Sentences with phrase «of abstract painting reflects»

This refusal to cohere to conventional notions of abstract painting reflects the breadth of Cain's influences — including abstract expressionism, photography, the artist Ana Mendieta, and ceramics — and her desire to dismantle the male - dominated history and traditions of painting.

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In much Abstract Expressionist painting of the 50s, notably paintings by Rothko and Newman, expanded abstract visual fields reflect the viewer's gaze, conjuring an awareness of self.

My work reflects these cross-cultural experiences through the combination of modern abstract painting and abstract Lakota art forms.

Although Ms. Frankenthaler rarely discussed the sources of her abstract imagery, it reflected her impressions of landscape, her meditations on personal experience and the pleasures of dealing with paint.

A studio visit with the New York - based painter and drawing maker David Row, who presents his recent work, traces his development, and reflects on abstract painting's open - ended possibilities of meaning.

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.

Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.

Fascinated by the topography of her adopted home, the artist created a series of abstracted landscape paintings that reflect the hills, valleys, highways, and waterways of the western United States.

His gleaming, vertiginous skyscrapers, sometimes abstracted into pure shape and color, reflect a love for both painting and urban life reminiscent of the affection paid to nature in more traditional landscape painting.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

In a downstairs gallery, a 1967 abstract painting by Richard Pousette - Dart, a haze of blue and yellow daubs, reflects that artist's cosmological interests.

The U.S. Pavilion exhibition Tomorrow Is Another Day reflects Bradford's interest in renewing traditions of abstract and materialist painting, as well as his longtime social and intellectual interests, most notably in marginalized populations.

The three artists share an interest in depicting — in hard - edged artworks of pulsating abstract painting — the vibrating, undetermined power of the universe and the movement of the world as reflected in everyday life, according to the gallery press release.

The installation will present a wide range of abstract paintings, each of which reflects a distinct style and unique aesthetic.

Painting a landscape on the face of an old hand saw or polishing an extraordinary tree root into an abstract sculpture reflected one's access to free time, materials, the natural world and tradition.»

When Gates was making them, he was reflecting not only on his father's tar kettle but also on the abstract painting of Jasper Johns and others, art considered the high - water mark of American modernism.

The studio also presents a selection of her designer clothes that reflect her abstract paintings, plus the studio door from her Porthmeor studio, which was removed in its renovation

The exhibition invites you to explore more than 60 captivating works that reflect and refract contemporary abstraction through a variety of exacting and systematic frames of reference, providing fascinating insights into the underlying sources and influences of abstract painting today.

Mack's abstract paintings of 1957 — 58, which combine blurred paint with a grid - like form, prefiguring Gerhard Richter, lead seamlessly into the reflected light of his aluminium constructions.

Perhaps pursuing abstract art tends to reflect such a view of uncertainty, whilst figurative art always gives one a hold, a connection to a wider world, outside of the act of painting.

The caption reads: «The eye - catching abstract painting by David Palmer in the informal eating area reflects off the mirror - like black granite countertop in the adjoining kitchen...» Installed in an historic, stately, century - old Back Bay Brownstone, David's bold, undulating, swooping and knotting single stroke painting over a pristine white ground gives the space a magical sense of life.

Taking this premise as his point of departure, Rondinone creates mixed - media installations that run the gamut of artistic genres and techniques — including landscape drawing, abstract painting, photographic portraiture, realist sculpture, and video — and reflect the belief that

These practices do not imply that Clarkson has lost faith in abstract painting, but rather reflect his understanding of the limits of abstract painting's materials, formats and vocabulary.

This exhibition of work by New York - based artist Summer Wheat (U.S., born 1977) features a suite of large - scale abstract - figurative paintings that serve as both portals to imaginary worlds and as mirrors that reflect interior states of being.

His concurrent practices of painting and drawing reflect on specific places and experiences — from the deeply symbolic to the notational — translating sensations and memories into abstract compositions.

Ms. Mehretu won a MacArthur Foundation «genius» award at the young age of 34 for her sprawling abstract paintings that reflect the velocity and fragmentation of contemporary life.

A series of tapestries and oil paintings are shown reflecting the vibrant and colourful abstract landscapes depicted in her poems.

His control of the overall design of a painting was reminiscent of Ingres, his palette toyed with Matisse and the Fauves, his reassembling of the world under his own rules reflected the spirit of Picasso and the Cubists; but he was his own man - wryly observant, figurative, photo - realist, abstract, always forging his own identity amidst the white noise of modern culture.

In the 1980's in Soho Alan Uglow made it a point to position his paintings below eye level, a move which not only added a sense of gravity to their bearing, but reflected the position of abstract painting at that time as being below the radar.

His abstract oil paintings have always reflected his love of the low country, which he freely acknowledges.

This recent body of work reflects Mr.'s impulse to push the seemingly kitschy nature of these imaginary realms into a gritty and abstract painting style in order to explore personal, global, and environmental themes of destruction.

Constructed in the manner of an abstract painting, the surface of the work absorbs and reflects light, changing colour depending on atmospheric conditions.

Though abstract in form, the paintings reflect Binion's experience: his childhood in the rural South, living in a two room house, with eleven siblings, moving to Detroit, and being part of the nascent art community in ew York.

Whilst the final painting resembles a formalist abstract construct, the choice of colour, paint and material used, directly reflects the psychological concept of the subject.

Our presence at the abstract paintings reflect today is dominated by the binary structures of computer systems and is thus in itself abstract.

Using the language of abstract painting and the modernist grid, the pieces reflect into an illusionistic space without fully relinquishing their sense of physicality.

Reflecting on her early optical abstract paintings, Howardena Pindell once remarked that she gave up the rectangle in favor of unstretched canvases with idiosyncratic, non-symmetrical shapes that conjured, as she once put it, «some internal intuition of nature.»

Some Americans art historians believed that your work possessed a kind of symbolic and emotional content that reflected the experience of the war more accurately than other painters and, in a way, different form the paintings of the abstract expressionists.

The abstract imagery of Matthew Penkala's paintings strongly reflects his training and practice in photography.

All four women artists, Miranda Aschenbrenner, Melanie Authier, Christine Baigent, and Milly Ristvedt, provide works for the exhibition that reflect on and push at the boundaries of abstract painting.

The US Pavilion exhibition Tomorrow is Another Day will reflect Bradford's interest in renewing traditions of abstract and materialist painting, as well as his longtime social and intellectual interests, most notably in marginalised populations.

Through the act of layering graphic black and white paint over photocopies of Polariods, Christopher Wool has abstracted any literal imagery in Maybe, Maybe Not, reworking each piece to reflect a series of afterthoughts on his painting.

The predominantly female artists currently at the forefront of producing abstract painting are a notable departure from the traditionally male associations of modernism and painting, a reality that is reflected in this exhibition.

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

As an artist, Terry has painted in various media and styles and is best known for his fluid, dynamic, and colorful large abstractions reflecting a rediscovery of his roots and interest in abstract expressionism.

The impasto of modern and contemporary painters — particularly those moving into abstraction or creating fully abstract images, like Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, or Willem de Kooning — reflect an emphasis on gesture and the physical presence of paint itself.

gestural surfaces of abstract expressionist works and towards flatter surfaces and a more minimal color palette, Stella's paintings reflected his statement of the time that a picture was «a flat surface with paint on it — nothing more.»

Playing with pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp creates a visual language that oscillates between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.

During the 1960s, she started painting a series of abstract landscapes reflecting her earlier experiences in the west of Ireland, at the Burren, Co..

Krieger's large, abstract compositions are often painted en plein - air and reflect the experience of the «rambling, unplanned, chaotic nature of the landscape.»