Sentences with phrase «severe black abstractions»

In my recent interview with Brian O'Doherty, we talked about the success of the Reinhardt show at the David Zwirner gallery, which would never have happened before — I mean showing all aspects of his work, the severe black abstractions, the political cartoons, the slide lectures, all at once.

The artist's seemingly distinct activities — the severe black abstractions, the prolific and caustic social and political graphic work, and the color slides of historical monuments, temples, and buildings that showed his equally prolific world travels and keen sense of photographic record keeping — were received in coexistence by jubilant viewers, especially young artists and art students (during the artist's lifetime it would have been career suicide to show all simultaneously practiced sides together).