, as the title indicates, is nonrepresentational.