Sentences with phrase «for nonobjective art»

Because of the complicated manner in which the Norton Simon museum as it presently exists came to be, its holdings include some big abstract paintings from the 1960s despite Mr. Simon's distaste for nonobjective art.

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In 1929, Guggenheim and his advisor, German - born artist Hilla Rebay, began collecting his paintings, works on paper, and sculpture in depth for the Guggenheim's growing collection of nonobjective art.
Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory.
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