Sentences with phrase «at abstract painting because»

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.

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Did he paint it because he knew he'd be showing in London at the same time as the abstract expressionists in the Royal Academy?

It was a Futura 2000 style scrape, Because we had the «Celluloid» covers, The Phase2, The Futura, there were those four records and it's Futura standing by one of his paintings with a scrape on it and we used to look at it and wonder how he'd done that, so I tried it... Just layered the paint down, scraped it and that was the first real abstract painting that I had done.

I believe that it is true, however I would look at it from a different standpoint from Canaday and as a matter of fact that had been noted, the observation that 10th Street lacked a vitality had been noted several years before, you know, by a great number of people, including Clem Greenberg, I think in print he even coined the term Tenth Street Painting as a deneogatory term which would be that it was kind of old hat, because Clem Greenberg's stand of course is that abstract expressionism really lost it's pertinence after the early fifties.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

Martin told the Tate that his painting was published there because «it was the purest expression of abstract art I had arrived at».

Ten years later I saw them at Dia and I was just floored because I had never seen abstract paintings that spoke so directly to the physical, but also, I understood how they have this mystical idealism of the physical that I never really identified with Abstract Expressionism — that transformed me into an abstract painter.

Kelly's paintings go to the heart of abstract art's challenge precisely because they are, in plain fact, nice to look at.

Aside from a handful of super-successful stars or careerist up - and - comers, most abstract painters, if their work is at all difficult, are not painting because that's where the money is, but, rather, because they love the process and challenge of painting.

The resonant exhibition at CANADA is important not just because it shines a light on the subliminal influence the S / S movement has had on our contemporary aesthetic, but also because it reinforces the notion that abstract painting can be rooted in politics.

Perhaps because of his training at the New York School of Art with Robert Henri (1869 - 1929), leader of the Ashcan School, Hopper - unlike other modern artists of his generation - did not feel any need to emphasize the abstract qualities of his paintings to make them look modern.