Sentences with phrase «on abstraction when»

That early fortune was more elusive for Young, a painter who focused on abstraction when many curators wanted something more concrete from African - American artists.

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When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functionWhen Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functionwhen its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

But this insistence on Kantian morality, to my mind, shows a thinness regarding the foundation of ethics not only when it moves to an abstraction beyond settled emotive, historical and cultural practices, whether they be for better or worse.

What space is conceived to be must depend to some extent on what it contains and what it does; oversimplified abstractions defining location are a danger when science erects them into «theoretical» or when common - sense makes them into «practical» generalizations that are put forward as exhausting the concrete situation.

It is on this longer path that this can be understood: that the ideality of the meaning of the text, in the spirit of Husserl, is still a «metaphysical» abstraction, a necessary abstraction, to be sure, when faced with the psychological and existential reductions of the meaning of the text, but an abstraction nonetheless in relation to being's primordial claim to say.

Furthermore, doctrines like the Trinity and Incarnation remain bloodless abstractions when they are not set in the context of the Atonement and Resurrection, on which Wills had little to say.

I will say more later about how he shows approximation to this in his «Method of Extensive Abstraction» when we get on to how he tries to bound events.

The historical timing of this mistaken notion that the selected data («abstractions») of physical science exhausted the concrete could hardly have been worse, coming as it did just when the industrial revolution and new political revolutions should have been based on the most precise attention to relevant value.

In the southern city of Seville, where last year the glittering Expo took place against a backdrop of fountains, water was cut off for 12 hours a day until earlier this summer, when an emergency water abstraction works opened on the nearby Guadalquivir river.

Other moments of abstraction leap out from the blue - tinted office backdrop: on a New York street corner, when Bradlee and his staff seize on the first, fateful Pentagon Papers leak published in the Times, the camera lingers as the wind whips their hair and ties into the blustering air, and they grasp the newspapers thrown into shock.

Meanwhile, for those who tend to agree with Immanuel Kant that social and emotional learning are best when based on abstractions and not bound up with the vagaries of faith, there are public district and charter schools.

Organized both thematically and chronologically, the show divides the works on view into two main chapters: the years from 1923 to 1933, a time when Torres - García was involved in early modern avant - garde movements such as Catalan Noucentismo to Cubism, Ultraism - Vibrationism, and Neo-Plasticism; and those from 1935 to 1943, a time in which he was fully committed to creating works in his unique style of synthetic abstraction.

Asked about his paintings, in which gestural abstraction and imagery blend together, Berryhill remarks «There's something about the searching for the thing you don't know what it is, the invention part I like, so when I get something in a drawing, I like, to work on it until it feels like a thing.»

Contemporary abstraction aficionados: inhale a collective breath of joy when experiencing Jane Fox Hipple's (NAP # 92) return to DODGEgallery on New York's Lower East Side.

Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the human figure, when abstraction and other progressive forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.

He comments on her approach to painting, about her influence on abstraction and regrets her passing (she died in 1992, when she was only 34 years old).

The other was a college friend, back when painting meant geometric abstraction and the only Ashcan School was a mound of dirt on a gallery floor, maybe with some mirrors and torn rubber thrown in for good measure.

While drawing on the language of 20th century abstraction, White's pattern paintings temper that language's impulse towards epic, auratic significance, and emphasize, rather, the endless adjustments that are made when abstract forms encounter the world of the everyday.

The exhibition combines a chronological display with a thematic approach, structured in a series of major chapters in the artist's career, with emphasis on two key moments: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres - García participated in various European early modern avant - garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic / Constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction.

Here is a brief description of her process when building works on paper or panel:» Through abstraction I reveal a world, not unlike my everyday life: rigorous and controlled but with room for spontaneity, irony and consciousness.

[34] Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.

The New Museum calls her an influence on British sculpture since the 1960s, when she turned on formal abstraction.

In 1960, inspired by Pollock as much as by Matisse, Hantaï hit upon his technique of pliage - painting on crumpled canvases that, when stretched, resolved into celestial abstractions that collapsed distinctions between positive and negative space.

It is announced early on, when a lengthy wall label talks of abstraction nebulously as sheer feeling and experience.

'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»

Then, too, it is the eerie black and white that Leslie settles on in his paintings when he abandons abstraction.

When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature - based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked their greatest subjects — the skyscraper and the machine.

When Lichtenstein takes on dots and outlines, well before Philip Guston took on Krazy Kat and abandoned abstraction, he extends the logic even while parodying it.

Yet it also recalls the emphasis on line, form, light, and darkness in the black - and - white photographic abstractions of Aaron Siskind (1903 — 1991) and Harry Callahan (1912 — 1999), who Rauschenberg would come to know — and, in Siskind's case, befriend — when they taught at Black Mountain during summer 1951.

These promising exhibitions attest to the difficulty of calling abstraction dead or derivative, especially when almost so many since Postmodernism rely on appropriation.

When I began to show my work with David Whitney in 1969, I was painting stained abstractions, bordered by bands of color painted on the edges.

From the 1930s, Avery spent numerous summers in the company of these younger artists and, during the summers of 1957 to 1961, when Avery, Rothko and Gottlieb vacationed together in the popular artists» colony of Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was a significant coda to their reciprocal artistic dialogue, with Avery pushing his images towards the very edges of abstraction.

The Chinese artist is cordial and was quick to laugh when we met on the eve of the opening of his solo exhibition, «Hsiao Chin: 60 Years of Abstraction, Harmony and Form,» at de Sarthe Gallery in Hong Kong.

Many of Hofmann's most uninhibited, «loose» abstractions, with their soft - edged patches of intense color and whiplash drawing, appear informed by Kandinsky's dynamic paintings from 1910 — 14 — not surprisingly, since Hofmann owned several intimate Kandinsky works on paper of this type, which his wife brought to America when she joined her husband in 1939.

When he came to New York, he found a studio among others on Fulton Street, and he just had to drop in on the Abstraction Expressionists at the Cedar Bar.

«When our paintings made on the horizontal are tilted to the vertical and hung on walls, the viewer sees aerial abstractions, maps of process, beautiful bird's - eye views, and glimpses of spatial, psychological and semantic disorientation,» says Horizontalist John Perreault.

When you think of art in those years, you may think first of Dada, reveling in the neutrality of Switzerland — or of František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Wassily Kandinsky turning their back on war to invent abstraction.

Abstraction's stranglehold on the artistic imagination started to loosen in the 1970s when artists began to mock Jackson Pollock's legendary performances as a «drip» painter.

No, not today, when everything from abstraction to video gaming goes into the same recipe, with the blender on high.

In this fifth lecture, originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on May 4, 2003, the distinguished art historian Kirk Varnedoe explores the 1980s, when Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claus Oldenburg, and others confronted the ironic relationship between abstraction and the representation of man - made objects, thus producing a politicized critique of abstraction.

Later on, when he did the very last picture and there's nothing but wall and light and it has an element of abstraction there, very strongly, very strongly.

Group Exhibitions 2018 Stretch / Pulled / Inked, Impact Arts, as part of the Glasgow International, Glasgow (upcoming) Glasshouse, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow (upcoming) 2017 Amazing Perplexity, Curated by Nathalie Hoyos, Rainald Schumacher and Alevtina Kakhidze, Residents Group Exhibition of FACE — Artist Residence Program in Kiev 2016 Factually Real Illusions, curated by Lorna McDowell, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea College of Art, London Semi-Gloss, Semi-Permeable, Glasgow International Festival 2015 International Women's Contemporary Art Forum — A Crossing Section of Art, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow Abstraction from Architecture, Edinburgh Print Studio Hold, Sway, Generator Projects, Dundee 2013 Editionshow, Chert, Berlin You're my wife now, Infernoesque project space, Berlin Every Day, GoMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2012 Tintenfisch, CNEAI =, Paris, organized by Chert & Motto in the frame of Berlin - Paris exchange 2011 Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental Influences on Recent Art from Scotland, Times Square Gallery of Hunter College, City University of New York Annuale, Edinburgh 2010 Drinnen & Draussen, Chert, Berlin A man, some chickens and one corner, with Petrit Halilaj and Heike Kabisch, Berlin — Paris exchange, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, with Chert, Berlin 2009 Spacioux, curated by Michela Arfiero, Paola Gallio, Daniela Lotta, Lambretto Art Project, Milan Motto & Chert & Roses, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius 2008 You can't hide your love forever, LH Gallery, Paris And So It Goes, Art news Projects, Berlin MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow Flock, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 MFA Interim show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Devil Blue Dress, The Factory, Impact Arts, Glasgow 2005 Tercet, Intermedia, King Street, Glasgow 2004 Pieces, The Factory, Impact Arts, Glasgow

They are staggering because they move back the invention of abstraction from circa 1910, when Kandinsky was said to have set art on a new path with his first «non-representative» paintings, to 1861, when Houghton produced The Holy Trinity, a dark crisscrossing of red and blue lines up and down the paper that then go left to right, then down again in twists and spirals, and up once more in energetic slashes, a working and reworking of energy fields so layered and physical that it can accurately be described as action painting.

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

Catherine Petitgas, a London - based collector on Tate's Latin American art acquisition committee, believes the new wave of interest is based on a reassessment of geometrical abstraction in the 1950s when Brazilian artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica created a distinctive artistic language as part of the Neo-Concrete Group.

Ms. Strobert, given her academic pedigree that also includes Cooper Union, is far from an outsider when it comes to the art world, but as an African - American woman working in the vein of Abstraction, she is keenly aware that she's treading on turf that has been historically monopolized by white male artists.

In the early 1950's, when his tall, angular presence first became known on the New York art scene, he showed painterly abstractions at several downtown galleries before branching into sculpture.

In fact, at a time when Murillo seems intent on bringing attention away from the graffitied abstractions that made him famous, he saw his third - highest price — $ 377,000 — achieved at the Phillips day sale, $ 245,000 for the witty Dark Americano (scrawled with «milk,» as for the coffee) in the evening sale, and a more modest $ 137,000 in the Christie's day sale.