What is
important about abstract painting is an idea.
Not exact matches
The first solo show in an Italian museum of Chinese artist Ding Yi will propose a journey of
about forty
paintings and drawings, a sculpture and an installation that requires the interaction of visitors, which aims to bring the public closer to the man considered to be the most
important abstract painter in contemporary China, by presenting his complex artistic practice and evolution from the nineties to the present day to the public.
Alan Gouk has also made an
important point
about «heavy laden density and clogging up of space» when referring to putting more content into an
abstract painting.
At The
Painting Space I found out
about a very exciting exhibition planned for next year (February to May 2012) at the Courtauld Gallery, London, exploring the relationship between two
important early modernist,
abstract painters Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson.
From the early 1960s onwards, his work began gradually to be represented in several
important exhibitions of
abstract expressionist
painting, although he was particularly sensitive
about the correct meaning given to his work, an attribute which caused him to decline an offer to participate in the 1962 exhibition on Geometric Abstraction at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art.
And they act like it's all
about cubism turning into
abstract painting and that's what's
important.
I need not speak in detail
about this new manner, which appears in figurative as well as
abstract art; but I think it is worth observing that in many ways it is a break with the kind of
painting that was most
important in the 1920's.
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.