Sentences with phrase «by pure abstraction»

Such ideas could not be expressed by pure abstraction alone.

During decades overshadowed by pure abstraction, Norman focused on carefully detailed representational imagery and strong social messages.

During decades overshadowed by pure abstraction, he focused on carefully detailed representational imagery and strong social messages.

Not exact matches

The book is divided into sections by topic: neo-expressionism, pure abstraction, landscape art, the figure, post-feminism, and more, and the 500 + images are by artists of every background.

In this way, abstraction is not pure, but informed by personal and societal concerns.

However, beginning with Wassily Kandinsky's pioneering work in pure abstraction and his theorizing about «The Spiritual in Art,» many of the most spiritually ambitious visual artists of the modern age have found that their ambitions are best served by the stripped down, elemental language of abstraction.

Landscape by its very nature is more apt to incite thoughts of pure abstraction, but Untitled clearly brings the figure to the fore.

She is one of the greatest painters ever — by way of Van Gogh, Cézanne, and on into pure abstraction.

1995 Choice Morsels from the Collection of the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France Velge Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels Works on Paper, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC Transatlantic, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Out Of Use 95: Caravanserraglio Arte Contemporanea, Pescara, Italy Pièces — Meublés, Espace Gran Dia / Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris (curated by Robert Nickas) Komix, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York Peter Halley and Ettore Sottsass, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Pace Prints, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Exhibition in Honor of the 30th Anniversary of the Israel Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Altered States, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Pittura Immedia, Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Klagenfurt, Austria (catalogue) It's Only Rock and Roll, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalogue) Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (catalogue) Compensation, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe Degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX (catalogue); travelled to Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalogue) Mesótica Painting, America non-representativa, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica (catalogue) Open Your Heart, AIDS Resource Center's Seventh Annual Valentine Auction, Christinerose Gallery, New York Reinventing the Emblem, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue) Private Passions, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue)

Her text was widely read by young artists after its publication in 1962, and many were impressed by the Russian artists» ability to express revolutionary ideas through pure abstraction.

In the 20th century, with the advent of pure abstraction, the pendulum swing became much more pronounced: Ab - Ex was followed by Pop followed by Neo-Expressionism followed by the «90s figuration boom with John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Lisa Yuskavage, et al..

After flourishing for some 20 years, by the 1950s the cerebral concerns of this art — its exploration of pure form and universal principles — were being eclipsed by the more expressive gestural abstraction coming out of the New York School and the School of Paris.

But, by including a series of enigmatic, variously discernable words, including «WINE,» «CONCERNS,» and «weeps,» Twombly moves beyond the pure abstraction of the Abstract Expressionists to embrace the communicative possibilities of poetic allusion.

Unlike the pure abstraction of the West, these abstract forms are backed by a strong sense of life and temporality.

Photorealism made him famous, but there are also pure abstractions, and Whitfield has found an obscure collection of these from the early»60s that are inspired both by Abstract Expressionism and, she argues, by Morley's fellow Briton J.M.W. Turner.

Inscape — the Inner Nature of Things contrasts twelve artists» diverse approaches to expressing emotion through abstraction, ranging from basic forms combined with loose, expressive lines in paintings by Louisa Chase, Mary Heilmann, and Perle Fine; to pure abstract gesture that governs the work of Friedel Dzubas, John Ferren, Hans Hofmann, Raymond Parker, and Esteban Vicente.

Initiated by Sol LeWitt's «structures» and Dan Flavin's radically simple and transformative light installations, these artists embraced such things as simple structures, monochrome abstraction, elementary geometry, and the straight line as part of a new and incisive language of pure form.

These paintings are pure abstractions, yet as the title suggests, Fitzgerald's art is inspired and informed by nature.

«Liminal Squared» by Julie Mehretu at the Marian Goodman Gallery In «Liminal Squared,» Julie Mehretu's latest show at the Marian Goodman Gallery on W 57 Street, she presents a small number of huge, nonrepresentational paintings that blur the lines between landscape, architectural drawing, and pure abstraction.

In «Brainwaves and Archetypes, The Sculpture of Strong - Cuevas,» Donald Kuspit posits Stong - Cuevas» sculptures as «cosmically open and epic in scale or hermetically enclosed and intimate in scale, whether constructions or cast in bronze, whether involving single or multiple heads, fuse the modernist traditions of primitivist expression and pure abstraction, confirming their originality by reconciling the opposites.

These depictions, considered his early work, are marked by an expressive figurative style, somewhere between representation and pure abstraction.

This is reinforced by applying different pictorial styles as subjective approaches to different sources; an almost pure abstraction that creates a visual break and opens up the coherence of the body of work, while simultaneously avoiding the trap of making a literal illustration of the novel.

In recent years, Ruff has continued to explore the creative potential of digital media, producing pure photographic abstractions by manipulating found digital images, or creating intricate compositions through the use of computer modeling programs.

The production that Mohamedi issued after her sojourn among Asia's greatest mosques in the 1960s, as we see above, is not pure abstraction, not rational to the extent it would become by the 1970s.

The overlaid specters also explicitly reject and ridicule the notion put forth by many abstractionists that painting is pure and unto itself: by seamlessly pairing these cartoonish figures with copycat abstractions, McKinniss presents the painter as an (always) image - ridden image - maker.

It was a shocking turn from pure abstraction by one of its most respected practitioners.

Paintings by the early Australian modernist Roy De Maistre, for example, share a space with a series of pieces by the young Dutch artist Riet Wijnen, whose interest in «the impossibility» of pure abstraction has led her to create a fictional dialogue between Grace Crowley (also a pioneering early Australian modernist), and the British constructivist Marlow Moss.

In Europe, he mastered a type of watercolor where he achieved an abstract ambience, almost a pure abstraction with color that ranges from transparency to translucency, accompanied by strong opacities, and linear elements, always with a sense of freedom, which became one of his trademarks.

In a sense - by containing absolutely no reference to, or association with, the natural world - it is the purest form of abstraction.

Coined by Russian painter Kazimir Malevich in 1915, Suprematism declared a break with traditional modes of representation, embracing geometric abstraction and aiming to revolutionize artistic practice with an autonomous visual language of «pure artistic feeling.»

1997 Theories of the Decorative: Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg, Scotland; traveled to Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA (curated by Paul Nesbitt and David Moos) Primarily Paint, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA Pintura, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain; traveled to Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, USA (curated by Lilly Wei) Intimate Universe (Revisited): Seventy American Painters, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Michael Walls) Schilderijen: Reinoud Van Vaught, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Jonathan Lasker, Gallerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands Wetterleuchten, Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle - sur - Loup, France (curated by Günter Umberg) Critiques Of Pure Abstraction, Independent Curators, Inc., New York, USA (curated by Mark Rosenthal)(traveled) Stepping Up, Andrew Mummery, London, England Relations Between Contemporary Architecture and Painting: Greg Lynn, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Jesse Reiser / Nanako Umemoto, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA Installations / Projects, Institute for Art and Urban Resources / P.

By doggedly ploughing his own furrow, Hartung in a sense refused to choose between two simplistic visions of abstract art: on one side, eruptive and chaotic painting, based on pure intuition, combined with the expressionist, gestural, lyrical, informal and Tachiste tendencies of post-war painting; and, on the other, control, precision and systems, whose notions belong more to the realm of Geometric Abstraction.

These works on paper, informed by the planes and angles of architectural forms, represent a shift in Mang» ong» o's practice from his early figurative work to pure abstraction.

Explorations of pure abstraction abound in the exhibition, including monumental masterworks by Brice Marden, Sigmar Polke, and Cy Twombly that find their roots in Abstract Expressionism.

Heron's deepest influences were Braque, Matisse and Bonnard and he was connected first of all to the pure abstraction of European lineage, represented by Naum Gabo and Pierre Soulages.

In the early 60's, Perehudoff's direction turned to pure abstraction and he attended a variety of Emma Lake Artists» Workshops including those led by New York critic, Clement Greenberg and artist Kenneth Noland.

Daring new paintings by Jim Dine, featuring large - scale works that verge on pure abstraction, with palettes that range from vivid to grisaille.

McLaughlin confronts the Western preoccupation with the image by isolating and amplifying perception and space into pure abstractions with a profound connection to nature.

Several of the works in the exhibition, by artists as diverse as Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Romare Bearden, and Jane Wilson, approach non-referential, pure abstraction.