Sentences with phrase «tradition of abstraction with»

Informed by the interdisciplinary practices of earlier visual artists who engaged the applied arts, poetry, theater, and dance, she merges the rarified tradition of abstraction with techniques and materials common to decor and craft.

Brice Marden has furthered the traditions of abstraction with his exploration of surface, material, and color, from his early monochromatic work to his more recent calligraphic compositions.

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Corwin writes: «In the tradition of Klein and Dubuffet, Strobert chooses to site her artistic practice within the confines of painting, while literally doing everything she can to reconfigure that discipline through a re-orientation of mediums and with an expressionistic yet pragmatic eye... Strobert's painting isn't abstract painting but the abstraction of painting.

Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.

His work, from early minimal objects to increasingly expansive and complex forms, has always dealt with such central issues of the sculptural tradition as size and scale, balance and imbalance, figuration and abstraction.

These young artists sought a decisive break with tradition yet were skeptical of modernism's linear trend toward reductive abstraction.

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Fusing the traditions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of abstract painting with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined with the earthy tangibility of paint.

In Slightly Ajar, her second exhibition with the gallery, Sharon Lawless continues to use found materials — discarded packaging, paint samples, wrapping paper and altered pages from auction catalogs — in her manipulation of two modern traditions, collage and geometric abstraction as she explores the tension between accident and control and how this tension effects perception.

Though there is a long tradition of geometric abstraction abroad that dates back to Russian Constructivism (Kasimir Malevich) and Dutch Neoplasticism (Piet Mondrian), the European artists were concerned with a balanced relationship of parts within a whole, whereas Reinhardt, Newman and Rothko stressed the unity of the painting over all other surface incidents.

Conversant with a wide typology of styles, subjects, and techniques, from abstraction to realism and comics, Marshall synthesizes different traditions and genres in his work while seeking to counter stereotypical depictions of black people in society.

As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore the rich traditions of large - scale artworks and to develop new scholarship around the mural format, Nadia Haji Omar, a Sri Lankan multimedia artist living and working in Rhode Island, will transform the exhibition space with mirrored surfaces and her signature alpha - numeric abstraction.

Judges also noted that, «with its demonstrable connection to country, the quietly mesmerising work could also be interpreted through the Western tradition of minimalist abstraction».

Often through exuberant work that engaged with heroic gesture or pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history painting and offered a new interpretation of abstraction.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

But the works here show him forcing that tradition into a new alignment with process and with abstraction and, in this, well ahead of his time.

That would all be fine if they were used to add something, but it reads like a formal exercise, toying with abstraction in a long tradition of early Modernists or folk painters.

Their paintings combine both abstraction and realism as well as the achievements of the Russian avant - garde and liberally combine the contemporary with these varied traditions.

Faiz continues this tradition with her large - scale oil painting «Divider» (2015), by combining post-painterly abstraction with Albert Oehlen's version of abstract art, an aversion away from recognisable forms.

However, not until the twentieth century with the advent of Cubism, Fauvism, and Surrealism did artists break from representational tradition, thereby embracing and validating the possibilities of abstraction.

So far, so good, and one sees with huge pleasure a great many variations on this tradition: the Brazilian artist Ivan Serpa typing out exquisite abstractions with little more than the upper and lower case O of his 1950s Corona; the Czech artist Bela Kolárová following suit with delicate permutations of haberdashers» press studs in the 1960s; the Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi using a pen and ink to create razor - thin vectors that fluctuate and shimmer across the page in the 1970s.

Atria's work connects with the modernist tradition of geometric abstraction, but with the express intent to relate it to specific visual situations encountered in the world.

In conversation with both abstraction and craft traditions associated with the decorative to build a lexicon of community language, the work expands sculpturally on the foundation of known forms in Queer history.

The show (organized with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and with Museum Ludwig in Cologne) credits Mitchell as an important bridge between American and European abstraction, connecting her early New York School years to her late period in Vétheuil, France, where she made landscapes that were very much in the muscular Ab - Ex tradition but also explored the more genteel legacy of late Monet.

His paintings engage with the traditions of landscape painting and the history of abstraction.

As with Jensen's sewn abstractions this new body of work invokes a tradition of high painting, adopting its conventions but setting apart or emptying out its symbolic or expressive ambitions.

If the show intended to nod at the kinds of abstraction influenced by American painting of the 1960s (Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and others painted on canvas with acrylics in a way that seemed to up the ante of the watercolour tradition), why not chose a late 60s John Hoyland, a 70s Bert Irvin or a recent John McLean rather than this dreary thing?

There is no easy way to define Franz West's art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, mines the intellectualism of Freud and Wittgenstein, and possesses an awkward beauty that speaks with equal fluency to the tradition of painterly abstraction and the aesthetics of trash art.

Throughout his career, James Bishop has engaged with European and American traditions of postwar abstraction while developing a subtle, poetic, and highly unique visual language of his own.

The modernist abstract tradition where the words «big» and «abstract» belong together has clear resonance with Morris» work, yet in these little paintings she almost turns the theory of colour - field abstraction on its head.»

Behnke quotes Floyd Herman who wrote of Hine's work: «His abstractions synthesized a keen sensibility of an accomplished draughtsman with the poetry and inventive structure that linked his work to the American abstract tradition of Stuart Davis, Al Held, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

And then finally, there has been an ongoing tradition of Modern and contemporary abstraction from around the world that operates upon or engages with coextensive lived existence.

Both emphasized work from observation, with Mercedes coming out of the Hofmann tradition, which took spatial relationships observed from the model into abstraction.

Haitian - born, Miami - based artist Tomm El - Saieh inaugurates ICA Miami's signature project space with a series of new painting exploring the connections between abstraction and the Haitian tradition of narrative icon painting.

Mary Heilmann Artist Brush Value: $ 500 Starting Bid: $ 250 Mary Heilmann (1940 --RRB- is one of the preeminent artists of her generation - a pioneering painter whose work injects abstraction with elements from popular culture and craft traditions.

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

As Tim Bavington fuses his love of guitar melodies with hard - edge abstraction, Feodor Voronov weds his bilingual abilities with an Ab - Ex tradition of mark making.

This tradition, which turns the self - referential logic of abstraction into something visionary, inspired Philip Guston in his break with Abstract Expressionism.

Rebecca Salter's delicate, spectral abstractions connect with two rich traditions: the history of Japanese art and craft, of which she has in - depth knowledge, and post-war minimalist painting, exemplified best perhaps by Agnes Martin, the American artist to which she is sometimes compared.

In the years since, Benglis has stretched conceptions of painting and sculpture, rupturing tradition with her ceramic and polyurethane abstractions.

Other works experiment with scale and non-traditional materials to re-position otherwise familiar forms, investing them with political or gender narratives; Geometric abstraction is reworked in stitched lines and layers of applied felt, transforming the medium and linking it to other traditions of making.

Her work is characterised with reference to the lineage of modernist abstraction and in particular Latin American antecedents, non-representational concrete painting, thus establishing cross-cultural dialogue within this international tradition.

Some of the artists active in this period returned to the plastic tradition of abstraction in any of its forms — Constructivism, Neo-Concrete, Minimalism, etc. — but did not allow their practice to be associated with any particular trend or movement.

Through them he became versed in the work and theories of the constructivist tradition which, in St Ives, was becoming associated with a form of abstraction based on landscape sources.

After experimenting with Western abstraction, Park began to explore a more introspective methodology that had its origins in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and also in the Korean tradition of calligraphy.

She interweaves formal abstraction with 2 - d techniques of illusions, exploring traditions of artistic construction and production, both acknowledging traditional processes while subverting the expected result.

Often through exuberant work that engaged with the heroic gesture or pop imagery, these artists explored the traditions of figuration and history painting, and offered new interpretations of abstraction.

Shemza's diasporic perspective, as an artist with a deeply studied understanding both of Islamic aesthetic principles and the tradition of geometric abstraction in the West, allowed him to explore modernism through a uniquely doubled prism.

Hans - Ju ̈rgen Hafner, 2016 commented: The impressive thing about Rainer is how unconventional, and above all how quickly he covers the scope of what is possible in painting, and reorganises it for himself alongside local tradition and connection with the international Modern Movement, anti-academicism and outsiderhood, pictorial symbol and the act of painting, conceptualisation and phenomenology, surrealism and abstraction»