Sentences with phrase «wholly abstract work»

In this painting, Motherwell follows the logic implied by Matisse's paintings, and makes a wholly abstract work.

But this form is so elusive that not one of the panels ever loses its identity as a wholly abstract work of art.

What appear to be wholly abstract works are, in fact, representational views of objects that are organic in form, morphing, and wounded.

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Moreover, the work contains an extended argument with the «classical» neurology of Hughlings Jackson and Kurt Goldstein, who, according to Sacks, maintained that «the mind, man's glory, lies wholly in the abstract and categorical, and the effect of brain damage... is to cast him out of this high realm into the almost subhuman swamplands of the concrete.»

Writers and curators, viewing these paintings at the time of their production, recognized the near - mystical arrangement of mathematic symbols and abstract shapes contained within these works as a language wholly the artist's own.

Some works are wholly abstract, while others explore his diverse interests in landscape, cartoon - like portraiture and word association mapping, as in Metseng (2015).

Neither abstract nor wholly figurative in style, these works combine explosive tonal planes with fractured depictions of flora and fauna.

Robin Kandel: Lakewater: A Bay Area painter performs a strenuous balancing act in new work that looks directly descended from the early Op Art of Bridget Riley, consisting wholly of color filaments, but edges toward imagery of light on ruffled water that most abstract painters would consider a pitfall.

Using visual subject matter that was wholly abstract, filmmakers could create works that, while occasionally interpreted as apolitical and «safe,» actually utilized complex structures and challenged viewers to reexamine the narrative basis — and in some cases the very materiality — of film.

The work's bold, fleshy pinks interplay with sinewy, supple blues and delicate yellows to create a dynamic, lyric painting that is at once wholly abstract and yet curiously representational.

Although most Cubist works were still derived from objects or scenes in the real world, and thus can not be considered to be wholly abstract, the movement's rejection of traditional perspective completely undermined natural - realism in art, and thus opened the door to pure abstraction.

Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new medium.

In view of this, one can place similarly engaged works — like Trevor Paglen's South American (SAM - 1) NSA / GCHQ - Tapped Undersea Cable Atlantic Ocean (2015), a photograph of an undersea internet cable believed to be tapped by the United States» National Security Agency, or Cheyney Thompson's 88.35 Tungsten - 67.45 Cobalt - 45.36 Tin - 28.74 Nickel - 18.23 Iron - 82.29 Bismuth - 58.84 Aluminum - 41.32 Silicon - 24.11 Copper - 13.95 Chromium (2015), a gestural abstract painting made with the ten titular minerals, whose values anchor the worth of all other metals in financial markets — in a 20th - century sculptural tradition that otherwise might have seemed wholly irrelevant.

In 2013, he reproduced this wholly abstract and striking black - and - white work — the black diamond - shaped titles seemingly flutter down from above — as a silver gelatin print in an edition of 50, exclusively for Light Wwork — the black diamond - shaped titles seemingly flutter down from above — as a silver gelatin print in an edition of 50, exclusively for Light WorkWork.

Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new, African medium.