Sentences with phrase «story of abstract artist»

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Inspired to paint a story in navy hues, the artist of Blue Moors created this painterly abstract artwork that evokes the cool tones of seascapes.

Currently the official story of avant - garde abstract painting and sculpture in America that is on view at the Whitney Museum, denies works of scores of artists that demonstrate that American painters and sculptors by the late sixties went beyond minimalism creating a new expressionism.

San Francisco artist David Choong Lee presents his first collection of wholly abstract paintings following the assemblage of two two - story masterpieces for the Grand Hyatt hotel in San Francisco.

It's part of a season of programmes exploring 20th - century abstraction, which opens on BBC4 on Monday September 8 at 9 pm with «Abstract artists in their own words», in which artists tell the story of the development of abstract art in Britain.

The expressions of everyday life and vibrantly abstracted forms presented in Pattern Scheme evoke qualities of time, balance, repetition, focus, and design that emerge from the unique styles, subjects, and stories of each artist, connected through their varying use of pattern.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

Curated by Pat Swanson, Another Story examines the range of conceptual, abstract, and figurative approaches that artists use when the book or its surrogate is at the heart of their investigations.

The street artist Apexer creates colorful abstract patterns through the use of spray paint, while Casey Gray explores our relationship to common objects and symbols, and their ability to hold meaning, tell stories and create identity.

«The exhibition will showcase the early collages that combine abstract painting, text, and image; and a selection of many of the artist's best - known blackboard paintings, in which a faux blackboard surface is used as the ground for realistic, painted vignettes adjacent to fragments of different stories that suggest variously ambiguous meanings.

The whole engrossing story, told here for the first time, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art is essential reading for anyone interested in abstract art or the history of women artists in America.

We'll explain that, and also take a look at the amount of ink being given to the oil firm BP lately, as well as checking in on what Chinese artists have been doing with ink for the last 30 years, as we search the globe in our weekly roundup of stories from the world of abstract art.

Each of these artists has his own story to tell, and a recognizable, unique approach, whether they work in an abstract or figurative manner.

In particular, stories of abstraction have been dominated by larger than life male artists — in the case of abstract expressionism it is hard not to focus on Jackson Pollock or Willem DeKooning, but there were several important women working during that time as well.

The Phillips Collection pulls back the curtain on American abstract expressionism to reveal a little - known but captivating story that focuses on the relationship between three of the movement's seminal players: American painter Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), American artist and patron of abstract expressionism Alfonso Ossorio (1916 — 1990), and French painter Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985).

I tell them war stories of the museum, I worked at the Art Institute of Chicago in museum education for four years and I know why they don't have a lot of abstract art by African American artists.

In a year that saw the world engage almost feverishly in revisionist histories, none could be more impressive than the story of a female artist who, working independently from any of her male peers and at a remove from the art world, was developing a mystical abstract style all her own in the early 1900s, several years earlier than Kandinsky.

The reference to mythology as a source of inspiration; using abstract composition as a way to evoke literary and lyrical stories; the control of the design so as to achieve a delicate balance between the freshness of gestural strokes and the clearness of drawing; the reference to the tradition of art history as an endless process of acknowledgment of the meaning of artistic practice; the attention paid to the sign itself as a multi-linguistic mark of the artist's expression; these are all constant features of Twombly's work, and have been since the very beginning of his career in the late 1940s.

The book The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen & Yayoi Kusama: A Fairy Tale of Infinity and Love Forever, out July 26 from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, pairs the artist's illustrations with the traditional Little Mermaid story, spotlighting her signature fascination with serial repetition and abstract, expansive patterns.

Diary of an Artist and Other Stories 2007 — 2012 offers a comprehensive overview of Paricio's abstract work and seminal paintings demonstrating the main themes of his current figurative period.

The addition of this early but classic work by Winters will help the gallery tell the story of painting in the 1980s, when artists such as Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, and others proved the continuing vitality of expressive abstract painting.

Many of the objects tell an abstract story of the artists life, including personal rejection, success, wonder and melancholy.

In contrast, two of the artist's work intricately traces haptic gestures, with a nod toward disappearing landscapes and lost language: Inga Dorosz» drawings track and map recognizable renditions of trees and other organic forms, yet the tiny line work pixilates and separates the scenes like disappearing data; Léonie Guyer's small works remove information further — little abstract shapes are like punctuation that has lost its conversation and therefore its purpose, yet they remain like memories of forgotten stories.

The artists employ story - based and poetic narratives, engage with popular culture, juxtapose text and image, distill and abstract various forms, and pay homage to God or denizens of the spirit world.

We'll try to answer that question this week as we look at stories from the world of abstract art that examine artists» minds.

The Phillips Collection dives into American abstract expressionism to reveal a little - known but captivating story that focuses on the relationship among three of the movement's seminal players: American painter Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), American artist and patron Alfonso Ossorio (1916 — 1990), and French painter Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985).