Sentences with phrase «making nonrepresentational»

Norman Lewis and Beauford Delaney, for instance, were making nonrepresentational works by the mid-1940s when Abstract Expressionism was also developing.

You can see how he brought to his paintings of still lifes, figures, and landscapes lessons he learned during his years making nonrepresentational paintings, one of the qualities that set his finest efforts apart from those of his friends and colleagues.

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To make present is to refuse to represent one's subject entirely — whether the artist employs a representational or a nonrepresentational, a clear or an obscuring, technique.

These artists use the gesture in a rapid and brushy manner to draw, evoke movement and direction or make a bold and declarative statement, either purely nonrepresentational or in figuration.

Il Lee works serve as primers on nonrepresentational form, active mark making and a conceptual yet hands - on approach to contemporary drawing.

The show also included a group of the small, nonrepresentational «ab - stractscapes» that McNeil made from the mid-to late 1960s, often en plein air.

In a sensational stylistic turnaround, and the equivalent of inventing fire, Rosenquist went from his generic nonrepresentational work to making, in one try, the seven - by - seven foot black - and - white, photographically based realist painting Zone.

WORK Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with confident mark making and nonrepresentational forms that could be said to mimic geometric high - end fashion.

Yet when we look at work made during this fascinating time, there is a wonderfully slippery intersection where nonrepresentational forms hint at figures or quietly slip into dreamscapes.

I started my calendar paintings — the first of these nonrepresentational paintings after I had made valentines with a bunch of squares and with a heart in them.