Sentences with phrase «took painterly abstraction»

Drawing on the legacies of Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky, Thomas, who died in 1978 at age 86, took painterly abstraction — a medium that had been primarily white and masculine (she was black)-- and made it her own: a personal project, with formal experiments with line and color to boot.

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«Rothko to Richter provides an important reassessment of the striking developments in abstract art that took place over a particularly significant 40 years and reaffirms abstraction's vibrancy and diversity as perhaps the 20th - century's defining painterly idiom,» said Princeton University Art Museum Director James Steward.

In this exhibition — which takes its title from the phonetic spelling of the word Atmosphere — all three artists respond to the dynamic climate of contemporary South Africa, primarily through the use of painterly abstraction.

Drawing on a unique practice, Waldman immerses architectural photographs taken over the course of trips worldwide in painterly abstraction.