Sentences with phrase «favor of abstract forms»

«It would be a mistake to try to read landscape into [my painting] even less any specific landscape,» Tworkov told Edward B. Henning, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1962, «For it is a willful part of my painting process to abolish specific references in favor of abstract forms that stir a sense of recognition in me.

Not exact matches

Since the beginning of his career, Ellsworth Kelly's emphasis on pure form and color and his impulse to suppress gesture in favor of creating spatial unity have played a pivotal role in the development of abstract art in America.

Rejecting tradition, they favored bold, abstracted forms that broke free from the illusion of depth, creating simplified and stylized landscapes that expressed their personal, subjective encounter with nature and response to the region, rather than trying to imitate the exact visual appearance of a location.

Favoring stripped - down winter landscapes and nearly empty interiors, Wyeth savored windows» ability to isolate nearly abstract forms outdoors or to transform an interior with a play of shadow - in fact, he declared himself an «abstract painter.»

Milton favored those turbulent interlocking forms of Rubens that prefigure the abstract art that interested him, and he talked of Ruben's high space — aspirational space — which I took to mean the sense of ascendancy, the forms moving up and out; a feature of much Baroque painting, but not really present in Rembrandt.