Sentences with phrase «rich history of abstraction»

Exploring techniques such as working additively, reductively, and often quite physically in pulp to build line, color and form, these artists build on the rich history of abstraction, allowing the processes unique to handmade paper to push boundaries in their work.

Deininger is one of a new generation of abstract painters, aware of the rich history of abstraction, yet creating complex canvases originating from her sophisticated, knowledgeable and intuitive response to process, imagery, and materials.

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Hegel's understanding of the forward progress of the will through the history of culture is richer than Kant's, but it leads to a notion of the completion of the will in «absolute knowledge,» a metaphysical abstraction which Hegel's critics, Ricoeur among them, find pretentious and impossible.

In this current exhibition, Favour creates lush and sensual abstractions of the leaves, flowers and reproductive systems of the figs and nasturtiums filtered through her imagination; yet, informed by a rich understanding of the history of botanical illustration.

In an interview with Black Art In America, Shrobe discusses the rich history of materials, and poetically defines abstraction as a process wherein the artist invites materials to tell their own story.3 In so doing, Shrobe frees our collective imagination from the trappings of social object memory, uplifting the quotidian and inviting viewers with differing levels of art literacy to see themselves and their neighborhood reflected in his works.

Brazil has a rich history of modernist abstraction, but Carneiro da Cunha looks further into the past.

The show expands on the rich and significant history of Latin American conceptual abstraction and provides a contemporary view as it is practiced by a current generation — and contextualized -LSB-...]

Sánchez's and Suárez's works are reminders of the rich history of geometric abstraction in Latin America, a legacy spotlighted by the recent, high - profile retrospectives of artists like Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica, Lydia Okumura, and Lygia Clark.

It was such a rich conversation, we realized that a book of this kind — with the voices of scholars and curators and artists in dialogue - could be a way to tell the history of abstraction by African Americans.

Rebecca Salter's delicate, spectral abstractions connect with two rich traditions: the history of Japanese art and craft, of which she has in - depth knowledge, and post-war minimalist painting, exemplified best perhaps by Agnes Martin, the American artist to which she is sometimes compared.

The show expands on the rich and significant history of Latin American conceptual abstraction and provides a contemporary view as it is practiced by a current generation — and contextualized by a small selection of works by the late Mira Schendel (1919 — 1988), whose work will be part of a 2 - person retrospective at MoMA in spring 2009.

The works in Slideshow are indebted to the rich history of geometric abstraction and early 20th century avant - garde art, particularly in Latin America.