Sentences with phrase «even abstract imagery»
In spite of Vega's undeniable commitment to abstraction, there is a rejection of all forms of imagery, even abstract imagery, in his untitled paintings.
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A familiar medium is chosen as the channel to convey an unfamiliar or even abstract message, since the abstract could be known only through the concrete, as noted by Lonergan.87 The imageries used in the parables of Jesus are derived from common, everyday life experiences.
By shifting direction, I mean going from abstracted figuration to overt figuration, or returning to an old form to make a new painting, or even rummaging through historical imagery from the ancient world to the modern and from high art to commercial art and comic books to get his themes.
Second, I was infatuated with the Russian Constructivists and how they developed forms to serve revolutionary politics — abstract designs that projected enthusiasm, progress, affirmation, even joy, as opposed to the abject imagery of, say, the German Expressionists.
He described his process of painting as a dialogue with his works, the meaning of which he was only able to access with some difficulty during this period: «For reasons I don't understand, in the late 1940s and early 1950s I focused on abstract art, despite the fact that I always felt that it had to do with figurative imagery, even though I didn't fully understand this imagery.
Recently, the duo has varied their approach to working with the castle imagery and is pushing even further the concept of abstracting an original through its reproduction.
The paintings of 1952 had a sobriety and decorum, even though some of the abstract anatomical imagery of his earlier period was revived.
She wrote a famous and very scandalous book about the De Koonings years later and she was an abstract painter whose imagery was rooted in landforms and I couldn't even comprehend abstract painting at the time.
What is important for me is that the work has some kind of narrative, even if the imagery is completely abstract and non-figurative.