Sentences with phrase «of abstract painting as»

As the installation on the first floor makes clear the religious content that Vedova gleaned from Tintoretto was less the point than the validity of abstract painting as a vehicle to incite energy through a structural metaphor.

It was really interesting for me to think of abstract painting as a trail.

Golden Age is as much an attempt to summarize existing conversations about the eternal returns of abstract painting as it is an incitement to discuss contemporary art practices (above and beyond specific styles, trends or topics), and how we can further their impact, agency and relevance.

Brunson proceeds from the matter - of - fact postulate of abstract painting as a decorated surface.

The way I paint, realistic is out of abstract painting as opposed to abstract style.

Through these asperities, Zurier isolates an inkling - call it an «essence» or not - of abstract painting as a discipline capable of minimizing differences between memories of life and of art.

After a few moments amongst the paintings in his recent exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery it becomes clear that Gabriel Orozco doesn't intend to take up a dialogue with the history and medium of painting; he is painting not as a painter, but rather employs the format of abstract painting as a possibility for depicting his geometrical thought.

Markel has a pet adjective for this type of highly rewarding technique, the celebration of abstract painting as its own reward, which she likes to call «juicy.»

But Hawkins didn't retreat to a prelapsarian, idealist understanding of abstraction; instead, his understanding of abstract painting as a continuous circulation of signs without origin or terminus was informed by his reading of Gilles Deleuze.

The final sixty - two paintings comprise a remarkable group of works that are a testament to the continuing significance of abstract painting as a site of complex and exuberant enquiry.

Her work broadens contemporary understanding of abstract painting as well as contributions by women of color.

November 17 Eric Sall, influenced by the history of abstract painting as well as popular culture, explores an interlinking network of visual language.

There is in the history of abstract painting as it pulled away from representation, a certain cool posture of detachment from the world.

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Using our easy to replicate abstract painting instructions — pumpkins will quickly come to life as their own little works of art this fall.

In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make paint.

The front features a pastel abstract painting of sorts that is particularly lovely when paired in contrast against the more bold and graphic design of the bottoms, as modeled on the webpage.

But Assayas also refers specifically to Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), a recently rediscovered Swedish pioneer of abstract art who claimed that her paintings were directly dictated by spirit forces, and to 19th - century French literary titan Victor Hugo, who practiced «table turning» sessions to contact the dead (Assayas fabricates an «extract» from an apocryphal French TV film of the 1960s, featuring actor - singer Benjamin Biolay as a solemn Hugo).

As the adventurous Kurt, who casually shows Alex his abstract paintings of sphincters, Jason Schwartzman shines when it comes to seducing and keeping one on his or her toes.

Richly colored acrylic paint - and - paper collages illustrate the life of Vasily Kadinsky, a first painter of abstract art, who as a boy, felt he could hear the colors he painted.

Illustrated with a mix of portrait photos and a few paintings in childlike or abstract styles, and capped by suggestions for related classroom activities and a short resource list, this book will serve as both an effective consciousness raiser for middle - grade students and a strong lead - in to Deborah Ellis» powerful Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees (2009).

There are important works in the permanent collection (almost always on view) by Mondrian, Chagall, Picasso, and Warhol, as well as a large number of abstract paintings by Makevich, which are well - worth seeing if you have an interest in Russian avant - garde.

Artist, Sandy Gray, who regularly visits, paints some lovely landscapes of the surrounding area and some wonderful abstract paintings as well.

Looking closer, Everhart began to see echoes of Chinese ink paintings and the black - and - white paintings of abstract expressionists of the»40s and»50s, such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell.

Tons of paintings both oil, & acrylic, abstract, landscapes, sculptures in stone, cement, polymer clay, 3D canvas art, rock sculptures, fairies, fairy house lamps and stash jars, as well as handcrafted soaps, lotions, candles, bath salts to die for and it's all natural ingredients!!

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.

By this definition, Renoir's painting [Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880 - 81)-RSB- is as abstract as any work ever painted.

3 Clyfford Still painted a traditional portrait of his mother (PH - 420) in 1946, the same year as his breakthrough exhibition of completely abstract paintings at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery.

As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintinAs a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric paintinas a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric painting.

As his work has developed over four decades he has created an enormous variety of series of abstract paintings in an articulate, elegant and personal language.

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.

Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive in this context, with a selection of small skewed and abstracted figure - in - landscape paintings.

Behind the black gate was a world of color, hundreds of abstract works created and hidden away by Mr. Bates, who had a promising start as a painter in the 1970s before renouncing the art world and retreating to his storefront to paint.

Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field.

And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting on being read as an abstract painting.

This exhibition focuses on her early abstract metal sculptures and paintings as a starting point for future examination of a long and continuously inventive career.

The essay «Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this painting, especially abstract painting in this painting in this country.

The Chicago - based artist is expanding upon his series of abstract DNA paintings, a group of works in which he embeds copies of his most personal documents such as his birth certificate.

Forty - five years of abstract color painting, defined rather reductively by Phillips as stain painting, is inadequately represented by four lonely works, that span a mere six - year period: Helen Frankenthaler's Mountains and Sea, (1952), Sam Francis's, Black in Red, (1953), Morris Louis's Iris, (1954) and Kenneth Noland's Song, (1958).

Presented as large - format projections, the works have the presence of sizable abstract paintings, which they tend to resemble.

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.

The light in the paintings acts as phenomenon, and at the same time the abstract color creates an experience of light and place.

They have a very strong compositional relationship to history painting, such as Da Vinci's, shown with the abstract landscapes that act as moments of memory.

In abstract painting one can't deal with a kind of entity, entity like an object or person, a concentration of psychology which a person is as opposed to what, where the figure isn't in the painting.

Wickedly funny allegories merge with abstract painting as free - form amoebic shapes frequently fill the entirety of his canvases.

So a kind of hierarchy of importance as to the various elements of a picture, that's something that I've struggled to somehow bring into abstract painting.

The results alternately emphasized or suppressed traces of the artist's hand and, as Museum director James Steward notes, «afford the viewer a remarkable opportunity to simply revel in the sheer beauty and freedom of abstract painting.»

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

In her recent show with the Beijing satellite gallery of New York's Chambers Fine Art, she has concentrated on what she calls landscape paintings, which don't present landscapes so much as a kind of floating abstract world reminiscent of the work of the Chilean modernist, Roberto Matta, in their atmospheric effect.

His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged paintings that acted as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract nature of the technological world we now live in - as prisons or cells.

In Liliane Tomasko's latest abstract paintings her examination of domesticity, such as the unmade bed, has become more urgent and fragmented, perhaps in accordance with the times.