«Just relax and let go,» suggests Brice Marden to people who experience difficulty when confronted
by nonrepresentational art.
Not exact matches
Magnetic Fields aims to change this perspective
by focusing on
nonrepresentational work
by women artists >> more Kemper Museum of Contemporary
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Inspired
by natural sciences, primitive
arts, Eastern philosophies and ancient rituals, he synthesized diverse influences into an expressive,
nonrepresentational language emphasizing subtle graduations of color and form.
A mysticism of the senses is indeed brought forth in these paintings
by Jenkins, who uses the
nonrepresentational to demonstrate the priority of the metaphysical — in life, as well as
art.
In post-World War II America, however, the primacy of abstract
art was clearly acknowledged, and
by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's
nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen years.