The torn surfaces of works like «I'm Sorry I Made You Cry» and the large - scale «Hardcore Rose» suggest the end result of an epic struggle with the very
concept of abstract painting itself.
For me,
the concept of abstract painting is still the primary visual challenge of our time.
Inspired by Roland Barthes» book «Writing Degree Zero», curator Carlos Basualdo presented artists who were reducing their artworks through radical means, focusing on pictorial practices that fitted neither
the concept of abstract paintings nor that of the ready - made.
Not exact matches
By showcasing current contemporary
painting and sculpture, the exhibition explores both postmodern and modern
concepts through the re-evaluation
of historical work from varying mediums, styles and content by recalling
abstract expressionism and minimalism.
In this fun and fast - paced lesson, students will consider the
concept and process
of abstraction, collaboratively creating a line drawing that will become an
abstract painting.
She now works across media —
painting, sculpture and sound installation — but in all its forms, her art has always striven to embody
abstract concepts of spirituality and sensuality.
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abstract concepts,
abstract painting, abstraction, art, art in the workplace, Callum Ines, Gillian Ayres, Ian Davenport, Institute
of Mathematics, mathematics, University
of Warwick
In his opinion, the revived
concept of abstract art is a combination
of formalist methods in
painting and the zombielike return
of the discarded aesthetics
of Clement Greenberg, art critic responsible for the promotion
of the American
abstract expressionist movement.
Today, nearly two centuries since Turner's visits to Margate, see first - hand how his dynamic
concept of landscape, unconventional use
of colour and near
abstract watercolours and
paintings secured his place as the artist
of the elements and the founder
of modern landscape
painting.
His approach to exploring psychological
concepts is highly
abstracted and every
painting begins with metaphors relating to architecture — rooms, staircases, hallways: «These spaces are stretched and contorted, almost to the point
of becoming paradox illusions, to twist spaces that should be readily familiar into places that are fragmented and uncertain.»
The Syrian artist's colorful
paintings and drawings highlight arabesque
concepts and are deeply influenced by the
abstract school
of Arab art.
Whilst the final
painting resembles a formalist
abstract construct, the choice
of colour,
paint and material used, directly reflects the psychological
concept of the subject.
While this term is often associated with American
painting, specifically
Abstract Expressionism and Color Field
painting, Declaring Space addresses this
concept from an international viewpoint, blurring national labels for a set
of spatial themes that were evoked in
abstract art in the latter half
of the twentieth century, where the boundaries
of traditional pictorial space were crossed and a new realm
of abstract theater was engaged.
It's an
abstract concept she describes as «part
of the essence
of a
painting, or a sculpture» that can be sensed in the hushed atmosphere
of gallery or museum.
Wassily Kandinsky was the creator
of the first modern
abstract paintings by following the
concepts of nonfigurative art and notions
of connection between art, music and spiritual forces.
With many modern artists, and certainly with the first
abstract artists, the figure / ground
concept has become an important visual means for developing a personal visual language, for instance in Matisse's
paintings on dance and the large collages from the last years
of his life.
I am an
abstract artist that
paints on very large canvases and I love the tag line and
concept of: «Let my Loft ArtWork dress your naked wall.»
Wang's vivid yellow «Untitled» and vibrant «Coffin»
paintings both serve to record the
abstract concept of time through the application
of paint, with layers added over a period
of several weeks.
A: What is it about combining the mediums
of painting and digital photography that excites you, and why do you think they work so well together when forming
abstract images and
concepts?
Reflecting on the influence that Concrete art's appearance and
concepts had on later manifestations
of abstract art, including Op - art and Hard - Edge
painting, Saul Sánchez utilizes the square, repeatedly, as a reference to the historical traditions he is addressing.
For forty years Len Bellinger's work has been committed to the exploration
of abstract / non-representational
painting and the ambiguous space inherent in the
concept of «abstraction,» from early icon - shaped minimalist panels trimmed with gold leaf as a P.S. 1 studio resident in the late» 70's to thickly manipulated
paintings rich with byzantine color and an underlying architectonic -LSB-...]
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's figurative and
abstract paintings, and etchings construct a modern /» primitive» encounter, that is as much a means
of inscribing a new aesthetic
concept of form and space, as it is an inquiry into colonial imperialism.
Curated by Richard Witter, this show focuses on color as content in
abstract painting, and brings together thirty - three painters in a stunning array
of discerning
concept and sensuous chroma....
The first
of these is Albert Oehlen's specific approach to
abstract painting, which is evident in the works chosen for the exhibition and is also reflected in the artist's often - quoted
concept of «post-non-figurative»
painting.
The
paintings provide a mirror
of the world
of destruction and creation we are all a part
of; as formal inventions they evidence the short distinctions between the physical and the
abstract world
of phenomena — the difference, being merely language and
concept.
It was thus that his
concepts helped to develop a new and distinctive language
of abstract painting in America.
If I try to get rid
of that boaty bit, then to a certain extent I have already been hijacked by figurative thinking (in particular, my
concept of what an
abstract painting should look like) and the abstractness
of my work has already been compromised.
Their work has a directness that short circuits
concept and fashion, and encourages an engagement with the materiality
of the work and the felt experience
of it; they are John Eaves RWA, from Bath; Frank Bowling RA, OBE, who works in London and New York; Patrick Jones, based in the Exmouth area, and John Bunker, from London Curated by Nick Moore, Bristol - based painter, musician and writer, the title
of the exhibition derives from associations such as deep, profound, personal, direct, close; all words one could use to describe the qualities
of these small
abstract paintings.
Yet they are
abstract paintings, not representing anything in particular but a
concept — the seductive power
of industrial design and how it feeds human desire and emotion, deluding us into thinking we really need the newest high - tech consumer gadget or product.