Sentences with phrase «lot about abstraction»

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From Matisse she turned her attention to Mondrian, whose abstractions taught her «to start with the thing itself», then to Monet's expansive water lilies, then to the Futurists («There's lots I don't like about Futurism... but it was certainly moving towards abstract painting»).

Their choices say a lot, too, about their rival hopes for abstraction.

The grisaille abstractions Christopher Wool has been making since about 2006 share a lot with Oehlen's work.

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I've been thinking a lot about cosmological orgies, about matter being created — they look like these messy sex scenes happening in space, but they're really just abstractions.

Golding writes that «It says a lot about the nature of abstraction that it was the vision of these artists and not their natural gifts that enabled them to turn themselves into great artists.»

A sheet of darkness studded with gears and knobs like watching eyes, it says a lot of what abstraction can say about limitless surveillance and push - button annihilation.

«If you think about the contemporary landscape, you see a lot of younger artists experimenting with this sort of deconstructivist style of abstraction, which is considered sort of post-canvas and about prying apart the physical elements of the canvas,» DiQuinzio says.