Sentences with phrase «dominated by abstraction»

Although Ms. Freilicher (pronounced FRY - licker) studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and allover approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.

FROM THE 1940s ONWARD, as contemporary art came to be increasingly dominated by abstraction, conceptualism, and minimalism, a group of painters in London doggedly pursued the depiction of the human figure and everyday landscape, forging startling new approaches and styles.

Grimes writes: «Although Ms. Freilicher... studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and all - over approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.

The quilts are composed of fragmented suits once worn by close male figures and mounted on sound panels as fabric paintings dominated by abstraction and pattern.

Gagosian, meanwhile, presents an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and photographs by Balthus, a modern maverick who continued to produce figurative works in a period dominated by abstraction (26 April — 29 July).

Roberts was one of the most respected painters within this group, but as Borduas and Pellan rose to prominence in the early 1940s, the society's exhibitions were increasingly dominated by abstraction.

Spearheaded by Leon Golub and united by a shared interest in the figure during a period that is often seen as dominated by abstraction, the group created deeply psychological works that drew on classical mythology and ancient art.

Not exact matches

«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

The show's first section, «Gestural Abstraction,» is dominated by two brushy, wall - filling paintings — one by Lee Krasner, the other by Joan Mitchell — of a kind that has been a staple at the museum since the 1940s.

Baselitz hit the big time after a decade dominated by geometric abstraction.

First of all, in a global «discourse» of painting dominated by generic forms of largely fungible and thoroughly diluted abstraction, such socially and geographically specific intimism feels refreshingly focused.

This week David Zwirner dedicated his spacious booth to a solo presentation of work by German photographer Thomas Ruff dominated by the artist's notorious «supernudes,» blurry, large - scale photos of hard - core pornography that straddle the line between abstraction and graphic figuration.

The photographs are dominated by intense color and a gentle abstraction.

The landscape dominated American painting throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, and though it continued to have practitioners thereafter (Fairfield Porter, for example), it was overshadowed, along with figurative painting in general, by various styles of abstraction from Cubism to Minimalism.

During the 1950s and 60s, representation in painting was overshadowed by abstract expressionist and minimalist abstraction; during the following decade, conceptualist non-object forms dominated contemporary art.

While Bearden's early work consisted of figural paintings inspired by the social realism that dominated the 1930s, a trip to Paris in 1950 inspired him to move closer to abstraction.

After a period in which the medium has been dominated by process - based abstraction, the figure — and representation with it — is ascendant again.

Her abstraction is vaguely architectural and figural and dominated by a masterful sense of color.

Abstraction dominates, as do canvas and other stretched fabrics, along with an air of studied nonchalance, especially in works by Michael Majerus, Michael Krebber, Blinky Palermo and Reena Spaulings (spots of red wine on a tablecloth — how daring).»

There is not a single message, more a hunch that if abstract art is to re-appear as a real force in contemporary art it would need to be diverse and excitingly visual, that its engagement with the past of modernist abstraction should be both direct (not dominated by pastiche) and somehow wayward.

In particular, stories of abstraction have been dominated by larger than life male artists — in the case of abstract expressionism it is hard not to focus on Jackson Pollock or Willem DeKooning, but there were several important women working during that time as well.

Dominated by mid-career work, the exhibition's outstanding range of paintings show how Berthot balanced formal abstraction and cold geometrics with reverie - inducing, liquefied coloration and dappled, earth - toned surfaces.

Riley describes Little Rock's mainstream art scene as dominated by contemporary Southern artists, regional artists, landscapes, geometric abstraction, smaller scale abstract expressionism, and neo-impressionism.

They took this stance in opposition to the widespread practice of what they regarded as a banal formalist abstraction dominated by the American followers of Mondrian such as Uya Bolotowsky and Burgoyne Diller.

After a period in which the medium has been dominated by process - based abstraction, the figure — and representation with it — is ascendant again.

Male artists by no means dominate, though; Cheim & Read also shows fantastic works by their pioneering female artists, including iconic corporeal sculptures and works on paper by Louise Bourgeois; polyurethane foam and cast aluminum sculptural pours by Lynda Benglis; a work from Jenny Holzer's «TOP SECRET» series; and iconic expressive abstractions by Joan Mitchell.

Creating work at a time when abstract painting dominated the art scene, Katz forged an ingenious way to wed abstraction with recognizable imagery by paring down his compositions to their fundamental elements.

Much of this history of Abstraction has been dominated by the forceful masculinity of the artists who came to dominate the genre, artists like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still.

In a world dominated by conceptual and installation art, Philip Gerstein is an abstract painter, loyal to the modern pioneers of abstraction and color perception, for example, Wassily Kandinsky.