Sentences with phrase «something about abstraction»

There is something about abstraction.

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To talk about the «ethical teaching of Jesus» is to talk about something that can only be found by a process of abstraction and deduction from the teaching as a whole.

Thus, «forms of abstraction» become «the way in which the forces and vitalities of nature [are] set before us as positive mysteries, echoing something about nature and about ourselves.»

There's something about that level of abstraction.

Asked about his paintings, in which gestural abstraction and imagery blend together, Berryhill remarks «There's something about the searching for the thing you don't know what it is, the invention part I like, so when I get something in a drawing, I like, to work on it until it feels like a thing.»

There's something about the quality of the brushstrokes, the layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use of forms that can conjure dreams of a cityscape that feels like his work belongs to both contemporary abstraction and the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.

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.

Dickinson opens with a statement about abstraction, which leads to a discussion about different definitions, Grosse saying» I am not an abstract painter any more» where abstraction is understood to be «abstracting from or generating a residue of something seen».

Photographs by Rory Donaldson and others aspire to abstraction's «Strange Magic,» while paintings aspire to something always about to come into focus.

There is something daunting about fall openings these days, but also something calming: it brings another report on the state of abstraction.

«Insight, inspiration and influence from one of modern America's true artistic visionaries... For many, it's almost incomprehensible to imagine art after World War II in a world in which Stella never existed... This book charts his extraordinary career... The detail is fantastic, the insight never seen before, and the presentation is a masterpiece in itself... A great entry point for anyone wanting to learn more about Stella or minimalism and post-painterly abstraction in general... A perfect compilation [and] something that both a hardcore aficionado an a keen modern art student would get a lot out of... This book is big, bold and beautifully laid out.»

It also may not match what happened, but its odd nostalgia says something about how artists approach abstraction now.

Asserting that abstraction «is always about something... what it is about is beyond confines of language,» Sarah Braman creates abstract geometric sculptures and paintings on pieced - together plywood panels, in which she simultaneously foregrounds the formal qualities of her materials while referencing home, family life, and nature.

Jake Ewert's two soot - on - corduroy panels, both abstractions of a cat's face — easily the least representational cats here — have something vaguely Frank Stella about them.

You were talking about something that was completely uninteresting to you when you started your work, which was the early - «60s and late -»50s battle between the conceptual and the process artists with the figurative people and action painters, and those painters with abstract painters: abstraction versus figuration.

«Something about what she was doing really reverberated with a contemporary sensibility — going back and forth between representation and abstraction, encompassing a broad array of references, incorporating mul - tiple readings,» says Smith.

They're small, they're more sketchlike in a way... One of the ways I'm talking about painting now is trying to talk about these little casual abstractions that look like something a painter could do when they can find a few hours in the studio when they can actually perform the role of the painter, instead of the residency - runner or the blog - poster.

There is something attractive and deceptive about the anonymity of abstraction.

The work was a knobby, nude abstraction that upset one of Germany's most famous painters, Gerhard Richter, who in a newspaper interview called on the people of Salzburg to do something about what he saw as a «depravation «of public art.

Pendleton calls the pairing a «radical juxtaposition,» and sees abstraction as having the virtue of «something ethical about being illegible, about the human project not being something that is readily reduced to «he's a that» and «she's a this.

But I'm also trying to make something that is relevant now, a different way of thinking about abstraction.

His work also asserted that abstraction could be about something, without reducing itself to the transcribed results of overdetermined data gathering.

There is something great about the way he responds to humanist concerns with abstraction.

Evocatively titling her works, Braman is passionate that her engaging abstractions are always «about something... beyond confines of language.»

He was probably expecting something about irony, given the date of the story (1986,) and may have pointed out that abstraction can no more be ironic than can music.

I remember something I said when I gave a talk for a show I was in about ornament and abstraction in contemporary painting... I said that I wanted to make a painting with the seduction of a pink angora sweater and the power of a Barnet Newman.

With their simple and direct manufacture, these artworks are elegant and elemental, and can be said to say something basic about what painting is — about its ontology, if you think of abstraction as a philosophical venture.