Sentences with phrase «discussions about abstraction»

Pousette - Dart participated in discussions about abstraction at the legendary Studio 35, a meeting place for Abstract Expressionist artists, including William Baziotes, David Hare, Robert Motherwell and Rothko, and in the activities of the Eighth Street Club.

Not exact matches

While I am very sympathetic to this sudden interest in mutualism, I think you are right to enter a cautionary note about the level of abstraction at which the discussion is sometimes pitched - the detail is crucial.

When Lisa Freiman, Senior Curator and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum if Art, completed the jurying of our 2012 Midwest Competition, the results of which will be published in August as Issue # 102, we had a discussion about the overwhelming amount of abstraction in the applicant pool; indeed, the book will strongly reflect this.

It has often appeared in debates about photography's status as index or trace, in exhibitions about abstraction and the use of impoverished materials, and even in discussions of landscape imagery.

Dickinson opens with a statement about abstraction, which leads to a discussion about different definitions, Grosse saying» I am not an abstract painter any more» where abstraction is understood to be «abstracting from or generating a residue of something seen».

Mocking the discussion about representation versus abstraction, Reinhardt focused on the American avant - garde scene that marked the abstract art as degenerate and subversive.

Through dynamic abstractions and semiotic metaphors, this exhibition offers a new perspective on the events that surround this crisis in order to insight a larger discussion that gets into motion a curiosity about these events and human experiences.

When Resnick returned to New York after his discharge in 1945, he resumed painting and began meeting with de Kooning, Kline, Arshile Gorky, and other artists at the Waldorf Cafeteria for discussions about art and abstraction.

Many of these examples are traditionally representational: interestingly, much of the discussion about Open Casket has hinged on the appropriateness of Schutz's characteristically grotesque painterly style, and on the limitations of abstraction or figuration in political art.

An idea of «Frankenstein Painting» (in response to discussions about «Zombie Paintings» over the past few years) include forms of abstraction that attempt to spark life and animate the canvas as its own entity.