Sentences with phrase «nonrepresentational painting»

On the other hand, Rachel Lachowicz's construction of Plexiglas boxes filled with blue cosmetic powder seemed to create an interesting kind of surrogate for nonrepresentational painting.

An early practitioner of nonrepresentational painting, Stella gained early, immediate recognition in 1959 with his series of coolly impersonal black - striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.

Stella is known for pioneering new expressions in minimalism, nonrepresentational painting and hybrid works that bridge the gap between sculpture and two - dimensional 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....

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

«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.

He produced a series of nonrepresentational paintings in which organic forms merge.

Cameron Martin is known for his black - and - white landscape paintings informed by semiotics, but for the last three years the artist has been working on a new body of nonrepresentational paintings and drawings.

I started my calendar paintings — the first of these nonrepresentational paintings after I had made valentines with a bunch of squares and with a heart in them.

Not exact matches

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!?».

If a nonrepresentational artist, on the other hand, was thinking of a tea pot while painting a canvas, you'd never know it.

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.»

They were, in fact, painting nonrepresentational art.

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.

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

A mysticism of the senses is indeed brought forth in these paintings by Jenkins, who uses the nonrepresentational to demonstrate the priority of the metaphysical — in life, as well as art.

Its artists were known for their gestural (vigorous and expressive) brushwork, thick application of paint, and nonrepresentational imagery.

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.

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

Hard - edged painting can be both figurative or nonrepresentational.

In a sensational stylistic turnaround, and the equivalent of inventing fire, Rosenquist went from his generic nonrepresentational work to making, in one try, the seven - by - seven foot black - and - white, photographically based realist painting Zone.

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

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

Howard Hodgkin's artwork falls in the realm of the semi-abstract: It seems nonrepresentational at first glance, but it often suggests embedded figures that contain depth and mystery, like the palm tree referenced in the title of this painting.

All territorial clashes, aggressive cryptograms, and death threats were nullified into a mass of spray - painted gestures that had become nothing more than atmosphere, their violent disputes transposed into an immense, outdoor, nonrepresentational mural.

In 2017 in Krems we could see the exhibition Abstract Painting Now featuring sixty different art positions, and focus on the present - day international state of play of the nonrepresentational easel pPainting Now featuring sixty different art positions, and focus on the present - day international state of play of the nonrepresentational easel paintingpainting.

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.

Each of the paintings is slightly larger than life - sized, flat, not messy, loosely abstract, and look like a graphic combination of stained glass, dish towels, mystic dotted Australian dream paintings, and nonrepresentational movie posters.