Sentences with phrase «classic modern abstraction»

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Included in the massive show, which goes to London's Tate Modern after MoMA, are abstractions like the ghostly, white - streaked Untitled (2007), as well as the classic 1980s piece Watchtower with Geese (1988), with its totalitarian subject matter and its use of interlocking color and patterns on fabric — one of Polke's many experiments with materials other than plain old oil on canvas.

Picking up the theme of appropriation from a different angle, the artist Melissa Gordon has in recent years been blowing up examples of textbook Modern art history onto canvases that explore the nooks and crannies of classic geometric abstraction.

Operating between abstraction and figuration, Minter wrestles with classic modern painting themes, and Impressionism — from Edgar Degas's awkward bathers, Georges Seurat's pointillist nudes, or Pierre Bonnard's macabre bathing nudes.

Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286