Sentences with phrase «potential of abstract painting»

Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential of abstract painting and inspired generations of emerging artists.

Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential of abstract painting and inspired a generation of emerging artists.»

«Schnabel uses the potential of abstract painting and turns these pictures into a narrative that invites new interpretations of image and space,» states the gallery.

Schnabel uses the potential of abstract painting and turns these pictures into a narrative that invites new interpretations of image and space.

Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential of abstract painting... read more... «Joan Snyder receives MacArthur genius award»

They were selected as artists of distinction, representing the range and complexity, and the vitality and potential of abstract painting today.»

Not exact matches

And like the stratification of art imposed by some in varying orders to describe the proximity of each to the inexpressibility of their souls (prose to dance to painting to poesy to music, for me), when film aspires to combine the more abstract elements of human expression in its mélange, the results, always mixed, at least have the potential to be grand.

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.

In an epiphany of renewed ambition he resurrected Caravaggio for himself and demanded his ambitious abstract painting assert its potential for drama and expression.

One suspects that Graham's theory of abstract painting — a potential synthesis of his obsessions with the occult, esoteric philosophies, Freud, Jung, «primitive» art and European modernism, revealed and defined in his book System and Dialectics of Art (pub.

While continuing this dialogue with the history of aesthetics, Paintings represents a shift in McElheny's work towards a focus on the history of painting, and proposes that there is ongoing potential to be found in the utopian and revolutionary desires that gave rise to abstract painting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The dancer, Amanda Pina from Chile, whose face and body are painted so that she looks like an abstract expressionist skeleton, is filmed in front of the Austrian National Bank, reminding us of the treacherous potential for connections between politics and economics.

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.

But that reality is translated as «iconographic and allegorical; it evidences Masamvu's ongoing interest in the narrative potential of painting, this in spite of his increasingly abstracted painting style.»

For the artist, the liminal space of transformation is what offers the greatest metaphorical potential, as captured in her new abstract paintings that depict moments of mutation and growth frozen in time.

So in relation to the topic of light in abstract painting, the stricture I feel would have to have something to do with avoiding the painting becoming tonal and therefore setting up the potential for reading an external light source in it.

Fuelled by the Southern California surf culture of his youth, and the history and contemporary practices of abstraction, John Bauer produces abstract paintings that channel the infinite potential of both the Pacific Ocean and abstraction itself.

It's casting its stone a long way out, I feel, and the potential gains of this sort of endeavour, to deny the plane in abstract painting, is something that could and has been guffawed at, but I think is a really interesting and worthwhile thing to attempt.

With and abstract painting, once we realize it's «just art» the potential power of the primal urge is watered down to a game of nostalgia.

In all his work Innes brings the potential of alchemy to abstract painting, applying and dissolving pigment, painting and un-painting, holding a line between control and chaos.

Stemming from an exploration into the significance and potential of the abstract mark, Murray both liberates and alienates the paint stroke in his constant redefining of its aesthetic and historical context.

Pressure came from the dominance of abstract expressionist painting and from a growing interest in reality, in the potential for using objects and events that existed outside art that was already evident in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

By the 1980s, Graeber was making large scale paintings that combine figurative and abstract elements to create potential meanings through the juxtaposition and layering of disparate images.

Schulz and Bandau: In recent pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part shaped canvas as a foil for one of abstract painting's potential weaknesses: the merely decorative.

In abstract paintings, acts of defacement evolve into a painterly sublime; while wood - burning stoves, ceramic basins containing shards of broken or misfired pottery, and soft sculptures resembling fanged jaws convey the raw potential of sculpture.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

Despite whatever associations and emotions Under April Mood might kindle, the abstract nature of the painting leaves it open to ambiguity and infinite potential meaning.

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.

Highly regarded for abstract paintings with an athletic reach of scale and gesture, Fishman has long been occupied with the potential that small scale and sculpture hold for her art.

Just before the recent spate of shows, the Sonia Delaunay and Agnes Martin exhibits at Tate Modern, in contrasting ways, would have revived (if needed) a battery re-charging of the potentials, and achievements, of abstract painting.

But while anecdotal software impressions can paint an abstract picture of what's happening under the hood, benchmarks lay out a blueprint for what's truly possible, and hint at what potential might be lying untapped.