Sentences with phrase «explanations of abstract art»

To this day, this remains as one of the greatest explanations of abstract art ever put into words.

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One socio - historical explanation that has been offered for the growing prevalence of the abstract in modern art — an explanation linked to the name of Theodor W. Adorno — is that such abstraction is a response to, and a reflection of, the growing abstraction of social relations in industrial society.
Rather they suggest possible sources and explanations for modern abstract art, unearthing a whole world of beauty invisible to the naked eye.»
In her catalogue essay, Poddar provided partial explanation for suggestive pictorial elements in Gaitonde's abstractions by citing a specialist in South Asian art, critic Richard Bartholomew, who maintained that traditional Indian miniatures were not purely figurative, but were composed of literary and abstract elements.4 Gaitonde then might have been alluding to our necessity to «see» something in the picture, even when there is nothing objective or graphic there because, intuitively, we attempt to make sense out of unfamiliar patterns trying to connect them with what we already know.
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