Sentences with phrase «painter of abstract ideas»

Müller remained a painter of abstract ideas, however, if not abstract forms.

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«The funny thing is, when I was Adam's age I came to New York to be an abstract painter and my parents didn't have the foggiest idea of what I was trying to do with my life.

When British artists saw the first London exhibitions of American abstract painters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the late Fifties, they were astonished by the improvisatory freedom of their works, in which paint appeared to have been hurled on to the canvas without any preconceived ideas, and by the sheer size of the paintings.

Hofmann's own writings bear witness to his sympathy with the Russian - born painter's ideas about using abstract means to make spiritual qualities visible, absent the specific values Kandinsky attached to colors, shapes, and the direction of lines.

Hofmann's own writings bear witness to his sympathy with the Russian - born painter's ideas about using abstract means to make spiritual qualities visible, absent the specific symbolic values Kandinsky attached to colors, shapes, and the direction of lines.

The word suggests not only finality but also perfection, an idea embodied in the infinite completion of the circle — a form prevalent in the abstract works of both painters after their separation in the 1930s.

It was while working in New York as a sign painter by day and an abstract painter by night that he had the idea to import the giant - scale, broadly painted representational pictures from outdoor advertising into the realm of fine art.

It first happened, actually, in my use of photography, because I had gotten the idea that abstract painters dealt with narrativity by taking photographs of things, in real everyday life.

An example of this type of abstract art would be Perfect Happiness, by the abstract painter Agnes Martin, who often attempted to communicate the idea of innocence through her work.

Over at the Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, painter Eddie Martinez is experimenting with this idea in an installation of his Matador paintings where a grouping of abstract forms occurs over and over again with messy alterations.

Curated by Sukanya Rajaratnam, the show brings together some of the earliest examples of the innovations and ideas that have now secured Gilliam's status as a seminal American abstract painter.

In the spring of 1945 Newman set down a number of his developing ideas about the proper goals of aspiring abstract painters in various drafts of an unpublished «monologue,» The Plasmic Image.

Sadly, Van Doesburg passed away a year after issuing his manifesto, but his ideas were continued and developed by the Abstraction - Creation group - led by the Belgian artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 - 1965) and the French painters Jean Helion (1904 - 87) and Auguste Herbin (1882 - 1960)- whose members included the cream of European abstract sculptors, such as Jean Arp (1886 - 1966), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941), Antoine Pevsner (1886 - 1962), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982).

Heilmann's big ideas and promiscuous use of different media have made her a hero for a new generation of painters, not least the women leading abstract American art today.

Matta began to teach some of the American painters about the surrealist movement and the ideas he shared instigated a new movement of art in America, abstract expressionism.

It's an idea that a lot of abstract painters had and to me it's obsolete.

I think the one thing I got from the abstract painters was the idea of «flat.»