Books — how did you begin working with books and why did you evolve
towards more abstract forms?
Not exact matches
The only
abstract painting included in this exhibition, Traveler III (1960)
forms part of a group of works that mark a transition
towards paintings with a
more sombre and ominous quality.
Simultaneously, with this new body of work he takes a turn
towards the lingering «structure» beneath any given «flag» or «symbol» and how that functions without its logo, in a
more abstract form or even without a clear statement, as seen here in the piece Protected / Security.
While his early works in the 1970s were mostly created using recovered objects, in his later work Cragg has used
more traditional materials, such as wood, bronze and marble, continually renewing his repertoire of
forms, reaching
towards an
abstract appreciation of the human body.
Abstraction - Création embraced the whole field of
abstract art, but tended
towards the
more austere
forms represented by concrete art, constructivism and neo-plasticism.