Sentences with phrase «modern abstraction however»

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However, beginning with Wassily Kandinsky's pioneering work in pure abstraction and his theorizing about «The Spiritual in Art,» many of the most spiritually ambitious visual artists of the modern age have found that their ambitions are best served by the stripped down, elemental language of abstraction.

However, instead of trying to establish a pedigree that approximates the emergence and development of modern art in larger metropolitan areas like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, with its requisite local variations of welded steel sculpture and lyrical abstraction, the historic past proposed in this exhibition is one that is just as idiosyncratic as the present it influences.

In the modern and contemporary eras, however, women artists have used metal to create a broad variety of objects, ranging from functional furniture and minimalist jewelry to purely aesthetic abstractions and large sculptural works.

However, her play with realism and abstraction, which confuses our perception and leaves meanings open, is very modern.

However, just as the newness of Cubism was accepted and then canonized by Barr and the Museum of Modern Art, so the revolutionary abstraction of Abstract Expressionism was quickly codified and accepted — and elevated above Picasso and the School of Paris — through the efforts of the American critic Clement Greenberg.