Sentences with phrase «in nonrepresentational»

As in all nonrepresentational art, even though one can never quite tell what exactly is being portrayed, the fact that one is neither here nor there is all the more intriguing.

In modern art the criteria of beauty in nonrepresentational pieces are still open to question.

Not exact matches

But if the spiritual in art is not primarily a matter of content or representational or nonrepresentational technique, what is it?

The IFJA is the only critics group in the U.S. to give out an award for nonrepresentational acting.

It is only in the real world that these works can be experienced — and this is what contemporary nonrepresentational painting remains about.»

By restricting herself to nonrepresentational forms, earth - based colors, and, in the case of her watercolors, «found» pieces of paper, Frecon achieves an unequaled sense of balance and openness in her work.

Perhaps that's why, as Bob Nickas points out in his new book Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (Phaidon Press; $ 75), «so many contemporary artists who paint nonrepresentational pictures reject the notion that their work is in fact abstract.»

Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian painter, teacher, and art theorist who was one of the first artists to explore nonrepresentational art and, in 1910, created the first totally abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction.

Mr Stella's nonrepresentational works appear to have little in common with Mr Koons's pop - derived imagery.

They were, in fact, painting nonrepresentational art.

We will explore topics ranging from the emergence of nonrepresentational painting to the persistence of abstraction in contemporary art.

It had been only three years since he had begun painting again after his long postgraduate hiatus, and he'd initiated his return to the medium with nonrepresentational works: the «Carat» series, 2005, in which crystalline diamond shapes float on black backgrounds like oversize stars in a darkened sky.

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While it's true that every artist expresses their own presence as well as the presence of the» subject» no matter what the medium or genre, the sort of rupture that existed between representational (mimetic) and nonrepresentational (gesture or phenomonological) in Carone's generation was so abrupt that it seems a good way of identifying the issues.

Though completely nonrepresentational, her works are borne out of her interest in centrifugal forces in portraits.

In sharp contrast to his architectural drawings, they are nonrepresentational.

These artists use the gesture in a rapid and brushy manner to draw, evoke movement and direction or make a bold and declarative statement, either purely nonrepresentational or in figuration.

The angular forms of the figure in this drawing recall his portrait paintings, and the vertical, architectonic marks also reference his cityscapes and nonrepresentational abstractions.

A mysticism of the senses is indeed brought forth in these paintings by Jenkins, who uses the nonrepresentational to demonstrate the priority of the metaphysical — in life, as well as art.

Though suggestive of the folds in curtains, the brushwork remains resolutely nonrepresentational.

Viewers are encouraged to take one, and the pile is replenished each evening, shrinking and swelling in defiance of the supposed monumentality and nonrepresentational ideals of Minimalism.

Her ambivalent pictorial language can not be deciphered on a linear path, since in her colorful shining paintings, out of nonrepresentational elements, narrative references suddenly emerge.

Each of the artists in this exhibition were chosen because they create nonrepresentational art based on personal narratives that may go unnoticed when viewing the formal elements of the artwork alone.

«Liminal Squared» by Julie Mehretu at the Marian Goodman Gallery In «Liminal Squared,» Julie Mehretu's latest show at the Marian Goodman Gallery on W 57 Street, she presents a small number of huge, nonrepresentational paintings that blur the lines between landscape, architectural drawing, and pure abstraction.

In Linear Abstraction, the SCAD Museum of Art negotiates the status of nonrepresentational work as it exists in the 21st century and includes work in various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formatIn Linear Abstraction, the SCAD Museum of Art negotiates the status of nonrepresentational work as it exists in the 21st century and includes work in various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formatin the 21st century and includes work in various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formatin various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formats.

The art in this exhibition demonstrates that «new art» could be abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective, and / or nonrepresentational.

In Mitchell's case, metonymy involves an empathetic response to nature that led her to use memories of taking her dog to a swimming hole as the impetus for the nonrepresentational, but allusive and expressionistic George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold (1957; Albright - Knox Art Gallery).

As the art in this exhibition demonstrates the «new art» could be abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective, and / or nonrepresentational.

She'd been creating process - oriented, abstract paintings, and the diagrams of seismic events in the book struck her as its own nonrepresentational language.

Though nonrepresentational, Vibrations recalls Whitten's experience attending Jackson's funeral: «He was laid out in a magnificent dark mahogany coffin lined with creamy white satin, surrounded by flowers.

He produced a series of nonrepresentational paintings in which organic forms merge.

In a sensational stylistic turnaround, and the equivalent of inventing fire, Rosenquist went from his generic nonrepresentational work to making, in one try, the seven - by - seven foot black - and - white, photographically based realist painting ZonIn a sensational stylistic turnaround, and the equivalent of inventing fire, Rosenquist went from his generic nonrepresentational work to making, in one try, the seven - by - seven foot black - and - white, photographically based realist painting Zonin one try, the seven - by - seven foot black - and - white, photographically based realist painting Zone.

The work in About Abstraction suggests a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco, and illustrates the enduring vitality and power of nonrepresentational art for well over a century.

WORK Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with confident mark making and nonrepresentational forms that could be said to mimic geometric high - end fashion.

Jones challenges viewers to see beauty in his chaotic, mixed - media works that merge nude subjects with nonrepresentational, abstract elements.

After World War II Baumeister was able to pick up on his earlier success: In the following years he not only championed nonrepresentational painting in Germany but also fuelled artistic exchange within EuropIn the following years he not only championed nonrepresentational painting in Germany but also fuelled artistic exchange within Europin Germany but also fuelled artistic exchange within Europe.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

American abstract painter Suzan Frecon (born 1941) is known for her monumental and balanced nonrepresentational works, in which geometric proportion and a keen attention to color yield deeply satisfying compositions.

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).

Masullo cites Oct. 27, 1977, as a benchmark in his biography; a printmaking instructor explained the concept of negative and positive space, opening up the idea of nonrepresentational art.

Howard Hodgkin's artwork falls in the realm of the semi-abstract: It seems nonrepresentational at first glance, but it often suggests embedded figures that contain depth and mystery, like the palm tree referenced in the title of this painting.

It also demonstrated Stella's continuous departure from the nonrepresentational styled art that the artist favored early on in his career.

Stella is known for pioneering new expressions in minimalism, nonrepresentational painting and hybrid works that bridge the gap between sculpture and two - dimensional painting.

An early practitioner of nonrepresentational painting, Stella gained early, immediate recognition in 1959 with his series of coolly impersonal black - striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.

In 2017 in Krems we could see the exhibition Abstract Painting Now featuring sixty different art positions, and focus on the present - day international state of play of the nonrepresentational easel paintinIn 2017 in Krems we could see the exhibition Abstract Painting Now featuring sixty different art positions, and focus on the present - day international state of play of the nonrepresentational easel paintinin Krems we could see the exhibition Abstract Painting Now featuring sixty different art positions, and focus on the present - day international state of play of the nonrepresentational easel painting.

In post-World War II America, however, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen yearIn post-World War II America, however, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen yearin the popular press for nearly fifteen years.

Lucid Art Foundation (CA), Call for Applicants: Artist - in - Residence 2018 Deadline: November 15th, 2017 The Lucid Art Foundation encourages exploration of nonrepresentational art through multimedia, conceptual, ecological, and interdisciplinary approaches.

I started my calendar paintings — the first of these nonrepresentational paintings after I had made valentines with a bunch of squares and with a heart in them.