Sentences with phrase «making abstract works»

I'm not persuaded that a consistently logical link or thread exists or can be manufactured that will prove to be a unifying theory bringing together figurative and abstract painting (as an aside I have never seen the point of making abstract works that claim direct descent from the figurative).

He was making abstract works then, and he continued to so do for years.

For whatever reason there are many artists right now who are really good at making abstract works of various kinds, whether pure painting or the materials explorations seen here.

I've been working with models quite a lot, making abstract works inspired by models, or a lover.

Abstraktes Bild is one of a large number of paintings that emerged from what is surely the German painter's most prolific period of making abstract works, between 1988 and 1992.

There is a great article by Linda Besemer, «Abstraction: Politics and Possibilities,» which tells a history of activist artists who make abstract work.

In the 1960s he made abstract works comprising sentinel - like columns or slabs surmounted by flared funnel - shaped appendages.

Dancy says, «I make abstract work because I am interested in its ability to operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative.»

I like to make abstract works, but they're always based in reality.

Yong - Ik, younger than the core Dansaekhwa artists, began his career making abstract work, but moved away from what he saw as a sort of amorality linked with abstraction in the 1980s, after a political awakening, he said.

At the same time, knowing that African American artists had for years been largely expected to make works of social realism, and the ambition to make abstract works every bit as important as Helen Frankenthaler or Morris marked a equally revolutionary statement of artistic freedom, the abstractions of Bowling, Gilliam, Thomas and Ed Clark — who created shaped canvases, sweeping paint across them with push - brooms — are no less arresting.

In 1973 Saxon began making abstract work based on the grid format, initially using watercolor on paper and then industrial paint on raw canvas.

He continued: «And that's precisely why I stopped making abstract work — because white figures in pictures representative of ideal beauty and humanity are ubiquitous.

There was no platform for her and Af Klimt, partly because they were women, but also because no - one was making abstract work.

Being in a room full of Philip Guston's paintings is like time traveling — back to both the artist's own era in which the work was made, and to my first attempts to make abstract work, when I was in my early twenties.

While Solano has made abstract works on paper throughout her life (shown on left: Untitled, 2007, collage on paper, ca. 9 3/8 by 9 1/2 in.)

«I was conflicted,» the artist explains, «I was trying to find a clever way to approach painting because I felt like it wasn't acceptable to earnestly make abstract work, even though I was earnest about it.

Moon's Nahan's Forty Winks, a lithographic musing on Korean American dual - consciousness, offers the kind of rich cultural treading and social relevance that make abstracted works in the exhibit, such as Willem de Kooning's lithograph or Ellsworth Kelly's signature geometric shapes, seem like empty reproductions compared to their much more triumphant works in painting.

Interestingly, art historian Peter Selz feels that when Smith made abstract works they had an aspect of figuration, and that his figurative works felt abstract.

For Mason, who has been making abstract work for over five decades, intuition has always been the catalyst.

Instructor - led demonstrations will be geared toward providing the students with both a jumping off point - meant to address how one begins making abstract work, as well as encouraging the student's further development toward creating their own, unique artistic style of painting and visual language.

In 1973, he began exclusively making abstract work based on the grid format, initially using watercolor on paper and then industrial paint on raw canvas.

But at the same time it was all of those experiments that compelled a number of artists like Elizabeth Murray, Joan Snyder, Harriet Korman, and Guy Goodwin to go back to making abstract work in a fairly traditional format.

But also, and practically at the same time, you made abstract works like Composition with 58 Cubes (1953) and Composition with Orange Triangle (1953).

GC: I used to make abstract works and I do make abstract works.

The former hairdresser Mr. Bradford makes abstract work that is nonetheless informed by his cultural experience, especially of recent geopolitical events like the Los Angeles riots or the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. in the 1980s.

Employing a wide variety of materials, from paint to neon light, Francois Morellet began making abstract work around 1950s.

It was a million - dollar commission and he made an abstract work in granite.

And there's a long history of black artists making abstract work, too.

It wasn't easy for the Dublin - born Sean Scully to make the abstract work that he did in the 1980s; given the trend toward figuration at the time, he was paddling hard against the tide.

He makes abstract works in a new way, handmade paintings that are so eye dazzling and surreal as to look like fancy digital prints.

Not exact matches

«I want to take all the process work, all the paper, the dribble, off someone's plate so they can do more decision making and, ultimately, more abstract problem solving.»

I have bought many books and at their ends I make an index of all the facts that concern my work; or, if the book is not my own, write out a separate abstract, and of such abstracts I have large drawers full.»

In comparison, gun control advocates are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the gun control movement feel more relatable.

We could then suppose that when Whitehead developed the idea of the consequent nature in the narrow sense, he created the «primordial nature» as a contrasting term This hypothesis would make sense of the present text of PR without supposing that Whitehead began working on the Gifford Lectures only with a noninteractive God little different from the abstract principle of concretion of SMW» (PS 15: 200).

The few who make abstract capital wealth on the backs of those unemployed hard working producers and manufacturers who get downsized and downgraded, will be President Obama's team's major assault.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

Once you've enjoyed the production — and effectively made a donation to MFM — watch out for HBF's next projects: a theatrical work, another film and, intriguingly, an abstract porcelain cup!

More abstract ideas can work, too: seasons, colours or childhood memories all make excellent starting points for choosing a theme for the celebration.

Third it questions the capacity of philosophical approaches to acknowledge that judgments and decisions are made right, not by conforming to an abstract principle, but by being made, committed to, and seen through in the imperfect world in which we live (a view known as «decisionism» and linked to the work of Max Weber).

«Reading other people's abstracts made me realize what worked and what left me mystified.»

And although research can seem abstract compared with the practical work of teaching, Schoenfeld says the theoretical foundations that academics lay eventually make it into classrooms and curricula.

I was very skeptical because so much of Duras's sad, beautiful work is often too abstract, contradictory, ambiguous, and yet Annaud did manage to make episodes linear, comprehensible, but not trivial.

I am sure I am not alone in that I spend far more time watching abstract films and short experimental videos than I do watching feature films; in part because I make experimental films, and in part because, to my mind, the most risk - taking visual artists don't necessarily work in feature films; but instead work in video art and experimental filmmaking and newly emerging filmic art forms, such as gifs.

The Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, made considerable waves two years ago with an Oscar - winning adaptation, but it is the more abstract, thematically refined original work «A Serious Man» that became the duo's best film in 13 years.

Moreover, we are a place that works to continually improve our model, by taking stock of what we teach, how we teach, and how this community can move towards making inclusion more than just an abstract concept.

An abstract is an extremely important part of the paper because it summarizes the entire paper — it's the front window to show your work to the public and must allow the reviewers to make an intelligent decision about its acceptance.

They are able to focus on abstract goals — like test scores, teacher quality, or school choice — in debates divorced from the challenges of making reforms actually work in situ.

problem solving, classifying and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other, handling long chains of reason to make local progressions, doing controlled experiments, questioning and wondering about natural events, performing complex mathematical calculations, working with geometric shapes

Program leaders steeped in the principles of anti-bias education are able to see diversity as an organizational asset and work intentionally and strategically to make the abstract notion of social justice come alive throughout the program.