Sentences with phrase «nonrepresentational elements»

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).

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

With this exhibition, Tegeder investigates, based upon her nonrepresentational repertoire, the influences of 20th century Modernism upon a 21st century artistic discourse that recalls original elements while elaborating further upon both ideas and techniques.

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.

Jones challenges viewers to see beauty in his chaotic, mixed - media works that merge nude subjects with nonrepresentational, abstract elements.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

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....