Sentences with phrase «ideas about abstraction»

We published it in reaction to ideas about abstraction being over, in London at the time the attitude to abstraction was derisory.

The first volume of Mr. Kelly's catalogue documents the evolution of one of America's most celebrated living artists as his ideas about abstraction were first forming.

The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977 — 1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker's methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language.

Pairing two seemingly different artistic practices, CROSS / / ROADS aims to create a productive confusion that pushes the viewer towards a nuanced reading of both the art objects on display and the multi-layered set of ideas about abstraction, history, and artistic practice they represent.

The second nests these ideas about abstraction and the sculptural in an emphatically feminist argument, one that asserts that the production, display, and reception of such art has been shaped by the personhood of the artists who tended to practice it, and by the sexist social and institutional conditions those individuals faced under modernism.

Not exact matches

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

LOS ANGELES — Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer - Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction.

Her explorations of form and composition, color and gesture give rise to a compelling language of abstraction where her ideas and feelings about the inner life are projected through organic shapes and energetic brushstrokes.

In preparation for Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction, O'Neill answered a few questions about her process and the ideas behind her work.

The artists represented in the exhibition come from all over the U.S., with rooms devoted to groups such as AfriCOBRA, based in Chicago in the late 1960s, or East Coast Abstraction, which challenged the idea that art had to directly represent Black communities, prompting debate about Black aesthetics.

Curator Norman L. Kleeblatt explains how the exhibition came about: «I had been thinking for a long time about an exhibition that began with the idea of abstraction and the postwar period.

If his abstractions are «about» anything, they are about resuscitating a pragmatic concept of holistic experience and modifying that naturalistic idea to meet the needs of a dedicated contemporary art practice in which emotion and contingency interact with larger structures of personality, and philosophical problems interact with real production.

This journal continues to act as a forum for ideas and topics about abstraction and to present the work and writing of both members and non-members.

These artists were making new work that proffered critique of both expressionism and non-objective abstraction, in a context informed by contemporary ideas about social control, mediation, and simulation.

His paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation and contemplation, they reveal a charged space that connects to the artist's personal experiences and whose underlying ideas raise questions about issues from politics to environmentalism to cultural identity.

In addition to his work as an artist his published writing embraces ideas about perception, abstraction and relationships between art and science.

Her ideas about surface, scale, and color are not only daring; they presaged the work of artists as varied as Barnett Newman, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Heilmann, as well as Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern aAbstraction, and contemporary postmodern abstractionabstraction.

To be standing at this particular intersection of art and technology, science and instant photography, bringing new ideas, new nomenclature, new picture signs to our global photographic culture, it had to be me, through this machine, to talk about abstraction and minimalism, size and scale, color and non-color, form with feelings.

David Moxon posts about Zig Zag: deliberations in construction, sequence and colour, on view at Charlie Dutton Gallery, London through July 2, 2011, an «innovative and diverse exhibition of new developments in abstraction... These artists have developed an understanding for the possibility of an «internal logic» in their work,» as well as «ideas of «colour interaction» and «colour juxtaposition».»

Stay: January 9 - March 30, 2014 Co-organized by: Mondriaan Fonds (Netherlands) Upcoming Event: AIT ARTIST TALK # 65 「 Technics, Labour, Abstraction 」 Artist talk about recent works and new ideas by Dutch artist Vincent Vulsma (Date and Time: Monday, March 24th, 19:00 - 21:00 Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama ）

Great art, of course, can grow from contradictory ideas, and my complaints about Marshall's sermonizing on abstraction would be irrelevant if the authority of his ideas weren't magnified by the power of the works he's made.

Lina Alattar's solo exhibition, Embracing Abstraction, is part of Hillyer's Art Space Typecast, an all media exhibition that will showcase artists whose work expresses, explores and questions ideas about identity.

An idea of «Frankenstein Painting» (in response to discussions about «Zombie Paintings» over the past few years) include forms of abstraction that attempt to spark life and animate the canvas as its own entity.

«I've been thinking about abstraction alongside many of the artists in the exhibition for many years,» adds Puleo, «specifically, we've been in conversation about an idea of what «queer abstraction» is and can be.

Dealing with ideas of geometric abstraction, time, the body, her work helped to develop key ideas about what art and performance could be in the 1950s and 1960s.

In this interview, Jessica Stockholder talks about her ideas of beauty and abstraction in relation to formalist aesthetics.

«Invisible Adversaries» was a show about abstractions — that is to say, general ideas not based on any particular real persons, things, or situations.

The idea is that contemporary abstraction like Stella's has its theoretical roots in Kandinski's trailblazing work, and despite the artists» differences — just about 100 years worth of differences — there's a visual dialogue that results from the pairing.