Sentences with phrase «kind of abstraction»

These pieces seem to be a very different kind of abstraction, maybe connected more to abstract expressionism.

Frankenthaler had become a creator of a new kind of abstraction which became known as Color Field painting, using stains and color to seep into the canvas.

The remapping ability then became co-opted for other kinds of abstraction that humans excel in, like the bouba / kiki metaphor.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

Caitlin Lonegan's paintings exhibit a specific kind of abstraction that avoids the grand, one - off gestures of mid-20th-century abstract expressionism.

Lutz makes a particular kind of abstraction that looks sweetly pretty from a distance and which turns out to be more satisfyingly stringent when you get up close.»

An 11 - artist show at the recently opened One River Gallery in Englewood, New Jersey, it surveys a certain kind of abstraction getting painted in Brooklyn today.

The biggest revelations are her implacable paintings from the 1960s, which blend Pop, Social Realism and several kinds of abstraction and sometimes presage current forms of language art.

It is basically about painting and a new kind of abstraction coming out of the recent new geometry (which was not really about abstraction in the first place).

Through use of incisive colors and collage - like compositions, the artist contributes a unique kind of abstraction to the Neo-expressionist movement.

Suling Wang's paintings address concerns relating to her identity and location as an artist in an attempt to move towards a new kind of abstraction.

The question is why fundamental physics is amenable to this kind of abstraction.

Freddie might reply that the ability to perform the kind of abstraction and symbolic thinking that is useful when figuring out how to hunt or how migration patterns work leads very naturally to the kind of abstraction required to figure out particle physics, but I think this is missing the point.

MM: And then you are not obliged to make any one kind of abstraction or construction.

Buckner said the next step will be to see which other animals are capable of the kind of abstraction assessed in the peephole test, «especially humans, since we don't know when this ability emerges in childhood.

Kindergartners» brains can not comprehend that kind of abstraction.

Other series by Zeng have combined art - historical traditions, often resulting in a kind of abstraction that marries Western and non-Western styles.

This kind of abstraction puts us in mind of the wildness of Kandinsky, the scatter - spray of Malevich.

Has this kind of abstraction to do with ideas of the spiritual?

Gradually she began abstracting from the still - life images, pulling apart the compositions, re-introducing the grid, and arriving at a kind of abstraction where the original image has almost completely disappeared and small geometric units remain supreme, producing an illusion of subtle gradations and nuanced change across the surface.

It was very exciting because some of the things I was always looking for in motifs, like when the wind would shift and break up the reflections in still water, I could accomplish in this kind of abstraction.

This kind of abstraction was looking «basically unsellable,» leaving three bidders to contest instead a safer Rudolf Stingel mock wallpaper painting from 2005 — in highly commercial gold enamel — to a top price of # 386,500, just above the high estimate.

They're the kind of abstraction that anyone can take take something different from.

What their kind of abstraction strived to be is orderly, formal, classic, where all that matters was form, line, color and their own interaction.

This refusal creates a new kind of abstraction: one that removes the self as revelation of truth, yet, by probing these very concerns, retains a dialogue with modernism and its teleology.

Harsha has said of this series, «Slowly I feel my thoughts are moving towards a kind of abstraction while keeping the absurd narrative as its central engagement».

If the show intended to nod at the kinds of abstraction influenced by American painting of the 1960s (Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and others painted on canvas with acrylics in a way that seemed to up the ante of the watercolour tradition), why not chose a late 60s John Hoyland, a 70s Bert Irvin or a recent John McLean rather than this dreary thing?

Jackson feels most at ease with the picturesque: the kind of abstraction that feels like an image whether it reads that way or not.

So now there's two different ways in which this kind of abstraction occurs.

And then the figure itself is a stylized figure, so it's another kind of an abstraction, even though it's a representational image.

I have always liked his barbershop paintings, and the way he uses the paraphernalia of bottles and products, the mirrors and posters and illustrations of haircuts on the walls as a kind of abstraction — they make you think of abstract expressionist Hans Hofman's push - and - pull rectangles of dancing colour, and also at times of Dutch painter René Daniëls» plays between figuration and abstraction.

«The political,» Ligon says, «gets turned, through repetition, into a kind of abstraction.»

In the works of Scott Anderson, we have another kind of abstraction.

And I think the kind of abstraction you do lends itself to those open readings.

Mr. Da Corte (pronounced da - KOR - ta) opts for a kind of abstraction that wows the eye with color, pattern and texture.