Not exact matches
Stellar enables tailor -
made ICOs
by providing base
abstractions such as accounts, tokens, payments, offers (to exchange one token type for another), and atomic transactions consisting of multiple operations.
Thus, although his starting point in physical nature and individual psychology is nonformal, he
makes logical and mathematical departures from this position to explore formal possibilities achieved
by abstraction.
For our own age, overly captivated
by abstraction, the task of philosophical reflection is often to reverse the process and recover living experience» living experience of God, who transcends our human conceptions and confronts us as a philosophy - defying Other even as He addresses us and
makes Himself available to us.
Without a claim to «the Way,» or
by denying that this claim can even be
made, faith becomes an
abstraction.
By contrast, Sartre's text is a structure
made up of coined
abstractions and stipulative definitions.
From this analysis emerged Whitehead's own interpretation of philosophy, whose job, as he saw it, was not to continue to carry further the discrimination
made by our consciousness, but rather, conversely, Whitehead required that philosophy connects the later
abstractions of consciousness with the original totality of experience (PR 14f.
This
makes sense of Hartshorne's contention in his chapter «
Abstraction the Question of Nominalism,» that the novel forms emergent in a creative event are not determinate before the event but become determinate
by decision in the event; to deny this is to deny any real meaning to creativity.
He surprised his questioner
by replying «No» and added that there was always a risk in Catholic and Protestant theology of
making Christ too abstract and an «
abstraction» does not need a mother.
By making abstraction of the strict odor - induced patterns, it would be possible to
make associations and achieve a global concept.
For example, the hydrogen bonding interaction between the phenolic — OH and the o - methoxy groups in curcumin influences the O - H bond energy and H atom
abstraction by free radicals, thus
making it a better scavenger of free radicals compared to other curcuminoids such as BDMC.
While studying in the Piscataway communities, LAMB students build upon the skills and content mastered in the lower elementary curriculum and
make the passage to
abstraction — becoming less dependent on Montessori materials as they internalize the concepts represented
by the materials.
The term is bedeviled
by abstractions, but the concept is straightforward: help students learn how to manage their emotions, be kind to others and
make sensible decisions and they will do better in school, work and life.
«The problem can not be solved
by just tying scientific
abstractions to classroom examples; education students need sustained practice in
making those connections.»
I just finished reading a post
by Lindsay Buroker that, among other things,
makes me think that the market is changing too fast even for e-books to offer pertinent advice, thus my wish for a fairly high level of
abstraction — one that might have a hope of surviving some winds of change.
Developed originally
by Cellar Door Games, Rogue Legacy
makes it's journey to the Vita via
Abstraction Games (the ones behind Hotline Miami) as a 2D platformer with rogue - like elements thrown in.
Developed and published
by Abstraction Games, 8 - bit Adventure Anthology is a compilation featuring faithful remakes of three of the best 8 - bit point & click adventure games ever
made.
It is too diverse, too much a collection of competing voices to be pinned down precisely, in terms of what it could be said to stand for; however,
by generalising wildly, it might be possible to say that it represents a point around which certain attitudes towards
abstraction have coalesced: one being, that the attempt to build on the discoveries of Modernism is still worth
making; and another, that any such attempt can not be reductive, only expansive, ruling nothing out in terms of form, colour and material.
Yet she and other women in postwar
abstraction were also exploding painting, with divided and shaped canvas that could
make Frank Stella seem all the more prescient — or downright tame
by comparison.
Amongst our favorite artworks being exhibited here are Marc Dennis» realistic still - life painting of luscious flowers at Dallas» Cris Worley Fine Arts, Francis Upritchard's gesturing bronze figure at London «s Kate MacGarry, Jason Middlebrook's geometric
abstraction on an elm plank at New York «s Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Luis Gispert's
abstraction made by embedding gold chains in a field of black stones at Palma de Mallorca's Lundgren Gallery, and Klara Kristalova's ceramic sculpture of animals in a tub at Lehmann Maupin, with galleries in New York and Hong Kong.
«
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar
Abstraction» features about 100 works
by more than 50 artists.
The inspiration to use the typographic — a ready -
made form — may have come from Nicholas Krushenick's graphic
abstractions inspired
by Matisse's cut - outs, Japanese woodcuts and comics; Jasper Johns» «alphabets» and «numerals,» which were shown in his groundbreaking debut solo show at Leo Castelli in 1958; and Willem de Kooning's black - and - white paintings «Orestes» and «Zurich» (both 1947).
On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged
abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind
by this renewable energy source.
Made between 1998 and 2000, these bright, colorful
abstractions were inspired
by the artist's garden in Bridgehampton, New York, where he lived and worked.
Somehow he
made peace with
abstraction, but he had to do it
by putting human presence, in all its beautiful imperfection, into the forefront once again.
Other recent group exhibitions include Revolution in the
Making: Abstract Sculpture
by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2016);
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar
Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); and Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1900 - 1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017).
Other works such as the series Blushes 2000 - ongoing,
made without a camera
by manipulating the effects of light directly on photographic paper, show how the artist's work with
abstraction continues to push the boundaries and definitions of the photographic form.
2009 This is a Test, curated
by Sam Gordon, ACP @ X Initiative, New York, NY The Open, Deitch, Long Island City, NY Aberrant Abstraction, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and the Ready - Made, The Kitchen, New York, NY Oculus Imaginationis, Horton Gallery, New York, NY The Best is Yet to Come, Galleria Glance, Turino, Italy Rattled By the Rush, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL DiSoRgAnIzEd (Another 24 Hours), curated by Jacob Robichaux, Museum 52, New York,
by Sam Gordon, ACP @ X Initiative, New York, NY The Open, Deitch, Long Island City, NY Aberrant
Abstraction, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS Besides, With, Against, And Yet:
Abstraction and the Ready -
Made, The Kitchen, New York, NY Oculus Imaginationis, Horton Gallery, New York, NY The Best is Yet to Come, Galleria Glance, Turino, Italy Rattled
By the Rush, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL DiSoRgAnIzEd (Another 24 Hours), curated by Jacob Robichaux, Museum 52, New York,
By the Rush, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL DiSoRgAnIzEd (Another 24 Hours), curated
by Jacob Robichaux, Museum 52, New York,
by Jacob Robichaux, Museum 52, New York, NY
Rothko to Richter: Mark -
Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell spans the years 1950 to 1990, an era whose commitment to artistic experimentation is rivaled only
by the first decades of the 20th century, when
abstraction was invented.
There is a great article
by Linda Besemer, «
Abstraction: Politics and Possibilities,» which tells a history of activist artists who
make abstract work.
Thinking about
abstraction's continued relevance may require me to at least mention Zombie Formalism, («Formalism because this art involves a straightforward, reductive, essentialist method of
making a painting and Zombie because it brings back to life the discarded aesthetics of Clement Greenberg»), if only to suggest that the term, coined
by artist - critic Walter Robinson, quoted in brackets above, seems to refer more to the market than to the art and may appear more pertinent in the USA than in the UK where alternative modernisms have sometimes held more sway than the version associated with Greenberg and Fried.
At Weiss Berlin, four beautiful soft - edged
abstractions made since 1980
by Edward Clark.
Villar Rojas's installation at the Serpentine Sackler therefore provides the perfect chronological extension to Merz's conception of the non-heroic in art
by prioritising the site and the viewer, while still
making reference to two of the older artist's key concerns: the figuration -
abstraction binary and the focus on «raw» materials.
This year, «High Times, Hard Times» at the National Academy saw
abstraction making it through the period
by loosening up.
Daniel Canogar has an eerie, wall - sized cross between a crowd scene and a literal crawl space, Casey Reas again takes computer instruction to a space between geometric
abstraction and cyberspace, and Mark Napier creates a «mash - up» of world flags that
makes an Alighiero Boetti mapping look colorless
by comparison.
Organized
by former National Gallery of Art curator Ruth Fine, in cooperation with PAFA's Robert Cozzolino and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, the exhibition reveals the range and power of his
abstraction through nearly 100 paintings and works on paper
made between the early 1930s through the 1970s.
Queens Museum of Art IL LEE: Ballpoint Drawings A selection of drawings — striking indigo and black ink
abstractions, all done exclusively in ballpoint pen, on paper and canvas —
makes up this engrossing show
by the veteran Korean artist Il Lee.
I'm the kind of painter I am, and I'm influenced
by what I'm influenced
by, so I'm never going to
make a solid black square and call it
abstraction.
Still, the divisions
by curators
makes it almost impossible to identify artists, and the ragtag installations look less like art than the remains of an unforgettably awful party — pills, woolens, papier maché ice cream cones, Styrofoam peanuts, used electronics, sci - fi illustrations, softly glowing
abstractions, and (my one favorite) treadmills with brightly painted rubber.
The show includes photo silkscreens with Western imagery
by Servane Mary; pieces relating to the movement of vehicles and images
by Virginia Overton; an unusual extension of Olivier Mosset's found
abstraction through repurposed oyster collection burlap bags and a»70s Shovelhead motorcycle; the premiere of a short video
by John Miller
made with Richard Hoeck as part of their mannequin collaboration series, and a new video
by Michel Auder.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center presents The Painted World, an exhibition featuring work
by twenty - three painters for whom
abstraction offers a means to convey a world of their own
making.
2017 Third Space: Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Magnetic Fields: Conversations in
Abstraction by Black Women Artists 1960 - Present, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL Approaching
Abstraction: African American Art from the Permanent Collection, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar
Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Time Is N ♀ w, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY MIDTOWN, Salon 94 at Lever House, New York, NY
In the paintings I've been
making in the last five years, the «Scenic
Abstractions,» the attitude of a shape is indicated
by its edges; how well it gets on with its neighbors and its surrounding environment is knowable
by the texture of its borders — if it is rough or refined, feathered, blended, or hard - edged.
In 1974, she
made a definitive formal shift from
abstraction by fully embracing figuration.
Although many different styles are encompassed
by the term, there are certain underlying principles that define modernist art: A rejection of history and conservative values (such as realistic depiction of subjects); innovation and experimentation with form (the shapes, colours and lines that
make up the work) with a tendency to
abstraction; and an emphasis on materials, techniques and processes.
The most obvious comment
made by Young's series is the reinvention of action painting (the title Greeting Card comes from a 1944 Jackson Pollock painting) and the continuation of
abstraction through conceptual means long after the end - game conclusions of formalism.
From the same period,
Abstraction (1949 — 50) revealed the potent religious symbolism that permeated the artist's iconography, which spans from lust and perdition to salvation,
making it a modern take on the reflections on the human condition rendered
by the masters of classical painting.
By the 1950s,
abstraction had been embraced as the progressive mode, and Mr. Bloom never
made completely abstract work.
The exhibition brings together almost 70 paintings
by some 40 artists, showing how the act of
making a representational painting has been redefined over the past century, following the emergence of
abstraction.
Included in the exhibition will be the work Sluices No. 9 (1980)
by Maurer, an example of her experimental print
making which also demonstrates her interest in the rigour of geometric
abstraction.
Works from the collection are now on display in an exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, which similarly draws attention to the important developments
made by black artists over the past 70 years or so, specifically relating to
abstraction.