Sentences with phrase «best abstract painting»

It seems to me that the very best abstract painting knows what it is, and knows what it's capable of accomplishing.

Sure — to make better abstract painting and sculpture.

You forget how hard it is to make a really good abstract painting until someone does it and keeps doing it again.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for lawrence weiner, susan rothenberg, best abstract paintings of india, monroe hodder, and franz ackerman.

The museum often seems to resent good abstract painting and they resist showing it to the public - a public that I suspect really wants to see it if only they knew it existed.

Her recent paintings are aptly described by the review below: New York Times Nov 2, 2003: quoted from the review of the Parrish Art Museum show; «Just plain good abstract painting is represented by SueJin Jo's two acrylic on canvas, which seem to have picked up one of the promising threads dropped by the second - generation Abstract Expressionism.

That the artist eschewed more traditional materials in favor of wine does add another layer to the conversation, but it does not make the work any less valid as simply what it is — a very good abstract painting.

Many early arcade games I find to be quite comparable in power to the best abstract painting.

And good abstract painting is about that as well.

The close valued color shifts, luminosity, paint quality, brushwork, texture, and alloverness of drawing anticipate Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, the arrival of Morris Louis, Larry Poons and much of what was to come in the best abstract painting from the 1940's to the present day.

To make a good abstract painting is really, really, really hard.

The American painter and ceramicist is in the process of being «rediscovered,» which is great news for anyone who loves a good abstract painting.

«I was worried in the»80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality,» Stella said in conversation.

I've always felt that Joan Mitchell «s paintings from the 1950s are among the best abstract paintings of that period.

Good abstract painting can be hard to find.

This is the marvelous thing about a good abstract painting, a good abstract painting.

Despite their distinctively cyberpunk aesthetic of visual static and fragmentation in a palette dominated by blacks, pinks and techno greens, the images are powered by the same careful counterbalancing of color and form you would see in any good abstract painting of the past 50 years.

Speaking of the figurative aspect of works that largely appear abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good abstract painting, but I'm often not interested in what people talk about when they talk about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»

Looking for the best abstract painting they could find, the curators write that they gravitated toward artists whose work emphasized the practice of art - making.

There's some good abstract painting going on right now... John Pollard and Steven Walker, for example:

Blithely and bravely these pictures resurrect the thought, which died with»60s formalism, that the best abstract painting might not merely supersede but culminate its artistic ancestry.

Effie Mae Howard, an African American quiltmaker whose dynamic patchwork creations — made under the pseudonym Rosie Lee Tompkins — were critically acclaimed and compared to the best abstract painting, was found dead of unknown causes in her Richmond home on Dec. 1, according to her friend and quilt scholar Eli Leon.

The proof is in the pudding, and ALL of the best abstract sculpture and a great deal of the best abstract painting is being made by Brancaster artists today.

His career illustrates the stealth with which the best abstract painting often proceeds today.

All great or good abstract painting is aberrant.

On a smaller scale, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.'s recent gallery showing of a group of Joan Mitchell paintings from the 1950s, including some small - format canvases that have only lately come to market for the first time, also served as a reminder of the powerful punch the best abstract painting still packs, as did numerous works in Michael Rosenfeld Gallery's recent exhibition, Abstract Expressionism: Reloading the Canon.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating; ALL of today's best abstract sculpture and quite a lot of today's best abstract painting is being made by Brancaster artists.

You can say it's not a very good abstract painting, but already the reduction, the subtraction that identifies abstract painting as taking place is happening.