Sentences with phrase «from high abstraction»

But in more recent works Gursky descends from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.

Not exact matches

For metaphysics is not abstraction, but the perception and analysis of the existential from a higher perspective.

Rather, the mind develops, following a predictable path from lower to higher abstractions.

It would be high abstraction to inquire whether a certain thing is or is not properly regarded as an actual entity, apart from consideration of the interaction of that entity with others.

Both the «principle of relativity» (PR 22) and the «reformed subjectivist principle» (PR 167) indicate that any conception of an actuality apart from its interrelations with other actualities, or apart from its satisfaction of subjective aim, would be high abstraction.

Carnevale warns that the high school curriculum has moved to higher and higher levels of abstraction, away from practical and applied learning.

Over the last decade there have been a very few exhibitions that have attempted to explore this history from a New York perspective («High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 - 1975» in 2007, «Conceptual Abstraction» in 2012, my own «Reinventing Abstraction» in 2013), and if there have been any books on the subject, I haven't yet seen them.

Her works, which employ strategies connected to 20th century abstraction, present high - tech systems ranging from electric lines to wireless networks, funneled through a Suprematist lexicon.

Today, he continues to probe cultural mythologies and archetypes in various media, appropriating imagery from animated films, mail - order catalogues, modernist abstraction, and street graffiti to create an artistic lexicon that insistently collapses the boundaries between high and low.

Before Lygia Clark was getting major museum retrospectives; beforeAdriana Varejão was represented by leading galleries; before Beatriz Milhazes was achieving high prices at auction, Patricia Phelps de Cisneroswas collecting Latin American art, filling the walls of her home with Modernist abstraction and contemporary works by artists from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay.

From a high - powered Sean Scully abstraction to an especially cool Christian Marclay sound - effect drawing, these pieces are impossible to deny.

In another, he scrambles the wood from the gym floors of shuttered high schools, giving it the staccato rhythm of geometric abstraction and transporting it from the arena of sport to art.

From the gestural abstraction painting of Cosmic Slop «Black Orpheus» (in which black soap and wax are slathered in high relief) to the arcane photographic processes used to make lines of feet look like dental x-rays in Untitled, Manumission Papers, Johnson does it all.

This kind of abstraction was looking «basically unsellable,» leaving three bidders to contest instead a safer Rudolf Stingel mock wallpaper painting from 2005 — in highly commercial gold enamel — to a top price of # 386,500, just above the high estimate.

Before Lygia Clark was getting major museum retrospectives; before Adriana Varejão was represented by leading galleries; before Beatriz Milhazes was achieving high prices at auction, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros was collecting Latin American art, filling the walls of her home with Modernist abstraction and contemporary works by artists from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay.

The populist comic - book imagery in Untitled (Comics) also alludes to the languages of high art — from Roy Lichtenstein's brushstrokes to the geometric forms of Modernist abstraction.

Mehretu's encompassing and relatively low - key abstractions are, in aesthetic effect, divorced from the obnoxious nature of much contemporary art — you know, the high - profile stuff that trades in Pop spectacle of one sort or another.

Dating from the 1970s to 2005, the 11 quilts included in the Souls Grown Deep Foundation gift / purchase triple the High's existing holdings of works by these celebrated women artists and demonstrate the incredible legacy of their artistic production, which parallels many of the experiments with color, flatness and abstraction associated with postwar American painting.

Hints of architecture in abstractions by Barry Le Va from the 1980s or his Cleaved Wall from 1970 look stronger near global shantytowns by Amy Brener, sculpted high - rises by Nick Ralph, and New York souvenirs from Liene Bosquê.

1993 Aspects of American Abstraction, 1930 - 1942, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Hovering between abstraction and figuration, this monolithic shiny black torso of a woman in a bathing costume, two - metres high, also asserts itself as an anti-monument and alternative to the European tradition of a white Venus rising from the waves.

As a postscript, «High Times, Hard Times» — a quirky survey of abstraction from those same years — further explores the conundrum of art after Modernism.

Despite a high level of abstraction, the image is brought into focus by the rendering of the artist's eyes, which gaze strikingly back at the viewer from behind his glasses.

No, not today, when everything from abstraction to video gaming goes into the same recipe, with the blender on high.

This work is from a series where I scan and and re-print images of high end advertising to paint on them, using the composition, color and other formal elements already present in the image as a means to arrive at abstraction.

Jones» interest in American high modernist abstraction — an interest he shares with the older British abstract painters John Hoyland and William Tillyer — is part of a significant shift away from the figure in recent English art, a development that remains largely unknown in America.

The Handyman Aesthetic is a language that presents subordinate materials from the polarised spaces of the city, between glimmering high - rise and dissonant disrepair, materiality and abstraction, resolution and fracture.

Sultan's series comprises a confluence of seeming dichotomies, merging the industrial materials of Minimalism with representational painting, stylistically combining figuration and abstraction, and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events to art historical iconography.

An early convert to the speed and brightness of acrylic primary colors, he bent Pop to his own purposes, which were to declare a clear break from Abstract Expressionism, as Pop was already doing, and to infuse the graphic punch of posters and hot rod decoration into high - minded abstraction.

Known for his innovative blending of figuration and abstraction, deft use of color, «hybrid juxtaposition of high and low,» and inspired interpretations of folkloric myths and Roman poetry, the survey features six bodies of work including layered paintings from the 1990s, Afromuse watercolor portraits, and new works created since Ofili began living and working in Trinidad.

A neon abstraction of Barack Obama's eyes hangs high over «Onyx Odyssey,» Jefferson Pinder's new solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, observing the artist's interpretations of historical black male figures from civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to Freddie Gray.

With his play between abstraction and figuration, and his combination of elements from high and everyday culture, Condo repudiates genre - defined hierarchies within painting.

In fact, at a time when Murillo seems intent on bringing attention away from the graffitied abstractions that made him famous, he saw his third - highest price — $ 377,000 — achieved at the Phillips day sale, $ 245,000 for the witty Dark Americano (scrawled with «milk,» as for the coffee) in the evening sale, and a more modest $ 137,000 in the Christie's day sale.

One centers on the «Mountain,» which travels from high realism to abstraction; another is focused on «Waves,» the still photographs and the abstract «Digital Waves»; and the last is the outdoor twelve - screen immersive video that comes alive at dusk — with musical accompaniment.

There are five pieces in the Mark di Suvero exhibition at Paula Cooper: three elegant, welded - steel sculptures from the artist's recent «Totems» series (1998, 2005, and 2006); a large (7 ’10 1/2» high, 16» wide), joyfully colored acrylic abstraction from 1978 — 82; and the enormous «Nova Albion,» a reconstruction of a work built on a northern California beach in 1964 — 65.

We are presented with four works: in Tower Block, a blank monitor is interjected with high rises, surreally spliced into abstraction via arbitrary image edging; in Floor, three parallel projections explore the surface texture of floorboards with a near - fetishistic, intimate scrutiny; in Shirt, worn fabric is rendered nonfigurative, the patterns and folds becoming landscape instead of fashion; while in Moon, a twin - screen installation, presents us with 21 miniature viewing - windows from which we voyeuristically glimpse the moon, creating a field of juddering orbs.

From 2010 to 2013, Deitch served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, where he organized major solo exhibitions of work by Urs Fischer, Weegee, and Kenneth Anger and curated seminal group shows including «The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol» and «Art in the Streets», which had the highest attendance in the museum's history.

Now understood to be a key founder of abstraction, she was also a theosophist and a medium who understood her «automatic» paintings to be guided by spirits; messages received from the «High Powers».

Works from prestigious private collections performed well, ranging from the structured still lifes of Giorgio Morandi in The Eye of the Architect (Lots 4, 5 and 6), all of which exceeded their high estimates, to Francis Picabia's playful collage, Sans titre (Pot de fleurs)(# 3,008,750 / $ 4,200,215 — more than double its high estimate) in Abstraction Beyond Borders, a collection tracing the development of abstraction across Europe in the 20Abstraction Beyond Borders, a collection tracing the development of abstraction across Europe in the 20abstraction across Europe in the 20th century.

Recognition of the objects refined to the state of cliché and executed at the highest technological level is reached through analysis and reconsideration of the past epochs» of art history, from early Abstraction (Otto Freundlich) to American minimalism and expressionism of the 1950 - 1960s (Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock), and from shrilly monochromes by Yves Klein to ready - made objects by Marcel Duchamp.

Echoing a wide range of precursors — from high Constructivism (Alexander Archipenko and Henryk Stażewski), to geometric abstraction's flashier midcentury incarnations (Richard Anuszkiewicz, Victor Vasarely), to the eager swallowing - up of both by the «rad,» spray - paint - besmirched graphic design of the 1980s — the London - based artist's neat, sharp, labor - intensive paintings unite a shallow if convincing illusory depth with a neurotic meticulousness to erect optical labyrinths that both tantalize and deceive.

The overlapping tongues of color in Carey's Polaroids recall the lozenges and plumes of paint in color - field abstractions by Morris Louis and Larry Poons, minus their paintings» claim to descent from high - art tradition.

From there, he launched into his Coogi sweater paintings series, exploring the in - between spaces of high - art versus craft, intentional versus found abstraction, and, most significantly, the notion of ownership of African - American popular culture.

1993 Lines and Myths: Abstraction in American Art, 1941 - 1951, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Charles Alston and Norman Lewis, Innovators of the African - American Aesthetic, Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago, IL Alone in a Crowd, Prints of the 1930s - 1940s by African - American Artists - From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams, American Federation of the Arts, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; New York State Museum, Albany, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, MO; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Perhaps one of the reasons for the success and unique appearance of Thomsen's work is that she is not coming out of an Anglo - American point of view as in «Color Field» abstraction — the term that displaced Clement Greenberg's more complex notion of «Post-Painterly Abstraction» — but from an education in Germany that allowed her to evolve in a more qualified direction, as opposed to the kind of fashionable quantifications to which American higher art education has finallyabstraction — the term that displaced Clement Greenberg's more complex notion of «Post-Painterly Abstraction» — but from an education in Germany that allowed her to evolve in a more qualified direction, as opposed to the kind of fashionable quantifications to which American higher art education has finallyAbstraction» — but from an education in Germany that allowed her to evolve in a more qualified direction, as opposed to the kind of fashionable quantifications to which American higher art education has finally succumbed.

Her intent is that if the work can be freed from a fixed idea or illustrative accompanying explanation, its reality can exist solely on its strength as art, in its highest possible form of abstraction.

[1] This limited, high - contrast palette allows for an increased focus on form and spacial relationships, which «intensifie [s] the abstraction by further removing the image from its natural coloration.»

He had followed a similar formal path in his own work moving from high modern abstraction, influenced by Arp, into figuration.

Yet he has the rare gift to short - circuit and to provide a diagram — in the stick figures or basic phrases of his neons or his mousetrap - like installations — of human behaviour and human psychology when viewed from the highest level of abstraction.