Sentences with phrase «more abstract works of art»

Also featured are three projects that bend the basic rules to create more abstract works of art.

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There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.

Toward the end of his career, Still's art started to become even more abstract — objects lost their shape entirely, as seen in this 1976 work titled «PH - 1023.»

More recently, multiple paintings and works on paper by Lewis, the late abstract painter whose first museum retrospective debuted last fall at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (and opens June 4 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas), have appeared regularly and covered the April catalog.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

One of the more interesting phenomena that Kandel explains is that when viewing abstract paintings the brain uses what he calls a «top - down» mechanism to recruit personal experience, imagination, creativity, and responses to other works of art into the process.

«The Whitney Museum's revelatory survey of the work that earned O'Keeffe such derision, the evocative, more - or-less abstract art she made starting in 1915 — phenomenally early for an American artist — should reopen eyes to an undeniable fact: O'Keeffe produced some of the most original and ambitious art in the twentieth century.»

An artist who has mined the dual seams of abstract painting and conceptual repetition, Christopher Wool has used approaches from decoration, street art, and, in more recent work, the digital landscape.

As the initial trio gradually shared then delegated the direction of the space to new members — most recently to Caroline Soyez - Petithomme, who codirected the space with Jill Gasparina from 2008, before becoming the sole director in 2013 — the aesthetic choices have slightly shifted from an emphasis on site - specific, installation - based works to more formalist works, with an inclination towards abstract painting and digital art.

Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted, figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.

Distinguishing his aims from those of his predecessors, Förg explained, «Newman and Rothko attempted to rehabilitate in their works a unity and an order that for them had been lost... For me, abstract art today is what one sees and nothing more» (G. Förg, quoted in Günther Förg: Painting / Sculpture / Installation, exh.

This show presents work by more than a dozen artists (all of whom are also curators, and / or have run or currently run spaces of their own) in a range of media that covers several bases: conceptual and abstract art, figural painting and drawings, and political pieces.

Over the course of his prolific career, from early 1960s monochrome paintings to more recent work inspired by Chinese art and culture, Brice Marden has established himself as one of the most important abstract painters of our time.

«Yet the absence of recognizable imagery in his work aligns Mr. Bhavsar more with American traditions of abstract art, and in particular color field painting; one is reminded variously of the work of the American painters Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jules Olitski.»

It is not known if Untitled [glossy black painting] was produced as part of the first or second campaign.8 But the work's facture resembles that seen in paintings associated with the first group, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art's Untitled [glossy black four - panel painting](fig. 4), and it explores the ambiguities of «monochrome» in ways that seem more closely tied to the abstract expressionist project than to the later paintings» concern with the degradation of materials, an interest often linked to Rauschenberg's 1953 visit to Alberto Burri's (1915 — 1995) studio in Rome.9

Acquiring experience in this field of art, he slowly installed more emotions into work, causing him to touch another style of art — abstract expressionism.

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.»

Despite the title of the painting, the work feels more abstract than figurative — yet one remembers that nature is a forceful originator of nonobjective art.

A majority of the venues feature works of art that capture the diverse heritage of the East Village including the early beat poets, abstract expressionists and more recently, street and graffiti themed works.

Evocative of the Modernist sculptures of David Smith or Alexander Calder as well as Henri Matisse's boldly - colored abstract collages, these more abstract works combine Wood's interest in direct experience with his fascination with the many forms and genres found throughout art history.

Like enlarged versions of his paintings within paintings, the more abstract works in New Plants combine Wood's interest in painting from direct experience with his fascination with the many forms and genres found throughout art history, deepening and extending his investigation of the language of painting.

Wool's signature text paintings, such as an untitled work on paper from 1992 reading HOLE IN YOUR FUCKIN HEAD, may well describe what all the scampering and art - absorbing has done to you, but you can lose yourself in some of the master's more abstract works, such as Maybe Maybe Not (2003), and perhaps achieve a moment of calm amidst the H Queen's storm.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

Permanent collection encompasses Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles exemplified by Gauguin and van Gogh; works of Cubism, Surrealism, and Constructivism by artists like Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Miro, Mondrian, and Alexander Rodchenko; more modernist items of abstract expressionism, pop art and contemporary art by Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

Franklin Street Works will be working with five New York City - based guest curators in 2017 and 2018, originating six new group exhibitions around themes such as: shared strategies of the labor and LGBTQ movements; economic and political refugees; ways artists animate desire in abstract painting; art that explores political and personal paranoia; and more.

During my training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, I began to create collage drawings that layered disparate images on top of one another; I now use oil paint in a similar way, starting with an abstract background and then adding more photorealistic details, allowing the work to dictate its own construction.

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

The more than sixty works that comprise State of Abstraction give viewers a thorough overview of abstract art by artists working in Connecticut today.

Look out for up - and - coming Chinese artist Ren Ri, who makes geometric sculptures out of beeswax by manipulating bees; Su Dong Ping, who is an older Chinese abstract painter just starting to break out onto the international art scene; and Gatot Pujiarto, an established Indonesian artist working in mixed media who is also exhibiting more internationally now.

It worked, or perhaps the definition of the abstract expressionist was relaxed or Kline's use of sketches was forgotten, such that the art critic and poet Frank O'Hara could later write: «[Kline] is the Action Painter par excellence».48 Emphasising the moment of breakthrough served to give an impression of compressed time, so that this unique episode could stand in for all of the works, which Kline had painted much more slowly and with sketches.

Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience of the war more accurately than other painters and, in a way, different form the paintings of the abstract expressionists.

Despite the change to a more abstract mode of representation, she continued to address women's issues and perspectives in her works of art.

In a year that saw the world engage almost feverishly in revisionist histories, none could be more impressive than the story of a female artist who, working independently from any of her male peers and at a remove from the art world, was developing a mystical abstract style all her own in the early 1900s, several years earlier than Kandinsky.

However, fans of modern art will find an impressive selection of contemporary works of modern art paintings for sale on our site, including paintings inspired by impressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and much more.

After her large - scale sculpture, sound and light installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2014), at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel, 2014) and currently at Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Israel, 2015), the last episode at Grimmuseum remains more abstract and fragmentary, dealing with the relatively domestic nature of the exhibition space, which allows Rodeh to shift from her monolithic large - scale works into more detailed object - based techniques and elements.

While to us the collection is an impressive display of both representational and abstract contemporary art, for Bill Paxton, the works represented something more personal.

One of the more unusual abstract painters of her time, her works of art were complemented by an equally unusual lifestyle: she watched no television and did not read a single newspaper in the last 50 years of her life.

There were three kinds of works in Beatrice Caracciolo's recent exhibition: exquisitely animated abstract expressionist drawings; others that look more like landscapes (and which introduce art - historically familiar material in the form of allusions to Chinese landscape and Japanese calligraphy), and unexpectedly bold suspended or freestanding sculptures comprised of zinc sheets mounted on wooden substructures.

His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»

While he previously began with reproduced iconic paintings as a way to engage with the history of abstract art, these new works demonstrate Otero's relationship with the medium of painting more generally, rather than his relationship to art history or one specific artist.

Untitled 1951 is a fine art print of an abstract work American colour filed artist by Mark Rothko.Read more

Quinn's abstract work evolved to satisfy his need for a parallel art form, in which he could escape the constraints of size and format dictated by the PCB's, and more fully explore the possibilities of colour and shape.

The complex shapes and the colorful, painterly marks of more recent work refer to the gestural abstract art of the 1950s.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Observing an abstract work of art, we make relations and comparisons to any trait of our realities without even realizing it, becoming more aware of what is hidden in the shapes and things around us.

From the 1930s to the early 1940s, while working for the Federal Arts Project and assisting the revolutionary Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, Pollock's style evolved from a dark, turbulent form of regionalism to a more freely rendered abstract expressionism.

But this show has more artists to offer and is a who's who of abstract art, including Carl Andre's floor tiles that can be walked over, the blinding light art of Dan Flavin and a colour composition by Piet Mondrian — an accompanying film of Mondrian's colourful studio made us wish we worked there.

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.»

Since then, whenever the art sought to break or depart from the aesthetic and artistic issues of feature more cerebral, this trend was resumed on new foundations: the American abstract expressionism (decade of 1950) and the German neo-expressionism (decade of 1980), for example., by revaluing the drives emanating from the insides of the human condition, brought with them the recovery of brushstrokes and traces of gesture agile, whose ordination in the works, does without the project.

That different batch of DNA can be found in the work of Hoyland's more immediate predecessors and contemporaries like Robyn Denny and Richard Smith and many others who made abstract art that looked toward modern architecture and design — combining these interests with a hard edged pop sensibility.