Sentences with phrase «language of abstraction»

The standard narrative in 20th - century art history is that painters had to struggle against tradition and conservative institutions to forge a new language of abstraction.

Her work has and continues to define a new and evocative language of abstraction, broadly addressing themes of history, humanity and time.

Brooklyn - based artist Landon Metz has garnered critical attention for his ability to imbue a spare language of abstraction with visual dynamism and sense of movement.

Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic forms are imbued with a remarkable quality of luminosity.

Using the full visual language of abstraction — color, shape, line, mark, and texture — I merge the traditions of Islamic pattern and abstract expressionism.

Instead, they address the fragmentation and recomposition of mass - cultural elements to explore the impact of the adultered language of abstraction into the collective gaze.

These artists also explore a politic of non-visibility through languages of abstraction.

In a prolific career spanning over four decades, Mildred Thompson created paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures using a distinctly unique language of abstraction.

An early champion of Abstract Expressionism, Parsons found her own language of abstraction in the late 1940s, capturing what she termed «The New Spirit.»

In a practice that hovers between the disparate formal languages of abstraction, minimalism and figuration, Weiser's paintings are at once figures in space and flat abstractions.

His obsession, however, is not so much with morbidity — though it surely does not shy away from dealing with the inevitable — but with finding his own truly American language of abstraction.

She uses a spare, personal language of abstraction to explore liminal spaces and unseen forces: wind, history, values, math, gravity, protein, memory.

Since 2008, Sam Moyer has developed a distinctive language of abstraction that considers questions of value, labor and beauty.

The works operate inside a universal language of abstraction, which suggests the reductive rigor of Donald Judd mated to the wit of Marcel Duchamp in its use of common industrial construction materials and found objects.

Her explorations of form and composition, color and gesture give rise to a compelling language of abstraction where her ideas and feelings about the inner life are projected through organic shapes and energetic brushstrokes.

Instead, these women, hailing from the deserts of New Mexico to the streets of Latin America, challenge, echo and respond to each other to forge a daring language of abstraction.

However, beginning with Wassily Kandinsky's pioneering work in pure abstraction and his theorizing about «The Spiritual in Art,» many of the most spiritually ambitious visual artists of the modern age have found that their ambitions are best served by the stripped down, elemental language of abstraction.

Grotjahn's freely intuitive and expressive use of abstract idioms previously associated with the denial of subjective attributes, his catholic and uncommonly reverential embrace of abstract styles, and his own earnest, uncritical creativity suggest that the artist ingests the common language of abstraction as one would a tonic elixir: for nourishment and energy.

A new exhibition explores how a chance encounter with Qi Baishi in Beijing allowed Isamu Noguchi to step out of Brancusi's shadow and find his own language of abstraction Read More

His paintings are mimetic in their allusions to the general hermetic nature of painting, as well as the often shallow language of abstraction, imitating both the act and the affect.

I Was Once Lonelyness is a group exhibition that looks at how today's artists are utilizing differing languages of abstraction to bridge material and immaterial space.

Each artist cultivated their own personal influences to achieve a clear individual style, all rejecting overt representational form in favor of an international pictorial language of abstraction that to this day expresses strong emotional content.

Never Free to Rest brings together works by six artists who utilize the radical language of abstraction to destabilize black representation and systems of control, conjuring new possibilities of perception, imagination, and liberation.

Innes» process, in which the controlled hand of the artist is balanced by the potential chaos of chance, has come to define a new and significant language of abstraction.

Now, as my concern for our planet grows daily, I make art to express this, in the beautiful, mysterious language of abstraction that sometimes crosses into figuration, using my sub-conscious, and love for others and the planet

Through the painterly languages of abstraction and representation, Eric Aho explores the lived, remembered, and imagined experience of landscape.

«So you have flowers being pushed into a very fine language of abstraction.»

Born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1939, Whitten was an active participant in the civil rights movement before moving to New York City in the early 1960s, where he enrolled at Cooper Union and discovered his own experimental language of abstraction.

Jones employs the visual languages of abstraction and minimalism to draw out the parallels and disjunctions between the history of modernism and the history of African American music, particularly jazz.

In searching for the space between action painting and observation, Georganna has found a unique language of abstraction.

Here new languages of abstraction and eccentric methods of making are freely pursued, crossing paths with sculpture, poetry, film, music, performance, design, publishing, craft, and fashion.

Looking at the work of twelve international contemporary artists, PROJECT 2017 is interested in drawing links between artists whose work, through the formal language of abstraction, expresses the transformative processes and aims that lead to its making.

His obsession, however, is not so much with morbidity — but with finding his own truly American language of abstraction.

Rovner's previous bodies of work, which span multiple forms of media, have defined a new and evocative language of abstraction.

They came up as artists, like most of the artists of the New York School — like Jackson Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning, looking at Primitivism, looking at organic abstraction, exploring Surrealism in the 1940's and defining their personal language of abstraction.

And believing that the only way to serve the people was through the universal language of abstraction, Popova and Rodchenko rejected even the barest of symbolism, filling the world with their geometric constructivism and its legacy of concentric circles.

Some of the greatest Modernists, including the painter Georges Rouault, the poet T. S. Eliot, and the composer Igor Stravinsky, found in the language of abstraction, fragmentation, and primitivism ways to reconnect ancient religious truths with the conditions of the modern....

He says: «The symbol [i.e. mythological symbolism] awakens intuition where the language of abstraction can only offer rational explanation.

Only the symbol can combine a wide variety of notions into a single total impression; the language of abstraction, on the other hand, arranges them in succession and presents them to the mind piecemeal, whereas they ought to be presented to the soul at a single glance.

The symbol addresses every side of the human spirit, whereas the language of abstraction is bound to confine itself to a single thought.

The symbol strikes a chord in the very depths of the soul, whereas the language of abstraction touches only the surface of the mind like a passing breeze.

Craig Taylor's newest paintings, for his second CB1 solo exhibition, Enface, combine the language of abstraction with the format of a portrait or bust.

This work insist that those two things are not separate in ways in which Helen Frankenthaler talked about her body; in the ways that Sam Gilliam talks about his body while negotiating and manipulating the language of abstraction, in the ways that Bob Thompson talks about abstraction.

Evocative, elusive, and exuding a quiet confidence, Caivano's paintings present a series of explorations of the medium and the language of abstraction.

She is most interested in playing with the language of abstraction.

His paintings and installations, though engaged with the language of abstraction, are infused with personal as well as world history.

A third strand of works by artists such as Jane Lee and Jeremy Sharma are responses to the language of abstraction, each artist focusing on the transformation of the surface of the painting and where the evocation of mood takes precedence.