Not exact matches
If we accept the idea that all art is
abstract, then the only question that remains is how the
artist can develop a system
of visual transmutation that will endow his works
with richness
of meaning.
Sara's collection
of introspective paintings and
abstract drawings will be featured at Lorimar Winery's Old Town Tasting Room during the month
of January
with a special «Meet the
Artist» reception on January 22nd from 6 pm to 9 pm.
One wonders what his Potters team - mates will make
of his life away from the game, Shea is an
abstract artist, no doubt something he can chat about
with Ryan Shawcross, who is himself a big fan
of Dadaism.
Combining graphic, jagged lines
with a love
of primary pops
of colour, contemporary
artist Lin Michelle exploits unconventional and innovative materials and textures to create bold,
abstract art pieces that pack a statement - making punch.
There is the
abstracted romance
of life on road, complete
with attractive young
artists looking wistfully out
of train windows.
When researching theories
of how the first
abstract artists were spiritualists, Maureen browses articles,
with the screen being filled
with that
of her Mac.
This is a project for A-level students starting
with looking at Geometric Abstraction and the use
of the colour «White» in the work
of modern
abstract artists.
Students engaged
with it really well, partly due to the variety
of artists that I presented to them but also due to the potential for an
abstract approach to the project.
In all these senses he is provisional, almost
with a capital P. Where Wragg differs — or at least the most crucial
of the many ways in which he differs — from those
artists gathered under Rubinstein's rubric is in his evident and overriding belief in art, and in
abstract art, as a place
of meaningful and compelling visual experience.»
Opening: Sadie Laska at CANADA Following her group show at Gavin Brown's Enterprise earlier this year, Sadie Laska (who performs in the sound band I.U.D. along
with artist Lizzie Bougatsos) will display more
of her explosive
abstract canvases in her third solo show to date.
Savarino calls himself a modern
abstract artist who works
with «lots
of texture and color» and whose style dictates the kinds
of questions he asks potential customers.
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.
The roots
of Zhang's new
abstract strategy, which made its debut at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich in 2016, may be found in the
artist's «Space Paintings,» environmental installations in which he covers the ceilings, floors, and walls
of a gallery
with abstract patterns that alter one's sense
of space.
The sudden fusion
of these disparate schools
of thought and technique would birth a wide body
of new works and approaches to painting and sculpture,
with artists like Klee and Miró driving forward radical new ideologies in the creation
of abstract works.»
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.»
portrait
artist with a love
of experimenting in
abstract with a variety
of printing methods in a variety
of materials
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.
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.
While this grounding may be obvious in the case
of representational
artists,
with abstract artists the connection can be slippery.
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.»
Lebanese - born
artist, academic and poet Etel Adnan produces
with her palette knife luminous
abstracted landscapes — blocks
of bright colour on canvas — that, late in life (Adnan is now nearly 90 years old), have brought her a new generation
of devotees.
Radiant Fields presents us
with an
artist who is capable
of moving between painting languages —
abstract Expressionism, geometric Abstraction, neo-geo — without being beholden to any
of them.
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.
The
artist has created an installation concentrating on Hispanic culture and language within the perimeter
of the gallery, combining figuration and
abstracted symbols
with a deep bow to his heritage and city the
of Los Angeles.
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 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.
An
abstract artist, he showed
with a number
of prestigious galleries in the 1980s, but, to his credit, never jumped on the Neo-Expressionist or Neo-Geo bandwagon.
Along
with artists like Kelley Walker (a friend
with whom he often collaborates), Seth Price and Tauba Auerbach, Mr. Guyton is at the forefront
of a generation that has been reconsidering both appropriation and
abstract art through the 21st - century lens
of technology.
Because
of my struggles
with the line between
abstract and figurative art, I'm always intrigued to find an
artist who has managed to successfully straddle the two.
Many scholars attribute the important characteristics
of Avery's style to his professional affiliation
with the gallery
of Paul Rosenberg who exposed him to modern European
artists and their
abstract ideals.
# American
abstract expressionism
of the 1950s: an illustrated survey
with artists» statements, artwork and biographies
Like other young
artists trying to define themselves in the wake
of abstract expressionism, Martin first experimented
with found assemblages
of detritus from the lower Manhattan docks.
Breaking
with the lyrical,
abstract styles then dominant in Paris, the nine
artists present declared their commitment to «new perceptions
of the real,» incorporating found objects and quotidian materials into their work in an attempt to blur the distinction between art and everyday life.
Alive
with color — and rhythmic — Kandinsky's distinctive,
abstract style made him one
of the most influential
artists of the twentieth century.
Reacting to the range
of works on view, which included a selection from the
artist's Concorde series (1997), still lifes, portraits, and
abstract works created using dye or developing fluid on light sensitive paper, Morton noted «what makes Tillmans's best work sing: the ability, through looking a little, and loving a little, to turn events in our visual lives into vivid, everyday poetry,
with all the pleasure and knotty exegesis that implies.
Though Flack has become an
artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor
of public monuments, her early experiments in
abstract painting — like those
of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.
As well as the generally accepted international stars, there are some less familiar
artists here too, from Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife,
with a huge swirling
abstract, to the exquisite, minutely rendered, tangled, painted embroideries
of Mark Tobey.
But many more were inspired by the strife
of the 1960s, including black
artists whose work is primarily conceptual or
abstract, and white
artists with mainstream popularity.
From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition
of African - American
abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled
with the tradition
of so - called self - taught or outsider
artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave
of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work
BOOK > Featuring the work
of Sam Gilliam on the cover, a new volume, «Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection
of Abstract Art,» is published documenting the collection established by Pamela Joyner, which spans four generations
of artists bridging the 20th and 21st centuries
with a focus on
abstract art.
The Pattern and Decoration movement consisted
of artists, many
of whom had art education backgrounds, who had been involved
with the
abstract schools
of art
of the 1960s.
Trying to keep pace
with him, Willem de Kooning was meanwhile flowering forth, and within a year or two, every ambitious
artist in New York seemed to be bashing out big - scale
abstract paintings, borne aloft by great puffs
of critical rhetoric.
Artist Statement (Excerpt) Resurrection is not only about the process
of the mix between
abstract and real but also concerned
with the presence
of human reaction to the emotion associated
with enigmatic personal experiences.
Organized by VMFA in partnership
with the Munch Museum in Oslo, Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch examines how Johns (born 1930), one
of America's preeminent
artists, mined the work
of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade
of abstract painting towards a more open expression
of love, sex, loss and death.
With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and
With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view
of the
artist's aesthetic development, starting
with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and
with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest
abstract paintings
of the 90's after going through the
abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.
There is very valuable information about the different
artists during the
abstract expressionist movement,
with surprising emphasis on the sculptural and some photography aspects
of the movement.
Representing the response
of Mexican
artists to art movements from around the world
with a cosmopolitan vision, the exhibition also features the artwork
of abstract sculptor German Cueto, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Abraham Ángel, Roberto Montenegro and Rufino Tamayo.
Expand your idea
of what drawing can be as we
abstract basic drawings, experiment
with nontraditional materials, and take inspiration from the work
of contemporary
artists.
While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her
abstract canvases embroidered
with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia
artist whose entire body
of work is infused
with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.
I think the skeptics, at least over the past five years or so, were proven right
with regard to the
artists who are making
abstract paintings that are perfect for the way they are consumed: They make a lot
of them, there's a green one and a blue one and a pink one, and you can collect them all like toys in a Cracker Jack box, which is what they're all about.