Sentences with phrase «early modernist tradition»

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He places himself in an early modernist painting tradition that, despite an apparently abstract affect, is always representational in its ultimate methods.

That would all be fine if they were used to add something, but it reads like a formal exercise, toying with abstraction in a long tradition of early Modernists or folk painters.

Each painting consists of abstract / semi-abstract, spectral, monochromatic forms, simultaneously re-engaging early 20th Century black and white cinema and the tradition of the Modernist monochrome.

The two series are among his earliest projects, which broke with mainstream photographic traditions to reveal pronounced modernist references.

An abstract painter who has been an active member of the New York art scene since the early 1980s, James Walsh follows in the modernist tradition of Pollock in using art to reveal its own properties.