Sentences with phrase «other tradition of abstraction»

Clearly, Blannin is participating in that other tradition of abstraction that is connected more to Constructivism than to American Abstract Expressionism, the tradition that includes the British Constructionists and the Systems Group where the sense of «system» is a mathematical one.

Not exact matches

Other series by Zeng have combined art - historical traditions, often resulting in a kind of abstraction that marries Western and non-Western styles.

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

Though there is a long tradition of geometric abstraction abroad that dates back to Russian Constructivism (Kasimir Malevich) and Dutch Neoplasticism (Piet Mondrian), the European artists were concerned with a balanced relationship of parts within a whole, whereas Reinhardt, Newman and Rothko stressed the unity of the painting over all other surface incidents.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

If the show intended to nod at the kinds of abstraction influenced by American painting of the 1960s (Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and others painted on canvas with acrylics in a way that seemed to up the ante of the watercolour tradition), why not chose a late 60s John Hoyland, a 70s Bert Irvin or a recent John McLean rather than this dreary thing?

Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and other everyday occurrences.

«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»

Other works experiment with scale and non-traditional materials to re-position otherwise familiar forms, investing them with political or gender narratives; Geometric abstraction is reworked in stitched lines and layers of applied felt, transforming the medium and linking it to other traditions of maOther works experiment with scale and non-traditional materials to re-position otherwise familiar forms, investing them with political or gender narratives; Geometric abstraction is reworked in stitched lines and layers of applied felt, transforming the medium and linking it to other traditions of maother traditions of making.

The entry level will feature sparsely hung work in the tradition of analytic abstraction by Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold and Kenneth Noland among many others.