Sentences with phrase «early modernism seemed»

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That said, Solomon's more controlled grid - like abstraction seems to date from well before the New York School and is anchored in the early Modernism and grid structure of the De Stijl group in The Netherlands.

They seem to hark back to earlier eras in modernism; is that intentional?

One can still pick up the pieces of early Modernism, he seems to say, and make them one's own — as both a place in the world and an act of the imagination.

In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.