Sentences with phrase «giving painterly abstraction»

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Melding a goofy figuration with painterly abstraction, viewers are given a choice to appreciate the narrative or the process with which these pictures are fabricated.»

In Hansen's «paintings» — hand - knitted constructions stretched on wooden frames — loops of yarn give form to a painterly abstraction or assert its uncertainty.

In February 2012, Art Forum featured a 1973 painting by Whitten on its cover, prompting art critics and curators to ask why Whitten's work had not received more recognition earlier in his career, especially given that his scraped and squeegeed painterly abstractions of the 1970s predated by a decade similar works by the widely acclaimed German artist Gerhard Richter.

Given the overwhelming popularity of painterly abstraction, this was also a period when he destroyed hundreds of canvases, and those that survived had little to no audience.