Bold colors and extreme painterly expressionism turn Ms. Rubenstein's figurative elements
into near abstraction.
A room also looks for parallels in
such near abstractions as Harry Callahan's streaks and Aaron Siskind's blur.
Yet the colours and forms dissolve
into near abstraction and a mishmash of brushwork techniques when viewers approach more closely.
Nearing abstraction, the paintings depict beams and rafters in a saturated spectrum of pastels.
The First World War saw a transition from
the near abstraction of his Vorticist work to a more figurative and expressionist style.
Matisse's career was long and varied, covering many different styles from Impressionism to
near Abstraction.
A comparison between that work and the latest work in the show, Mountain and Meadow (1960), on loan from the National Gallery of Art, with broad washes of color, exemplifies the transition Avery made from a more realistic, impressionistic style earlier in his career to
near abstraction in his last few years.
A development in Moore's art where the human figure is pushed into
near abstraction.
The medium offered techniques of cropping, foreshortening and
near abstraction that allowed her to incorporate the «graphic power of photography into her painting,» as O'Keeffe biographer Hunter Drohojowska - Philp puts it.
In the Jpegs series, German photographer Thomas Ruff exploits this imprecision in digital technology, locating online jpegs and enlarging them until the pixels emerge in a chessboard pattern of
near abstraction.
Catherine Wagner's exhibition,
Near Abstraction, at Gallery Luisotti was reviewed in the LA Times.
Louise Fishman scrawls «Angry» over and over, Senga Nengudi turns stockings into distended breasts, and
a near abstraction by Joan Snyder centers around her crotch.
Groobey's figures, distorted to
near abstraction, are a mere suggestion of spontaneous marks within a ground of rich earthy colours and textured brushstrokes.