Sentences with phrase «of abstraction as»

With their simple and direct manufacture, these artworks are elegant and elemental, and can be said to say something basic about what painting is — about its ontology, if you think of abstraction as a philosophical venture.

Inventing Abstraction, 1910 — 1925 celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork, tracing the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media.

If there is a key that unlocks Picasso's achievement, it is to be found neither in the Marxists from Max Raphael to John Berger who measured his achievements against the social and economic vagaries of his times, nor in the formalism of Clement Greenberg, who viewed Cubism and the onset of abstraction as a revolution that Picasso precipitated but that eventually left him behind.

Michael: I think most people think of abstraction as something striving to be apart from the world, like geometry, but nothing is entirely apart from the world, Euclid was of this world, and I often think of my own abstract painting as earthy.

The combination testifies to Jones» conception of abstraction as a language that can encompass cultural, political and historical ideas and can work toward spanning the critical gulf between African American and dominant modernisms.

Sung Won Yun uses her highly methodical mode of abstraction as a means through which to represent biological processes over time.

Thinking of abstraction as the taking away of material things or the theft of reality, the artist works towards the extraction of representation or «things».

Marking a point of transition in the artist's oeuvre, these paintings illustrate Williams's use of abstraction as a tool to mask visceral components with elegant shapes and contours.

In light of recent controversies over the use or absence of Black bodies in relation to abstract painting (most notably the controversy of the Dana Schutz painting at New York's Whitney museum), and the ahistorical suspicion of abstraction as a form of practice that manifest in some of the discourse, it is important that Black artists» role as innovators in the field of abstraction is given due significance here through the works of Whitten, Bowling, and others.

The show is part of the gallery's «Summer of Abstraction,» which aims to explore the continued evolution of abstraction as an artistic medium.

Key to her artistic practice is the assumption that abstraction is a forceful, potent artistic expression — this thought somewhat contradicts the traditional idea of abstraction as a strategy for withdrawal.

Sunny Belliston is an assistant professor at BYU who creates both two and three dimensional works that explore the possibilities of abstraction as she responds to the modern landscape.

And since in that text Hubbard described his concept of being an observer and referenced Kafka's use of space and architecture, my reduced notion of abstraction as excluding any form of narrative other than form itself seemed to need renegotiation.

Underscoring conceptual parallels between the artists» process - oriented paintings, drawings, and sculpture, the presentation examines the role and impact of abstraction as a vehicle for artistic, social, and political commentary.

He continues, «I think of the abstraction as coming from a primordial subconscious state, and the image and narrative paintings as coming from the more rational, conscious mind.»

Impressions of each city are fundamental to these drawings, as location plays a key role in the artist's life and oeuvre; as the artist stated in 2006, «People tend to think of abstraction as abstract.

The exhibition is curated by Barry Schwabsky and brings together paintings by close to fifty artists in an effort to illuminate how the act of making a representational painting became redefined over the past century, following the emergence of abstraction as a competing proposition.

The works in Beyond the Spectrum attest to the array of approaches and styles within American abstraction, and they challenge two persistent tendencies: to conceive of abstraction as the purview of white artists and to limit notions of authenticity to figural representations of African American culture where black artists are concerned.

This collection forms a concise dialogue centered on the artist's exploration of the fragile boundaries between public and private domains and his use of abstraction as a vehicle for political critique.

At the heart of this exhibition is Pendleton's continual engagement with an expanded history and definition of abstraction as it has developed and cross-pollinated in the visual and poetic arts.

Her paintings encompass referential and non-objective forms of abstraction as well as figuration — rich in color and texture they engender loose, non-linear narratives.

Sharing a gallery with Haynes, Nene Humphrey takes the tactile, physical edge of abstraction as her subject, but she, too, thrives on the visual.

Impressions of each city are fundamental to these drawings, as location plays a key role in the artist's oeuvre; as the artist stated in 2006, «People tend to think of abstraction as abstract.

Through recreation, «Mondrian and his Studios» could convey Mondrian's understanding of abstraction as a vital part of everyday life, rather than a rarefied exercise in formalism.

Scully reflects: «It's habitual to think of abstraction as abstract.

Join us for a discussion on Thompson's work and influences, as well as the changing landscape of abstraction as a field that is becoming more inclusive to women and artists of color.

While critics saw these many simultaneous categories of Abstraction as significant and distinct, it is difficult to narrowly define this generation of artistic exploration.

«From the early 20th century up to the present day, we see the adoption of abstraction as a strategy for portrayal that resists the co-option of likeness for political or social purposes,» said Goodyear.

Bowling's role as curator and contributor to the seminal «5 +1» exhibition in 1969, as well as his defence of abstraction as a viable creative language in the face of criticism from artists such as Chandler, place him at the centre of this moment.

«From the early 20th century up to the present day we see the adoption of abstraction as a strategy for portrayal that resists the cooption of likeness for political or social purposes,» said Goodyear.

Over the years, through a series of decisive shifts in medium and intent, he turned to painting and drawing, embracing the phenomenological and spiritual legacy of abstraction as a transcendental, rather than purely formal, tradition.

The pattern seen is reminiscent of Arab - Islamic Art that has developed throughout history in the field of abstraction as religion forbade the representation of the human figure.

Thomas was a champion of abstraction as an expressive art form that she believed could transcend specific politics, and chose her imagery and palette in repsonse to nature and scientific phenomena and advancements.

Whether on the scale of a big canvas such as «Flower Offerings» (2014) or the small untitled one on view, Tran gives a convincing account of abstraction as free - wheeling performance, a possibility supposedly played out 60 - odd years ago, certainly no later than the deaths of greats such as Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) and Nicholas Carone (1917 - 2010).

Mike Childs» 100 Words is an exhibition of paintings tied to the idea of abstraction as a substitute for language.

From simple sketches to highly finished compositions, these works represent the rich possibilities of abstraction as a mode of artistic expression.

Could I be thinking of abstraction as old friends or just departed one?

Neal writes: «Taking its title from Plato's dialogue on the soul's immortality, the exhibit «presents the practice of abstraction as a vehicle for the exploration of a world that exists apart from the physical one we inhabit.»

Matternet co-founder Andreas Raptopoulos says the ultimate vision for his company is to build a delivery system that uses a network of drones (see «The drone is flying it to you now «-RRB-, with package delivery reaching the same level of abstraction as the delivery of email on smartphones.

But if Royce was incapable of rebuilding community on the basis of an abstraction as vague as loyalty, certainly Peirce was even less likely to have been able to construct a viable notion of community.

The viability of abstraction as a process that transcends the limits of experiential concreta follows by a transcendental argument from the possibility of communication — to the «conditions under which alone» communication is possible.

And this is true of the other levels of abstraction as well.

Not exact matches

It starts with a process that I refer to as a «process of abstraction».

Stellar enables tailor - made ICOs by providing base abstractions such as accounts, tokens, payments, offers (to exchange one token type for another), and atomic transactions consisting of multiple operations.

Just as this article said, and my comment above, to solve the divide, we can: (1) Argue about the definition of Race / God (2) Argue about identification in a religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God».

Here again Aron avoids abstractions of a sort that dangerously misunderstand the competitive nature of international relations as well as an amoral realism that obliterates any space for ethical restraint and reflection.

«In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

To speak as the White Rose did of humanity per se is to remain at the level of abstraction.

The suggestion that the three abstractions noted may be interpreted as disguised idealizations leads to a much larger question concerning the identity of relations in the context of Whitehead's conceptions of nature.

The third level of abstraction involves groups as foci of interaction.