Sentences with phrase «assertion of abstract expressionism»

There was something about the self assertion of abstract expressionism that personally always put me off, because at that time my focus was as much in the opposite direction as it could be.

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«By fusing the content of conception, birth, or being with the assertion of the self through artistic gesture, the energy sign of existence in abstract expressionism, Alfonso created a sphere of meanings.

Collapsing History For my generation, the three great movements of post-war painting — abstract expressionism, minimalism and pop — are not so much antithetical to each other (i.e., movement / counter-movement, assertion / repudiation) as they are part of a larger ongoing redefinition of the form of painting itself.

If abstract expressionism was defined by a reaction against Europe, an assertion of nationalist values, a way of decentring the way in which one worked by putting the painting on the floor, and minimalism is defined by the understanding of the three dimensional object, and fabrication and industrial methods, what happens when a painting comes after abstract expressionism but before minimalism?