Sentences with phrase «questions about abstract painting»

It encourages us to entertain several questions about abstract painting today: What are contemporary abstractionists holding onto?

It is a particularly tough question about abstract painting, because iconography, through which meaning and intention are found, is missing or concealed.

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His painted photographic prints combine airbrushed acrylic paint and abstract photographs while cleverly incorporating external elements such as variations of light, space, and time, with the intention to raise questions about perception and how we relate to various media.

Martin uses abstract painting to pose questions about environmental law that prohibits the general public to use certain hazardous materials, although they are readily available for commercial use.

At a time when abstraction is regarded in certain quarters as a dated style, the exhibition promises to raise fundamental questions not only about Frankenthaler's career but about abstract painting as a whole: Does abstraction have any meaning today?

While the work exists successfully in this context, it does also raise interesting conceptual questions about the nature of individuality and artistic identity in abstract painting.

The question would then be: is this spatial ambiguity a positive (maybe even distinguishing) property of abstract painting — maybe reflecting something deeply human about (for example) the» space» occupied by conciousness?

Abstract art emerged about one hundred years ago, specifically in painting, and through a shift away from representation.1 Yet what is encompassed by the term abstract has long been questioned and never tightly defined.

In this current age of abstract painting, we know too much to be as spiritual and utopian about it, yet the questions asked and the methods of their answering still bear fruit intellectually, psychologically, culturally, politically, etc..