Sentences with phrase «course on abstraction»

They thought his course on abstraction wasn't important to their curriculum and didn't renew his contract.

Not exact matches

The Whitney is excited to announce a new after - school course that focuses on the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction.

While he would continue to focus on social inequalities over the course of his life and never fully abandon representation, Lewis became increasingly interested in exploring the expressive potential of abstraction, and became an important part of the downtown art scene of the Abstract Expressionists.

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition 8 (Komposition 8), July 1923 Oil on canvas, 140 x 201 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, NY July 9 — September 7, 2010 Russian artists Vasily Kandinsky (1866 — 1944) and Kazimir Malevich (1878 — 1935), considered two of the pioneers of abstraction, separately explored a geometric vocabulary during the course of their careers.

Patton continues his interest in the body, its relation to material, the notion of abstraction (specifically related to queerness), and the phenomenological with Come Play With (in) Me, a partial - room environment that will evolve throughout the course of the exhibition, culminating in a closing party on May 20.

His course is truly intriguing, having been repelled by the notion of the artist as some kind of heroic figure, he chose to undermine and reject abstraction to focus on an ironic, figurative practice.

Michael Stubbs, still a student on the MA course at Goldsmiths», paints knowing parodies of high modernism, using the elevated language of late twentieth - century abstraction — Robert Ryman, Jasper Johns — to make pictures that look, oddly, like overdecorated wedding cakes.

He began a course in the weaving workshop in 1927, where she was exposed to both his theories on abstraction and his paintings, which were rich in symbols and colors.

Great art, of course, can grow from contradictory ideas, and my complaints about Marshall's sermonizing on abstraction would be irrelevant if the authority of his ideas weren't magnified by the power of the works he's made.

She sends advertising vernacular on a collision course with abstraction in this immersive exploration of contemporary feminine identity.

Martin's work evolved from representational imagery to biomorphic abstraction over the course of her career before she finally settled on geometric forms as an appropriate means of conveying spiritual content.

Over the course of the 1960s, however, Thomas began to move towards abstraction, drawing on a variety of influences from painter Wassily Kandinsky to American artist and textile designer Lois Mailou Jones.

Drawing on a unique practice, Waldman immerses architectural photographs taken over the course of trips worldwide in painterly abstraction.

Third were the thematic issues — Issue 2.6 / Food and Issue 2.15 / Performance: The Body Politic — and the thematic features that unfolded over the course of the year: Bruno Fazzolari's conversation series investigating abstraction and the terms on which it is defined or negotiated in contemporary artistic practice; Elyse Mallouk's Landfill series, which triangulates with a print journal, quarterly subscription, and website, all of which archive and redistribute the materials produced by socially engaged artworks; and Zachary Royer Scholz's series about the historical and contemporary economic, political, technological, and cultural factors that shape the visual arts in the Bay Area and its possibilities for the future.

Of course, I also had trouble not imagining an imagined prerecorded lecture from Clement Greenberg on the prissiness of French postwar abstraction.