Sentences with word «nonrepresentational»

First, there is a genuine resurgence of nonrepresentational painting as artists under 50 reexamine that key modernist pursuit.

The work in About Abstraction suggests a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco, and illustrates the enduring vitality and power of nonrepresentational art for well over a century.

In Linear Abstraction, the SCAD Museum of Art negotiates the status of nonrepresentational work as it exists in the 21st century and includes work in various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formats.

She began her career creating minimal paintings influenced by the work of artists such as Agnes Martin, but distinguished herself by combining nonrepresentational forms with figural elements.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

Treating craft as nonrepresentational art may sound like formalism, but here one has instead a revisioning of abstraction.

It had been only three years since he had begun painting again after his long postgraduate hiatus, and he'd initiated his return to the medium with nonrepresentational works: the «Carat» series, 2005, in which crystalline diamond shapes float on black backgrounds like oversize stars in a darkened sky.

Il Lee works serve as primers on nonrepresentational form, active mark making and a conceptual yet hands - on approach to contemporary drawing.

Over several decades, Thompson devoted her artistic practice to exploring and expanding the language of nonrepresentational abstraction.

She'd been creating process - oriented, abstract paintings, and the diagrams of seismic events in the book struck her as its own nonrepresentational language.

In modern art the criteria of beauty in nonrepresentational pieces are still open to question.

Each of the artists in this exhibition were chosen because they create nonrepresentational art based on personal narratives that may go unnoticed when viewing the formal elements of the artwork alone.

It is only in the real world that these works can be experienced — and this is what contemporary nonrepresentational painting remains about.»

Through the creation of his own nonrepresentational artistic language, his work conveys what the gallery calls «an abstract visual event that is emotionally charged, turbulent in structure and striking in impact.»

While Abstract Expressionism was primarily associated with painting, filmmakers concurrently embraced an abstracted cinematic language that employed technological innovations and personal expression via nonrepresentational imagery.

Lauded as one of the great Abstract Expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell's intuitive nonrepresentational style is exemplified in this color lithograph Music for J.S. Bach.

You can see how he brought to his paintings of still lifes, figures, and landscapes lessons he learned during his years making nonrepresentational paintings, one of the qualities that set his finest efforts apart from those of his friends and colleagues.

Unlike traditional religious icons, Flavin created entirely nonrepresentational artworks and dedicated them to the memory of friends, family, and cultural figures that he admired.

In effect, Zao created his own nonrepresentational artistic language that transcends identifiable associations with symbols in writing and the natural world.

**** An iconic figure of postwar painting in New York, Jackson Pollock produced this work when he returned to a form of abstracted figuration after creating his completely nonrepresentational drip paintings in the late 1940s.

Her ambivalent pictorial language can not be deciphered on a linear path, since in her colorful shining paintings, out of nonrepresentational elements, narrative references suddenly emerge.

Thomas» style pulls elements from Abstract Expressionism and the Washington Color School, drawing from the splendor of nature to create nonrepresentational canvases that sing with soft vitality.

Though nonrepresentational, Vibrations recalls Whitten's experience attending Jackson's funeral: «He was laid out in a magnificent dark mahogany coffin lined with creamy white satin, surrounded by flowers.

Part of a recent body of work, they allude to universal spheres or basic life forms and highlight Kusama's unique amalgamation of representational and nonrepresentational subject matter.

Surface, color, and other nonrepresentational formalities are generally what we use to approach abstract painting.

But if the spiritual in art is not primarily a matter of content or representational or nonrepresentational technique, what is it?

The IFJA is the only critics group in the U.S. to give out an award for nonrepresentational acting.

The writing is deliberately sparse, intended, Bernheimer said, to leave «nonrepresentational space, meant to allow lucid encounters» — as fairy tales often do.

[11] Abstract or nonrepresentational painters have standards not in the sense of great works so much as of formats.

As you get farther away from New York, the more they are like abstract expressionism, the more abstract they are, the more nonrepresentational they are.

Perhaps that's why, as Bob Nickas points out in his new book Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (Phaidon Press; $ 75), «so many contemporary artists who paint nonrepresentational pictures reject the notion that their work is in fact abstract.»

Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian painter, teacher, and art theorist who was one of the first artists to explore nonrepresentational art and, in 1910, created the first totally abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction.

Without the title, the painting would be interpreted as nonrepresentational gestural abstraction.

These artists use the gesture in a rapid and brushy manner to draw, evoke movement and direction or make a bold and declarative statement, either purely nonrepresentational or in figuration.

Though suggestive of the folds in curtains, the brushwork remains resolutely nonrepresentational.

Clark was among the first artists to produce nonrepresentational shaped paintings in 1956 by extending his working surfaces beyond a rectangular canvas, and developed oval paintings in 1968.

Viewers are encouraged to take one, and the pile is replenished each evening, shrinking and swelling in defiance of the supposed monumentality and nonrepresentational ideals of Minimalism.

But next time you go to an exhibition, glance around the room to see if anything nonrepresentational jumps out at you, keeps you coming back.

The pieces often include obscure text as well - a technique that adds additional texture, as well as a human element to the otherwise nonrepresentational paintings.

While largely nonrepresentational, the compositions snap into narrative focus with the presence of small insects, often ants or a dung beetles, swept up in the fiber pixels of the hand - stitched yarn.

The resultant works exhibit a harmonious balance of painting and sculptural relief, recognizable form and nonrepresentational image.

After World War II Baumeister was able to pick up on his earlier success: In the following years he not only championed nonrepresentational painting in Germany but also fuelled artistic exchange within Europe.

Only after returning to Paris in 1948, however, did Herrera fully develop her artistic identity, finding inspiration from the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, an art collective striving to challenge the traditions of the art scene, who mounted an annual exhibition featuring Abstract, mostly nonrepresentational work by figures such as Josef Albers and Jean Arp.

Then, around the turn of the millennium, her work underwent yet another shift, becoming evermore nonrepresentational until figuration disappeared entirely.

Chicago has its counterpart, the Chicago School, which is fast developing into the same kind of vigorous nonobjective nonrepresentational expressionism.

American abstract painter Suzan Frecon (born 1941) is known for her monumental and balanced nonrepresentational works, in which geometric proportion and a keen attention to color yield deeply satisfying compositions.