Sentences with phrase «for painterly abstraction»

Figurative elements are always present, but often seem to serve more as vehicles for painterly abstraction than for specific narrative.

American painter Nola Zirin is best known for her painterly abstractions, but for this show she offered Detroit Debris (2017), a series of found objects covered with an enamel gold spray supported by a flat pedestal.

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Sean Scully is known for rich, painterly abstractions in which stripes or blocks of layered color are a prevailing motif.

Rezi van Lankveld (b1973, Almelo, The Netherlands) is known for exploring the tensions between figuration and abstraction in her fluid, painterly paintings.

Al Held, known for hard - edged, geometric abstraction, has a more painterly, freehanded homage to the rectangle.

Regarded for her «empty» images that border on painterly abstraction, the artist carefully renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments, those which exist almost exclusively within our periphery.

Post Painterly Abstraction will also include recent works by artists exhibiting for the first time with the gallery.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» onAbstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» onabstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

He paints geometric patterns, manipulates color, and his distinctive painterly expressions with vertical lines, diagonals and triangular forms and curves appear to be grasping for the borderline between representation and abstraction.

The contrail is a swirling painterly abstraction; at the same time, Dodge's brushstrokes witness the awesome power of humans and their creations (for better or for worse).

For their Hudson, New York, inaugural exhibition All Ways Always, Jeff Bailey Gallery wrote that Merris's paintings, sculpture, photographs, and outdoor installations are «process oriented, and combine painterly abstraction with an embodied naturalism.»

It could pass for one of those reductive lectures on how abstraction really works, but it manages to bring painterly metaphors into the video age.

Jensen has been featured in numerous important international group exhibitions including Documenta (1964, 1968, 1972), the Venice Biennale (1964), Biennial of São Paulo (1977), and Post Painterly Abstraction, a landmark travelling exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1964).

Searching for the metaphoric representation of mankind, Millei has used his intuition and painterly brushstrokes to create objects of pure abstraction that are no longer just about making a portrait of one person, but represent a collective portrait of men / women.

While Lanyon has remained an iconic figure for painters, as an authentically British pioneer of painterly abstraction, he is little known to the public at large.

Abstractionists working in a painterly, post-Minimalist manner — an approach that combines a pared - down, abstract vocabulary with either expressive brushwork or Pop art's theatricality — can be divided into two groups: those who are demonstrating abstraction's continuing vitality and those who are simply nostalgic for its high - toned rhetoric.

Murray grappled with an ever expanding vocabulary of autobiographical forms and images as her career progressed, incorporating Pop art, cartooning, graffiti art and aspects of minimalism and post painterly abstraction without ever completely abandoning her affinity for the New York School.

Hodgkin shows an audacious confidence as he begins to abandon all representational forms and works purely in his own language of bold painterly abstraction that he is so revered for.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

The artist's recent paintings explore relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention.

He is best known for large scale abstractions that express concerns about the destruction of the global ecological balance — from painterly musings on the destruction of the Mesoamerican Olmec, Maya...

Her weakness is for representational painting that dissolves into painterly abstraction, so naturally she counts Morandi, Celmins, Richter, Downes, and Tuymans among her favorites.

Breslow's panels, which favor atmosphere over specificity, are about the artist's genuine affection for the city she lives in, and also represent a painterly exploration of the balance between representation and abstraction.

He would serve in the Army, receive an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, teach college art classes for over thirty years in East Texas, and become a Catholic deacon, all the while rejecting painterly abstraction to produce fine - lined drawings about love, anger, and passion, so richly layered they recall art by Christian mystics like Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, and Henry Darger.

One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach for the sublime, Andy Warhol's affirmations of the vacuity of Pop culture.

There, he soon abandoned the abstraction of his first teacher, Al Held, for the painterly realism of Fairfield Porter.

The Geometric Abstractions show at G262 Sofie Van de Velde featuring Charlotte Posenenske (who exhibited at Art Berlin Contemporary, read about it in the ABC 2014 article), Ilse D'Hollander and Svenja Deininger is a must see for those that appreciate abstract painterly work while the gorgeous photography work of Veronika Pot and Daisuke Yakota both look very tempting on the Contemporary Photography Route and finally the Vivian Maier — Who are You Vivian?

In this new work, Party has explored his painterly precision, vibrant colour palette and a keen eye for composition for his first ever blanket edition, continuing a long standing art - historical dialogue between representation and abstraction, and observation and the imagination.

Yet, while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city whose art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge abstraction (represented here in paintings by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and painterly objects by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among others), eclectic performance practices (including live pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).

He is known for his painterly style which falls between abstraction and realism as well as for the flattened appearance of his portraits of friends and family members which are done from a frontal perspective.

We can cite pasted newspaper in Braque and Picasso collages, painted paper in a Matisse découpage, the painterly poured line of Pollock's classic abstractions... For Morris Louis the staining technique was such a breakthrough» (E.A. Carmean Jr., Morris Louis: Major Themes & Variations, exh.

For Hartigan, abstraction and figuration were not mutually exclusive; pictorial structures in her work are vehicles for emotion, and are handled in a painterly, expressionist mannFor Hartigan, abstraction and figuration were not mutually exclusive; pictorial structures in her work are vehicles for emotion, and are handled in a painterly, expressionist mannfor emotion, and are handled in a painterly, expressionist manner.

Around 1952, however, Bischoff and colleagues Diebenkorn and Park abandoned abstraction in favor of the loose, painterly style that became known as Bay Area Figurative and for which Bischoff is best known.