Sentences with phrase «hold black abstraction»

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Held's Alphabet paintings from the early 1960s — large, flatly painted hard - edge abstractions based on letter forms — preceded Schapiro's Ox series by a few years, and his black - and - white series are from 1967 — 69.

In the 1950s she tries abstraction, first with black curves like those of early Al Held, then with wide - open color fields out of Helen Frankenthaler.

A departure from Held's more recognizably hard - edged, overlapping geometric abstractions, these are spare works consisting of one or two brushstrokes of black ink on waxed paper.

To my eye, the painting speaks to the central core imagery that was being developed by feminist artists such as Judy Chicago, though Fishman attributes it more directly a response to Al Held's black - and - white abstractions of 1967 — 69.