Sentences with phrase «modern abstraction»

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts is accompanied by a comprehensive book featuring newly commissioned essays by Dietmar Elger, Head of the Gerhard Richter Archive; Hubertus Butin, curator and author of several key texts on Richter; and Jaleh Mansoor, Professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research concentrates on modern abstraction and its economic implications.

The present work, significantly larger in scale than most of his abstract works to appear at auction, is a one - of - a-kind masterpiece that comprises of the very best of Douaihy's skilful techniques and inspirations, a signature style that has been widely celebrated and acclaimed since the 1960s and have placed him at the forefront of Modern Abstraction in the Middle East.

The moniker also captured the disparate perspectives and diverse styles of the members whose aesthetics ranged from modern abstraction to figurative and «social protest» works, and aged 28 to 65, were at varying stages of their practices.

Merging bold colours and modern abstraction with a clean, minimal style his work is a progressive example of urban art.

This exhibition presents highlights from the Newark Museum's collection of late modern abstraction, bringing together works by major figures and innovators experimenting with color and light, including Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Alma Thomas and others.

A new solo exhibition of Monir Farmanfarmaian's works at the Grand Rapids Art Museum showcases the Iranian artist's ability to synthesize Islamic tradition and modern abstraction into objects of great beauty and depth.

His goal was not to document, but to capture their essence and the urban landscape in the graphic and abstract... to build upon their impact on the urban landscape as modern abstractions that have been filled with color, shapes and patterns.

Constructed from a wide range of found textiles, Jensen's paintings recall elements of classic modern abstraction.

They deconstruct materials and unravel Modern abstraction to address figuration, embodiment, impermanence, transition, and imperfection with astute contemporary perception.

But Quinlan's 2004 — 2007 «Smoke and Mirrors» series, for instance, which documents a large number of arrangements of the titular materials, alludes not only to the legacy of early modern abstraction but also to the Bush

Reverse Transcriptase is Fraser Taylor's largest drawing project to date and explores ideas of modern abstraction through a variety of methods and materials.

In 1938, Houston native, Robert Preusser pondered how to present modern abstraction to a public accustomed to pictures that resembled «the surface appearance of things.»

A self - taught artist, Balthus despised modern abstraction, preferring to pay homage to Old Masters like Nicolas Poussin (1594 — 1665) and Piero della Francesca (1483 - 1520).

Much of Rothschild's work has been inspired by modern abstraction however for this exhibition she made a number of key figurative works that acted as pivotal linking pieces within the whole.

The 19th century genius JMW Turner (1775 - 1851) was arguably the first abstract expressionist, while modern abstraction is commonly attributed to Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) who employed geometric solids in some of his fin de siecle landscapes.

He had followed a similar formal path in his own work moving from high modern abstraction, influenced by Arp, into figuration.

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts is accompanied by a comprehensive book featuring newly commissioned essays by Dietmar Elger, Head of the Gerhard Richter Archive; Hubertus Butin, curator and author of several key texts on Richter; and Jaleh Mansoor, Professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research concentrates on modern abstraction and its socio - economic implications.

Long - term Installation, Second Floor, Picturing America Contemporary Gallery This exhibition presents highlights from the Newark Museum's collection of late modern abstraction,...

Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam can without a doubt be described as the pioneer of modern abstraction from Iran.

Spare and geometric, his work evokes the history of modern abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach based on the repetition of -LSB-...]

THE career of 52 - year - old Los Angeles artist Lavi Daniel has been marked by constant change, so when his work appeared in not just one but two solo shows last month, it came as no surprise that he was once again refocusing and refining his vision of modern abstraction.

Over the course of the next six decades, Zao became a major presence in Europe, America, and Asia, and now stands out as an exemplar of the global scope of modern abstraction.

An exhibition of some 90 rarely seen works by three artists who pioneered the development of modern abstraction: Hilma af Klint (Sweden, 1862 - 1963), Emma Kunz (Switzerland, 1892 - 1963) and Agnes Martin (Canada / US, 1912 - 2004), opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 25 January.

Painted layer over layer over the course of time, the works contain references to traditional ink painting, modern abstraction and action painting, and contemporary conceptual and minimalist art.

The image short - circuits the traditional separation between the reductive language of cartoons and the roots of modern abstraction.

American art, from eighteenth - and nineteenth - century portraiture and landscape painting to modern abstraction and contemporary art forms, is the strength of the Palmer's permanent collection.

Featuring new essays by Dietmar Elger, head of the Gerhard Richter Archive; Hubertus Butin, curator and author of several key texts on Richter; and Jaleh Mansoor, professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research concentrates on modern abstraction and its socioeconomic implications, this is a handsome tribute to one of Richter's most groundbreaking bodies of work.

The Kunsthalle exhibition also extends to the outdoors, demonstrating of all places in the sanctuary of modern abstraction — the aesthetic of the sublime — how valid the Pop Art legacy, the fusion of high and low culture and the trivialization of the picture can be.

The work celebrates the everyday while carrying a number of art historical allusions, such as XVII century Dutch trompe - l'œil, modern abstraction and minimalism, Arte Povera, and Kurt Schwitters» work.

It is impossible not bring up modern abstraction and minimalism here.

This comprehensive catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts at Dominique Lévy London (October 13, 2015 through January 16, 2016), features newly commissioned essays by Dietmar Elger, Head of the Gerhard Richter Archive; Hubertus Butin, curator and author of several key texts on Richter; and Jaleh Mansoor, Professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research concentrates on modern abstraction and its socio - economic implications.

This exhibition will also extend beyond the gallery into the outside and will show how the legacy of Pop Art, the fusion of high and low, and the trivialisation of the image can be brought to bear within, of all places, that bastion of modern abstraction — the aesthetics of the sublime.

Organic shapes are blasted apart by bright, unnatural tones of hot pink and acid green, while forms that reveal Wirsum's education in the vocabulary of modern abstraction are disengaged from the history of oil painting through the smooth, manufactured qualities of the painted surface.

«These works are powerful investigations of space, light, composition, and the fundamental principles of modern abstraction, bringing together concepts forged by artists like Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso,» said Philip Brookman, chief curator and head of research at the Corcoran and the coordinating curator of the exhibition.

These heavily invested works exhausted his ideas around the act of subconscious action painting and modern abstraction.

His most recent works blend Southern Vernacular visual styles and African diasporic retentions with modern abstraction to depict the complex urban fabric of the New Orleans Seventh Ward.

The history of modern abstraction would offer the...

Further, as the flat stillness evokes early renaissance painting, the minimal simplicity of the compositional elements concurrently find resolution with contemporary and modern abstraction.

«In the last two years, the British painter, Zino Pece, has become one of the handful of painters who I think of as at the cutting edge of modern abstraction.

Brooklyn - based artist Matthew Ronay's solo exhibition, Ramus, balances between a world of modern abstraction and surrealism, spiked with a potent splash of sensual psychedelia.

Scully is a great exponent of modern abstraction and his distinctive ability to fuse it with a metaphorical spirituality singles him out from the multitude of painters working today.

Sprayed, brushed, flung, dribbled, puddled, taped, stained, poured, gestural, geometric, organic and more, with some of it on independent surfaces she attached to the wall, the painting is a virtual lexicon of modern abstraction.

Spare and geometric, his work evokes the history of modern abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach based on the repetition of hand - drawn shapes or lines relinquishes hard - edge angles in favor of a casual, human trace.

Reyle critically reflects not only upon the prevailing codes of taste but also the sometimes utopian ideals of modern abstraction.