Years ago - few seem to have noticed - I coined the term «comic abstraction» for
a mode of contemporary artwork that respects abstraction as an idiom of creative striving, but refuses to take it too seriously.
Not exact matches
The convergence
of a general mistrust
of government in the wake
of Watergate and the first sale
of a
contemporary artwork for more than $ 100,000 (at the 1973 auction
of the Scull collection) saw artists seeking alternative
modes of presenting and experimenting with the process
of art's presentation outside the museum or the commercial gallery.
The Photography / Digital Media program prepares artists to take full advantage
of the traditional and
contemporary modes of creating, manipulating, printing and / or publishing their photographs, lens - based
artworks, and media art productions.
«Mark's innovative, multi-layered abstract paintings with paper, seen most recently in Pickett's Charge at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Stephen's extraordinary textile works on view at the BMA are evidence that these new
modes of contemporary painting can produce
artworks as compelling as those created using more traditional methods.»