Sentences with phrase «painterly abstraction as»

These she filters through the unavoidable artifice of modern life, using conscious painterly abstraction as a foil.

Working with painterly abstraction as an agent of change, each of Sheridan's paintings compresses the time of its video counterpart into object.

Since that time, Osborne's paintings have become bolder and increasingly veer towards painterly abstraction as her sweeping brushstrokes now create the structure of the canvases.

Finally, in the late 1960s (partially as a response to minimal art, and the dogmatic interpretations by some to Greenbergian and Juddian formalism), many painters re-introduced painterly options into their works and the Whitney Museum and several other museums and institutions at the time formally named and identified the movement and uncompromising return to painterly abstraction as «lyrical abstraction».

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The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.

Masterfully recreating a photograph whilst allowing the process of its painterly making to remain visible, Richter heightens the tension between painting and photography, abstraction and figuration, truth and fiction — presenting to us an image that is conceptually subversive as it is utterly magnificent.

«Rothko to Richter provides an important reassessment of the striking developments in abstract art that took place over a particularly significant 40 years and reaffirms abstraction's vibrancy and diversity as perhaps the 20th - century's defining painterly idiom,» said Princeton University Art Museum Director James Steward.

Cecily Brown's lush gestural oil paintings draw inspiration from old master paintings as well as contemporary, political - based imagery, hovering somewhere between abstraction and representation with her loose, painterly, blurred brushstrokes.

With the exception of Kelly, all of those artists developed their versions of painterly abstraction that has been characterized at times as lyrical abstraction, tachisme, color field, Nuagisme and abstract expressionism.

Hung as a series of official portraits, each painting features an abstraction whose shades and shapes convey the essence of a personality, while weight, hues, and the overlapping layers of painterly substance have a soul of their own.

On the third floor, Ken Okiishi's painterly gestures cover video monitors playing moments from cable TV, as if to put abstraction in context of contemporary culture.

Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage of art's march to absolute abstraction.

Post Painterly Abstraction (the term was coined by Greenberg to signal a break with what he called «the turgidities of second - generation Abstract Expressionism») was Greenberg's way of making real what he'd been writing about in such much - discussed essays as Modernist Painting, from 1961.

Different in scale and style, his painterly production contemplates both intimate and delicate paintings where figuration fades into abstraction, as well as more exuberant and confrontational works that deploy references to pop culture, sexuality and consumerism.

About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York painting scene like a bat out of hell, that is, if you define hell as the Yale M.F.A. painting program; back then, her large Day - Glo - colored canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s Color Field painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in odd - shaped plates, and painterly abstraction at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

He manages to capture reality in a painterly way, such that landscape and abstraction manifest as related concepts.

From afar Veronica's canvases read as so many familiar gestures of painterly abstraction, involving the surrounding wall and floor and the drops, splashes and marks that are created in the process of painting.

Bacon's unsettling figures recall painterly masters such as Velàzques, Rembrandt and Goya, at the same time as his level of abstraction reveals a relation to pioneers of modernism such as Picasso and Matisse.

In this regard, they weave together multiple strands of art - historical lineage, ranging from Gerhard Richter's painterly abstractions, to Andy Warhol's aesthetic of reproduction, to the material concerns of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg.

Michael Rudokas brings those memories even closer to the painterly ideal of art as object, while softening the edges of geometric abstraction.

While Lanyon has remained an iconic figure for painters, as an authentically British pioneer of painterly abstraction, he is little known to the public at large.

Figurative elements are always present, but often seem to serve more as vehicles for painterly abstraction than for specific narrative.

Peter's work is on display as part of a group show called, «American Painterly Abstractions» at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Murray grappled with an ever expanding vocabulary of autobiographical forms and images as her career progressed, incorporating Pop art, cartooning, graffiti art and aspects of minimalism and post painterly abstraction without ever completely abandoning her affinity for the New York School.

In each work, the artist employs formal dualities from the art historical canon — namely, narration versus abstraction, color versus line, flat versus recessive space, and painting versus drawing — not as a means to a conceptual end, but rather as a method to push these painterly concerns to their extremes.

Her unprecedented piece Rhapsody (1975 — 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates, reads as a lyrical conversation between mathematical abstraction and painterly figuration.

By re-staging painterly craft as a playful irreverence between intractable materials and willful deliberation, the processes of abstraction, decoration and humour unfold into a heady mix of the serious and the sensual.

Despite this turbid content, it remains fashionable to talk about Baselitz's paintings as abstractions, as though the perverse act of reversing the figure — the works at Michael Werner, from the»70s, include some of the first examples of this practice — were merely a technical matter, and as though his painterly explorations were mere attempts to stretch

Rothenberg's visceral canvases have continued to evolve, as she explores the boundary between figural representation and abstraction; her work also examines the role of color and light, and the translation of her personal experience to a painterly surface.

Hodgkin shows an audacious confidence as he begins to abandon all representational forms and works purely in his own language of bold painterly abstraction that he is so revered for.

Greenberg coined the term Post-Painterly Abstraction to distinguish it from Abstract Expressionism, or Painterly Abstraction, as Greenberg preferred to call it.

Painterly abstraction is at least as integral to these works as their still - life components are, and their dizzying visual generosity underlines the symbiotic relationship between food and paint, and the inherently sustaining nature of both.»

An intense drawing phase began in the late 1960s, culminating in a painterly break with the «purity requirements» of abstraction: Guston introduced crude figures and fragments of figures into his works; they populated his pink, red, black, and blue canvases - smoking, drinking, often painting as well.

The artist's recent paintings explore relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention.

Beginning each painting with a low - tech computer drawing, Bauer develops his work through a complicated process incorporating hands - off painting techniques such as stenciling, silk - screening and spraying that translate digitized graphics towards sublime fields of painterly abstraction.

Aubrey Williams» distinctive contribution to 20th century British art as a master of painterly abstraction is increasingly recognized; a contemporary of Alan Davie and Peter Lanyon, Williams» work invites productive comparison.

Representing several new approaches emerging from the wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century, these artists combine various elements such as conceptual art, post-painterly abstraction, reductive strategies, mysticism and cultural commentary in a visually and intellectually provocative collection of paintings.

Representing several new approaches emerging from the wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century, these artists combine various elements such as conceptual art, post-painterly abstraction, reductive strategies, mysticism and cultural commentary -LSB-...]

Rather, these curious painterly geometric abstractions read as judicious but meandering artistic interventions evidencing everywhere a generous, maker - friendly voice.

During this period, his work also figured prominently in many landmark museum exhibitions, such as Post Painterly Abstraction (1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Vormen van de Kleur (1964, Stedelijk Museum), Systemic Painting (1965, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), and Documenta 4 (1968, Fredericianum), among others.

Yet, while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city whose art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge abstraction (represented here in paintings by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and painterly objects by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among others), eclectic performance practices (including live pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).

Through the contrast of the focused object and passing landscape, Sachs» pieces levitate between abstraction and reality, photography and painting, the latter suggested by the blurry quality of the landscape that, as if applied by lavish brushstrokes, becomes painterly.

The only important difference is that while Richter utilizes various painterly range from monochrome, minimal color charts, hard edge to gestural abstraction, as well as his occasional use of croppings and other mechanical intervention of makings and unmakings, you have always stayed with one basic image and format.

Over in Europe, first in Paris then Italy during the same time period, Marco Pho Grassi started out as a wall and train painter but quickly started mixing in abstraction and more painterly expressionist techniques much like Poesia, yet totally unknown to each other.

He is known for his painterly style which falls between abstraction and realism as well as for the flattened appearance of his portraits of friends and family members which are done from a frontal perspective.

In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.

Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist challenges the usual accounts that Butoh was formed as a direct response to Japan's post-World War Two trauma, Hawkins's new work instead reveals the surprising effect of painterly abstraction on Butoh.

Even at this early stage his interest in reconciling figuration and abstraction, and in representing events and memories with painterly symbols, was becoming evident in works such as Mr and Mrs Robyn Denny, 1960.

He christened the work of this new generation «Post-Painterly Abstraction» in order to distinguish it from Abstract Expressionism, or «Painterly Abstraction», as he called it.