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Not exact matches
There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series
of prints
by conceptual
artist John Baldessari, a massive work
by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece
by the up - and - coming
artist Will Boone, prints
by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful
abstract painting
by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.
Welcome to Coramantic — a magical realm
of cute drawings, whimsical illustrations and
abstract paintings created
by Scottish
artist and illustrator Yvonne Stewart
The two works in the Empire State Plaza collection
by Ellsworth Kelly, the famed
artist who died Sunday at his Columbia County home, will have significance not only to lovers
of the hard - edged
abstract art.
Although I'm an
artist, my primary strength is in drawing — brushes and I don't always get along, so I love this idea
of making a «deliberate»
abstract,
By «deliberate», I mean you chose a design, (the diamonds), a color palette (the two grays and pink), an accent color (gold metallic!)
Inspired
by an
abstracted city skyline, New York Fashion Week makeup
artist, Gato, and beauty blogger, @SUNNYCHANNEL, used the MasterStudio Precise Curvy liner to create two versions
of this graphic eye trend.
The wonderful Autumn Grass Canvas Wall Art
by artist, Avery Tillmon, adds a touch
of abstract nature to your home.
Open studio showing new works
of three
artists featuring large scale
abstract paintings
by local educator Mike Irwin, contemporary
abstract still life paintings
by Jeanne Dentzel, and printmaking, assemblage and conceptual riddles in his numerous works on paper
by local educator and arts activist Dug Uyesaka.
Mix
of New and Newer, landscape and
abstract works
by artist Lisa Pedersen in her studio.
GraySpace Gallery 219 Gray Ave Abstractions: 2 Woman
Artists,
abstract paintings
by Dahlia Riley and Peggy Ferris, a simple play
of color and rhythm in a visual melody that words can not describe, involving a mix
of intention, intuition and chance.
This one, The Johnson, showcases the work
of celebrated Sydney
abstract artist Michael Johnson, who is strongly influenced
by nature.
Inspired
by Australian
abstract artist Michael Johnson, The Johnson hotel brings a new level
of style to Brisbane.
In the early 1990s, as a young
artist out
of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work
of mainstream
abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned
by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work
by African American
artists.
The crowded installation
of huge
abstract paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and painting - sculpture hybrids, augmented
by works on paper, tracks the New York
artist's fifty - seven - year career.
Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered
by Pollock's signature all - over web
of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range
of his smaller
abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding
of his work as that
of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding
of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement
of the
artist's hand.
Five from LA «features paintings
by... Whitney Bedford, Kirsten Everberg, Alexandra Grant, Iva Gueorguieva and Annie Lapin... all California based painters who meld representation with abstraction or the mediation
of pigment... Mitchell - Innes & Nash presents works
by a trio
of reductive
abstract artists that blur the boundaries between painting sculpture and installation.»
The contributions
of African American
artists to the inventions
of abstract painting have historically been overlooked, or else fraught with the kind
of questions faced
by Jones.
The paintings add little to a path
of abstract artist well trodden
by now.
To recap: Marguerite Hoffman sued David Martinez in 2010 after a big red painting
by the
abstract expressionist
artist Mark Rothko turned up on an auction block not long after she sold the piece to Martinez at a discount
of $ 17.6 million (he eventually got $ 31.4 million for it at auction).
By the mid-1940s, Seliger had become the youngest
artist exhibiting with the
abstract expressionists, although his place in the movement is sometimes overlooked in part because
of the scale
of his work.
For all these
artists — half
of them painters, the rest object - makers highly informed
by abstract painting's heyday — color is a way
of creating and manipulating a sense
of visual space.
In her Ambition series (2010), the
artist draws on the legacy
of abstract painting and commerce
by referencing Cecil Beaton's 1951Vogue fashion shoot that incorporated paintings
by Jackson Pollock.
By linking the Minimalist sculptures
of artists like Donald Judd to the Russian supremacist paintings
of Kasimir Malevich and readymades
of Duchamp, she extends the determinist history that formalism relies on into sculpture and movements beyond
abstract expressionism.
I also believe that the traditions
of abstract painting (such as those developed
by the three
artists I mention above) are particularly suited to the task.
While a younger generation
of artists, led
by Katharina Grosse, Carol Bove, and others, are finding renewed significance and surprising rewards in extemporaneous
abstract painting and sculpture, certain veterans like Emily Mason never lost faith in its limitless possibilities.
Los Angeles - based
artist Sarah Cain takes painting outside
of its traditional canon
by using man - made and natural materials to create a tension between
abstract, geometric...
In its first appearance at an art fair, ever, Norte Maar presents «watching the conkers arrive,» curated
by Jason Andrew, Kanad Chakrabarti and Sarah Pettitt featuring a collection
of works
by seven
artists from the UK, Canada and Brooklyn, which interrogate language, geography, culture — all involving cross-disciplinary works with
abstract grounding, leaving room for reflection on heritage and the borders
of experience.»
An auction led
by Alex Branczik
of Sotheby's and introduced
by Alex Sainsbury, Chair
of the Board
of Trustees, Whitechapel Gallery, featured work donated
by leading
artists including an
abstract watercolour
by American sculptor Lynda Benglis; a print from Amalia Ulman's Instagram project titled Excellences & Perfections (Instagram Update, 6th June 2014), (2016) and a multi-coloured print
by American and British installation
artist Susan Hiller.
Browse the works below for just a sampling
of the many
abstract artworks for sale on Saatchi Art
by some
of the most promising
artists working today.
For MoMA's first contemporary painting survey in recent memory, curator Laura Hoptman pulled together work
by 17
artists, most
of whom work with various
abstract formal vocabularies ranging from the expressionistic to the starkly minimal.
Featuring works — over a third
of which are newly created —
by an international and intergenerational group
of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to
abstract art.
The Black Arts Movement, formally established in 1965
by a group
of politically motivated poets,
artists, and musicians, had little use for
abstract painting.
Additionally, Tyler's paintings are reminiscent
of the work from past
artists such as the simplified geometric grids
of Piet Mondrian's later work, color field paintings
of Mark Rothko and the early
abstract expressionistic work
by Philip Guston.
Princeton, NJ — A remarkable gathering
of paintings
by some
of the most important
artists of the postwar era will provide a window into a moment
of extraordinary creative ferment, when the very nature
of abstract painting was being hotly contested.
During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known as an
abstract expressionist, and his gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco
abstract expressionist sensibility; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable influence on younger
artists by virtue
of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.
An auction led
by Alex Branczik
of Sotheby's and introduced
by Alex Sainsbury, featured work donated
by leading
artists including an
abstract watercolour
by American sculptor Lynda Benglis; a work from Amalia Ulman's acclaimed Instagram project Excellences & Perfections (Instagram Update, 6th June 2014), (2016) and a multi-coloured print
by American and British installation
artist Susan Hiller.
When Rosenberg arrived in America in 1940, he brought a cache
of great works
by important European
artists, many
of whom provided Avery with a new understanding
of abstract representation.
The Nova sector, dedicated to younger galleries and their
artists, feels particularly rich thanks to unexpected pauses like the ethereal mix
of Dawn Kasper's glowing, dangling sculptures and a monumental
abstract painting
by Lucy Dodd at David Lewis.
The show's early galleries think past boundaries
of media — Imogen Cunningham's double - exposed portrait
of Martha Graham hangs next to a Charles Burchfield sunburst — and
of race and gender, most persuasively via the juxtaposition
of a blah
abstract totem
by Robert Laurent with a better 1931 bust
by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, an
artist of the New Negro Movement.
If you think «Eight Movements,» the title
of Liat Yossifor's latest exhibition
of paintings, sounds more like the title
of a Philip Glass recording or the latest release
by Steve Reich, you're already onto the idea behind the Israeli
artist's stark and highly textural
abstract works.
And soon, Fine revealed to the audience gathered to hear the conversation at the National Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C., that two
of Miller's paintings
by Norman Lewis would be included in a fall 2015 exhibition
of the
abstract artist's work.
The exhibition will also feature works from the High's distinguished collection
of folk and self - taught art, including pieces
by the Gee's Bend quilter and
abstract artist Mary Lee Bendolph and the visionary preacher and environment builder Howard Finster.
BEST EXHIBITION SCHEDULE AT A MUSEUM IN UPHEAVAL The Met's, which included shows
of camera - phone images exchanged
by 12 pairs
of artists; the nearly
abstract etchings
of the 17th - century Dutch
artist Hercules Segers; Marsden Hartley's Maine paintings; an astounding survey
of Japanese bamboo art and basketry (through Feb. 4); and,
of course, the recently opened shows
of David Hockney's paintings (through Feb. 25) and Michelangelo's drawings.
In 2008, Dior presented «Dior and the Chinese
Artists,» an ambitious exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, featuring specially commissioned works by 20 artists, among them Liu, who made a series of abstract sculptures based on a Dior dress pattern fro
Artists,» an ambitious exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, featuring specially commissioned works
by 20
artists, among them Liu, who made a series of abstract sculptures based on a Dior dress pattern fro
artists, among them Liu, who made a series
of abstract sculptures based on a Dior dress pattern from 1948.
Standout solo booths included an overview
of abstract paintings from 1966 to 2013
by the brilliant British
artist Richard Smith at Flowers Gallery, Ai Weiwei's conceptually playful sculptures and editions at Chambers Fine Art and painted
abstract wood works
by Cordy Ryman at Galerie Zurcher, while juxtapositions
of works
by Tony Tasset and Scott Reeder at Kavi Gupta and David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong at P.P.O.W made group hangings pop.
Paintings
by postwar
abstract artist Mark Rothko are highly coveted — in May one
of his works sold at auction in London for $ 50 million.
The twelve vibrantly colored
abstract canvases take their title from a 1981 score for cello and piano
by composer Morton Feldman and continue the
artist's lifelong investigation
of the intersection between representation and abstraction.
In her canvases
of the late 1950s onwards, American
artist Helen Frankenthaler translated landscape into
abstract compositions characterised
by flooding colour and increasingly large scale.
Then the show turns to work
by the second group, an imposing cadre
of trained
artists working in Los Angeles like Betye Saar, John Outterbridge, Senga Nengudi and Noah Purifoy, who worked for decades at the margins
of the mainstream, exploring aspects
of assemblage and found materials as well as political expression in often
abstract forms.
I've recently become part
of an online group
of artists organized
by Yifat Gat, a painter based in France — the group is focused on contemporary
abstract art.