Sentences with phrase «read as an abstraction»

These pictures read as both abstractions — dots on a flat canvas, and deep illusionistic paintings of the night sky.

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Riffing on the past as it comments on our own time, contemporary abstraction evokes landscapes, bodies, signs, buildings, and much more Read More

As the title of Mary Lovelace O'Neal's monumental 1991 abstraction reads, «Racism is Like Rain, Either It's Raining or It's Gathering Somewhere.»

Describing a finished or successful painting as possessed of a nice awkwardness, differentiating an atypical abstract painting from a great one, conscious of existing within the cultural context of abstraction, which adds to our understanding of emotion, logic, sensation, and concrete reality while at the same time existing at a... Read more

The reference to background music in the 1962 work could be read as an appealing joke about the decorative prettiness sometimes risked by colourful abstraction, and about what's in the background of so many Ryman works, deepening and complicating his apparent whites, drawing the eye to something beyond them.

More painting, tending to semi-abstract, as imagery edged out abstraction; such were Chris Ofili's etched figurations that emerge as copulations out of a mottled blue backdrop, and Fondation Beyeler's three - wall installation of tiled pixellation that in photographs reads as porn.

The artist's flawlessly rendered surfaces; use of stark lighting and awkward compression of pictorial space heightens the detachment of his subjects from lived experience and, as some writers have acknowledged, offers a reading of his work as a form of abstraction.

«As a twenty - first - century African American artist,» he says, «when I look back at Abstract Expressionism, I get the politics, I get the problems, I get the theories, I can read [Still's] manifestos, but I think there are other ways of looking through abstraction.

At Theodore: Art, Eric Brown, in «Punctuate,» examines the tension of figure and ground in paintings that are fun and funny — caprices of 1960s Color Field art. 7 At David & Schweitzer, the esteemed Brenda Goodman finds expression in the working and reworking of her materials, with etched - over abstractions that read as psychological portraiture.8

Paper — its role as support, its propensity to effacement, to abstraction and inscription — provides the model for such a thing as will be written, and read, out of existence.

Intrigued by his own perception of the Rorschach, as well as its intention to push the boundaries between abstraction, representation, and meaning, Warhol initially intended to record his readings of the Rorschach paintings he had created.

Whitney's works featured in a major solo exhibition «Dance the Orange», at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA (2015), and he has been included in many prominent group shows such as Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany (2017), «Nero su Bianco» at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (2015); «Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract», Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, USA (2014); «Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s», Cheim & Read, New York (2013) and «Utopia Station» at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).

Seen from afar they read loosely as geometric abstractions, residing formally somewhere between Mary Heilmann's deadpan blocks of color and connective tissue, and brightly patterned, mid-20th century Naugahyde upholstery.

2001 Air Conditioned Abstraction, Volume Two, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA A Private Reading, The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

From a distance, the work reads as a simple shape; closer, abstraction... Read more»

[3] His growing interest in abstraction also coincided with his reading Nandor Fodor's The Search for the Beloved — A Clinical Investigation of the Trauma of Birth and Pre-Natal Conditioning, which saw human gestation and birth as violent, traumatic processes.

But Hawkins didn't retreat to a prelapsarian, idealist understanding of abstraction; instead, his understanding of abstract painting as a continuous circulation of signs without origin or terminus was informed by his reading of Gilles Deleuze.

From afar Veronica's canvases read as so many familiar gestures of painterly abstraction, involving the surrounding wall and floor and the drops, splashes and marks that are created in the process of painting.

Kwon's text provides a useful lens for reading these works as well, offering a possible way for abstraction to engage with specific histories, politics, and identities.

Benjamin Genocchio reports in the NYTimes: «The fabled conservatism of the National Academy, longtime home of the retrograde and anachronistic in art, has faded over the years as this venerable institution has... read more... «Learning to love abstraction (with footnotes)»

On another level, Erased de Kooning Drawing can also be read as evidence of an action or a recording of an event, and, as such, is aligned with the precepts of action painting or gestural abstraction that dominated the New York art scene in the early 1950s.

Brenna Youngblood (b. 1979, Riverside, CA) incorporates her own photographs, representational fragments, and found objects, such as wallpaper and book pages, into her textured, atmospheric paintings that read between pure abstraction and a slice of life.

While it is always possible to read Wood's paintings as being of something, his process produces imagery that veers toward abstraction by alternately or simultaneously flattening, elongating, or fragmenting spaces and forms, effects that he seamlessly translates into the paintings.

Her unprecedented piece Rhapsody (1975 — 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates, reads as a lyrical conversation between mathematical abstraction and painterly figuration.

Along with a fetishist interpretation of the commodities» images, an alternative possible reading becomes apparent, where the abstraction of the images, of the various consumer products acts as a struggle with, and a protest against them.

Might Untitled not be read as a parable of the battle Bourgeois herself fought against the Greenbergian Cubism - onward - to - abstraction paradigm of modernist art?

This fragmentation of matter reads as brush strokes, ultimately creating an aesthetic composition that flirts with the history of abstraction and painting.

Binion's intricately layered works, upon first glance, can be read as minimalist abstractions that have led many to compare his work to that of Jasper Johns, Robert Ryman, or Brice Marden.

Untitled Abstraction can be read as a precursor to her future landscape paintings.

It is tempting, in fact, to wonder what additional abstractions could be garnered by reading all the work Rauschenberg made as decoration or props rather than art.

Elizabeth Murray's genre - bending 1998 painting fused abstraction and pop, while drawing on everything from cubism to surrealism, the comic books she religiously read and drew as a kid in Chicago, and the graffiti she saw plastered across the walls of 70s and 80s New York.

Then he stepped back, glasses on, and blocked half of this multidimensional 1957 landscape with his arm to demonstrate how the right half of the canvas might almost be read as a vibrant green Mark Rothko - like abstraction.

Lorser Feitelson (1898 - 1978) was a Los Angeles - based artist whose career reads as a mini-art historical survey, moving from Cubism and Post-Surrealism to biomorphic abstraction, hard - edged abstraction, and beyond.

His images read as part geometric abstraction, part hyper - real fantasy.

Rather, these curious painterly geometric abstractions read as judicious but meandering artistic interventions evidencing everywhere a generous, maker - friendly voice.

Several large - format photographs address inner, personal space and read alternately as abstraction and pornography.

In its spiky avidity, «Wheel House» might even read as a rejoinder to the edge - to - edge lyricism of Brice Marden's loopy abstractions, though Arnoldi's picture clearly grew out of his own earlier work such as the 1986 example here - an actual thicket of painted sticks attached to painted plywood.

The new book by Gabrielle Selz, «Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction» (W.W. Norton & Company, May 5, 2014), covers some of the same ground, but as a whole reads better.

If Post-painterly abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s), its sub-variants Tachisme (late 1940s, 1950s) Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s), its sub-variants Tachisme (late 1940s, 1950s) Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (1948 - 51).

The exhibition of work by the Studio Museum's three 2015 - 16 artists in residence, organized by Amanda Hunt, could be read as a set of subtle variations on that presence, moving from realism to abstraction.

Note: For developments among American abstract expressionists, during the period 1955 - 65, read about Post-Painterly Abstraction, and its individual schools such as Colour Field Painting (involving Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler and others), and Hard - Edge Painting (Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and others).

Clement Greenberg's dismissal of de Kooning's (and Pollock's) figurative explorations, and importantly (and perhaps more subtly), his attack on de Kooning's cubist methodologies made sense in the context of a sequential, progressive reading of history and as a critical tool to understand and evaluate certain newly emerging sectors of the Fully Abstract — Gestural Abstraction and Field or Atmospheric Abstraction.

For Coleman's genre - establishing 1960 LP Free Jazz, he used as the cover image a reproduction of White Light by Jackson Pollock — an artist whose untethered abstraction... Read More

As Herbert Read said of abstraction, it was «met with almost universal resistance in England».