Sentences with phrase «of abstract artists known»

Alexandra Luke was one of two female founding members of the Ontario - based group of abstract artists known as
Alexandra Luke was one of two female founding members of the Ontario - based group of abstract artists known as Painters Eleven.

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The great American artist, Alexander Calder, who is known for his playful abstract organic works inspired Nohke's optic blue and black T - shirts while R Collective lapped up on the colour palette of Sonia Delauney for subtly patterned knitwear.
Right there, in the void of abstract painting, where the anxiety of failure shakes an artist and the intensity of success shakes him too, Robert Motherwell introduces the secure and known.
Though the Japanese artist is also known for her resin and metal work, from jewelry to abstract sculptures, it's her installations of translucent fabric orbs that stir up a strange sense of underwater wonder.
At last abstract artists admitted to mere meaning, but at the expense of no longer admitting to abstraction.
Mark Dagley is equally renowned for being a publisher and for playing guitar in the seminal punk bands the Girls and Hi Sheriffs of Blue during the 1970s and»80s, but given the strength of his current exhibition, he should be best known for being a reductive abstractionist — that is, an abstract artist who approaches painting through its most basic means and language.
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.
Hon Chi Fun is one of Hong Kong's most respected visual artists, best known for his abstract paintings and serigraphic prints that reflect his interest in Taoism and phenomenology through the expression of circles.
He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism.
Vicente (1903 - 2001), a Spanish - born artist who lived most of his life in New York, was best known for his collages, and a big red abstract - floral one greets visitors at the entrance.
Porter once wrote: «The realist thinks he knows ahead of time what reality is, and the abstract artist what art is, but it is in its formality that realist art excels, and the best abstract art communicates an overwhelming sense of reality.»
But it was in Paris that she found herself as an abstract artist, discovered the work of the Bauhaus, of Josef Albers, of the Russian Suprematists, and joined the coterie of artists known as the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, an association of abstract artists.
Italy based street artist Teo Pirisi, known as «Moneyless», is constantly seeking to evolve his already abstract style of work.
Luiz Zerbini is one of Brazil's most established contemporary artists, known for his vivid works on canvas which draw on a range of themes from the abstract to landscapes, cityscapes, and domestic scenes using a range of techniques and styles.
Etel Adnan — yet another interesting female abstract artist — has risen from near obscurity, coming to be known as one of the most celebrated artists of the 21st century.
The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation.
One of the standard - bearers of the polarizing, hard - to - categorize group of contemporary painters that includes such artists as Mark Grotjahn, Nicole Eisenmann, Richard Aldrich, Josh Smith and Michael Williams, Joe Bradley (born 1975) is widely known for his bright abstract paintings and glyph - like drawings.
Using a palette of the same four colors, Cranston reworks an abstract painting by one of the key figures in Modernism, Swiss / French artist, architect and designer Charles - Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) in six variations, identical in form and composition but in different color combinations.
Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.
O'Keeffe, known best for her close - up views of flowers and desert landscapes, was a highly innovative abstract painter and among the first artists anywhere to make purely non-representational paintings.
Amy Sillman is an American contemporary artist born in 1955, known for her gestural and abstract style of painting.
Some of those prominent «uptown» galleries included: the Charles Egan Gallery, [30] the Sidney Janis Gallery, [31] the Betty Parsons Gallery, [32] the Kootz Gallery, [33] the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, the Stable Gallery, the Leo Castelli Gallery as well as others; and several downtown galleries known at the time as the Tenth Street galleries exhibited many emerging younger artists working in the abstract expressionist vein.
Julia Whitney Barnes Julia Whitney Barnes, a New York based artist known for her vivid, luminous paintings which cull naturalistic imagery from an abstracted ground as well as her nature infused ceramic works, presents a series of painted porcelain vignettes.
An original member of Park Place, the historic New York artist collective, Novros is well known for his large, abstract paintings on irregularly shaped, multipaneled canvases.
The American artist Christopher Wool's large abstract paintings are often beautiful, but they are so emptied of content that it is at first hard to know what to make of them.
I will spread the word, however I don't know many abstract artists, we seem to be a rare breed of artists.
It focuses on the radical change of direction in the artist's career between 1930 — 1969, 50 key paintings and sculptural reliefs show how Pasmore reinvented himself as one of Britain's foremost exponents of British abstract art, having previously been known as one of its leading figurative artists.
Ted Gahl is an American contemporary artist known for peculiar abstract paintings through which he expresses humorous treatment of subject and material.
We've had a lot of younger artists through and people do know him, they have been students of Gilliam, but it's also important for the younger generations to see these works especially as abstract painting has entered the center of the conversation again.
Bradford (b. 1961)-- a Los Angeles — based artist and MacArthur Foundation «genius» award recipient — works in a variety of media but is best known for his often enormously scaled collages on canvas, which are akin to abstract paintings.
Though that abstract sculpture, by a now - forgotten artist named Joe Messina, sold for $ 125 to the collector and heiress Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as Bunny, who told Mr. Sandler to deliver the piece directly to the Museum of Modern Art, to which she donated.
In addition to his abstract, minimalist, site - specific installations, artist Daniel Buren is also known for his writings on the «scenes of production.»
The artist Louise Fishman, primarily known for her large - scale abstract paintings, is the subject of two forthcoming exhibitions: «Louise Fishman: A Retrospective,» a fifty - year survey show at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, opening on April 3, 2016, and running through July 31, 2016; and «Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock,» an idiosyncratic presentation -LSB-...]
In fact, no matter what subject an artist paints, no matter how metaphorical, abstract, veiled, or apparent, it is a self - portrait of the in
Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and Modernist architect best known for designing such iconic museums as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Daniel Lefcourt is a New York - based artist, known for monochromatic paintings of close - up surfaces in low relief that hover between abstract and representational.
Even abstract artists I know use the color pallets of photos they like.
Likewise, L.A. artist Frances Stark is known for creating abstracted patterns out of fragments of text.
German visual artist Gerhard Richter is known for producing both abstract and photorealistic works, completely dismissing the idea of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.
One of the most radical abstract artists of the last 50 years is scarcely a household name, or even well known outside a small group of collectors, connoisseurs, and art historians.
The prizes he most often selected were coloring books featuring abstract, mazelike designs, the pages of which the young artist no doubt carefully burnished with a thick impasto of Crayola.
Entitled Drip, Drape, Draft, the show presents works by Robert Davis, a close friend of Johnson for more than a decade; Angel Otero, who he has known for some six years; and Sam Gilliam, an older artist from what Johnson refers to as «an almost lost generation of black abstract painters», with whom he recently struck up a mutually significant friendship.
Agnes Martin was a Canadian - American artist widely known for her paintings executed in the styles of minimalism and abstract expressionism.
Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Iva Gueorguieva is Los Angeles - based artist who is known for her large - scale abstract paintings that feature a frenetic mix of overlapping collage, line, shape, and color.
Notable works of abstract art by Latinos have been omitted from familiar discussions that include such well - known artists as Stuart Davis and Robert Motherwell.
The young abstract artist Gabriel Orozco knows a thing or two about painting, though touch isn't yet one of them.
Known in this country largely through her recent retrospective at the Met Breuer, Mohamedi, who the Met called «one of the most important artists to emerge in post-independence India,» made delicate, abstract drawings that experiment with intersecting lines, grids, and planes.
APEX (b. 1978, San Francisco, CA), also known as Ricardo Richey, is a street artist who creates colorful abstract patterns through the use of spray paint.
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