Sentences with phrase «away figurative art»

They allow Hepworth and other British artists like Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Ben Nicholson and Jacob Epstein to be seen in the context of European modernism — as pioneers of the abstraction that was sweeping away figurative art.

In those days, people would have seen gestural abstract painting or color field painting as sweeping away figurative art.

Not exact matches

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

These works marked his rejection of making figurative art with clear references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.

Even so, he's moved away from the figurative photographic work that brought him art world renown in the wake of the Studio Museum in Harlem's pivotal 2001 group show «Freestyle.»

Russeth reports that Baer spoke on her decision to leave the New York art world, her lesser known (in America) figurative paintings, her experience as a female artist, and her move away from minimal abstraction.

His daughter Gabrielle says in a 2014 interview that while he «came out to Berkeley just as Pop and Conceptual Art were ascending on the East Coast,» Selz turned away from these popular movements and instead «identified with the irreverence of styles like Funk art,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.&raqArt were ascending on the East Coast,» Selz turned away from these popular movements and instead «identified with the irreverence of styles like Funk art,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.&raqart,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.»

The encounter had its influence on Caro's practice, turning him away from the figurative style that had characterized his art at that time and toward the kinds of geometric forms he had seen in Noland's work.

After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and sculptor David Smith, he moved away from figurative art entirely.

But in the years since, the Modern, along with the rest of the art world, has tilted away from abstract painting and toward broader, socially encompassing forms like figurative painting, video and particularly photography.

Turning away from figurative work, he joined two painted panels in «Window, Museum of Modern Art, Paris.»

Grosse's method has been compared to street art and graffiti, coating the objects and surfaces in her path with bright color, while moving away from the often figurative approach of traditional street art.

In abstract art (if not in figurative art too), the content denotes what you get out of the whole thing, what you might see and feel at the time, and / or take away from the experience; what it «means», if you like.