Sentences with phrase «more about abstract art»

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I welcome these changes and agree with Angie about the art categories being difficult — I make embroidered and appliqué artworks which I guess should be classed as textile art, but I do think textile art is considered by buyers to be more specialised (and also more abstract) than my pictures, which puts me in the strange position of not wanting to call my pictures textile art, as I think people have preformed opinions of what textile art is.

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

Garland's screenplay is equally impressive, weaving references to mythology, history, physics, and visual art into casual conversations, in ways that demonstrate that Garland understands what he's talking about while simultaneously going to the trouble to explain more abstract concepts in plain language, to entice rather than alienate casual filmgoers.

In order to get my students thinking in more abstract and artistic ways, and to help me think about how to engage more of the school community with this project, I spoke with my school's art teacher, Christina, who traded spots with me for a day to lead a session for my class on conceptual art and technique.

More important: all art is about Psyche (the («abstract») spirit) going to bed with Eros («physicality»).

In introducing Murray that evening, Varnedoe referred to her work «as dramas of form and color that accept, indeed demand, to play on the more austere terrain of high abstract art, in decisions about push and pull, bright and dark, fragmented and whole, planes and volumes, sculptural and painterly, that move us before we know what they are about.»

In this excerpt, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies, such as his belief that true abstract painting is nothing more than «lyrical, charming and decorative».

IdeelArt is fantastic resource for those seeking to purchase or find out more about contemporary abstract art.

There's a lot more going on this week, too, like the opening of the Armory Show, and a London exhibition that reopens the conversation about who invented abstract art.

For more about the people involved in the evolution of abstract painting and sculpture, see: History of Art.

Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art - World Mainstream Lilly Wei writes... From the first generation of modernists who worked in clay to contemporary practitioners, all have made breakthroughs: in scale, in single objects as well as expansive installations; in technical experimentation; in increasingly original formal resolutions from the abstract to the realistic; and in content, exploring issues about the body, identity, politics, history, feminism, domesticity, means of production, and beauty... more

«There was discussion about the president and first lady liking more abstract art,» William Allman, the longtime curator of the White House art collection, told the New York Times.

The brain might well be hard - wired in such a way, but that is surely all the more reason, if we want to make new abstract art, to be less complacent about the problem, not more.

• For more about abstract artists in Munster like William Crozier, see: Irish Art Guide.

• For more about modernist abstract artists like Evie Hone, see: Irish Art Guide.

• For more about abstract painters like Tony O'Malley, see: Irish Art Guide.

• For more about contemporary abstract artists like Felim Egan, see: Irish Art Guide.

He attended the Scarborough School and by his teens possessed well - formed views about abstract art, writing in a psychology paper, «The greater the work of art, the more abstract and impersonal it is; the more it embodies universal experience, and the fewer specific personality traits it reveals.»

In our conversation, Mario opens up about his journey from starting out as a figurative artist and moving more toward abstract art perspective.

I have not bought any new piece of furniture to the room, but a beautiful area rug (learn more about it HERE), we made a fantastic built - in shelf, I created a wall hanging and painted a large abstract wall art.