Sentences with phrase «pictorial abstraction»

The scene is a highly edited and compressed account of pictorial abstraction's evolution, familiar from university art history modules on the subject.

This exhibition proposes a new reading, emphasizing that the achievements of her training in the field of abstract painting did not disappear when her work turned to textiles, and that the artist addressed pictorial abstraction in a unique way, manifesting itself very quickly through an openness to spatial concerns.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

The first works in the series were debuted in Douglas's 2016 Hasselblad Award solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the compositions that will be on view in this exhibition represent a more expansive and nuanced investigation into pictorial abstraction as well as the complex relationship between technology and image making.

This example was executed during an extraordinarily fecund period in the 1980s when Richter developed pictorial abstraction to a heightened pitch.

The exhibition, THOUGHT, at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together seven artists which the gallery represents and for whom the drawing reflects conceptual thought processes while at the same time manifesting processes of pictorial abstraction.

Pictorial abstraction is a genre with a long history and painters have had their reasons for choosing to work within its constraints.

In their final forms, these works present a record of the processes employed while outlining new directions in pictorial abstraction.

Here, it forms an aural backdrop of musical grids and repetitions to Gursky's pictorial abstractions.

We can now see his earlier pieces in a new way; if each brush stroke is both abstract (in form and idea) and representational (of a stroke, of «painting»), could there be a space of «pictorial abstraction» in which the duality can persist?

Themes inspired by each speaker's engagement with Kawara's work include everyday life, globalism, politics, language, travel, and pictorial abstraction.

The grid, timeworn foundation of pictorial abstraction, flickers back to life here with a magic not seen since LeWitt's early wall drawings.

Serra's plates function as units of mass and structure much the way Kelly's monochrome panels serve as quotients of pictorial abstraction.