Sentences with phrase «nonobjective art»

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.

In the clean white cube of the gallery, these pulsating paintings might, at first, seem consistent with nonobjective art as we know it (based on description alone, the Op art of Bridget Riley may come to mind, or Yayoi Kusama's «Infinity Nets»).

PS: Related articles at Deutsche Bank Artmag: Friedhelm Hütte on Imi Knoebel's importance for nonobjective art; Jörg Heiser on Imi Knoebel's use of the series form and his celebration of color; «The Security of the Pure Square» — Karola Krauss on Imi Knoebel.

While exploring abstract art, gain an understanding of how to view and discuss nonobjective art and why it is significant.

Other postwar art luminaries represented in the collection, which focuses on nonobjective art, pop art, abstract art and minimalism, are Jean Arp, Grace Hartigan, Keith Haring, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, George Rickey, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg and David Smith.

Abstract art (sometimes called nonobjective art) is a painting or sculpture that does not depict a person, place, or thing in the natural world.

Her work engages the history of nonobjective art — from Constructivism to Futurism — posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.

At the same time, other artists reinvigorated the revolt against representational style, championing nonobjective art as a form that spoke deeply to modern concerns.

Because of the complicated manner in which the Norton Simon museum as it presently exists came to be, its holdings include some big abstract paintings from the 1960s despite Mr. Simon's distaste for nonobjective art.

In 1929, Guggenheim and his advisor, German - born artist Hilla Rebay, began collecting his paintings, works on paper, and sculpture in depth for the Guggenheim's growing collection of nonobjective art.

A wide - reaching concept that relates to nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art, abstract art originated out of Romanticism, Impressionism and Expressionism.

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.

In Holland members of the Stijl group (1917 — 31), including Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, created a disciplined, nonobjective art.

In 1913 he began a series of paintings of colored discs that have no reference to any object and are considered hallmark paintings in the evolution of abstract or nonobjective art.

Nonobjective Art The abstract or «nonobjective» art in this gallery represents a period in the early twentieth century when American artists began to follow their European counterparts in questioning the purpose and nature of art.

Included in this are nonrepresentational art, nonobjective art, abstract expressionism, art informel, and even some op art.

If the first two are most often inspired by art - historical sources, such as nonobjective art or Art Nouveau, the last owes much to music and musical sources such as record covers and fanzines.

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.

There's no such thing as nonobjective art.

Her works engage the history of nonobjective art — from Constructivism to Futurism — posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.

This group came out of nonobjective art and Mondrian, and people from the Abstraction - Création group in France, like Jean Hélion.