Sentences with phrase «lot of abstract painting»

This sounds a bit like the rehash of sixties modernist tropes that goes on in a lot of abstract painting at the moment, which is nowhere near as good as the original, which in itself was not up to all that much anyway...

My 1993 was looking at a lot of abstract painting from different generations, discovering amazing artists like Miguel Angel Rios and Charles Long, and reading two great books of the early 1990s, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces and John Ashbery's Flow Chart.

You know, I was never cool enough for a lot of abstract painting exhibitions in the Eighties.

Very light touch compared to a lot of abstract painting, with soft but vibrant colours and a more controlled energy.

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.

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

Even in grad school, there wasn't a lot of abstract painting.

Not exact matches

A lot of lipsticks promise that they're long - wearing, but in reality they smear or fade before you finish your first glass of wine or turn the lower half of your date's face into an abstract painting after one kiss.

However, a lot of prints can make you look like an abstract painting gone wrong.

Hans Arp created mainly organic abstract sculptures, but also Dada poetry, paintings, graphic art, collages and a lot of art - statements in his many art - publications.

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

The painting reminds me a lot of a sidewalk artist's pictograms of some one's name, abstracted and blown - up.

I think the skeptics, at least over the past five years or so, were proven right with regard to the artists who are making abstract paintings that are perfect for the way they are consumed: They make a lot of them, there's a green one and a blue one and a pink one, and you can collect them all like toys in a Cracker Jack box, which is what they're all about.

We've had a lot of younger artists through and people do know him, they have been students of Gilliam, but it's also important for the younger generations to see these works especially as abstract painting has entered the center of the conversation again.

On Wednesday, Phillips held a day sale of 178 lots of 20th - century and contemporary art, and conspicuous by their absence were the «process - based» abstract paintings that had been the subject of lucrative resales at Phillips in the boom year of 2014.

To be honest, I wonder what a lot of people see in abstract painting.

So did a lot of baby boomers, staring in the mirror not at abstract painting but at their own loose abs.

Like a lot of people, my fantasy when I was younger was to be the kind of painter that that made big abstract paintings.

Berggruen pulled it off in two months, which is a lot of shipping expense and insurance and hassle, especially considering that just three of the works are for sale, a cake painting by Thiebaud, an abstract by Frankenthaler and a steel I - beam sculpture.

And my abstract paintings had a very cartoony line and I was interested in finding the gap between abstract paintings and cartoons which they share a lot, and I was a big fan of Phillip Guston and Willem de Kooning who both had very cartoony lines.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

This differentiation between abstract and figurative is an extreme oversimplification; I am interested in a lot of figurative painting but I am placed in a lineage of abstract painting.

By the end, by say»57 and»58 there were lots of exhibitions of second - rate abstract painting of which your gallery had perhaps fewer, shall we say, of this kind of fashionable I know fashionable's a bad word.

Being open ended, the phrases did not convey a clear message but rather gave food for thought to the viewer which gave them a highly contemplative and poetic quality, which merges this body of work into the more abstract future series of paintings that the current lot belongs to.

PC: Well, a lot and, because it took de Kooning years before he could finish paintings and that was part of the whole thing, of being an abstract expressionist in the forties and fifties.

I've never seen Hernández's paintings in the flesh, but I've heard a lot of good things about the Spanish artist mostly known for his large scale abstract painting and his interesting (and contrasting) use of colour.

Case in point, Sotheby's star lot was a Gerhard Richter abstract painting of the type that has driven noteworthy prices for nearly a decade.

horizontal composition, whole canvas is filled, very colorful and abstract, action painting, a lot of movement, brushstrokes are bold and raw Aristotle Forrester (American, b. 1993)...

Although I was seeing a lot of photographs I admired, the lead up to this work was abstract painting.

The whole Abstract Expressionist movement was made up of a very polyglot group, a lot of whom weren't painting abstract expressionistically at all.

I knew a lot of painters, abstract expressionists, who used to paint to jazz music.

Sotheby's starts the year off with what could be considered to be the strongest Contemporary Sale ever, where one of the top lots alongside Francis Bacon's self - portrait and Gerhard Richter's abstract painting is a painting by Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese, which comes from a fantastic Swedish collection belonging to Anna - Stina Malmborg - Höglund and Gunnar Höglund.

The question with a Gottlieb exhibition — such as this superbly installed show, with a lot of nice breathing room — is whether his work will look better or weaker in the context of 40 to 50 years of subsequent artists» derivative, and then dismissive, abstract painting.

True to the parameters of abstract expressionist painting, you will find a lot of gestural paint strokes and thickly applied paint, usually favoring line over shape, but each artist represented here is more than a token of the movement, and worthy of inclusion.

I'd argue that it's less interesting to see a Gerhard Richter painting paired with another Richter painting (abstract or figurative), or hung with a work from the same period made by an artist on the other side of the Atlantic (which is what lots of curators and collectors do now).

Both abstract expressionists and the Beats listened to jazz and drank a lot of wine, sometimes together in the same clubs, but that doesn't mean Pollock, who wanted to make paintings that could be hung with Picasso and Matisse, was Beat.

The commercial market in Santa Fe is undeniably one that caters to consumers of the regional Southwest aesthetic and repetitive, tourist - bait abstract painting to the exclusion of a lot of other tastes.

A lot of times the titles already exist in the popular culture realm; I hope abstract painting does not have to be excluded from that.

Rinder chose to open with a show of abstract painting because «I feel it's a neglected area of contemporary art practice these days, and I feel there's a lot of extraordinary work being done,» he says.

Fans of abstract expressionist art, like many of the paintings shown in this issue, can find lots to relate to in fashion, what with all the layering, color combinations and mixing and matching going on.

A new generation of professional artists comes of age making lots of painting, much of it abstract, mostly vertical in format (very iPhone communicable).

A lot of this kind of art, as well as commercially successful abstract painting, is now coming out of Los Angeles.

Paintings, including abstracts by Mr. Smith, Mr. Lund and Mr. Ostrowski, will also make up more than two - thirds of the 59 lots at Sotheby's Oct. 17 evening contemporary auction in London, timed to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair.

He's made multiple casts of his rectangular cardboard «masks» in bronze and then used them as canvases for some energetically messy abstract painting that's often woven together with a lot more subtlety than it seems.

JS: At that time, when I visited your studio, you were making abstract paintings with a lot of pattern and tessellation.

I'll concede that no - one is being «superceded»; but show me where there is lots of new abstract painting that's better, or ANY abstract sculpture that's better, than that being made by Brancaster artists.

I make that last comment because I was brought up short recently on seeing a reproduction of Gear's Composition, painted in1949, which looks exactly like a lot of «Contemporary» abstract painting.

What I know for sure is that looking at Lady Bate Dudley of 1787 gives me a very similar queasy feeling to looking at a lot of bad abstract painting.

There are lots of abstract painters around at the moment who love this stuff, and who are milking it, and bit by bit, unambitiously hollowing out abstract painting until it is borderline meaningless.

CJM: Yes, a lot of the abstract expressionists, and then, later, people who were just painting abstractly, felt closely aligned to jazz musicians.