Sentences with phrase «formal purity»

In a sense, his practice operates at the outer reaches of the Greenbergian push towards formal purity that defined the discourse surrounding painting for much of the 20th - Century.

During the 50s there existed a major tendency in American art in favour of formal purity, as illustrated in the work of the Post-Painterly Abstraction group.

Formal purity and spatial logic intermingled serenely between the five panel compositions mounted here.

Compared with this formal purity, the title Coffin Paint — its Chinese title translates literally as «lacquer of longevity» — carries serious sentimental and cultural connotations.

On the Greenberg side, Frank Stella — whose 1959 painting Marriage of Reason and Squalor, a stark black canvas broken by his characteristic thin white strips of unpainted canvas is included in «Action / Abstraction» — took Greenberg's formal purity to the extreme.

Abstraction - Création was an association of artists formed in Paris in 1931 to advocate abstract art and promote formal purity and non-objectivity.

Looking back, it can become a bit maddening to read the essays in «Art and Objecthood,» a critical tome on high formalism, as the art historian Michael Fried expostulates over and over again on the recipes for perfect formal purity.

Not exact matches

Thus the activity proper to purity (in scholastic terms, its formal effect) is the unification of the inner powers of the soul in a single act of appetition of extraordinary richness and intensity.

A lapsing Modernist, Langsam trades a narrow purity for enriching irony, while refusing to relinquish an ambition for a formal beauty and movement.

Her formal experimentations, as in the three - dimensional, finely wrought Stabile, 1954, and the colourful, geometric collage Repercusión por el Color (Reverberation in Colour), 1957, demonstrate her concerted effort to achieve purity, harmony, and universalism.

Betsy Friedman's newest works re-frame the purity of Shaker imagery in her own formal language which involves gorgeous scratch art with tiny fruit - like eyeballs (googlies) attached.

Combining formal precision and abstract purity, their paintings also explore process and illusion.