Sentences with phrase «became abstractionists»

What happened right after the Ninth Street Show was that some of the artists became Abstractionists.

I heard Rebecca Morris speak earlier this year in Chicago, and was struck by how she discussed becoming an abstractionist at a time when both abstraction and painting were under attack.

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In fact the Lyrical Abstractionists became invisible, unmentionable and untouchable, and no one spoke out.

Shaw quickly became an integral member of the budding American abstractionists and a vocal advocate for the recognition of American abstraction.

It is guided by large, geometric structures — planar outlines that present variations on the rectilinear shape of the canvas; and sometimes these outlines multiply, acquiring a luminous near - solidity, as if Tworkov were about to become a geometric abstractionist.

In Newsom's 2015 catalog of work from the past 10 years to the present exhibition, critic Barry Schwabsky writes in his essay, «what keeps «strong painting» from becoming merely muscle bound — is Newsom's secret weapon: the discipline that comes from considering himself, not a painter of images, but rather an abstractionist... to appreciate his paintings is... to engage with their surfaces of purely sensual incident.»

On a leave of absence during 1956 — 57, he spent time in New York City, where he became friends with Elaine and Willem de Kooning [1] and Franz Kline, and was much influenced by these abstractionists as well as by proto - pop artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

He would go on to become one of the most important geometric abstractionists of the mid-20th century.

This approach to design became a hallmark of Minimalism, important because it was a departure from the more relational approach of European abstractionists such as Mondrian.

During this period he became aware of the group called de Stijl, whose membership included Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, two of the most influential abstractionists of the early twentieth century.

The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world.

In Paris he became a confirmed abstractionist; in his work illusionistic space in figurative paintings yielded to uptilted planes and increasingly to a Cubist fracturing of the picture plane.