Sentences with phrase «notions of abstract form»

Despite using purist notions of abstract form and color that date back to 1950s art critic Clement Greenberg's domineering brand of New York School formalism, Lawson fashions nothing short of a vicious attack on photography's «objective eye» via these modestly sized canvases.

Not exact matches

Bringing together three painters with distinct oeuvres — that have been, at times, linked to the legacy of German painting, or even of Albert Oehlen himself — the panel will consider abstract painting in relation to other contemporary manifestations of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling, rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations of form, the notion of style).

Made of cotton, linen, natural and synthetic dyes and aluminum, the installation will challenge our notion of the textile, bringing it into abstract sculptural form.

Matthias Neumann — bench V (basics), 2016 «bench V (basics)» is a site - specific installation that continues a body of work under the title «basics,» exploring an abstracted notion of form, material, space and utility.

For Stieglitz, the abstract forms and formations of clouds perfectly equated to the modern idea of equivalence, holding that abstract forms, lines, and colors could represent and evoke universal inner human states, emotions and ideas — a powerful notion which numerous later photographers recognized and emulated.

Conversely, Steven Frost's assortment of embellished sex toys — protests against traditional notions of good taste — become investigations of abstracted color and form in their ornate departure from the norm.

The works are composed of layers of sterile and simplified abstract forms, removed from any natural or organic references, they become reliant on the chain relationship between one basic modular unit linked to another, questioning notions of singularity.

With this new and relatively radical body of work, however, Davis introduced the notion of depicting a three - dimensional abstract shape emanating from the wall as a monochromatic form.

Chinese writing evolved through the development of pictographs (which depicted objects) or ideographs (which represented abstract notions) and the bronze sculptures from the artist's series Sages» Sayings derive from these ancient forms.

In doing so, these images become abstract forms floating in space, forcing viewers to reorient their preconceived notions of symbols and their meanings.

By abstracting natural forms into a single material — marble, wood, silver, or steel — she reveals things that are often hidden below the surface or beyond sight, merging rational order with notions of beauty and the transcendental.

Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order.