Sentences with phrase «legacy of abstract expressionism»

In Shade, Bradford underscores the legacy of abstract expressionism and explores abstraction's power to address social and political concerns.

When Stella entered the art scene, many young American artists were struggling with the legacy of abstract expressionism, which had set the standard for avant - garde art since the late 1940s.

There won't be any more legacy of abstract expressionism, the great avant garde of mid-20th century America, when painters such as Poons are gone.

Moreover, the brushstroke and the choreography of shapes attest to what can be described as a performative act, one that offers a navigable experience for the viewer pointing to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

Shade underscores the legacy of abstract expressionism and Bradford's exploration of abstraction's power to address social and political concerns.

She currently has work in a group show at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn called Another Gesture / Um Outro Gesto / Eine weitere Geste /, which «moves away from the dominant male legacy of abstract expressionism, in which gesture was used to champion the uniqueness of painting as a medium.»

Back in the 1990s, when many in the art world had turned their back on painting as a «dead» medium, Amy Sillman was one of the leaders of an underground revival, combining cartoonish imagery, a draughtsmanlike line, and jazzy color combinations to give new life to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

The catalogue aims to re-evaluate the legacies of abstract expressionism, Art Informel, and Japan's postwar avant - garde from a fresh perspective and presents timely contributions to the field from emerging scholars from the U.S. and Japan.

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The dancers act as Newsome's pens, and echo the legacy of action painting and abstract expressionism.

Recognized for his remarkable ability to demonstrate innumerable variations within what have become the two defining characteristics of his work: white paint and a square frame, he is among a generation of artists who are continuing the legacy and belief in the purity of painting after abstract expressionism.

This sweeping survey exhibition seeks to exhume from historical misappropriation non-objective painting as a movement of European abstraction re-homed in the vertiginous violence of WWII to the streets of Manhattan and as a historical event in the history of art whose legacy singularly influenced the rise of abstract expressionism in the following generation.