Sentences with phrase «black abstraction comes»

A renewed interest these days in older artists and black abstraction comes as a welcome relief.

Not exact matches

The inspiration to use the typographic — a ready - made form — may have come from Nicholas Krushenick's graphic abstractions inspired by Matisse's cut - outs, Japanese woodcuts and comics; Jasper Johns» «alphabets» and «numerals,» which were shown in his groundbreaking debut solo show at Leo Castelli in 1958; and Willem de Kooning's black - and - white paintings «Orestes» and «Zurich» (both 1947).

Just this last year saw «Women in Abstraction» at MoMA and «Black Radical Women» from the past in Brooklyn, with Latin American «Radical Women» coming up.

Yet it also recalls the emphasis on line, form, light, and darkness in the black - and - white photographic abstractions of Aaron Siskind (1903 — 1991) and Harry Callahan (1912 — 1999), who Rauschenberg would come to know — and, in Siskind's case, befriend — when they taught at Black Mountain during summer black - and - white photographic abstractions of Aaron Siskind (1903 — 1991) and Harry Callahan (1912 — 1999), who Rauschenberg would come to know — and, in Siskind's case, befriend — when they taught at Black Mountain during summer Black Mountain during summer 1951.

The artists represented in the exhibition come from all over the U.S., with rooms devoted to groups such as AfriCOBRA, based in Chicago in the late 1960s, or East Coast Abstraction, which challenged the idea that art had to directly represent Black communities, prompting debate about Black aesthetics.

It also came just as the organizer of Radical Presence, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, was preparing to open the first installment of Black in the Abstract, a two - part exploration of abstract painting by black artists, as part of CAMH's six - exhibition, two - installment abstraction extravaganza, Outside the LBlack in the Abstract, a two - part exploration of abstract painting by black artists, as part of CAMH's six - exhibition, two - installment abstraction extravaganza, Outside the Lblack artists, as part of CAMH's six - exhibition, two - installment abstraction extravaganza, Outside the Lines.

These examples pre-date the term hardedge abstraction by Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, in 1959 but show an obvious significance to the cannon of art history to come as well as cementing her use of found materials painted black in her works to come.

It's a funny term to use, given the show she eventually came up with: «Blackness in Abstraction,» which assembles a group of monochromatic black works, created from the 1940s through the present, by artists ranging from Robert Irwin to Carrie Mae Weems to Oscar Murillo.