Sentences with phrase «such black abstract artists»

When he landed in New York, in 1976, Little was taken under the wing of the older artist Al Loving, who drew him into the circle of such black abstract artists as William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, Mel Edwards, Fred Eversley, and Bill Hutson.

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As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work

While certainly all of the leading artists who were part of the abstract expressionist movement were involved with color at various points in their career, many of the important masterworks of the movement — such as those by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and key series by Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman — are notable for their lack of strong color in favor of black and white.

The term may even comprise such abstract artists as Don Voisine, Pete Schulte, Cary Smith, Mary Bauermeister, and Nathlie Provosty, if not Jim Shaw and his «Thrift Store Paintings» or Archibald Motley and black southern art as a whole.

Mangold's woodcuts premiering for the first time are also presented in conversation with works such as Movement in White, Umber, and Cobalt Green (1950) by early American modernist John Marin (1870 — 1953), known for his abstract landscapes, and with Duet and Murmur (2014), New York — based contemporary artist Cheonae Kim's (1952 ---RRB- paintings from her linear black - and - white series.

Such were the concerns at the heart of the Spiral Group, whose only exhibition, the 1965 First Group Showing: Works in Black and White, is represented by works by Emma Amos, Reginald Gammon, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, and others — along with additional works by these artists, including Woodruff's large abstract painting Blue Intrusion (1958).

Furthermore, to routinely omit artists such as Norman Lewis, who participated in the famous closed - door Studio 35 sessions defining abstract expressionism, is to disregard abstraction's debt not only to black culture, but to the artists who shaped its contours and analyzed its place in art history and theory.

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes to Black artists, musicians, and public figures such as Ralph Ellison, Chuck Berry, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Donald Sultan is one of the leading American contemporary still life artists, known for his large — scale, «catastrophic - event» paintings that incorporate nontraditional materials such as Dead Plant, November 1, 1988, as well as his sensuous charcoal drawings of iconic presentations and abstract depictions of fruit such as Black Lemons, May 20, 1985, both in the Modern's collection.

Crossings features three gloss black «Level Crossing» signs on a matt black triangular canvas, as much recalling the «Give Way» sign as it does also the shaped canvases of late Modernist abstract paintings by artists such as Kenneth Noland or Frank Stella.