Sentences with phrase «degree of abstraction»

Four People is among the finest of these early photo - based paintings, and because of its high degree of abstraction it uncannily anticipates the reductive portraits he produced later in the decade.
SC No, there are several artists around whose work has a degree of abstraction and yet they still make use of images that are very clearly recognizable as images.
Following the certain degree of the abstraction within the post-impressionist artworks, Piet Mondrian was interested in geometrical abstraction and the use of primary colors — red, yellow and blue and its complex relations to geometric shapes and lines.
So any degree of abstraction I use, I know exactly how and why, where I think most artists stumble on it in a hit - and - miss, rough - and - ready, empirical way, and ultimately choose their stand.
In this way, although the paintings are fully representational, the incidental surface qualities introduce a degree of abstraction and visual ambiguity.
On a travelling scholarship in 1937, he chose to study with Fernand Leger, described by Gear as «a keystone for me, seldom abstract, rather a degree of abstraction».
Her emotional viewfinder and her bold use of colour, stroke and texture allow us to see, somewhat clearly, through a degree of abstraction.
The result is an exhibition where variety in scale, medium, and degree of abstraction is balanced by the strong continuity among all the works — a reliance on automatism, a juxtaposition of unexpected elements and conflicting temporalities, and the presence of organic forms — bringing to light the profound impact surrealism had on pre - and post-war American artists.
His work is often characterized by diverse compositions of color areas as well as a certain degree of abstraction.
Avery retained color as the primary vehicle of feeling and expression, but achieved a greater degree of abstraction by increasing the parity between recognizable forms and abstract shapes.»
«Outliers» opens with a two - walled area featuring four artists, carefully, and promisingly, positioning together taught and self - taught artworks of relatively recent vintage united by color, found materials and a degree of abstraction.
Mark Skilton: What we are talking about is the degree of abstraction which is in the sculpture.
Thanks to the high degree of abstraction of AnNa, researchers have been able to conduct several studies of both the human skeleton and of the rest of terrestrial vertebrates, especially as regards the development and evolution of the skull.
It takes a high degree of sophistication about their culture, and it also takes a high degree of abstraction to be able to convey it.»
Hopewell acknowledges that some degree of abstraction is inevitable in any program of graduate professional training, but he remains convinced that «we have done it to such an extent in most of theological education that we tend to forget about the local church.»
Premack suggests that the degree of abstraction can be measured by «transfer,» a similar response to conditions other than those in which the organism was trained (OAHC 424).
Of course, ultimately, the plausibility of any speculations in this regard depends upon the degree of correlation considered significant, and the degree of abstraction allowed in the analysis.
With their varying degrees of abstraction and transformative properties, these works take the viewer on a surprising and dizzying ride.
1995 Choice Morsels from the Collection of the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France Velge Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels Works on Paper, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC Transatlantic, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Out Of Use 95: Caravanserraglio Arte Contemporanea, Pescara, Italy Pièces — Meublés, Espace Gran Dia / Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris (curated by Robert Nickas) Komix, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York Peter Halley and Ettore Sottsass, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Pace Prints, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Exhibition in Honor of the 30th Anniversary of the Israel Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Altered States, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Pittura Immedia, Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Klagenfurt, Austria (catalogue) It's Only Rock and Roll, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalogue) Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (catalogue) Compensation, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe Degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX (catalogue); travelled to Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalogue) Mesótica Painting, America non-representativa, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica (catalogue) Open Your Heart, AIDS Resource Center's Seventh Annual Valentine Auction, Christinerose Gallery, New York Reinventing the Emblem, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue) Private Passions, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue)
In this exhibition she explores the role of feeling, emotion and subjectivity in how we experience objects, images, or situations, despite degrees of abstraction or transmutation.
Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce was the first exhibition to bring together the works of these four American painters that developed vocabularies with varying degrees of abstraction, illumination, and spirituality in their paintings.
Working from photographs, some sent by friends and acquaintances from around the world, Tal R is on the outside too: shut out by closed doors and frosted windows, which he paints with varying degrees of abstraction in dazzlingly seductive hues.
They are unified by the shared motif of the body, albeit in varying degrees of abstraction.
Crown Point Press Gallery «Degrees of Abstraction
The model is then reproduced and reincarnated in different forms to varying degrees of abstraction.
Degrees of abstraction are represented, from the hidden traces of landscape scenes to full non-image works that focus attention on the materials from which they are made.
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe.
«Degrees of Abstraction» presents fifteen artists who explore the visual language of abstraction and features six new color etchings by New York artist Mary Heilmann.
More recently, aspects of contemporary geopolitics including imbalances of wealth and the displacement of populations are alluded to with various degrees of abstraction and metaphor.

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For, the activity of lifting out an eternal object and feeling it as an eternal object, i.e., as a pure possibility in abstraction from all physical realizations, is a matter of degree.
Whitehead experiments for a while with deliberations about the various theories of the world with regard to the degree to which they abstract from the world, and about adjusting a sequence of more or less abstract perspectives on the world, oriented at the level of abstraction attainable in the mathematized natural sciences.
The goal of this work is to characterize the role of dendrites in learning and memory processes so as to formulate a unifying theory regarding their contribution in memory formation across brain regions and abstraction levels.This will be achieved via the development of computational models that start at the single cell level and expand to the microcircuit and the network level, while varying in their degree of biophysical detail.
Painted from pre-existing imagery, they often appear slightly out of focus and sparsely coloured, like third - degree abstractions from reality.
Bart Exposito's paintings and drawings have a foundation in abstraction, but almost always incorporate some degree of recognizable imagery to create a visual vocabulary based in typography, architecture, and mid-century design.
The work moves through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object - based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Many of the artists were influenced in some degree by the «allover» abstraction of the 1970s, particularly the paintings of the Americans Jules Olitski and Larry Poons.
Exploring form, color and line, abstraction enjoys a degree of independence from what we -LSB-...]
The fact he maintained a commitment to the figurative tradition to some degree [1] makes this painter truly stand out from the rest of his famous contemporaries who opted for the pure abstraction style.
[3] While he believed that all art was abstract to some degree, he preferred to call his paintings «presences» and «implosions of color» rather than abstractions.
It would be to a degree perverse to look at Thiebaud's famous paintings of cakes, pies and ice cream cones as abstractions, but it is their abstract quality that raises them above the acres of canvases painted by contemporary realists who get so caught up in depicting detail that they lose all compositional structure.
Although many of the sketches in this volume are to some degree representational, Mitchell's early experimentation with cubist abstraction is also present.
This re-assertion of social relevance for abstraction, and even the monochrome, hadn't been emphasized to such a degree since Malevich and Rodchenko.
Group Exhibitions 2018 Stretch / Pulled / Inked, Impact Arts, as part of the Glasgow International, Glasgow (upcoming) Glasshouse, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow (upcoming) 2017 Amazing Perplexity, Curated by Nathalie Hoyos, Rainald Schumacher and Alevtina Kakhidze, Residents Group Exhibition of FACE — Artist Residence Program in Kiev 2016 Factually Real Illusions, curated by Lorna McDowell, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of Art, London Semi-Gloss, Semi-Permeable, Glasgow International Festival 2015 International Women's Contemporary Art Forum — A Crossing Section of Art, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow Abstraction from Architecture, Edinburgh Print Studio Hold, Sway, Generator Projects, Dundee 2013 Editionshow, Chert, Berlin You're my wife now, Infernoesque project space, Berlin Every Day, GoMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2012 Tintenfisch, CNEAI =, Paris, organized by Chert & Motto in the frame of Berlin - Paris exchange 2011 Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Times Square Gallery of Hunter College, City University of New York Annuale, Edinburgh 2010 Drinnen & Draussen, Chert, Berlin A man, some chickens and one corner, with Petrit Halilaj and Heike Kabisch, Berlin — Paris exchange, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, with Chert, Berlin 2009 Spacioux, curated by Michela Arfiero, Paola Gallio, Daniela Lotta, Lambretto Art Project, Milan Motto & Chert & Roses, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius 2008 You can't hide your love forever, LH Gallery, Paris And So It Goes, Art news Projects, Berlin MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow Flock, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 MFA Interim show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Devil Blue Dress, The Factory, Impact Arts, Glasgow 2005 Tercet, Intermedia, King Street, Glasgow 2004 Pieces, The Factory, Impact Arts, Glasgow
Unlike the strict geometries found in the butterfly works, Grotjahn's face paintings appear more free and loose, exhibiting a raw energy and a greater degree of back - and - forth between abstraction and figuration.
As Thomas reorganizes the interior space surrounding the female figure, she draws inspiration from late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century artists such as Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, and Romare Bearden — all of whom used abstraction, to one degree or another, in their representations of the world.
After a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art, he did a painting degree at St Martin's, where he reacted against the prevailing lyrical abstraction, thinking of himself as a Pop Art - inspired urban narrative artist.
His canvases, in turn, become third - degree abstractions from reality and often appear slightly out - of - focus, as if covered by a thin veil or painted from a failing memory.
Curiously, the same degree of fragmentation was occurring in Europe: the main movement Art Informel, which corresponded to Abstract Expressionism, comprised numerous different styles and tendencies, such as Tachisme, Art Non Figuratif, Abstraction Lyrique, and others.
This once - in - a lifetime survey of one of art history's greatest radicals traces his evolution towards abstraction's degree zero — the iconic Black Square — and beyond, including his famed costumes for the modernist opera, Victory Over The Sun.
The degree to which these compositions represent actual spaces varies in their degrees of specificity and abstraction.
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