So, we can only expect that we see some new great
examples of abstract forms.
Not exact matches
A long debate has existed in psychology whether concepts, such as a dog, are represented in the mind as a collection
of specific dogs that people have encountered or whether individuals can
abstract the key characteristics across specific
examples to
form a generalized idea, or prototype,
of a dog.
For
example, small technical sketches
of shipbuilding plans from Still's time working in the war industries are included, which no doubt played a role in the
abstracted, mechanistic
forms found in many
of his drawings and oil works from the early 1940s.
For
example, included are the exhibition are two preparatory drawings and their related painting, Blue, Black and Grey
of 1960, which reveal her sensitivity to
abstract forms in the natural world and her debt to Dow, five decades after studying his methods.
For
example, Ethiopian - born artist Julie Mehretu's Okemos Drawings (Quartet A)(2008) depicts in four unique drawings an intricately
abstracted cityscape
formed by a layered web
of drawn lines in black and white and color.
Highlights this year range from Barbara Hepworth's polished
abstract sculpture Six
Forms on a Circle (1967) at Osborne Samuel (the modernist sculptor is the subject
of a major retrospective at Tate Britain this June) and On Kawara's I WENT at mfc - michèle didier — a great
example of the obsessive conceptual cataloguing for which the artist is famous.
McElheny uses historical
examples of artistic clothing and costume design as a starting point to present his own set
of models for
abstract form today.
Created for a series
of murals, the nine painting studies
form a concise
example of Hofmann's strengths as an
abstract painter and modernist visionary.
Painted at the apex
of her New York career before she expatriated to France in 1959, Untitled is an ebullient
example of the artist's marriage
of natural
forms,
abstract gestures, and urban movement.
By looking at
examples of how context and politics are communicated through
abstract and formalist art practices, Rakes shows how
abstract forms can be used to represent lived experience.
For
example, Theo Van Doesburg's «Compositie VII: de drie Gratiën (Composition VII: The Three Graces)» (1917) presents a dynamic interplay
of abstract form and color that — via its title — references a trio
of female dancers.
In some
examples, surface marking takes the
form of all - over
abstract patterns; in others, the marks become actual letters in indecipherable combinations.
The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an
example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate
abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely
abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.
Metaphorically, the liger, as an
abstract idea that has become real in the physical space, is a prime
example of the ultimate divorce between what is possible and what should be undertaken.If so far the biennial organizers have tackled the politics
of identity, and technological means
of interfacing or redefining identity, it follows that they would be interested in some
form of Marxist critique.
Taking inspiration from the
abstract forms and layered beauty unexpectedly found in shredded advertisement posters around New York, Ivcevich photographs many
of these
examples of urban decay as the basis for a body
of work he calls, «Shreds.»
Using
examples of artistic clothing and costume design as a starting point to present his own set
of models for
abstract form today, McElheny investigates the connections between the history
of visual abstraction and the clothing created by artists over the past century, whose work proposed a more subjective, less universal experience
of abstraction.
Saucedo's sculptural output is often rooted in riddling gamesmanship, for
example,
abstract forms of an exacting weight and volume corresponding to those clinical facts in specific people: himself, his family.
JCH, Bruce is using a
form of a proof that the general statement is not true by taking a concrete
example of the
abstract statement: «So when you take uncertainty into account, it actually leads to the decision that we should take action more quickly.»