Sentences with phrase «thinking about abstract art»

Kandinsky had been thinking about abstract art for years beforehand.

Assuming that my perceptions of Anne Smart and John Pollard's paintings have any accuracy, a comparison between my account of their work and Pollock's reveals that an enormous shift in thinking about abstract art has taken place.

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I welcome these changes and agree with Angie about the art categories being difficult — I make embroidered and appliqué artworks which I guess should be classed as textile art, but I do think textile art is considered by buyers to be more specialised (and also more abstract) than my pictures, which puts me in the strange position of not wanting to call my pictures textile art, as I think people have preformed opinions of what textile art is.

Some scratched - up chunks of ocher, found in a cave in South Africa, may signal a change in assumptions about just how long ago humans began to communicate abstract thoughts through language and art.

I had so many questions about how I made the abstract art that hung above the bench that I thought it was about time I shared the details.

In order to get my students thinking in more abstract and artistic ways, and to help me think about how to engage more of the school community with this project, I spoke with my school's art teacher, Christina, who traded spots with me for a day to lead a session for my class on conceptual art and technique.

MB: Here's what I thought about it: «Why not have the first show be a Conceptual artist who is black, that completely abstracts the stereotype paradigm of what black art should look like?»

I always think of the Yasmina Reza play «Art» when I see a Fontana (one of his slashed canvasses served as the book's cover) about a bourgeois man whose relationships crumble after he buys an all - white abstract painting that divides the opinions of his friends.

«The abstract expressionists were all emotion on the surface,» she said, «and the pop artists were about mass culture, so this of course triggers thinking about the under - structure of art.

During that period, the art galleries he visited were filled with the paintings of abstract expressionists and pop artists who were exploring new ways of creating, and thinking about, art.

Jeff Elrod -(pictured above) After a disastrous train wreck of a lecture at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2009, I started to think differently about his abstract paintings that are part elegant monochromatic gestural works and part nostalgic elegy to early digi - art, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st centuArt Museum of Fort Worth in 2009, I started to think differently about his abstract paintings that are part elegant monochromatic gestural works and part nostalgic elegy to early digi - art, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st centuart, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st century.

The great advantage that abstract painting has over other genres of art, particularly over the ones favoured in recent times, is that it requires no great thinking about or conceptualisation.

The Jewel Thief will combine works by over fifty contemporary artists with eccentric arrangements to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art.

Where as a figurative work of art might allow every viewer to engage with it on the same level by referencing some aspect of history or life with which we are all familiar, an abstract artwork requires that every viewer that sees it begins anew, using their thoughts and feelings to arrive at some conclusion about what it could possibly mean.

Certain critics (and curators and collectors too) in the»80s thought that painting could be saved by forgetting about boring old abstract art.

Finally, I hear a phrase I thought was too much of a joke about what people say in front of abstract art for anyone to actually say it - «A four - year - old could do that.»

I need not speak in detail about this new manner, which appears in figurative as well as abstract art; but I think it is worth observing that in many ways it is a break with the kind of painting that was most important in the 1920's.