Sentences with phrase «reflects on abstract painting»

A studio visit with the New York - based painter and drawing maker David Row, who presents his recent work, traces his development, and reflects on abstract painting's open - ended possibilities of meaning.

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Although Ms. Frankenthaler rarely discussed the sources of her abstract imagery, it reflected her impressions of landscape, her meditations on personal experience and the pleasures of dealing with paint.

Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.

Painting a landscape on the face of an old hand saw or polishing an extraordinary tree root into an abstract sculpture reflected one's access to free time, materials, the natural world and tradition.»

When Gates was making them, he was reflecting not only on his father's tar kettle but also on the abstract painting of Jasper Johns and others, art considered the high - water mark of American modernism.

Reflecting on the Parsons exhibition, Rauschenberg was unusually self - critical, admitting «how completely indulgent» he had been when he started painting.47 He acknowledged that the works were youthful attempts at producing «allegorical cartoons, using abstract forms.»

His concurrent practices of painting and drawing reflect on specific places and experiences — from the deeply symbolic to the notational — translating sensations and memories into abstract compositions.

Phrases printed on custom jumpsuits designed by André 3000 Benjamin initiate a powerful exchange, reflected in Jimmy O'Neal's large - scale abstract paintings alongside an experimental film directed by Greg Brunkalla.

Constructed in the manner of an abstract painting, the surface of the work absorbs and reflects light, changing colour depending on atmospheric conditions.

They reflect on what abstract painting is and how composition and content can be conceived.

Reflecting on her early optical abstract paintings, Howardena Pindell once remarked that she gave up the rectangle in favor of unstretched canvases with idiosyncratic, non-symmetrical shapes that conjured, as she once put it, «some internal intuition of nature.»

All four women artists, Miranda Aschenbrenner, Melanie Authier, Christine Baigent, and Milly Ristvedt, provide works for the exhibition that reflect on and push at the boundaries of abstract painting.

Through the act of layering graphic black and white paint over photocopies of Polariods, Christopher Wool has abstracted any literal imagery in Maybe, Maybe Not, reworking each piece to reflect a series of afterthoughts on his painting.

The impasto of modern and contemporary painters — particularly those moving into abstraction or creating fully abstract images, like Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, or Willem de Kooning — reflect an emphasis on gesture and the physical presence of paint itself.

gestural surfaces of abstract expressionist works and towards flatter surfaces and a more minimal color palette, Stella's paintings reflected his statement of the time that a picture was «a flat surface with paint on it — nothing more.»

Playing with pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp creates a visual language that oscillates between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.

Reflecting on the influence that Concrete art's appearance and concepts had on later manifestations of abstract art, including Op - art and Hard - Edge painting, Saul Sánchez utilizes the square, repeatedly, as a reference to the historical traditions he is addressing.

While in Paris, he began abstract painting, first inspired by reflected light on the Seine.

100 years since the Black Square may make 2015 a good year for viewing abstract painting, and for reflecting on contemporary abstraction.

Challenging and reinventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.