Sentences with phrase «ideas about abstract painting»

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Some ideas for writing about abstract art... How did you paint it?

Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.

The very idea of abstract painting was not about logic; there was an individual anarchy about making truly abstract paintings, and of course Sam Francis was about that.

Based on the thoroughness of these class notes, and also on the syllabuses for the Asian art courses that Reinhardt took from Alfred Salmony at the IFA in the late 1940s, the essentializing of Reinhardt's published essays was intentional, part of a larger strategy to promote his own ideas about contemporary abstract painting by means of paintings from a foreign past.

Their fractured, planar, abstract approach to depicting 3 - dimensional subject matter on a 2 - dimensional canvas ushered in new ideas about representation and vision, irrevocably altering what painting could be.

But whilst I agree with that ambition of «more abstract», I am much more ambivalent about the idea that certain things that could be done in figurative painting can not now be done in abstract painting, and that by so restricting the scope of abstract painting it will inevitably come to fulfil that ambition of «more abstract».

All that stuff about abstract painting... like the Malevich paintings are outer space paintings, like this weird idea that the place to be is in outer space with nothing else around, and that's what's really great and abstract.

What is important about abstract painting is an idea.

Challenging and reinventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.

Well, there is or has been an idea that space in abstract painting is about «interval», i.e. across the canvas, as per your aerial thing, like distance on a map.

In discussing the place of painting and sculpture in the culture of our time, I shall refer only to those kinds which, whether abstract or not, have a fresh inventive character, that art which is called «modern» not simply because it is of our century, but because it is the work of artists who take seriously the challenge of new possibilities and wish to introduce into their work perceptions, ideas and experiences which have come about only within our time.

These interpretations relate Richter's abstract paintings to Conceptual Art since they claim his works explore ideas about contemporary painting and are not important as individual images.