Sentences with phrase «celebrated as an abstract painter»

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Through the Mint Museum's collection you can trace the evolution of this genre from the work of the Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford, who focused on the natural beauty of our country's topography, through the rise of Impressionism: a movement whose artists celebrated a more abstract, subjective view of their surroundings.

Famous authors, such as the above - mentioned painter Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis, and Helen Frankenthaler used it to produce flowing, most often abstract paintings and compositions which celebrated pure color, or the pure quality of the canvas surface as was the case during the Post-Painterly Abstraction movement.

One of Britain's most respected and best - loved painters, Gillian Ayres is celebrated as one of the pioneering English abstract artists and, as well as the vibrant, heavily worked canvases for which she is best known, she is also a dedicated printmaker.

Works on view will celebrate seminal artists such as Ana Mendieta and Lygia Pape while highlighting lesser - known artists such as Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, Argentine mixed - media artist Margarita Paksa and Cuban - born abstract painter Zilia Sánchez.

It's an unusual outing, to say the least, for the world's most celebrated living painter, because the works aren't paintings per se but rather painting-esque things: what he did was take a digital image of a single one of his 1990 abstract canvases and then run it through a mathematical process to isolate its chromatic DNA as a series of eye - boggling, colored «STRIPS.»