Not exact matches
Then, one
day, I was thinking
about abstract painting again... Then, suddenly, I abandoned the figure altogether.»
The first solo show in an Italian museum of Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of
about forty
paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most important
abstract painter in contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present
day to the public.
When I started making
abstract paintings I thought
about how much our attention is drawn away from us with the speed of information these
days.
Halley achieved notable fame in the 1980s with his
Day - Glo geometric
paintings that challenged previous assumptions
about abstract art through his insistence that geometry is always tied to social realities.
His recent
paintings too - weird pixilated
abstracted canvases - are very typical of what
painting is doing these
days in that it is not so much
about anything other than the language - it does not even matter how it is arranged, it is almost symbolic.
About Blog On March 31st 2005, Peter Jacobs created a 9 by 12 inch collage using that
day's local newspaper, and have continued that process without interruption every
day since.They are
paintings with paper, theatrical stages of
abstracted color and rhythms, layers that imbue surreal narratives, symbolism hidden in humor, the irony of culture, and pure visual perception.