Sentences with phrase «vocabulary of abstract painting»

David Reed is a grand master — no painter has contributed as much in terms of expanding the vocabulary of abstract painting and maintaining its relevance during this era of marginalization — although there are many in New York who currently enjoy greater status.

Rooted in the precepts of Abstract Expressionism, Thornton has expanded the vocabulary of abstract painting through exploration of a painterly geometry that remains firmly within the space of the picture plane.

David Reed is a grandmaster — no painter has contributed as much in terms of expanding the vocabulary of abstract painting and maintaining its relevance during this era of marginalization, although there are many in New York who currently enjoy greater status.

A new sensibility and a new generation emerged and expanded the vocabulary of abstract painting and sculpture.

Not exact matches

For MoMA's first contemporary painting survey in recent memory, curator Laura Hoptman pulled together work by 17 artists, most of whom work with various abstract formal vocabularies ranging from the expressionistic to the starkly minimal.

Through paint, collage, and sculpture, she is locating herself within three histories she has inherited — of being black, of being a woman, and of being an artist working within the largely white, chauvinistic modernist vocabulary of photocollage and abstract painting.

Each artist works in the abstract formalist tradition, but, through the development of new painterly vocabularies and use of unusual materials, attempts to redefine the boundaries of painting.

In contrast to younger painters like Joe Bradley or Oscar Murillo who merely ape a vapid simulacrum of abstract painting's vocabulary, Jensen incorporates a larger and deeper understanding of the history of his chosen style.

While these highly complex and laborious constructions (she often called them «three - dimensional paintings») moved her well beyond the vocabulary of the improvisatory, so - called «action painting» usually associated with American abstract expressionism, they also had virtually nothing to do with the pop art and minimalism which were then the rage of the 1960s New York art scene.

With their large expanses of intense hues that nearly fill the canvas, both paintings anticipate the development of her abstract vocabulary throughout the remaining years of the 1960s.

Rockenschaub's works in animation, painting, sculpture, and site - specific installation use radical reduction and concentration to push the formal vocabulary of the abstract avant - garde, but never...

These practices do not imply that Clarkson has lost faith in abstract painting, but rather reflect his understanding of the limits of abstract painting's materials, formats and vocabulary.

Rockenschaub's works in animation, painting, sculpture, and site - specific installation use radical reduction and concentration to push the formal vocabulary of the abstract avant - garde, but never strays into the color palette of more staid academia.

The completely abstract painting rejected the visual vocabulary of representational painting in favor of emphasizing the flatness and materiality of the canvas.

The postwar years saw Capogrossi paint his first abstract works, and by the end of 1949 he had developed a distinct post-Cubist vocabulary of his own, formalizing a language of signs that involved the arrangement of comblike matrices in compositions that were at once logical and free, aligning him closely with the Art Informel movement.

Her medium is oil, the size of her paintings all measure 20 by 16 inches, and her abstract vocabulary is restricted to multiple banners of horizontal stripes.

With abstract expressionism at its peak, and based on the traditions of the abstract avant - garde in dialogue with color field painting, Kelly developed a vocabulary that left panel painting behind.

The brainchild of Swiss performance and visual artist Mai - Thu Perret, the installation puts forth a collage of objects drawn from her visual vocabulary that includes several female mannequins, two large - scale ceramic eyes, a ceramic dog, and an abstract Rorschach - style painting that hangs on the back wall.

They were so fresh and inventive, yet from their complexity and the assurance of the vocabulary — loose geometry, gridlike formations, unnamable shapes, and squiggly lines — I knew at once that this was the work of a confident and mature artist, even though it fit into the context of what many younger painters were engaged in at the time, when abstract painting had returned to issues of eccentric composition and irregular forms realized through diverse approaches of painting styles.

By stripping down the vocabulary of the painting, my aim is to have access to both the freedom of abstract painting and the referenced framework of representation.»

Best known for monumental canvases that built on the foundations of action painting and abstract expressionism, his own fearless sense of color, vocabulary of fluid marks and calligraphic strokes became his signature.

Bridging sculpture and abstract painting, Gorchov's singular artistic vocabulary challenged the methodologies of traditional painting.

Taylor's rich and varied visual vocabulary imbues his paintings with the allusion to another space, shifting illusively between known and unknowns, dreams and reality, abstract forms and flickers of recognisable beings.

Though she painted primarily abstract paintings, her work precludes Suprematism, with a visual vocabulary reminiscent of the work of Kasimir Malevich and Mark Rothko.

The exhibition takes as its point of departure a moment in the abstract movement of the post-war era, when dominant international vocabularies became entangled with traditional Asian painting in the work of a few artists, working independently and in disparate contexts.

Combining a personal graphic vocabulary of primitive shapes, pattern and expressionistic mark - making, with masterfully rendered photorealism, Dau creates a type of «painted collage» that explores the tension of opposites — between modern and primitive, geometric and abstract, the simple and complex.

Incorporating the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms, alternating between historical narratives and fictional landscapes, Julie Mehretu's beautifully layered paintings and drawings combine abstract forms with the familiar, pairing the Roman Coliseum with floor plans from international airports, Le Corbusier's unbuilt megacity with blueprints from Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, and dashing it all together with a color field full of abstract geometry.

Situated neither within Constructivist nor Minimalist movements, his pared - down vocabulary of lines and squares, refined colour palette and precise measurements nevertheless positioned Calderara closely with other minimalist painters at the time, including Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers, both of whom the artist admired greatly.Such singular geometric lyricism came to the fore in Calderara's seminal work Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e RetPainting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e Retpainting, Quadrati e Rettangoli.

Eric Freeman (b. 1970) is an American artist whose monumental, monochromatic oil paintings are rendered in an abstract vocabulary that evokes optical illusions of landscapes.

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

With an and / and approach to painting, Weyer takes a distance from discrete postwar vocabularies and finds power in the emotive as well as performative spectra of abstract painting.

Whether it's because art historians have been put off by his urbane and privileged background, or have opted to focus on his famous series of paintings, Elegies to the Spanish Republic, the fact remains that Motherwell's early work and his evolution from surrealist vocabulary to the subdued abstract expression he later embraced has been largely ignored.

Returning for two further years on a Harkness fellowship, Huxley was able to realise his ambitions of working on a large scale, creating abstract paintings and developing his vocabulary of shapes and gestures.

For over four decades, Nozkowski has produced richly colored, intimately - scaled abstract paintings, yet his extensive vocabulary of organic and geometric forms means that rarely are any two of his pictures alike.