Sentences with phrase «hermeticism of»

cat., Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2010, p. 60) Bradford's work with these papers was, in the words of Christopher Bedford, «a calculated way to enter the deeply freighted historical conversation of abstract painting from a vantage point that was pointedly grounded in his social experience and that forced the hermeticism of abstraction to account for the unrelenting specificity of his materials.»

Standing in distinct counterpoint to the hermeticism of mid-century abstraction, her chromatic abstractions become highly referential, quotational and moreso, inclusive affairs.

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The spiritual imagination was not born yesterday; it is the ancient homeland of hermeticism, alchemy, and....

The catalogue for the 1986 exhibition at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, an amazing collection of color illustrations plus essays on synesthesia, theosophy, alchemy, hermeticism, Zen and more.

He's a natural at a Jasper Johns — ian hermeticism, physical sensuality, with a keen sense of bilateral symmetry, process, scale, and systematic art - making.

His work introduces the idea of a defeatist hermeticism: total, and yet not reassuring.

With his renderings of palm trees, insects, fish and his own outsized signature, Josh Smith makes a splash in the final gallery with nine, big, juicy, colorful paintings on a single wall (painted black, like Joe Bradley's at the entrance, forming a kind of bookend to the show), while Laura Owens» text - based works seem to retreat into hermeticism.

This theme of hermeticism versus accessibility is touched on in an editorial statement by Elizabeth C. Baker, then editor of A.i.A., which proposes a historical parallel: «The last time a popularly accessible art movement succeeded a relatively esoteric one was when, in the early»60s, Pop art followed «difficult» Abstract Expressionism.»

There seems to be a problem of what we might call «hermeticism», ie a small group of scientist who are prepared to discuss among themselves their «secret» knowledge of uncertainties but, when they exit the «cave of knowing» they become purely political and «appear» to abuse the scientific process.