This work insist that those two things are not separate in ways in which Helen Frankenthaler talked about her body; in the ways that Sam Gilliam talks about his body while negotiating and manipulating the language of abstraction, in the ways that Bob Thompson
talks about abstraction.
If I put a stop between myself and all these removes, and all these dodges, then I have a way to
talk about abstraction.
To be standing at this particular intersection of art and technology, science and instant photography, bringing new ideas, new nomenclature, new picture signs to our global photographic culture, it had to be me, through this machine, to
talk about abstraction and minimalism, size and scale, color and non-color, form with feelings.
Speaking of the figurative aspect of works that largely appear abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good abstract painting, but I'm often not interested in what people talk about when
they talk about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»
«I think when people
talk about abstraction, what they mean is materials that only refer to themselves.
Not exact matches
/ There must be a middle place between
abstraction and childishness / where one can
talk seriously
about serious things.»
@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was
talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical
abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»
I am not
talking about the corny jokes or funny introductions many preachers use as a lead - in for 30 minutes of platitudes and
abstractions, but honest truth from a person who believes what they are saying and has seen how it plays out in everyday life.
But to
talk about the life of men apart from the societies that shape and constitute them is similarly an
abstraction which borders on the reductionist fallacy, which sees social wholes as merely summaries of individual behavior.
It is correct that we can not experience as ours wholly unthinking, unmediated physical feelings; it is only by
abstraction that we can
talk about the mere feeling aspect.
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.
DE: What continually bothers me is that he brings in far more
abstraction than he allows for, when he
talks about what is given in awareness.
«In the future, I hope when people
talk about me, it's not as an abstract painter, but that I came to
abstraction through the study of very concrete objects,» Zhang said.
Joan Waltemath
talks with Raphael Rubinstein
about the exhibition Reinventing
Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, a show he curated at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through August 30, 2013.
Jose Angel Vincench «The Weight of Words: Golden Irony» March 9 — April 1, 2017 My
abstraction starts with testimony of the violent actions on the dissidents, but more than a political statement I prefer to
talk about the silence in the civil society and art.
Mark Skilton: What we are
talking about is the degree of
abstraction which is in the sculpture.
We were
talking about the political implications of continuing to work in
abstraction, and she said a very similar thing as you just did, in that it's not necessarily
about representing politics, but rather affecting the politics of vision.
NEW YORK — Judith Clark
talks to Diane Simpson
about the influence of
abstraction, architecture and fashion on her sculptures.
Thursday April 16th Hasselknippe will
talk about her work on display from the exhibition NN - A NN - A NN - A - New Norwegian
Abstraction.
You often
talk about «social
abstraction» as compared to the Abstract Expressionists — where those painters turned inward, you turn outward.
Stated succinctly in a
talk given by critic Brooks Adams at the opening of this masterfully executed exhibition on Madison Avenue, «This show is a proposal
about Post-War
abstraction.»
In Los Angeles, Overduin & Co. presents «Seven Reeds,» a group exhibition that includes an international cast of five of the most
talked about emerging artists on the planet — including Jacob Kassay, Julia Rommel and Fredrik Vaerslev - each of whom are pushing
abstraction to new places.
Elena Shchukina
talks with LUXURE magazine
about abstraction, working with international artists, and the spirt of inclusiveness and accessibility that...
They are artists who used geometric
abstraction to
talk about experience, humanism, and difference.
Join the exhibition curator for a
talk about Miyoko Ito's singular and compelling form of
abstraction.
I would
talk about quilts, point out that the geometry of quilts is certainly coming out of
abstraction.
Hollis Taggart Galleries Ξ It would be very difficult to
talk about Theodoros Stamos and not recall his non-objective
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.
While most recent painting has drifted toward a formalist
abstraction that offers almost nothing to
talk or write
about, that very emptiness has recently become notable, as the new demand for these young, meaningless
abstractions continues to redefine huge segments of the contemporary art market.
Paradoxical perhaps, but then, we're
talking about one of the most vocal exponents of American Modernism, and a man who claimed to have «practically zero» interest in
abstraction.
On May 5, Joan Waltemath met with Raphael Rubinstein at his loft in TriBeCa to
talk about Reinventing
Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, a show he curated at Cheim & Read (June 27 — August 30).
This
talk will be
about Francis Bacon's complex figuration that involved a balance between figuration and
abstraction.
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.
In geometric
abstraction and lyrical
abstraction, we can
talk about total
abstraction.
Can you
talk about the play between
abstraction and representation in your work?
During our visit we
talked about his Dedalus Foundation exhibition, «The Humanism of
Abstraction,» which also includes work by David Reed and Carrie Moyer.
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.
Despite this turbid content, it remains fashionable to
talk about Baselitz's paintings as
abstractions, as though the perverse act of reversing the figure — the works at Michael Werner, from the»70s, include some of the first examples of this practice — were merely a technical matter, and as though his painterly explorations were mere attempts to stretch
Stay: January 9 - March 30, 2014 Co-organized by: Mondriaan Fonds (Netherlands) Upcoming Event: AIT ARTIST
TALK # 65 「 Technics, Labour,
Abstraction 」 Artist
talk about recent works and new ideas by Dutch artist Vincent Vulsma (Date and Time: Monday, March 24th, 19:00 - 21:00 Venue: AIT Room Daikanyama )
They'll
talk about their own interpretation of
Abstraction, their vision and why they favour it.
«Myths
about Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism and the Art of Sam Feinstein and Hans Hofmann» a slide
talk by curator Patricia Stark Feinstein.
Saturday, January 30: Kurt Chan on Abstract Art and Others 3 - 4.30 pm Cantonese Professor Kurt Chan Yuk Keung
talks about the relationship between the abstract art movement and contemporaneity,
about how
abstraction has been represented in different contexts throughout the past century, and
about how it has evolved and mutated in today's global circumstances.
READ Culture
Talk interview with Adrienne Edwards
about «Blackness in
Abstraction» exhibition
There was constant
talk about the formal, the informal, irony, narrative, content,
abstraction, the nonrepresentational, figuration, realism, popular culture, high art — everything was to be reexamined.
In the film she
talks about what
abstraction means to her and explains her process as she makes each new mark on the canvas.
It announced that Ad would show 1,000 color slides and
talk about «THE KOOTZANDJANIS KIDS» (referring to the art dealers Sam Kootz and Sidney Janis) in a pun on the comic strip of the Katzandjammer Kids), as well as «MOMAISM» and «POP -
ABSTRACTION.»
I think
abstraction is impossible actually — even paintings that we
talk about as being abstract.
During our visit we
talked about his Dedalus Foundation exhibition, «The Humanism of
Abstraction,» which also includes work by... read more... «Studio visit: John Zinsser»
Our half - hour conversation regrettably did not include enough time to
talk about Wilkin's curatorial projects, which over the years have included many shows and monographs
about mid-century Modernists and contemporary
abstraction.
Rashid Johnson
talks about using historically charged materials to express his identity; Taryn Simon,
about exploring the different forms of power upon individuals; and Robert Longo, navigating between traditional representation and modernist
abstraction.