Sentences with phrase «thing about abstract paintings»

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In previous shows, I was loosely alluding to those things but primarily talking about abstract painting.

And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced in a brief «manifesto» of the rising movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times in response to a negative review of the new style: «There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

From Matisse she turned her attention to Mondrian, whose abstractions taught her «to start with the thing itself», then to Monet's expansive water lilies, then to the Futurists («There's lots I don't like about Futurism... but it was certainly moving towards abstract painting»).

We can say that it is abstract, non-objective, about colour and form and our perception of those things, but we live in an age of plastic, so much more baggage to look at paintings with.

It's about failure or ambition and all these other things too, but it's not actually an abstract painting made with paint.

But each of the artists» works are also about the misjudgment of a real environment — a real chair made out of special rope (Campana); a box made of terracotta and glaze (Cherubini); a lamp made out of found metal (Coolquitt); an abstract painting titled after a transsexual (Ferris); and collage, deceptively flat - looking, made from among other things, feather and beads (Alvarez).

The young abstract artist Gabriel Orozco knows a thing or two about painting, though touch isn't yet one of them.

One of the great things about the fairs, particularly Art Basel Miami Beach, is the amount of mid-century abstract painting that is shown, much of it geometric.

This is the marvelous thing about a good abstract painting, a good abstract painting.

Although she doesn't paint abstracts Audrewy Kawasaki always strikes me as very effeminate, in part because of her subject matter, but it's also how she goes about presenting and rendering things.

KSWithout belaboring that «end of painting,» I guess one of the things that interest me about that work of David's, and it's the same thing I see in yours, is that it holds together the abstract and the pictorial, the process and the image, in a way that I also see in Georg Baselitz and other people.

The great thing about DIY - ing abstract paintings is that even an unskilled individual can do this project.

I've never seen Hernández's paintings in the flesh, but I've heard a lot of good things about the Spanish artist mostly known for his large scale abstract painting and his interesting (and contrasting) use of colour.

But whilst I agree with that ambition of «more abstract», I am much more ambivalent about the idea that certain things that could be done in figurative painting can not now be done in abstract painting, and that by so restricting the scope of abstract painting it will inevitably come to fulfil that ambition of «more abstract».

This is the thing that impresses me most about the field of abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.

I think I am still confused about «space» in abstract painting, I get it when applied to abstract sculpture, but it would be really helpful if you could do your thing Emyr, and post a painting that you felt operated spacially and one that didn't.

The great thing about the outgrowth of exhibitions showcasing and examining emerging contemporary abstract painting is that the novelty is starting to wear off.

One more thing about the World: it «contains» all kinds of things: good painting, not so good painting, abstract painting, not - abstract painting (wait: maybe there's no such thing!)

Well, there is or has been an idea that space in abstract painting is about «interval», i.e. across the canvas, as per your aerial thing, like distance on a map.