Sentences with phrase «of nonrepresentational»

I started my calendar paintings — the first of these nonrepresentational paintings after I had made valentines with a bunch of squares and with a heart in them.

Art Issues, January 1989, p. 21 Jones, Amelia, «The Contingency of the Nonrepresentational: Liz Larner's Objects,» Visions Art Quarterly, Spring 1989 Kelley, Mike, «Foul Perfection: (Thoughts on Caricature),» Artforum, January 1989, pp. 92 - 99, illus.

Lucid Art Foundation (CA), Call for Applicants: Artist - in - Residence 2018 Deadline: November 15th, 2017 The Lucid Art Foundation encourages exploration of nonrepresentational art through multimedia, conceptual, ecological, and interdisciplinary approaches.

In 2017 in Krems we could see the exhibition Abstract Painting Now featuring sixty different art positions, and focus on the present - day international state of play of the nonrepresentational easel painting.

An early practitioner of nonrepresentational painting, Stella gained early, immediate recognition in 1959 with his series of coolly impersonal black - striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.

Masullo cites Oct. 27, 1977, as a benchmark in his biography; a printmaking instructor explained the concept of negative and positive space, opening up the idea of nonrepresentational art.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

Cameron Martin is known for his black - and - white landscape paintings informed by semiotics, but for the last three years the artist has been working on a new body of nonrepresentational paintings and drawings.

The work in About Abstraction suggests a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco, and illustrates the enduring vitality and power of nonrepresentational art for well over a century.

He produced a series of nonrepresentational paintings in which organic forms merge.

In Linear Abstraction, the SCAD Museum of Art negotiates the status of nonrepresentational work as it exists in the 21st century and includes work in various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital formats.

Her ambivalent pictorial language can not be deciphered on a linear path, since in her colorful shining paintings, out of nonrepresentational elements, narrative references suddenly emerge.

Over several decades, Thompson devoted her artistic practice to exploring and expanding the language of nonrepresentational abstraction.

We will explore topics ranging from the emergence of nonrepresentational painting to the persistence of abstraction in contemporary art.

Not exact matches

In modern art the criteria of beauty in nonrepresentational pieces are still open to question.

But if the spiritual in art is not primarily a matter of content or representational or nonrepresentational technique, what is it?

Magnetic Fields aims to change this perspective by focusing on nonrepresentational work by women artists of color, presenting a more complete presentation of American abstraction than has previously been offered.

You can see how he brought to his paintings of still lifes, figures, and landscapes lessons he learned during his years making nonrepresentational paintings, one of the qualities that set his finest efforts apart from those of his friends and colleagues.

If a nonrepresentational artist, on the other hand, was thinking of a tea pot while painting a canvas, you'd never know it.

By restricting herself to nonrepresentational forms, earth - based colors, and, in the case of her watercolors, «found» pieces of paper, Frecon achieves an unequaled sense of balance and openness in her work.

At the time, I imagined that our nonrepresentational, process - or - performance - based, and conceptual art would save Chicago from a group of artists whom I now love, the figurative surrealists — Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, Gladys Nilsson, and Jeff Koons's teacher Ed Paschke — known as Chicago Imagists.

Vasily (Wassily) Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian painter, teacher, and art theorist who was one of the first artists to explore nonrepresentational art and, in 1910, created the first totally abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction.

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Inspired by natural sciences, primitive arts, Eastern philosophies and ancient rituals, he synthesized diverse influences into an expressive, nonrepresentational language emphasizing subtle graduations of color and form.

While it's true that every artist expresses their own presence as well as the presence of the» subject» no matter what the medium or genre, the sort of rupture that existed between representational (mimetic) and nonrepresentational (gesture or phenomonological) in Carone's generation was so abrupt that it seems a good way of identifying the issues.

Though completely nonrepresentational, her works are borne out of her interest in centrifugal forces in portraits.

Part of a recent body of work, they allude to universal spheres or basic life forms and highlight Kusama's unique amalgamation of representational and nonrepresentational subject matter.

The angular forms of the figure in this drawing recall his portrait paintings, and the vertical, architectonic marks also reference his cityscapes and nonrepresentational abstractions.

A mysticism of the senses is indeed brought forth in these paintings by Jenkins, who uses the nonrepresentational to demonstrate the priority of the metaphysical — in life, as well as art.

Its artists were known for their gestural (vigorous and expressive) brushwork, thick application of paint, and nonrepresentational imagery.

Though suggestive of the folds in curtains, the brushwork remains resolutely nonrepresentational.

The show also included a group of the small, nonrepresentational «ab - stractscapes» that McNeil made from the mid-to late 1960s, often en plein air.

Viewers are encouraged to take one, and the pile is replenished each evening, shrinking and swelling in defiance of the supposed monumentality and nonrepresentational ideals of Minimalism.

With this exhibition, Tegeder investigates, based upon her nonrepresentational repertoire, the influences of 20th century Modernism upon a 21st century artistic discourse that recalls original elements while elaborating further upon both ideas and techniques.

Each of the artists in this exhibition were chosen because they create nonrepresentational art based on personal narratives that may go unnoticed when viewing the formal elements of the artwork alone.

«Liminal Squared» by Julie Mehretu at the Marian Goodman Gallery In «Liminal Squared,» Julie Mehretu's latest show at the Marian Goodman Gallery on W 57 Street, she presents a small number of huge, nonrepresentational paintings that blur the lines between landscape, architectural drawing, and pure abstraction.

The agenda — «all over,» nonrepresentational, and downright disembodied — may sound a lot like the color theory of Josef Albers.

In Mitchell's case, metonymy involves an empathetic response to nature that led her to use memories of taking her dog to a swimming hole as the impetus for the nonrepresentational, but allusive and expressionistic George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold (1957; Albright - Knox Art Gallery).

She'd been creating process - oriented, abstract paintings, and the diagrams of seismic events in the book struck her as its own nonrepresentational language.

All 12 are nonrepresentational, to be sure, with broad areas of meandering color and beautifully indeterminate line.

In a sensational stylistic turnaround, and the equivalent of inventing fire, Rosenquist went from his generic nonrepresentational work to making, in one try, the seven - by - seven foot black - and - white, photographically based realist painting Zone.

The resultant works exhibit a harmonious balance of painting and sculptural relief, recognizable form and nonrepresentational image.

WORK Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with confident mark making and nonrepresentational forms that could be said to mimic geometric high - end fashion.

Then, around the turn of the millennium, her work underwent yet another shift, becoming evermore nonrepresentational until figuration disappeared entirely.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

The works can be organized into the following groups: anthropomorphism (imbuing the form of an animal or inanimate object with human features or behaviors), biomorphism (having a nonrepresentational form or pattern that resembles a living organism), and rhizomorphism (comprising a root - like structure).

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).

Howard Hodgkin's artwork falls in the realm of the semi-abstract: It seems nonrepresentational at first glance, but it often suggests embedded figures that contain depth and mystery, like the palm tree referenced in the title of this painting.

All territorial clashes, aggressive cryptograms, and death threats were nullified into a mass of spray - painted gestures that had become nothing more than atmosphere, their violent disputes transposed into an immense, outdoor, nonrepresentational mural.

In post-World War II America, however, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen years.