Sentences with phrase «while organic abstraction»
Geometric abstraction features the arrangement of simplified shapes, while organic abstraction describes pictures with forms that resemble plant, animal, or other living matter.
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Today, the abstract works of Mark Rothko and Pablo Picasso sell for tens of millions, while famous examples of geometric and organic abstraction can be seen in museums of modern art across the world.
The notion of «organic life» characterised the formal modifications associated with modernism, while the «imaginative» went beyond this to suggest the potential accommodation of abstraction which Hepworth acknowledged in her statement in The Studio two years later.
While the tendency towards organic abstraction was particularly visible in the 1940s and 1950s, it has continued to be one of many strains apparent in art and design since, in the work of sculptors as varied as Linda Benglis (b. 1941), Richard Deacon (b. 1949), Eva Hesse (1936 - 70), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Ursula von Rydingsward (b. 1942) and Bill Woodrow (b. 1948), and designers Ron Arad (b. 1951), Verner Panton (1926 - 98) and Oscar Tusquets (b. 1941).
Other 20th century sculptors were exploring new forms of organic abstraction, while mobile sculpture and kinetic motion was pioneered on both sides of the Atlantic.
Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.
Meanwhile, Hepworth's sculpture at this time took on international traits like geometrical abstraction, while still continuing the organic mode of her earlier work.