The longer it stays around,
the more nonobjective painting will have to say to everything that came before.
Not exact matches
The exhibition traces the evolution of Michael Goldberg's work from the early cubist inspired drawings of the 1940s to the monumental
nonobjective paintings of the early Read
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Foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861 — 1949), who with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay (1890 — 1967), set aside a
more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of
nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims and epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky.
The juxtaposition of defined,
more geometric pattern and amorphous underpainting recalls the biomorphic surrealism of Joan Miro, whose
nonobjective imagery simultaneously conjured cosmic and cellular life.
Though related to the artist's contemporaneous
nonobjective, vertical bar paintings, the drawings are
more overtly romantic.
In 1953 a group of
nonobjective painters in Toronto, inspired
more by abstract expressionism in New York than their contemporaries in Montréal, formed Painters Eleven as a means of exhibiting their work.
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.
Of these visionaries, foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, who, with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay, set aside a
more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of
nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims, epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky.