Sentences with phrase «looking at an abstract painting»

When one looks at an abstract painting, he may be confused.

A critic once wrote that my work asked the same question of its viewer that John Q. Public would ask when looking at an abstract painting.

The result is a creative experience that viewers themselves undergo as they look at an abstract painting.

But I certainly didn't expect anyone to look at the abstract paintings and say, «Look, here are those people,» or, «That's a leg over there.»

Asked about the difference between abstract and figurative art, she said: «Many people would like to know how to look at abstract painting because they may be used to looking at figurative painting.

There aren't many people who like to look at abstract painting or who want to bother with its implications.

You can look at any abstract painting and you could localize it.

Reading the discussion between Harry Hay and Simon Gardam they talk about «feeling» space in abstract painting which actually resonates and could help to experience space as abstract rather than figurative when looking at abstract painting.

Yet when you look at an abstract painting, this sort of information is fundamentally irrelevant.

What sort of detachment do we experience when we look at abstract painting today?

Barnett Newman had very specific opinions about how viewers should look at his abstract paintings.

On the one hand, the art world tends to look at abstract painting as being traditional, even old - fashioned, which it is; when the paint was wet on those early Kandinskys, it was practically in the Victorian era, the space age still half a century away.

Not exact matches

Artistically, the game looks like an abstract painting at times while other moments are like a clear, colorful breath of fresh air.

So I was not looking at abstract expressionist paintings, but I was looking at all that color and pattern and repetition in the tile work, and it gave me this insight into an experience that is not narrative.

Art fairs are often associated with abstract painting (much of it looking the same), stunt pieces (almost instantly forgettable), and neon sculptures (brightly and, in many cases, annoying), but, at this year's Armory Show in New York, some galleries had on offer works that explicitly addressed the political situation in the United States.

Lots of artists try to make abstract paintings that look primitive, but Walker is one of the few to succeed at it.

Anyone who has looked at a lot of abstract painting will suspect that, rather than transcending creative struggle, Lawlor has learned to camouflage it.

What shocks us in part is the fact that it is a sculpture at all — it looks like an abstract painting created under the influence of, say, free - form jazz.

Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.

Looking at painters who came to prominence in the 1960s,»70s and»80s, this book shows how abstract painting has developed in the wake of postwar movements such as Art Informel.

But if you look at a lot of this abstract painting and you put it against the history of abstraction, or you look at this figurative painting and you put it against the history of straight - up, Modernist figurative painting, a lot of these artists are not really offering anything that adds much.

We can say that it is abstract, non-objective, about colour and form and our perception of those things, but we live in an age of plastic, so much more baggage to look at paintings with.

Arranged thematically, the exhibition looks at her surrealist paintings of the 1930s and the abstract works of the 60s, as well as her anti-war cartoons.

As someone whose job is at least in part to make these distinctions, how can you tell the difference between a genuinely good abstract painting versus, as you say, something that is very salable — something that simply looks like an abstract painting?

THIERRY GOLDBERG Looking at Stas Volovik's small, abstract paintings, you might guess that they were made in the 1930s by a previously unknown follower of Kandinsky's late work.

He liked the effect, and made it his own, combining the wiped marks with sprayed loops to create complex abstract fields that began to look, squinted at from a distance, like black and white reproductions of paintings by Franz Kline or de Kooning.

Tagged with abstract painting, Alex Hubbard, art, looking at art, Mondrian / Nicholson: In Parallel, Piet Mondrian, Simon Lee Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery

EC»Cause if you look at that painting [Lady with Red Piano], there are abstract areas.

A new group show looks at the ways in which 17 contemporary artists are approaching the topic of gender through painting, picking apart the idea of the binary in ways that are figurative, expressive and abstract.

Lines, colors, shapes are arranged in space and while at first the composition doesn't seem to stand out in any specific way, what you're in fact looking at is what art historians consider to be the very first non-objective or abstract painting of the 20th century.

Established Hamptons Artist Anne Raymond opens her East Hampton Studio to present a behind - the - scenes look at the monotype process and the making of contemporary abstract paintings.

Emily Amy Gallery's current exhibition, The Feminine in Abstract Painting, provides a look at four drastically different female artists working within the realm of abstract pPainting, provides a look at four drastically different female artists working within the realm of abstract paintingpainting.

Surprisingly, what I ended up finding out was that even if the forms came from something, they ended up weirdly looking like the abstract paintings that I had done before I started looking at things.

The National Portrait Gallery, meanwhile, looks at the origins of art photography via the work of four celebrated figures of the Victorian era, and Tate Modern takes things further with Shape of Light, which entwines the histories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to now and positions work by the likes of Man Ray and Thomas Ruff against abstract paintings, sculptures and installations.

Although at first glance his pieces look like abstract paintings, all of them are composed of minimalistic characters and hidden stories.

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Hoyland was not interested in symmetry, balance, all - overness, chevrons, monochrome, a mechanical look, or modular repetition — which are all characteristics of American abstract paintings being done at the same time by artists such as Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, and Ellsworth Kelly.

When you're looking for inspiration for an abstract painting, you need to change the way you look at the world around you.

This will be an interesting chance to get a closer look at the process of a prolific abstract painter in a smaller, gallery setting, as the New Work show will be an assortment of gouache color studies, 2D drawings, and large - scale paintings.

«At Music and Art,» Mason recalls, «they said, imagine, your mother is an abstract painter — they thought a painting should look like Ben Shahn.»

I get the feeling looking at this painting, that I am looking at a field of action that exists behind the plane of the canvas, and I think that is an extremely interesting thing for an abstract painting to be doing, if indeed it remains just that, an abstract painting.

«When one looks at Lewis's abstract painting of this era... especially «Too Much Aspiration,» there is a feeling of «rootlessness» as if... Lewis is signifying that there is really no place in America for a Negro with «too much aspiration.»»

For Australian abstract painters to look back at this moment, and compare it to their own, could prove quite beneficial, and force a complete reversal of what we are always taught, that Blue Poles and other paintings like it signify the end of the line for painting, the last port of call before the inevitable disembodiment into performance and conceptual art.

It would be to a degree perverse to look at Thiebaud's famous paintings of cakes, pies and ice cream cones as abstractions, but it is their abstract quality that raises them above the acres of canvases painted by contemporary realists who get so caught up in depicting detail that they lose all compositional structure.

The irregular punctuation of rounded windows at the University of Pennsylvania looks like a prototype of abstract painting.

Miller directs light, funnels it, and introduces liquids and filters to make what look like ethereal abstract paintings with some kind of nearly supernatural glow at their core.

«When I paint an abstract picture,» Gerhard Richter has said, «I neither know in advance what it is meant to look like, nor, during the painting process, what I am aiming at and what to do about getting there.

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At the same time, there is something else in Diebenkorn's art that is important for us to take account of - its west coast, Californian character, which gives to even his most abstract paintings the look and feel of something pastoral.

The climax of «Rift Raft» was the massive diptych of the same name (above)-- more than 18 feet wide — on one side depicting the recent wave of immigrants struggling to come ashore in Europe, and on the other, a privileged bubble of female nudes, abstract paintings and art dealers looking at their phones.