Sentences with phrase «edged abstract language»

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 — 1986) is best known for her distinctive paintings of flowers and landscapes which applied a precise, often hard - edged abstract language to evocative natural forms.

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In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.

The images challenge the notion of how to make a line or create a new posture for flattened space or abstract composition, swivelling from geometry to gesture, propelling representation and language into abstraction, exploring pictorial edges and boundaries as well as the constitutive or disruptive role of blank space,.