Not exact matches
It is correct that we can not experience as ours wholly unthinking, unmediated physical
feelings; it is only by
abstraction that we can talk
about the mere
feeling aspect.
Indeed, Whitehead claims that thinking emerges Out of
feeling, because thoughts
about eternal objects are
abstractions from our
feelings of actual entities (Process 229 - 30).
«In
abstraction from the creative urge... this phase is merely a proposition
about its component
feelings and their ultimate superject» (PR 342).
Asked
about his paintings, in which gestural
abstraction and imagery blend together, Berryhill remarks «There's something
about the searching for the thing you don't know what it is, the invention part I like, so when I get something in a drawing, I like, to work on it until it
feels like a thing.»
There's something
about the quality of the brushstrokes, the layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use of forms that can conjure dreams of a cityscape that
feels like his work belongs to both contemporary
abstraction and the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.
Her explorations of form and composition, color and gesture give rise to a compelling language of
abstraction where her ideas and
feelings about the inner life are projected through organic shapes and energetic brushstrokes.
The two - story room to me
felt really locked together, it was this moment
about material and
abstraction.
To be standing at this particular intersection of art and technology, science and instant photography, bringing new ideas, new nomenclature, new picture signs to our global photographic culture, it had to be me, through this machine, to talk
about abstraction and minimalism, size and scale, color and non-color, form with
feelings.
«How do you
feel about being in the presence of art that hangs with the most rigorously challenging
abstraction and yet is as unabashedly sentimental as holding hands on the beach at sunset?
Alex Hubbard was sitting next to me, and I could only think to ask how he
felt about being categorized as an artist whose paintings and silkscreens have become associated with the «new
abstraction.»
It helps me... because most of my trouble begins when I think too much
about the balance between
abstraction and figuration... and
feel too conscious
about resolving the problem rather than let the work be itself.
He said that he
felt no compunction
about making post-painterly
abstraction during the aftermath of the Civil Rights era, only that «it was hard getting [the work] shown.»
The paintings of Jenny Saville include family and self - portraits among other nudes; often done in extreme perspectives, attempting to balance realism with
abstraction; all while expressing how a woman
feels about the female nude.