Sentences with phrase «roots of abstract art»

It is worth noting, however, that the roots of abstract art can be traced back much further.

The discovery that truth is subjective is the root of abstract art.

Not exact matches

Actually, it's fair to say that the current Art & Science design vocabulary at Cadillac also has its roots in the front - wheel - drive Eldorado, as a look back at the hard - edged abstract geometry of the 1999 Cadillac Evoq concept car confirms.

The abstract art movement is rooted in the desires of the artist to simply create, with or without meaning.

But if you know where to look there are elements of the excitingly different yet 1950s - abstract - rooted, as well as statements on current popular culture that move Abstract Art out of the past and into the relevant and the now.

By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

Regarded as one of the leading interpreters of color and light, his work holds references to New York abstract expressionism, color field painting, Chinese and Japanese art, French impressionism and his own Bay Area roots.

Gary Snyder / Project Space, which has primarily focused on historically rooted abstract art, is having its first exhibition of contemporary painting.

The late German artist Günther Förg was known for his abstract canvases rooted in the histories of abstract and modernist art.

By the early 1960s Minimalism had emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

If there was a single impulse behind Regionalism, it was a semi-patriotic rejection of European modern art (especially such abstract art movements as Cubism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Neo-Plasticism and Surrealism) in favour of a strictly American idiom - ideally one with roots west of the Mississippi.

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

Reluctant at first to believe that de Kooning was not too strongly rooted in the 19th century - because my perceived role at the Whitechapel in the Fifties and Sixties was to try to help the English public, visually backward at the time, to see and understand the different phases of abstract art from Malevich and Mondrian on - I was totally converted by his 1959 show in New York at the Sidney Janis Gallery of blazing, light - drenched landscape canvases, based on the fields and dunes around the coastline of the Hamptons where de Kooning had acquired a studio.

A pioneer of abstract art, the North Dakota - born American painter Clyfford Still was one of the leading figures in the New York School of avant - garde Abstract Expressionism, which took root in the 1940s and became the predominant style of painting until its replacement by Pop art during the mid-1960s.

With its roots in early human history, abstract art has become one of today's dominant forms of artistic expression.

Rooted in his personal heritage, Aryanpour's works bring a thoroughly contemporary expression to the Iranian visual tradition — from its artistic techniques to cultural symbolisms - while referencing and exploring the Western tradition of abstract art.

Influenced by new ideas brought to New York by European emigrants such as Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and Piet Mondrian, he moved increasingly toward abstract art as he explored a range of styles rooted in expressionism and symbolism.

They favoured instead work rooted in the international modes and idealism of modernist art through the use of clay in abstract sculpture.

Hers is an associative abstract art not sealed off from nature by a canon of concreteness, but infiltrated by roots, lit by the sun, and washed by the sea.»

Scheduled for an Autumn 2019 publication date, Abstract Art will be a scholarly and original survey of abstract art, discussing the roots of abstraction in nineteenth - century movements as well its development in the twentieth and twenty - first centuriArt will be a scholarly and original survey of abstract art, discussing the roots of abstraction in nineteenth - century movements as well its development in the twentieth and twenty - first centuriart, discussing the roots of abstraction in nineteenth - century movements as well its development in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

His movements, while expertly rooted in traditional physical comedy, were abstracted to the point of becoming a kind of performance art gesture in their own right.

A great lineup of talented abstract artists with roots in graffiti & street art.

With roots in graffiti and coming from a family with a deep art history, Grassi carries the torch of modern abstract expressionism with a new narrative.

Yet all of this (not to mention the significance of his disadvantaged upbringing, his artistic roots in Harlem, his SoHo success, his taste in abstract European modern art, his bohemian Montparnasse social life, his frequent travels throughout Europe, and his warm long friendship with Baldwin and other American artists living in France) still does not adequately sum up or provide a definitive characterization of Delaney and his art.