Sentences with phrase «described as an abstract painter»

It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.

I explore things formally and I even describe myself as an abstract painter.

Martin is sometimes described as an abstract painter, and he has written insightfully and humorously about abstraction here in the Brooklyn Rail, in particular «Everything is Finished Nothing is Dead: An Article About Abstract Painting.»

Not exact matches

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.

Painter Arshile Gorky, who committed suicide in 1947, is described as the last of the surrealists and first of the abstract expressionists.

The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American abstract expressionism.

«I am not what you would describe as a strictly «abstract» painter, I am looking at organic forms, repeating and conjuring the minute parts of nature again and again.»

The monograph, designed by Takaaki Matsumoto and authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years, describing the highly unorthodox arc of his life — from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence as an exceptional abstract painter of the late 20th century.

This monograph, authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years and describes the highly unorthodox arc of his life, from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence as an exceptional abstract painter of the late 20th century.

But the abstract label never sat quite right with Hodgkin, who preferred to describe himself as a «representational painter... of emotional situations».

Hirst described Hoyland as «easily the greatest British abstract painter» In an interview between Hirst and Hoyland in RA Magazine in 2009.

Hodgkin, born in 1932, described himself as a painter of «representational pictures of emotional situations» though his very personal way of picture making mixes memory and mood to an essentially abstract end.

Sean Scully (born 1945 in Dublin) has been described as the «greatest living abstract painter».

Nigerian - born, Philadelphia - based Odita has been described as «an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.»

This beautifully produced volume is the definitive monograph on Gillian Ayres (born 1930), whom journalist Andrew Marr describes as «probably the finest abstract painter alive in Britain.»

An abstract painter who describes himself as an artist who was «weaned on modern painting,» Scott has always been fascinated by landscape and place.

Hoyland disliked the «abstract» painter label, describing himself simply as «a painter».

He is an abstract painter of critical acclaim and his work has been described as having more in common with the profound simplicity of Richard Serra's sculptures and their exploration of gravity than with the issues of abstract painting1.

This dressing - up of the work can be seen as a compromise, evidence of Overby's desire for his work to fit in with his art world peers; conceptual artists of a different mentality such as Sol Le Witt, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Robert Smithson, who Overby described as «basically abstract painters» [2].

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.

We are thrilled to be bringing the work of a man described by the Washington Post as one of America's «finest abstract painters» to a UK audience for the first time in more than 20 years.