Sentences with phrase «to make abstract paintings»

But what I saw was a man who was completely interested in the journey and the process of making abstract paintings.

You can make an abstract painting by doing nothing.

And then I spent a couple years making abstract painting and then went back to doing more of this funky, figurative thing.

When I started making abstract paintings I thought about how much our attention is drawn away from us with the speed of information these days.

I had never made an abstract painting before, so I didn't have it as an internal option.

The reasons he stopped making abstract paintings might just be a lesson to us all.

They were selected not as the only artists of distinction making abstract painting today, but as exemplary, representing the range and complexity, the vitality and potential of abstract painting today.

A few years ago, my practice consisted of primarily making abstract paintings.

I wanted to make abstract paintings like those, but it was hard to do something new.

In your opinion, in what ways are you continuing to make abstract painting relevant?

When I start a painting it initially goes through a transitional state where it is essentially abstract in form, although I have no intention of making an abstract painting.

This might have seemed understandable in the period when Abstract Expressionism had lost its lustre, but it might also be a good reason for making abstract paintings now.

Incidentally, before I came to the «postcard» paintings I was making abstract paintings in landscape color palettes, but they were made by applying paint with spatula swipes and scraping into informal grids about touch and color.

Surely, all that's the perfect reason for making abstract paintings now, and giving them our undivided attention.

I feel even the work that is more visually what a person might call an abstract painting, I always think of myself as making a picture of an abstract painting and not making an abstract painting per se.

This 45 - year - old Brazilian artist makes abstract paintings by first painting shapes on a piece of plastic and then pressing the paint side of the plastic onto a canvas, thus transferring the images.

This is a different question from, «Why make abstract paintings now?»

Justine Hill makes abstract paintings using elemental marks and shapes that are distinguished by color, value, and opacity.

After numerous public exhibitions of works that directly referenced or quoted from other artists» practices, Levine began making abstract paintings without specific source material in 1985.

JS: You transitioned into making abstract paintings, which is what you do now, but there is often some kind of text or writing embedded in your painting.

After travelling to Rome and Paris he turned to art, making abstract paintings from 1960.

Now, returned to his home and studio in Hoosick, New York, he is continuing his project of making abstract paintings about fraught and endangered landscapes.

So, I as a joke did a show called «Abstraction» and just made abstract paintings, I just set up to make really good paintings that meant something to me in an abstract format.»

It allows students to find about artists using similar approaches and aerial photographs to explore making an abstract painting, so covers AO1 2 and 4 nicely.

BP: I also heard a story that when John Currin was a grad student at Yale, you went as a visiting artist and, during the studio critiques, you told him that his work (he was making abstract paintings at the time) had something hard to find in painting: they had poverty.

During his last decades — he died in March 1993 — he again made abstract paintings and works on paper.

Whatever one thinks of his taste and particular aesthetic, in making abstract painting meaningful when it seemed irrelevant, he was a true champion of the medium.»

Made abstract paintings withBaroque arabesques of punched holes or fragments of coloured glass, and later with vertical cuts; spent the summers at Albisola Marina making ceramics.

According to Griffin, «No matter where these adventures in paint take me, it's the journey into the unknown that makes abstract painting so exciting.»

One of the more difficult tasks for younger artists is to make abstract painting genuinely new — that is, sincerely and intelligently felt instead of performed (as with too much geometric work) or blurted out (as with too much AbEx - redux brushwork) like a rant in a family argument.

# 194 Studio of Hiroshi Tachibana @ 680 Woodward Ave Hiroshi Tachibana is a Japanese artist who makes abstract paintings.

Well, when I was a kid I was trying to paint like Sargent — in school I was making abstract paintings built off of fractals.

Kianja Strobert makes abstract painting the old - fashioned way, with surfaces to die for.

Mark Joshua Epstein: It's as if Frank Stella has taken a letter and made an abstract painting out of a letter.

Narrator: In the 1950s, Davis began to make abstract paintings on a grand scale.

He speaks of it as gaining power purely by its colour: «It's ominous, it almost makes an abstract painting.»

I ended up making abstract paintings because figuration seems unavoidably melancholic.

But the artist insists he is not interested in pure abstraction: «I can't imagine making an abstract painting.

The central installation looks like a series of kites painted, thus making abstract painting much more immersive than it could be placed on walls.

Gabriele Evertz makes abstract paintings, composed of vertical bands, that investigate how color areas situate in space and project forward (or backward) in relation to neighboring areas.

I can't personally get enough intellectual perspective on what an abstract painting is in order to think of it only in those terms... you have to be engaged with a more polemical discussion about what painting is in order to really make abstract paintings now.

For Guston the lack of struggle he felt in making abstract paintings signified more than a personal creative impasse: It stood for contemporary painters» craven refusal to confront the world in which they worked.

Eventually I started to pick the works out of the installations to just purely make abstract paintings.»

While his contemporaries prioritized the exploration of materiality, abstraction, and in some cases the social and political climate of the time, Binion's works are intensely personal investigations of the multiple ways to make an abstract painting comprised of layers of line, color, and personal and historical narratives.

Pollock — whom Guston went to high school with in Los Angeles (the two were expelled for designing satirical leaflets) and who urged Guston to move to New York in 1935 — had been making abstract paintings since 1939.

One of America's finest abstract painters, Chris Martin (born 1954) explores the fertile areas between sophisticated formalism and the visionary joy of outsider art, making abstract painting look enviably effortless.

While Holland used representational elements, they referred to nothing in particular and their atypical presentation left them open to a variety of interpretations thus, making his abstract paintings as fresh and appealing forty years later.

Barbara Bilotta makes her abstract paintings by layering acrylic paint with multiple resin pours.

But I began to feel that I had no right to be making abstract paintings until I had grasped the real world in the way that Mondrian, de Kooning, Pollock, and others had done before me.