Sentences with phrase «public about abstraction»

His tireless efforts to educate the public about abstraction made him a leading advocate for aesthetic experimentation.

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It was not a message about the interior life of the soul considered in abstraction from the public life of the world.»

A growing number of Labour MPs are concerned that his sometimes ponderous professorial prognostications about political abstractions are proving a turn - off for the public - concerns that have grown as Labour's poll lead has shrunk.

I've written before about the suppression of Lyrical Abstraction but even I am appalled by the arrogant disrespect that The Whitney Museum displays towards American artists and to the American art public.

The exhibition is based on a series of inversions and infiltrations: from transposing how the work of art is viewed in a collector's private home into a public space to physically shifting and personalizing the sometimes passive viewing experience of a museum; from recreating aspects of the domestic interior to choosing artworks that speak about the psychic interior to new works that intentionally blur the relationship between abstraction and décor.

The work was a knobby, nude abstraction that upset one of Germany's most famous painters, Gerhard Richter, who in a newspaper interview called on the people of Salzburg to do something about what he saw as a «depravation «of public art.

Jackson tells me that she first encountered new ways to think about the historic role of abstraction during her undergraduate tenure at Cooper Union, where several artist teachers, including Walid Raad, Dore Ashton, and Doug Ashford, showed her that artists could be part of critical, public political theory.