It is my fear that until François Morellet carries the same force of conviction for American audiences as Frank Stella, until Hélio Oiticica looms as large as Donald Judd, and until McLaughlin stills the heart has much as Newman, we may still have more to
learn about abstraction than we already know.
Not exact matches
Perhaps teachers don't need generalized theories and
abstractions, but rather ready - to - go strategies — not information
about how children
learn, but the best way to teach fractions; not how children process negative emotion, but what to say to a 3rd grader who is dejected
about his reading.
«Insight, inspiration and influence from one of modern America's true artistic visionaries... For many, it's almost incomprehensible to imagine art after World War II in a world in which Stella never existed... This book charts his extraordinary career... The detail is fantastic, the insight never seen before, and the presentation is a masterpiece in itself... A great entry point for anyone wanting to
learn more
about Stella or minimalism and post-painterly
abstraction in general... A perfect compilation [and] something that both a hardcore aficionado an a keen modern art student would get a lot out of... This book is big, bold and beautifully laid out.»
He also says that Hoyland met Greenberg, Kenneth Noland & Jules Olitski, and
learned about post-painterly
abstraction from them.
I
learned a great deal
about reductive painting that was coming out of Minimalism and geometric
abstraction.
Nor would you have
learnt much
about abstraction from the paintings of Paul Nash.