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Marco Antonini presents a slide lecture that takes Revolution in (Re) Form: More Thoughts on Abstraction Today, his eponymous essay for the exhibition NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century as a departure point for an informed and timely analysis of recent trends in contemporary abstract painting.

INTERSECTIONS VISITING SCHOLAR MARCO ANTONINI Lecture: Revolution in (Re) Form More Thoughts on Abstract Painting Today Wednesday, November 18 ART Auditorium, ART Building 6:30 - 8:00 pm 6:00 - 6:30 pm Light reception Marco Antonini presents a slide lecture that takes Revolution in (Re) Form: More Thoughts on Abstraction Today, his eponymous essay for the exhibition NEW NEW YORK: Abstract Painting in Continue Reading»

The paintings suggest a type of pleasure dome, existing for the viewer to project their thoughts on abstractions.

Not exact matches

«Obadiah was a cripple and a grump, on the beak of a bald - headed bird» Some lyricists are able to delicately transcend cohesive thoughts into imaginative worlds of abstraction.

If we ask whether there could be a sort of intellect that abstracts without at least partially distorting, I think Bergson would reply that we have no experience of anything like that, and any such idea would be highly speculative and would risk missing the meaning of the terms «intellect,» and «abstraction,» since these terms are employed based on an experience we really have.

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

The way we get our ideas of space could be through Extensive Abstraction and so on — I don't actually think it is.

On the other hand, Whitehead is of the momentous conviction that thought, in the abstraction, directly adapts itself to nature: «Thus «objectification» itself is abstraction; since no actual thing is «objectified» in its «formal» completeness.

The final chapter of this book gives Whitehead's reasons for thinking that social progress depends on a new educational system, one that will give equal importance to «appreciation of the concrete» and «facility with abstractions.

Finally, I think that the move towards abstraction has been catalysed by the need to overcome what people see as the dead end of identity politics and its parochial focus on particular group experiences to the exclusion of wider issues of democratic solidarity.

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

While that style of logic is still consistent with how I think today (i.e. that humility and an open mind are essential in this line of work), I learned that I was totally missing the point, because my question was completely abstract — and the kind of suffering I witnessed on those wards was anything but an abstraction.

Unsurprisingly, allegory places significant constraints on the film actors, who are forced to put life into characters that are moral abstractions, not people, restricted in manner of behavior, expression and thought.

Queasy and then revolted by the thought of skin and flesh — shot in intimate macro close - up to the point of abstraction — Abby attempts to soldier on, but then quickly shuts down her practice indefinitely until she can get a handle on her uncontrollable disgust.

I enjoy music and music theory, high - level programming with abstractions (oh, man, things are so much better now that I don't have to mess with raw sockets and manual memory allocation) and helping newer developers get a better handle on the thought processes for development.

He has been kind enough to share with Painters» Table his thoughts on painting and images of his work in advance of a retrospective exhibition, Celebrating Abstraction, which will be on view June 7 - 14, 2012 at the Appledore Festival.

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This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!

I think the thought depends on being at a greater distance from the early 20th century, that while Reinhardt and everyone else could not imagine abstraction (whatever he may have said to the contrary) other than as a struggle to find what an abstract as opposed to a representational painting really might be and do, is no longer the case.

But the family is hugely important in giving me a foundation on which I can start to think through what abstraction has been in relation to its history — a complicated issue — and what abstract painting can be in a contemporary context.

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

To be perfectly honest, these Site - Self (projections) resemble San Marzano tomato paste, blue - tinted udon, perhaps a head of bibb lettuce — yes I've got food on my mind, but I think that is the greater point: we project ourselves (our Selves) onto these anonymous abstractions, much like Grant's paintings, less to derive an Ultimate Meaning than to find the truth that matters to us.

This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of «the dematerialisation of art» in conceptual practices...

When you think of art in those years, you may think first of Dada, reveling in the neutrality of Switzerland — or of František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Wassily Kandinsky turning their back on war to invent abstraction.

On view at Lisson Gallery are 20 new works — think hand painted hard - edge geometric abstraction — produced over the past two years.

I think of Margaret Thatcher and Elizabeth Harris for color - field abstraction, Bitforms and Eyebeam for digital art, a determined cluster on 25th Street for soft - focus realism, or Mary Boone for sheer attitude.

Beyond a visible diversity, these pieces of art explore the mechanisms from where we give a meaning to the objects we believe we know: blew up press images reproducing well - known paintings, reworked old movies» extracts thought abstraction; rebuilt disseminated fragments... These large scales works on paper often participate in her installation's scenography.

And I think there is a tremendous distinction between this kind of internalized abstraction and what Greenberg called color field painting, which is nothing but color design on a flat plane.

On first looking at Jean - Marie Martin's paintings you think you've walked into a show of»60s abstraction.

I've never thought of Ellsworth Kelly's hard - edged abstractions as having much to do with the clumsy upside - down figures of the German Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz, but the colors and diagonals of Kelly's Green Black (1958) and Baselitz's The Lamentation (1983) parallel each other enough that the pairing grew on me.

So any degree of abstraction I use, I know exactly how and why, where I think most artists stumble on it in a hit - and - miss, rough - and - ready, empirical way, and ultimately choose their stand.

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

Think of Frank Stella's stated desire «to keep the paint as good as it was in the can,» or Houston artist Joseph Cohen's exclusive reliance on reclaimed «oops» paints that have been returned to home - improvement stores to make his abstractions.

I have always liked his barbershop paintings, and the way he uses the paraphernalia of bottles and products, the mirrors and posters and illustrations of haircuts on the walls as a kind of abstraction — they make you think of abstract expressionist Hans Hofman's push - and - pull rectangles of dancing colour, and also at times of Dutch painter René Daniëls» plays between figuration and abstraction.

They thought his course on abstraction wasn't important to their curriculum and didn't renew his contract.

[iv] Georg Baselitz in conversation with Michael Auping, March 18, 1999, cited in Auping, «Impure Thoughts: On Guston's Abstraction,» in Philip Guston Retrospective, exh.

And it's not too much of a stretch to think of Kazimir Malevich's seminal pure abstraction of 1918, «White on White.»

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).

Playing on Eugene Thacker's idea of horror as the «paradoxical thought of the unthinkable,» Coleman has meticulously composed a show that illustrates the visualization and simultaneous abstraction of the unknown.

Group Exhibitions 2015 — «Plagiar o Futuro», (Plagiarizing the Future) Hangar, Lisboa, Portugal (curated by Bruno Leitão, Andrea Rodríguez Novoa)-- «Imagine Brazil» — Artist's Books, DHC / ART Founation, Montreal, Canada (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Ana Luiza Fonseca)-- «Happeland», Radiator Arts / New York, EUA (curated by Eva Davidova, Almudena Baeza)-- «Open Sessions», Drawing Center, New York, EUA — «Theorem», Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, USA (curated by Octavio Zaya)-- «Contramuro», (Counter-mure) Galería Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia (curated by Omayra Alvarado)-- «Ejercicios de Traslado», (Practices on transference) Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Alcobendas, Spain (curated Osbel Suárez)-- «La angustia de casi saber y quedarse no sabiendo», (The angst of almost knowing but remain ignorant) Galería Diablo Roso, Panama City, Panamá — «Instalations», Studio Sandra Recio / Geneva, Switzerland 2014 — «Cruce de Colecciones», (Collections Crossroads) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain — «The Language of Human Consciousness», Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — «Cine Bogart, Imaginar un edificio», (Bogart Cinema, a building imagined) Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain (curated by Ines Caballero)-- «Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear», Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia (curated by Daniel Silvo) 2013 — «La copia de la copia» (The copy of the copy), Museum of Contemporary Art, Guayaquil, Ecuador (curated by Hernan Pacurucu)-- «Cuando el mundo se hace plano» (When the world becomes flat), Centro de Cultura Contemporánea San Martin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - «Brutalidade Jardim», Galeria Marilia Razuk / São Paulo, Brazil (curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli)-- «Imagine Brazil» — Artist's Books, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Ana Luiza)-- «On Painting», CEART — Centro Cultural Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Playtime», Museo Nacional de Arqueologia Subacuática, Cartagena, Spain — «Gracia Divina» (Divine Grace), Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile (curated by Andrea Pacheco)-- «Hacer en lo cotidiano», Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (curated by Beatriz Alonso)-- «En Obras» (In the Works), Galería Nuble, Santander, Spain (curated by Iciar Sagarminaga)-- «On Painting», Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear», Galeria Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain (curated by Daniel Silvo) 2012 — «Expanded Drawing», Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (curated by Pilar Ribal)-- «Carnaza para los Dioses» (Offering to the Gods), CAAM — Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain — 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 2011 — 11th Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador — «Inside», Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (curated by Rafael Doctor)-- «New Brazilian Sculptur» e, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (curated by Alexandre Murucci)-- 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil — Bologna Art First, Pinacoteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (curated by Julia Draganovic) 2010 — 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt — «Synergie's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Union Fenosa (MACUF), La Coruña, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Look Up», Alfandega, Porto, Portugal (curated by David Barro)-- «Kierkegaard's Walk», Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti)-- «Synergies», Museum of IberoAmerican Contemporary Art in Extremadura (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Postgraffiti, Geometry and Abstraction», Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, Spain (curated by Javier Abarca) 2009 — «Residency 09», Futura Project, Prague, Czech Republic — «Building, Dwelling, Thinking — Strategies for Contemporary Art and Architecture», IVAM, Valencia, Spain (curated by Fernando Castro Floreon transference) Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Alcobendas, Spain (curated Osbel Suárez)-- «La angustia de casi saber y quedarse no sabiendo», (The angst of almost knowing but remain ignorant) Galería Diablo Roso, Panama City, Panamá — «Instalations», Studio Sandra Recio / Geneva, Switzerland 2014 — «Cruce de Colecciones», (Collections Crossroads) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain — «The Language of Human Consciousness», Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — «Cine Bogart, Imaginar un edificio», (Bogart Cinema, a building imagined) Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain (curated by Ines Caballero)-- «Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear», Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia (curated by Daniel Silvo) 2013 — «La copia de la copia» (The copy of the copy), Museum of Contemporary Art, Guayaquil, Ecuador (curated by Hernan Pacurucu)-- «Cuando el mundo se hace plano» (When the world becomes flat), Centro de Cultura Contemporánea San Martin, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - «Brutalidade Jardim», Galeria Marilia Razuk / São Paulo, Brazil (curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli)-- «Imagine Brazil» — Artist's Books, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Ana Luiza)-- «On Painting», CEART — Centro Cultural Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Playtime», Museo Nacional de Arqueologia Subacuática, Cartagena, Spain — «Gracia Divina» (Divine Grace), Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile (curated by Andrea Pacheco)-- «Hacer en lo cotidiano», Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (curated by Beatriz Alonso)-- «En Obras» (In the Works), Galería Nuble, Santander, Spain (curated by Iciar Sagarminaga)-- «On Painting», Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear», Galeria Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain (curated by Daniel Silvo) 2012 — «Expanded Drawing», Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (curated by Pilar Ribal)-- «Carnaza para los Dioses» (Offering to the Gods), CAAM — Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain — 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 2011 — 11th Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador — «Inside», Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (curated by Rafael Doctor)-- «New Brazilian Sculptur» e, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (curated by Alexandre Murucci)-- 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil — Bologna Art First, Pinacoteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (curated by Julia Draganovic) 2010 — 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt — «Synergie's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Union Fenosa (MACUF), La Coruña, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Look Up», Alfandega, Porto, Portugal (curated by David Barro)-- «Kierkegaard's Walk», Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti)-- «Synergies», Museum of IberoAmerican Contemporary Art in Extremadura (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Postgraffiti, Geometry and Abstraction», Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, Spain (curated by Javier Abarca) 2009 — «Residency 09», Futura Project, Prague, Czech Republic — «Building, Dwelling, Thinking — Strategies for Contemporary Art and Architecture», IVAM, Valencia, Spain (curated by Fernando Castro FloreOn Painting», CEART — Centro Cultural Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Playtime», Museo Nacional de Arqueologia Subacuática, Cartagena, Spain — «Gracia Divina» (Divine Grace), Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile (curated by Andrea Pacheco)-- «Hacer en lo cotidiano», Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (curated by Beatriz Alonso)-- «En Obras» (In the Works), Galería Nuble, Santander, Spain (curated by Iciar Sagarminaga)-- «On Painting», Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear», Galeria Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain (curated by Daniel Silvo) 2012 — «Expanded Drawing», Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (curated by Pilar Ribal)-- «Carnaza para los Dioses» (Offering to the Gods), CAAM — Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain — 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 2011 — 11th Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador — «Inside», Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (curated by Rafael Doctor)-- «New Brazilian Sculptur» e, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (curated by Alexandre Murucci)-- 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil — Bologna Art First, Pinacoteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (curated by Julia Draganovic) 2010 — 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt — «Synergie's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Union Fenosa (MACUF), La Coruña, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Look Up», Alfandega, Porto, Portugal (curated by David Barro)-- «Kierkegaard's Walk», Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti)-- «Synergies», Museum of IberoAmerican Contemporary Art in Extremadura (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Postgraffiti, Geometry and Abstraction», Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, Spain (curated by Javier Abarca) 2009 — «Residency 09», Futura Project, Prague, Czech Republic — «Building, Dwelling, Thinking — Strategies for Contemporary Art and Architecture», IVAM, Valencia, Spain (curated by Fernando Castro FloreOn Painting», Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (curated by Omar - Pascual Castillo)-- «Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear», Galeria Isabel Hurley, Málaga, Spain (curated by Daniel Silvo) 2012 — «Expanded Drawing», Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (curated by Pilar Ribal)-- «Carnaza para los Dioses» (Offering to the Gods), CAAM — Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain — 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba 2011 — 11th Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador — «Inside», Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (curated by Rafael Doctor)-- «New Brazilian Sculptur» e, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (curated by Alexandre Murucci)-- 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil — Bologna Art First, Pinacoteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (curated by Julia Draganovic) 2010 — 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt — «Synergie's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Union Fenosa (MACUF), La Coruña, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Look Up», Alfandega, Porto, Portugal (curated by David Barro)-- «Kierkegaard's Walk», Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti)-- «Synergies», Museum of IberoAmerican Contemporary Art in Extremadura (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (curated by Carlos Jimenez)-- «Postgraffiti, Geometry and Abstraction», Fundación Caixa Galicia, A Coruña, Spain (curated by Javier Abarca) 2009 — «Residency 09», Futura Project, Prague, Czech Republic — «Building, Dwelling, Thinking — Strategies for Contemporary Art and Architecture», IVAM, Valencia, Spain (curated by Fernando Castro Florez)

This exhibition of recent works by Martha Jones features oil paintings based on a consistent set of elements that call on the viewer to think about issues of color, scale, and abstraction within an artistic tradition.

It puts you in a state of reverberation» (P. Guston quoted in M. Auping, «Impure Thoughts: On Guston's Abstractions», pp. 37 - 52, Auping, Philip Guston: Retrospective, exh.

By allowing its works to co-mingle, instead of keeping them at arm's length from each other, Abstract Now / Then might have been able to achieve what I think is a truly «now» experience of abstraction, one that insists on full - body immersion.

Just more interesting abstraction on the — we all agree, excellent — idea of scientific diversity of thought and challenge.

But thinking of extreme events statistically is already leaning on the wrong abstraction.