Sentences with phrase «power of abstract art»

What is it about the expressive power of abstract art — especially abstract painting, whose ambiguity of meaning is one of its most definitive characteristics — that remains so alluring?

I want to mix street art with traditional art to show the power of abstract art.

Drawing on the Joyner / Giuffrida collection's unparalleled holdings, a central theme will be the power of abstract art as a profound political choice, rather than a stylistic preference, for generations of African - American artists.

Contemporary Abstract Art in Asia and the West provides a opportunity to see major artists from around the world such as Pat Steir, Zhu Jinshi, Su Xiaobai, Peter Peri and Chrstine Ay Tjoe side by side, exploring and revealing the power of abstract art today.

Invariably, these works have also served as illustrations of the power of abstract art to take on both urgent themes and modernity's constant need for artistic innovation.

Not exact matches

This group exhibition showcases the work of a multigenerational group of artists vividly exploring the powers of abstract representation in contemporary art and it includes works by Eric N. Mack.

During the thirties in ever increasing numbers due to Hitler's rise in power and his hostility towards modernism in art, European avant - gardists such as Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger and Lazio Moholy - Nagy landed on these shores and supported and joined this courageous group of abstract artists.

The 10 contemporary art works in «Landscape, abstracted» celebrate the beauty, power and intricacy of the natural world, but approach it sidelong through a series of combinations, contrasts and fragmentations.

Performance structures that Fly on a Wall has created include: 4 × 8 ft. Plexiglas prisms for Art on the Atlanta Beltline, a tandem bicycle that generated power for a light bulb in Dashboards Shifting Scapes, and a creation, during their Dashboard residency, of an abstract home made of 20 ft. floor to ceiling paper panels.

In 1978, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened New Image Painting, a show intended to historicize a thread of abstract expression — explored most notably by Philip Guston — which used an imaginative play of simple signs or cartoons augmented by the expressive power of paint.

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.

The power of Sean Scully's abstract art hits you like a blast of truth when you enter the gallery.

Yet Nickson turns these loaded, time - honored motifs into compelling, wholly contemporary images that toggle between unabashed romanticism and a modern celebration of the expressive power of super-saturated color relationships and abstract structure, with a healthy admixture of awareness of the history of western art.»

There's a brilliant, improvisational range of approaches to composition that is more often associated with the inventiveness and power of the leading 20th - century abstract painters than it is with textile - making,» says Alvia Wardlaw, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts.

2012 — 2013 OS, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (solo) 2009 Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2009 Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan 2008 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main 2008 Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris 2008 LAXART, Los Angeles (GuytonWalker) 2008 Carte Blanche III: «Gedichte der Fakten «-- Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Arend und Brigitte Oetker, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany 2008 Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy (solo) 2007 Friedrich Petzel Gallery New York, USA (solo) 2007 Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) 2007 Wade Guyton: Objects are much more familiar, Power House, Memphis, USA (solo) 2007 Degree Zero, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA 2007 DUMP, Postmodern Sculpture in the dissolved field, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arktitektur og Design, Oslo 2007 For the people of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris, France 2007 The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA 2007 Very abstract and hyper figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK 2007 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (solo) 2006 Paintings, Westlondonprojects, London, UK (solo) 2006 MAMBO, (Guyton / Walker collaboration), Bologna, Italy (solo) 2006 La Salle de Bains, Wade Guyton, Lyon, France (solo) 2006 U Stencil, Hard Hat Editions, Geneva, Switzerland (solo) 2006 Color, Power & Style, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (solo) 2006 Haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany (solo) 2006 Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Empire Strikes Back (GuytonWalker collaboration), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (solo) 2006 Casey Kaplan gallery, Pose & Sculpture (cur.

Variously documentary, abstract, and propagandistic, the works haven't lost much of their urgency, and together they reveal a community that harnessed the power of art to tell untold stories and to fight, even in small ways, for the dignity, exposure, and basic services it was denied.

«Pineapple Power is a large (48 «x36 «x1.5») pop - art inspired abstract oil painting on canvas by one of Chairish's top - selling artists, Trixie Pitts.

While the rational constructions of the Cubists had given modern art perhaps its most impressive and elevated style, by the late twenties much of the generative power of the movement had been lost or supplanted by an abstract academicism.

In recent weeks, for the London - centric art viewer - visitor, «must see» lists would surely have included the extremely painterly and mightily abstract, John Hoyland: Power Stations Paintings 1964 - 1982 (Newport Street Gallery) and the supreme and breathtaking Frank Auerbach (Tate Britain) exhibitions; and of course Frieze and Frieze Masters in Regent's Park.

The trial turns on a series of high - powered art world witnesses who the defence claim shared in Knoedlers» innocent mistake, and chanced on a cache of lost abstract masterpieces.