Sentences with phrase «nonrepresentational abstraction»

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

The angular forms of the figure in this drawing recall his portrait paintings, and the vertical, architectonic marks also reference his cityscapes and nonrepresentational abstractions.

Not exact matches

Magnetic Fields aims to change this perspective by focusing on nonrepresentational work by women artists of color, presenting a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has previously been offered.

Compare their work to Paul Klee (1879 — 1940) or Joan Miró (1893 — 1983) and you will see the difference between abstraction and nonrepresentational art.

Stella has some work that are indeed abstractions yet most is nonrepresentational.

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.

We will explore topics ranging from the emergence of nonrepresentational painting to the persistence of abstraction in contemporary art.

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

«Liminal Squared» by Julie Mehretu at the Marian Goodman Gallery In «Liminal Squared,» Julie Mehretu's latest show at the Marian Goodman Gallery on W 57 Street, she presents a small number of huge, nonrepresentational paintings that blur the lines between landscape, architectural drawing, and pure abstraction.

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.

There was constant talk about the formal, the informal, irony, narrative, content, abstraction, the nonrepresentational, figuration, realism, popular culture, high art — everything was to be reexamined.

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.

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).