Sentences with phrase «insist on abstract painting»

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And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting on being read as an abstract painting.

These abstract qualities generate a form of psychological impressionism, reanimating a more than century - old tradition of landscape painting that insists on temporal and subjective experiences above representational content.

So when Wright has completed the painstaking process of painting one of his neat abstract patterns on to a wall, ceiling or piece of coving in the gallery space, he insists that after an appointed viewing time, it must all be painted over again.

«Travels always insist on the unfamiliar against the familiar, the foreign against that which is known and comfortable,» says American abstract artist Robert Kelly, on the inspiration behind his paintings on view at Sophia Contemporary Gallery, London - his first solo exhibition in the UK.

However, I think she is prevented from acknowledging the complexity of this aspect of abstract painting because of her insistence on limiting it to being what institutional critique insists it must be, a dead medium for which new uses must be found and they will be about writing and reading not about painting and seeing.