Sentences with phrase «nonrepresentational art»

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 post-World War II America, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen years.

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

Here's where the confusion with abstract and nonrepresentational art really comes into play.

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.

They were, in fact, painting nonrepresentational art.

«Just relax and let go,» suggests Brice Marden to people who experience difficulty when confronted by nonrepresentational art.

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.

Lucid Art Foundation (CA), Call for Applicants: Artist - in - Residence 2018 Deadline: November 15th, 2017 The Lucid Art Foundation encourages exploration of nonrepresentational art through multimedia, conceptual, ecological, and interdisciplinary approaches.

Via the gentle sheen and fractured architecture of Untitled (Nearest Window) and the waxy consistency of Untitled (Departed Blue Relief), Lee tweaks nonrepresentational art's most rigid parameters with loving attention.

In post-World War II America, however, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen years.

Masullo cites Oct. 27, 1977, as a benchmark in his biography; a printmaking instructor explained the concept of negative and positive space, opening up the idea of nonrepresentational art.

Over a century has passed since artists turned decisively to nonrepresentational art, but visit a museum & you'll still hear some philistine opine: «I could bloody paint that!?».

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

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

Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms.

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

As in all nonrepresentational art, even though one can never quite tell what exactly is being portrayed, the fact that one is neither here nor there is all the more intriguing.

At that point Gilliam decided to relinquish his earlier, brooding style in favor of nonrepresentational art.