«These are specific programs that touch on different
types of artists across the spectrum in the city.»
Not exact matches
«The space itself is a spring board for creativity, inspiring
artists across all genres to think and reconsider their work in the context
of what is believed to be the largest building
of its
type in the country,» says Messum.
The
artist usually relied on symbolic imagery to get the message
across to the viewers, utilizing this
type of communicating through carefully established motifs much rather than standard representation.
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.
Across it runs a line
of white - on - red
type that reads, «Another
artist.
While acknowledging the contribution
of older American
artists like Thomas Eakins (1844 - 1916), Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926), John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), Whistler (1834 - 1903) and Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910), some members
of this new generation were interested in creating a new
type of art that reflected life in the growing cities
across America.
On top
of this base coat
of paint the
artist measured out and marked with pencil rectangular bands
across the width
of the canvas, into which she painted alternating duck - egg blue and pale peach «salmon - brick» colours using a different
type of acrylic, Liquitex, which gives a translucent and tempera - like finish.
Inventing Abstraction, 1910 — 1925 celebrates the centennial
of this bold new
type of artwork, tracing the development
of abstraction as it moved through a network
of modern
artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping
across nations and
across media.