Sentences with phrase «organic abstraction»

As I reached the top I was embraced by several large paintings of organic abstractions - referencing both water and flora.

In these latest works, the artist's practice goes beyond representational content to explore organic abstraction.

For more about this kind of organic abstraction in Britain, see also: Modern British Sculpture 1930 - 70.

By appropriating the Surrealist technique of automatism, artists such as Peter Busa, Arthur Dove, Gerome Kamrowski, and Boris Margo found their voices in what Theodoros Stamos called, «abstract surrealism,» now known as organic abstraction.

As Andrade began creating illusionistic art, she shifted from organic abstraction to hard - edge geometry, emphasizing symmetrical squares and color juxtapositions.

This exhibition features Charles Seliger's intensely detailed, small - scale organic abstractions, which continue a personal and obsessive vision of nature which began during the early 1940s.

In the decades that followed, Loving explored new directions, creating more organic abstractions from torn and sewn pieces of canvas, trading in a restrained formalism for an unbounded, exuberant aesthetic.

To explore the story of these radical shifts and their legacy, «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016» unfolds as a thematic historical survey that is international in scope, making women artists central to the history of sculpture by tracing the legacy of studio - based organic abstraction.

Unique and structured composition of figure, geometry, and organic abstraction by acclaimed mixed media artist Fausto Fernandez.

Charles Seliger: The 1940s & 1990s illustrates the artist's life - long exploration of organic abstraction with works separated by half a century.

Closing in on these often - organic abstractions created a realistic perspective with distant viewpoints, while in reality, these scenes may only measure less than one or two feet in area.»

However, some themes have been consistent in her work including a fascination with the beauty and abjectness of the body; the marriage of kitsch and decoration to an ambiguous organic abstraction; and a very personal and idiosyncratic approach to feminism and formalism.

Geometric abstraction features the arrangement of simplified shapes, while organic abstraction describes pictures with forms that resemble plant, animal, or other living matter.

They came up as artists, like most of the artists of the New York School — like Jackson Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning, looking at Primitivism, looking at organic abstraction, exploring Surrealism in the 1940's and defining their personal language of abstraction.

Her colorful organic abstractions that reference specific examinations of nature - the gradual growth of tree rings, the melting of glaciers, the flow of water over time - are haunting allusions to incremental damage and irreparable loss.

The unique frames he made for his small organic abstractions added an almost folk - art quality to his otherwise strictly modernist paintings.

For more than fifty years, Seliger has passionately pursued his inner - world of organic abstraction developing and refining his meticulous and obsessive interpretation of nature in small scale works.

By Francis V. O'Connor, with a foreword by Thomas M. Messer and an introduction by Melvin P. Lader Hardcover with dustjacket: 12 x 10 inches 216 pages; 218 color illustrations (Hudson Hills Press, 2003) This is the first book devoted exclusively to Charles Seliger (American, b. 1926), and offers a rare glimpse at the working methods and personal life of an artist who has tirelessly pursued organic abstraction for over sixty years.

Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) French Dadaist, Surrealist, organic abstraction sculptor, painter, collage artist.

The works offer a distinct nod to their modernist and AbEx predecessors while also moving their geometric and organic abstraction forward with a clear contemporary edge.

• Jean Arp (1887 - 1966) German - French sculptor and painter; founder member of Abstraction - Creation, known for his signature organic abstraction, in bronze, metal and marble.

The mountains, hills, and exotic flora of Hawaii, New Mexico, and Portugal have evolved into organic abstractions of a sprawling New England landscape.

As with her oil paintings, Frecon's works on paper continue her investigation of a highly allusive, geometric and yet still organic abstraction; mostly small in scale, they are remarkable for their quiet presence and power.

While the tendency towards organic abstraction was particularly visible in the 1940s and 1950s, it has continued to be one of many strains apparent in art and design since, in the work of sculptors as varied as Linda Benglis (b. 1941), Richard Deacon (b. 1949), Eva Hesse (1936 - 70), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Ursula von Rydingsward (b. 1942) and Bill Woodrow (b. 1948), and designers Ron Arad (b. 1951), Verner Panton (1926 - 98) and Oscar Tusquets (b. 1941).

In comparing Catlett's art modernist organic abstraction (particularly Brancusi's sculpture), Michael Brenson concluded the following:

Disappointed with «pure» geometry and disinclined toward organic abstraction, they began creating constructions derived from elements of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Scandinavia was another home of organic abstraction in the 1940s and 1950s.

With her recent paintings on paper and wood, Madeline Weinrib continues to explore organic abstraction, utilizing the circle as a point of departure.

The paintings, intensely detailed, small - scale organic abstractions (measuring no larger than 18» x 14»), are meticulously rendered with acrylic on masonite panels.

The second space is devoted to the smaller, more organic abstractions that Hammersley made starting in the mid-1980s.

To explore the story of these radical shifts and their legacy, «Revolution in the Making» unfolds as a thematic historical survey that is international in scope and fundamentally revisionist, making women artists central to the history of sculpture by tracing the legacy of studio - based organic abstraction.

Seliger passionately pursued this inner world of organic abstraction, celebrating the structural complexities of natural forms.

As windows that you look at rather than through, these organic abstractions inescapably evoke the dream spaces of magic - lantern slides and stained - glass windows.

Characterized by wavy lines, he often referred to his sculptures as the organic abstraction.

He is best known for his sculptures characterized by wavy lines that he often referred to as the organic abstraction.

Throughout her work, Rama «invents sensurrealism, an art of the visceral - specific, porn brut, organic abstraction.»

My abstract painting comes from reality, from the organic abstraction that lives in each and every one of us.

She joined a small group of pioneer sculptors who were committed to abstraction, with whom she developed her more mature style marked by organic abstraction and innovative use of various media including string, wire and colored paint.

For more than fifty - five years, Charles Seliger has passionately pursued an inner - world of organic abstraction, celebrating the structural complexities of natural forms.

From Barbara Hepworth's organic abstractions in Kendal to JD Ferguson's post-war bohemianism in Chichester, find out what's happening in art around the country

Stefan Hirsig's complex large - scale compositions present a delirious amalgam of painting techniques: from color - field, geometric, and organic abstraction, through pop referentiality.

William Baziotes and Theodore Stamos explored an organic abstraction of muted but richly saturated colors.

Today, the abstract works of Mark Rothko and Pablo Picasso sell for tens of millions, while famous examples of geometric and organic abstraction can be seen in museums of modern art across the world.

BEST ABSTRACT ART For a guide to geometric and organic abstraction, see: Abstract Paintings: Top 100.

She explores a spontaneous type of organic abstraction but through a unique and radical process of inversion, which calls into question the formal concerns of colour and mark making.

From lyrical, organic abstractions to radiant geometrical designs, this was Jack Youngerman's year, with simultaneous shows at the Washburn Gallery in New York, six new black and white sculptures on view at LongHouse Reserve, the installation of Conflux II, a bright orange wood relief at the Parrish Art Museum, and a small gem of a retrospective of his works on paper at The Drawing Room in East Hampton, NY.