Sentences with phrase «way as abstract expressionism»

I don't think there is any one group now unifying the country in an aesthetic way as abstract expressionism did.

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Paul Liebrandt approaches cuisine as an art form, and has made a name for himself with his bold combinations of ingredients (one of his more outré creations features eel, violets and chocolate) and presentation which resembles abstract expressionism more than the way your mother put food on a plate.

When I finally was exposed to high art in high school and I would see books at the bookstore on pop art or abstract expressionism, I responded immediately in that same way as my grandfather would if he saw a fancy Greek or Roman sculpture somewhere.

The original common use refers to the tendency attributed to paintings in Europe during the post-1945 period and as a way of describing several artists (mostly in France) with painters like Wols, Gérard Schneider and Hans Hartung from Germany or Georges Mathieu, etc., whose works related to characteristics of contemporary American abstract expressionism.

In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock used the drip painting method as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of what became known as abstract expressionism.

«I define modern art as going up through abstract expressionism,» he explains, «then with Warhol and Lichtenstein and the pop artists, Johns and Rauschenberg, there is a return to the visible world in one way or another.

The BORF series still resonates with today's society and though may not be classified as abstract expressionism, the series is both expressive and abstract in its own way.

Emerging at a time when painting was increasingly discussed as outmoded, Bochner became part of a generation of artists, including Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson, who were looking at ways of breaking with abstract expressionism and traditional compositional devices.

If the Arte Povera movement challenged established art conventions through its use of found or «low» materials, and if abstract expressionism was in many ways a tradition of American hegemony during the Cold War and the ultimate in «high art seriousness» as practitioners confronted the sublime and the subconscious in their energetic output, Scott's paintings are a strange hybrid of both.

He and Helion were friends who offered the younger Americans a way to look at figuration as a noble yet practical path at a time when representational painting seemed to be on the wane in relation to abstract expressionism.