Sentences with phrase «at abstract painting»

The way I look from there to there, the way my eye moves around the frame, it's not the same as my experience of looking at abstract paintings.
So did a lot of baby boomers, staring in the mirror not at abstract painting but at their own loose abs.
If one looks closely at his abstract paintings, the viewer can recognize certain elements such as local vegetation, rocks and other organic objects.
Our presence at the abstract paintings reflect today is dominated by the binary structures of computer systems and is thus in itself abstract.
How often does one laugh out loud at an abstract painting?
In looking at abstract painting in particular, there is the possibility of being liberated from the conceptualisation that often dominates our experience, say, of figurative art — that is, if we can suspend our compulsion to form associative thoughts, as when likening the juxtaposition of forms, say, to a landscape.
On the one hand, the art world tends to look at abstract painting as being traditional, even old - fashioned, which it is; when the paint was wet on those early Kandinskys, it was practically in the Victorian era, the space age still half a century away.
Think of the feeling of dissonance we get when we look for the first time at an abstract painting: we don't know what it is we are supposed to be seeing.
Asked about the difference between abstract and figurative art, she said: «Many people would like to know how to look at abstract painting because they may be used to looking at figurative painting.
When you Look back at the abstract paintings you can start to decipher some of the cryptic messages in the work.
He even took a swipe at abstract painting as the most salable and least adventurous type of art being made:
Apart from the very occasional, idle foray into figuration — «sans le même désespoir» — I have been at the abstract paint face, so to speak, for the best part of thirty years.
What sort of detachment do we experience when we look at abstract painting today?
I admit that this is not as clear cut as a ruined castle on a distant hill top, but I think that it is a big mistake to look at abstract painting in the same way as a figurative one.
A critic once wrote that my work asked the same question of its viewer that John Q. Public would ask when looking at an abstract painting.
The result is a creative experience that viewers themselves undergo as they look at an abstract painting.
But I certainly didn't expect anyone to look at the abstract paintings and say, «Look, here are those people,» or, «That's a leg over there.»
There aren't many people who like to look at abstract painting or who want to bother with its implications.
I look at abstract painting and figurative painting with the same eyes, and when I look at a more full - on Rubens painting, taking in all of its aspects, I often think it has a relationship with a very fulsome abstract painting, like the De Kooning in this room (pictured).
You can look at any abstract painting and you could localize it.
«Someone looks at an abstract painting and they wonder what it means... well forgive me, but what does anything mean?
Reading the discussion between Harry Hay and Simon Gardam they talk about «feeling» space in abstract painting which actually resonates and could help to experience space as abstract rather than figurative when looking at abstract painting.
Not coming from a painting background, I understand paintings from an image perspective, and it was always much harder for me to look at an abstract painting and decipher whether it was successful or not.
Yet when you look at an abstract painting, this sort of information is fundamentally irrelevant.
Barnett Newman had very specific opinions about how viewers should look at his abstract paintings.
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