At the time I was making the paintings I was referring to them as «casualties», both for their casual nature, destructiveness, or deadness, and their play on the word «causality» â $ «looking back at history, being
surrounded by modernism.
Not exact matches
Tall, lean, rectangular wood sculptures with rounded elements, the works «reflect [ed] not only the forms of the
surrounding skyscrapers and therefore the vocabulary of
modernism,» † but as Bourgeois herself explained, they also «were conceived of and functioned as figures, each given a personality
by its shape and articulation, and responding to one another.
Harry Callahan's 1948 montage of multiple exposures of a Chicago apartment building facades acts as the rhythm section for a mid-century
modernism room that
surrounds a George Nelson - designed modular storage system and desk with hard - edge abstract paintings
by Leon Polk Smith, Toni LaSelle, John McLaughlin, Josef Albers and Burgoyne Diller; as well as Julius Shulman's iconic photos of Los Angeles Case Study Houses.