Sentences with phrase «nonrepresentational painters»

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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.

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.

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).