Sentences with phrase «purely abstract works»

Spanning the emergence of Black feminism, debates over the possibility of a unique Black aesthetic in photography, and including activist posters as well as purely abstract works, the exhibition asks how the concept of Black Art was promoted, contested and sometimes flatly rejected by artists across the United States.

He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours.

Of course, artists continued working in representative styles, but the buzz of the day now ranged from Kandinski's first purely abstract works to surrealism's fantastical compositions and Picasso's sometimes bizarre and fractured subjects.

A series of purely abstract works combine parallel historical moments from Islam and Japan.

Early in her career, the British sculptor avoided the familiar associations of representational objects by creating purely abstract works.

This collection of his paintings is a departure from this theme and includes stylized portraits as well as purely abstract works in his signature palette of black, white and red.

By assembling fragments of different broken plates, Smith discovers accidental «readymade» compositions to work within; the geometric patterns on the plates also function as vehicles for him to explore formal compositional ideas more regularly discussed in purely abstract works.

Besides these purely abstract works, Tillmans will also show works that combine traditional straight photography with uncertain evidence of the artist's intervention.

The realistic works illustrate the artist's mastery of technique, while the purely abstract works communicate a subjective experience associated with that place.

Her first purely abstract work seems to have been a sewn patchwork quilt, designed as a cradle cover, whose wonky rectangles and triangles of clear colour recall both cubism and Russian folk art.

In 1917, Mondrian painted his first purely abstract work, Composition in Line, and by 1919 had fully developed an abstract visual language, Neo-Plasticism.

In the later 1930s, as part of an international avant - garde brought together through exhibitions and magazines, Hepworth made more purely abstract work.

He wrote enthusiastically about his pursuit to create the world's first purely abstract work of art.

Not exact matches

He resisted the notion that his work was about purely formal ideas, merely studies in color, or that it was abstract; he was, he believed, making pictures of feelings, and states of mind and spirit.

Though her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.

This result in a kind of cotton - like surface in the larger works on paper, called Structures, and a more purely abstract surface in the smaller ones.

[1] A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.

One of things that's interesting about having a survey show is that it attempts to clarify some things in the work, and the relationship between these works is something that only became clear in the show, but we didn't do it in a pedagogic way — we didn't say, «Here's step one where it looks like a figure, here's step two where it looks abstract - y, and here's step three where it is purely abstract.»

Also from Sigmar Polke to Edward Dwurnik, to the purely abstract painter Joseph Marioni, to Helmut Federle, to Jean - Frédéric Schnyder, to René Daniels, and then of course there were early works by Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans and Albert Oehlen and Bernard Frize, who at that time were in their 30s.

Influenced by abstract expressionists including Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, as well as painters such as Francis Bacon, Francisco de Goya and Paul Gauguin, Fritz Scholder's work was purely his own.

If the works were purely abstract they would be about, perhaps, how to «draw with color» and after viewing the series of similar faces they do become almost abstracted; however, the lure of the face with its hypnotic, spiraling irises always persists, challenging our emotional responses:

Without the barriers of preconceived limits, this work has allowed me to explore negative space and new media, and to shift from the purely abstract towards something more defined.»

At times, Yosef's work verges on the purely abstract.

However, the context in which his work was placed — a room exclusively containing abstract paintings and sculptures — also pointed to one of the exhibition's most problematic aspects, namely its attempt to link virtually every work or style, even the most purely formalist, to matters of black identity.

Kusaka works often combine elements of figurative representation with more abstract features, yet in her new solo show — her first in Italy — she opted to present ceramics which purely geometric, and thus abstract, patterns.

Her work ranges from expressionistic realism through to the purely abstract, using strong surface pattern and texture to capture her environment.

Though they employed a purely non-representational idiom, they did not consider their work to follow the dictates of abstract art, which they presumed to derive from forms found in nature.

Around Drawing @ Rosenfeld Porcini A great group show focussed purely on drawing, ranging from the chaotic people packed scenes by Lu Chao to the abstract and delicately detailed work by Emrique Brinkmann.

Always working across a broad range of genres and subjects, Richter often relies on chance in his purely abstract compositions.

While many of Pettibon's works include legible text with varying obscure and implicit messages, others remain abstract, or purely figurative.

After starting out as a purely abstract painter, Ms. Hartigan gradually introduced images into her work.

As a result, he directed that the funds of the Foundation be used to help talented individuals in their formative years, to acquire the necessary training, skills and competence in the traditional artistic methods, specifically excluding all grants to students, artists or sculptors «who show clearly a disposition to use the purely abstract or non-objective method in their work.»

The work in this exhibition will both conceptually driven, purely abstract, or may use type expressionistically.

Some works are purely visionary and abstract while others — such as in photography — capture the grim social realism of local figures or street scenes.

Untitled, abstract, informal and purely physical, Kvas» work produces perplexing questions.

Drawing on the current display of the artist's work, Lucy will consider his exploration of portraiture using purely abstract, non-descriptive elements.

Eventually I started to pick the works out of the installations to just purely make abstract paintings.»

In the late 1950s / early 1960s, a purely abstract form of Colour Field painting appeared in works by Helen Frankenthaler and others, while in 1964, the famous art critic Clement Greenberg helped to introduce a further stylistic development known as «Post-Painterly Abstraction».

Visceral, corporeal work seemed at least as present as the purely abstract.

Along with Jones» hypnotic portraits, Twenty Sixteen will feature a selection of works where the human form is removed, creating purely abstract environments.

Barbara Hepworth (b. 1903, Yorkshire; d. 1975, St. Ives, Cornwall) was a modernist British sculptor who, over the course of her career, changed her works from simplified naturalistic forms to purely abstract shapes.

Although imbued with the spirit of Korean tradition and history, Chun's work, with its intricate, abstract compositions, is grounded in a purely contemporary context.

As Sims notes, Binion's work is about neither «purely objective abstract patterns» nor simple «subjective handwork and highly personal information.»

[1] One of the difficulties inherent in describing Synchromism as a coherent style is connected to the fact that some Synchromist works are purely abstract while others include representational imagery.

Though he was influenced by abstract expressionists including Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, as well as painters Francis Bacon, Francisco de Goya, and Paul Gauguin, Fritz Scholder's work was purely his own.

Though the canvas is purely abstract, its ominous yet captivating atmospheric haze recalls the more recognizable subjects of Goldstein's earlier work.

«Shiraga's and Motonaga's work expands our understanding of the global evolution of modernism, dispelling notions that movements such as abstract expressionism and the participatory and process - driven elements of so much contemporary practice are purely Western inventions,» said Ritter.

The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.

While certain works allude to representational elements found in nature or the studio, Ferguson also creates pieces that are purely abstract — optical interactions of grid, line and concentric circle.

Von Heyl's paintings are not abstractions of real things in the world; rather, her work begins and ends with purely abstract forms.