Sentences with phrase «multiform abstractions»

To me they form a theogony of the most elementary consciousness, hardly aware of itself beyond the will to live — a profound and moving experience,» Rothko wrote the same year he would break through to creating the spiritually infused, multiform abstractions he is known for, influenced by Clyfford Still.

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During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions — luminous rectangles of color suspended in space.

Larry Poons, Walter Darby Bannard, Karen Gunderson, Paul Manes, Lois Lane, and Ed Moses have, for the most part, been associated with Rose since the late 1960s in New York when a Greenbergian «post-painterly» abstraction was giving way to multiform «pluralism,» a phase that more or less pre-figured the detached discourses and attendant mélange of styles that came to be known as the postmodernism turn in the late 1970s and early 1980s.