Sentences with phrase «into pure abstraction»

Included are nine medium - sized paintings — in oil on canvas or linen, from the last five years — that attest to Ayhens's command of her pictorial means: elastic or distorted space, a distinctive palette, and a willingness to allow realism to dissolve into pure abstraction.

During this time Kandinsky shifted from the prismatic Expressionism of Der Blaue Reiter into pure abstraction and from easel paintings into set designs and murals.

In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant - garde into pure abstraction.

The Pictographs, begun in 1941, laid the foundation for Gottlieb's development into pure abstraction.

What intrigues more here is his deployment of more muted tones that, in certain photographs, point towards a move into pure abstraction.

Speaking of the technique to 1968 Magazine, he said: «I wish to find the edge of rational representation, to render the moment right before a composition disintegrates into pure abstraction.

I wish to find the edge of rational representation, to render the moment right before a composition disintegrates into pure abstraction.

The effect is that of endless distorted feedback loop that deconstructs representational imagery into pure abstraction.

They are «The Chair: CT, CB» and «The Chair: CT, N» where the figure and the chair are all chopped up into pure abstraction, but all the formal elements truly stand out.

In one of the rooms, two large - scale paintings of the aforementioned type might vaguely allude to landscapes, albeit ones so distorted that they collapse into pure abstraction.

She is one of the greatest painters ever — by way of Van Gogh, Cézanne, and on into pure abstraction.

McLaughlin confronts the Western preoccupation with the image by isolating and amplifying perception and space into pure abstractions with a profound connection to nature.

Not exact matches

See also the runway show in which Jesse walks out last, in prime position: an event that Refn and Braier push into pure, pulsating abstraction.

The book is divided into sections by topic: neo-expressionism, pure abstraction, landscape art, the figure, post-feminism, and more, and the 500 + images are by artists of every background.

Picabia outmaneuvered much of Surrealism in works like Untitled (Spanish Woman and Lamb of the Apocalypse)(1927), from his Transparenices series of paintings that takes him through the 1930s, then into the unapologetic kitsch «realism» of Spring (c. 1942 - 43), and, finally, to the anything - but - pure «abstraction» of what would become his last works, paintings like Selfishness (1950) and the aptly - titled Salary Is the Reason for Work (1949).

Following the developments of Cubist and Futurist painting — in which the natural world was translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines, and angles — Russia was one of the primary breeding grounds of pure abstraction, with Wassily Kandinsky doing much to popularize geometric art before gravitating to the gestural camp in later years.

Working initially as a painter of surrealistic carnival scenes and cityscapes, he later came into contact with Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning, which ushered in a dramatic shift in his practice towards purer abstraction.

Abstract art is often divided into two categories, Semi-Abstraction, in which the imagery is still tethered to figurative shapes or styles, and Pure Abstraction, in which the visual elements are completely independent.

Mysticism isn't new to art, having prompted (among other things) the emergence of pure abstraction into the Modernist lexicon more than a century ago.

45 painters fall into the «pure abstraction» category mentioned above.

An homage to Callas, Warhol's status as a devotee of the opera diva, and the avant - garde tradition of musique concrète, this abstraction of music turns the operatic melody into pure, hard sound, and emotion into something obdurate and concrete, before the song reemerges.

Charlotte Smith's artistic practice has culminated in 20 years of exploration into pure process - driven abstraction.

Charlotte Smith has created an artistic practice that has culminated in 20 years of exploration into pure process - driven abstraction.

He moved into abstraction because, like music, it represented pure experience; there was «no need for interpretation».

Brenna Youngblood (b. 1979, Riverside, CA) incorporates her own photographs, representational fragments, and found objects, such as wallpaper and book pages, into her textured, atmospheric paintings that read between pure abstraction and a slice of life.

Known for her «dot paintings» these buoyant orbs have now evolved into glistening amorphous shapes that ask the viewer to experience the sublime curiosity of pure, unadulterated abstraction.

The work I'm doing now is me backing out of pure abstraction and color field painting into something more figurative.

Instead his deepening investigations into material, process, geometry and colour, and his increasing exposure to the artists working in New York City at this time, lead to his first early pure abstractions.

Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna then water - based acrylic paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open color.

He boiled shadows and shapes down into abstractions — monochromes, just one strong, pure, bright color.

Sharrow has been thought of often as being a part of the «Chicago School» of imagist painters, fitting generationally into the «Monster Roster» group of artists from that city, including the most well - known of her classmates who lead the charge of image and ideas over pure abstraction, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero.

The artist is constantly trying to capture the ethereal that he aims to reveal into lucid form, to celebrate pure abstraction.

«This move across the Atlantic and Bowling's subsequent immersion in New York's creative scene marked a defining moment in the painter's career: his break with figuration and entrance into a new world of abstraction — or what he has called «pure painting,»» says Hales associate director Sasha Gomeniuk.

I do perceive a split between women who are doing some form of pure abstraction who either claim that they are beyond gender issues or who want to somehow insert the concept of femininity into their work.

Early works from the 1990s are brought into a dialogue with recent paintings, demonstrating that the entire work follows a dialectic that discards the conventional distinction between abstraction and representation, and instead treats the subject of each painting in such a formalised manner that it becomes a mere artefact, a transformation of reality into a pure and autonomous expression through painting.

Like Rothko, his formats are often divided into horizontal bands; that is where the similarity ends, however, as Mashile eschews pure abstraction and populates his images with loosely - rendered structures and abodes, hybridised figures and accoutrements of rural life.

This move across the Atlantic and Bowling's subsequent immersion in New York's creative scene marked a defining moment in the painter's career: his break with figuration and entrance into a new world of abstraction — or what he has called «pure painting».

Especially after Warhol refocused on painting in the late 1970s and 1980s with series like Shadows, Oxidations, and Rorschachs, he transformed pure abstraction into an impure product that opened up new directions.

Although some abstract expressionists continued to experiment with pure abstraction, others began to reintroduce recognizable subject matter into their canvases.

Thomas incorporated aspects of their styles — strong design, large - scale format, and pure colors — into her abstractions.