Sentences with phrase «reacting against the theories»

Artists of Waddell's generation, 10 years into AbEx's reach and ahead of pop, were either reacting against the theories — or embracing them.

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Those who reacted in a purely defensive way to the presentation of Darwin's theories failed to grasp the truth of the new scientific discoveries and set their minds and hearts against the new discoveries, spending so much time and energy defending the indefensible that they failed to make truly relevant the deepest insights of the faith.

At first associated with geometric imagery, in 1966 Poons reacted against Clement Greenberg's pictorial theories to return to the essence of painting — tactile pigment itself.

There are examples of Minimalist theory as early as the 1920s in Europe, but the movement at the time of its birth was defined by new young artists who were often reacting against the gestural excesses of Abstract Expressionism, challenging the conventional boundaries between various mediums, subordinating authorship, and calling attention to the materiality of their works.