Sentences with phrase «potential of abstract form»

Like Sun Ra, who destabilized an origin myth to create the possibility of new potential, Better Dimension investigates the potential of abstract form approached through a composition of destabilized figurative elements.

Not exact matches

By pairing the first - an abstract painting whose flat forms are schematic and derived from markings observed on a soccer field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical painting photographed at an angle, Uglow creates a visual experience charged with the potential of both abstraction and representation.

One of the first American artists to investigate the aesthetic potential of the irregularly shaped canvas, Neil Williams initially depicted hard - edged geometric forms, but eventually turned to a painterly abstract style.

1 Stella's Moby Dick (1988 - 1993) captures the confrontation with nature experienced at sea; the abstract forms evoking the destructive potential of the sea and the whale.

From 1963 to 1970, while living in Spain and South America, Semmel explored the potential of form, color, and composition in an abstract expressionist idiom.

We will explore the issues central to abstract painting, such as nature, structure, geometry, the human form and master paintings as potential sources of investigation and inspiration.

In still other works, such as the adjacent silver circles of Felix Gonzalez - Torres» «Untitled» (1995), kissing surfaces as just one potential reading suggested by the simple meeting or melding of abstract forms.

What the artists of the Modernist Left shared above all was the desire to advance the practice of non-figurative art and to promote that art as a species of realism; that is, a higher form of realism that encompassed the democratic and progressive potential of abstract art to provide an image, as the art historian Martin James put it, of an implicit order of a future society.

Vidokle's work with logotype decals exposes the commercial and political cooptation of abstract forms once believed to embody revolutionary potential.

To quote the gallery write up: «When put together, their work showcases the expansive nature of contemporary abstract art, and the potential content of relatively simple forms».

Inspired by his fascination with the materiality of the photographic surface and the occurrence of abstract forms in daily life, at the dawn of the millennium he began a full exploration into the abstract potential of photography, with a number of non-representational series that lyrically transcend the divide between painting and photography.

In the brilliant, sardonic and rambling essay Sillman authored in 2011 for Artforum, «AbEx and Disco Balls: In Defense of Abstract Expressionism II,» she suggests just this: that the malleability of abstract form, the tactility of the materials is the potential content.