Sentences with phrase «modernist tradition of abstraction»

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Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

The forms that come from the Mesoamerican tradition encounter the Modernist Geometric Abstraction through the eyes of a visiting ex-Bauhaus professor.

Lambri's carefully composed and thought - out works evoke art - historical traditions of minimalism and abstract painting, and therefore, her images often display Modernist ideals of framing, abstraction, and transcendence.

And what do those modernist ideas in the first place amount to but a surprise reanimation, through abstraction and dissociation, of visual traditions?

Known for his handcrafted sculptural installations of crochet, tulle, spices and stones, Neto's renowned art - making practice draws from a wide variety of sources, from Modernist traditions of biomorphic abstraction, through Arte Povera and American Minimalism, to the legacies of Brazilian neo concrete, conceptual and Tropilcália movements.

That would all be fine if they were used to add something, but it reads like a formal exercise, toying with abstraction in a long tradition of early Modernists or folk painters.

Incorporating many of the ideas set forth in his paintings and drawings, his prints form an extraordinary compendium of a career spent investigating the modernist tradition of the power of color and contemporary abstraction.

Atria's work connects with the modernist tradition of geometric abstraction, but with the express intent to relate it to specific visual situations encountered in the world.

Abstraction within the modernist tradition searched for the absolute, for a disembodied realm of pure relations and correspondences, while Atria's interest focuses not on the possibility of approaching pure relations but rather on its impossibility.

In «Brainwaves and Archetypes, The Sculpture of Strong - Cuevas,» Donald Kuspit posits Stong - Cuevas» sculptures as «cosmically open and epic in scale or hermetically enclosed and intimate in scale, whether constructions or cast in bronze, whether involving single or multiple heads, fuse the modernist traditions of primitivist expression and pure abstraction, confirming their originality by reconciling the opposites.

The modernist abstract tradition where the words «big» and «abstract» belong together has clear resonance with Morris» work, yet in these little paintings she almost turns the theory of colour - field abstraction on its head.»

The group's members worked in a wide variety of styles, though in large part within the tradition of modernist abstraction, and in media including oil painting, collage, printmaking and watercolor.

Her work is characterised with reference to the lineage of modernist abstraction and in particular Latin American antecedents, non-representational concrete painting, thus establishing cross-cultural dialogue within this international tradition.

Her work, on paper and canvas, is in the tradition of American modernist abstraction.

Close at Hand brings together artists who draw on the art historical legacy of modernist abstraction, while incorporating found objects, unexpected materials, and outside traditions into their practice.