Sentences with phrase «of high modernism»

Back then, abstract painting investigations were still rooted in aesthetic considerations coming on the heels of high modernism.

In the process, he firmly established himself as a master of high modernism.

Although the works on view employ diverse artistic approaches, they all utilize the strategies of high modernism.

These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

The title references the period of high modernism but also, more specifically, the dates of two historical anecdotes that serve as conceptual touchstones for his current sculptures.

Samplers and blanket chests take up residence next to luminous paintings from the Hudson River School and works of high Modernism by the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Referencing the expressionist abstraction of high Modernism and the shared experiences of adolescent life, TV crime dramas and adult neuroses, these works function not to depict an event but rather the viewers alienation from that event.

The critics of high modernism celebrated the painter's mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial splatter, spray, drip, zip.

The critics of high modernism celebrated the painter's mark upon the canvas, especially the first one - that initial spla...

This critic - created infrastructure comes to life when set against the persistent catchphrases and metaphors of High Modernism.

She sticks to a bastion of high Modernism, abstract painting, in bright waves of color.

Saddest of all, the multinational institution of high Modernism comes off as a dead end.

That first showing of his late figurative paintings had been assailed by critics and admirers of high Modernism as an act of heresy, a fully - fledged betrayal of abstract painting.

This exhibition — the first major museum presentation of his work in the United States since 1989 — will bring renewed attention to Förg's work by examining his legacy in relation to key issues of the 20th century, including postwar nostalgia and loss and the utopianism of high modernism.

Van Genderen has long tussled with the history of high modernism and abstraction, but her works remain unapologetically contingent.

Favaretto approaches much of high Modernism the same way.

[45] Postmodernism emerges from a «generational refusal of the categorical certainties of high modernism.»

Hilla Toony Navok's work explores themes of high Modernism and abstraction as they appear in consumer products, as a way of examining the ideological underpinnings of design and the assimilation of the history of Modernism in contemporary consumer culture.

Michael Stubbs, still a student on the MA course at Goldsmiths», paints knowing parodies of high modernism, using the elevated language of late twentieth - century abstraction — Robert Ryman, Jasper Johns — to make pictures that look, oddly, like overdecorated wedding cakes.

Many of their small images contain figures in landscapes — sometimes seen from a great distance, sometimes from up close, as in a film by Antonioni, in which tiny unrecognizable figures seen from afar reappear in extreme close - up; the Greek - inspired structures, with their white surfaces and geometric colonnades, look like samples of high modernism.

No feminist herself, Frankenthaler was often defined by her romantic relationship with formalism's ruthless arbiter, Clement Greenberg, and her later marriage to the painter Robert Motherwell, another polemicist of high modernism.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

Suspended between the sublime, or sublimated, and the visceral, Jukkala playfully combines devices of high modernism with elemental images, exploring the world generated by his primitive visual logic.

These paintings were both an assault on and acknowledgement of high Modernism's insistence on the flatness of the picture plane.

Around this time, academic critics like Hal Foster championed Prince's work as part of a postmodern critique of commodity culture and as a definitive break with the fusty traditions of high modernism.

Even if you were confining to people working out of high modernism (for want of a better phrase), there would probably be lots of painters in the US would deserve to be counted if you were really honest about «The Best Painting In the World».

From the viewpoint of high modernism, kitsch denies authentic experience in favor of melodramatic thrills.

The tragic irony being that preservation law, which wasn't enacted in time to save so many irreplaceable buildings of the past, is now in place to save the least loved outputs of High Modernism and urban renewal.

As an idea, formalism reached its peak in the period of high modernism, between the last decades of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

Reminiscent of Suprematist aesthetics, the strength and severe geometry of their lines also recalls the abstraction of High Modernism, drawing attention to its devolution into the world of commercial decor.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high Modernism.

Perhaps you thought that the classic works of high modernism - works like Ulysses or The Waste Land - were important because they had something pertinent to say about the spiritual conundrums of modern life.

[13] Jean - François Lyotard, in Frederic Jameson's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

[8] Jean - François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

JASON STOPA Your paintings are rooted in the formal language of high modernism, but they have titles such as Depression (2016) and Opioid Addiction (2016), which suggest something more quotidian than the lofty ideals espoused by Barnett Newman or Josef Albers.