Sentences with phrase «important as abstract painting»

I don't consider that as important as abstract painting.

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There are important works in the permanent collection (almost always on view) by Mondrian, Chagall, Picasso, and Warhol, as well as a large number of abstract paintings by Makevich, which are well - worth seeing if you have an interest in Russian avant - garde.

Widely recognized as one of the most important American artists of the last fifty years, Ellsworth Kelly redefined abstract art through his bold paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawing.

I think it is also important to remember that abstract painting is not terribly old as painting goes and part of this experiment was due to the fact that this represented something new in painting.

We've had a lot of younger artists through and people do know him, they have been students of Gilliam, but it's also important for the younger generations to see these works especially as abstract painting has entered the center of the conversation again.

Hailed as one of the most important figures in postwar West Coast art, Moses blazed a trail for abstract painting and experimented with a wide range of materials.

Over the course of his prolific career, from early 1960s monochrome paintings to more recent work inspired by Chinese art and culture, Brice Marden has established himself as one of the most important abstract painters of our time.

At the same time, knowing that African American artists had for years been largely expected to make works of social realism, and the ambition to make abstract works every bit as important as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris marked a equally revolutionary statement of artistic freedom, the abstractions of Bowling, Gilliam, Thomas and Ed Clark — who created shaped canvases, sweeping paint across them with push - brooms — are no less arresting.

Examining Lewis's work in the light of «black» as a racial construct as well as an important color for abstract expressionism, Anfam reveals the aesthetic complexity and political engagement at work in Lewis's multifaceted painting.

These two important abstract painters were longtime friends (having first met in the «60s), as well as colleagues, and this exhibition of their work shows an aesthetic conversation rooted in place and the materiality of paint.

And as the prices for Pollock and Rothko paintings keep setting new records, auction after auction, many collectors are now looking at other important abstract painters from that era who have, until now, been overlooked.

Although Dudley pursued other directions in his painting after relocating to New York, the Ostrow writes that from the LA works» one gets the sense of an important course within Minimalism as well as abstract painting that has gone unacknowledged and unexplored.»

Universally recognized as one of the most important American artists of the last fifty years, Ellsworth Kelly has redefined abstract art through his bold paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings.

Described as «the first substantive and scholarly examination of this important body of work,» the show features a wide variety of abstracts — watercolors, mixed media collages, and stain paintings — including small works and large - scale paintings standing six - feet tall.

One example would be an exhibition that traces the emergence of and shows the interrelationship between important movements such as abstract expressionism, hard - edge painting, lyrical abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.

A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been...

The 1939 - 1949 frame inevitably leaves out many important older and younger artists of the time (just as the limits of wall space impose other exclusions), but the subject of this show is not the entirety of New York abstract painting of the 1980s, rather what a specific generation contributed to it.

Biography: A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) has been committed to color - based and expressionist abstraction for over five decades.

At the same time, Lesley Vance's work also draws upon the lineages of both abstract and representational painting, with Surrealism as an important touchstone.

In light of recent controversies over the use or absence of Black bodies in relation to abstract painting (most notably the controversy of the Dana Schutz painting at New York's Whitney museum), and the ahistorical suspicion of abstraction as a form of practice that manifest in some of the discourse, it is important that Black artists» role as innovators in the field of abstraction is given due significance here through the works of Whitten, Bowling, and others.

The painting stands as one of the artist's celebrated abstract «portraits,» many of which are held in important institutions» collections including For Carl Andre, 1966 in the Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Dylan Painting, 1966 - 86 in the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modpainting stands as one of the artist's celebrated abstract «portraits,» many of which are held in important institutions» collections including For Carl Andre, 1966 in the Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Dylan Painting, 1966 - 86 in the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of ModPainting, 1966 - 86 in the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Now regarded as one of the postwar era's most important artists, Lygia Clark produced a generative body of abstract painting in the 1950s, reinvented sculpture with her participatory objects of the»60s, and later devised an altogether unique mode of ritualistic, collective quasi therapy.

as an important and influential artist, along with Rothko, de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, and Pollock, whose gestural paintings of the early 1950s formed the basis for the abstract expressionist movement in America.

Jean Fautrier was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor, considered as one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme, a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

The most important monochromatic, richly nuanced paintings that are primarily made of one color, including works by Ellsworth Kelly who, as one of the most radically abstract painters, will be central in the display together with other American artists like Nassos Daphnis, Marcia Hafif, Joseph Marioni, Allan McCollum, Steven Parrino, Stephen Prina.

Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

The basic premise behind abstract art is that the formal qualities of a painting are just as important as its representational qualities.

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.