Sentences with phrase «with abstract language»

CP I recently reviewed Carol Robertson's exhibition «Circular Stories» for Saturation Point, and I was especially interested by the way her work combines an environmental influence from the French landscape with an ongoing commitment to working with an abstract language.
A rarely shown monotype from Edvins Strautmanis» Roman Coin series exemplifies his deep knowledge of art history and his commanding adeptness with abstract language.
- Publishers Weekly «If F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marguerite Duras had had a son, he would be Simon Van Booy; this is a truly special writer who does things with abstract language that is so evocative and original your breath literally catches in your chest.

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(Robinson especially criticized many of the Marxists whose talks she attended, whose abstract language and sense of victimhood, she said, seem entirely out of touch with the real suffering of hundreds of millions of laborers worldwide today.)
He is to be credited with recognizing that his language is unduly abstract, but I do not see that this recognition has led to any attempt toward correction.
The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.
The size of the human brain expanded dramatically during the course of evolution, imparting us with unique capabilities to use abstract language and do complex math.
The successes of Unix are intertwined with C, the first general - purpose programming language to combine the efficiency of assembly language with high - level abstract expressiveness.
Some neurologists think that what may go on in the savant may be a relative preservation and heightening of primitive perceptual and computational powers in the right hemisphere — powers of a sort that are normally inhibited with the development of abstract intelligence and language.
Many scientists are only fluent in their own language, and much of the peer - reviewed literature from francophone Africa and from Latin American countries is only available in the national language, with at best an abstract in English.
It is not a criticism of those who like Harry Potter to say that the writing here is of the formulaic and melodramatic sort, with artificial language and an abstract moralistic view of social life.
Manipulatives not only allow students to construct their own cognitive models for abstract mathematical ideas and processes, they also provide a common language with which to communicate these models to the teacher and other students.
The German abstract figure painter, who became widely known in the»80s along with Jörg Immendorff - associated circle of friends Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, and Martin Kippenberger, often painted interiors, self - portraits, landscapes, language fragments, and diverse abstractions.
Some of these paintings, abstract or monochromatic, dwell comfortably in the language of their medium, but others flirt with photography and textile pattern printing, perhaps an «oblique» reference to painting's material connection to textile: paint and color on canvas or linen.
Over the past twenty years, Morris has resolutely trodden her own path, developing an abstract visual language that transcends modern traditions such as Modernism, Pop Art and urban culture, with craftsmanship and material playing a leading role.
In its first appearance at an art fair, ever, Norte Maar presents «watching the conkers arrive,» curated by Jason Andrew, Kanad Chakrabarti and Sarah Pettitt featuring a collection of works by seven artists from the UK, Canada and Brooklyn, which interrogate language, geography, culture — all involving cross-disciplinary works with abstract grounding, leaving room for reflection on heritage and the borders of experience.»
Radiant Fields presents us with an artist who is capable of moving between painting languagesabstract Expressionism, geometric Abstraction, neo-geo — without being beholden to any of them.
The artist has created an installation concentrating on Hispanic culture and language within the perimeter of the gallery, combining figuration and abstracted symbols with a deep bow to his heritage and city the of Los Angeles.
The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.
Peter Doig, whose practice over the past twenty years has drawn heavily on the language of cinema, layers the personal and public, figurative and abstract, visual and conceptual in works that resonate with narrative potential.
Don Voisine is still more abstract, with his black diagonals wedged between colored horizontals, but the crosses become a sign language — as in a show last summer, «The Ghost in the Machine.»
Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play on the language of ancient art as well as modernism and the abstract compositions of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.
Her deceptively romantic - naive visual language dissolves distinctions between abstract and figurative art, and her paintings exhibit a whimsical engagement with sources as various as Color Field painting, Pattern & Decoration, children's book illustration and textile design.
Rarely seen in print, these works merge the artist's longstanding fascination with the respective languages and textures of photography and abstract painting.
Formed in collaboration with Otto Piene, a fellow student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the ZERO movement departed from the gestural language of European abstract expressionism and sought to reclaim an artistic purity from the ravages of the Second World War.
They combine poetic texts and abstract graphics designed with an early computer language.
The seven drawings created for his exhibition at the Hammer Museum clearly demonstrate the artist's fluency in various dialects of the common abstract language, resonating with Constructivist and Minimalist tones and with a few refrains in less analytical abstract traditions.
Rejecting social realism and regionalism of the 1930s, this generation of artists embraced abstract surrealism - a nonobjective language with limitless possibilities.
While their ancient forebears may have turned to abstract form as a vehicle to explore the divine, artists today approach abstraction as a language, rich with references to contemporary culture.
As an abstract painter, he necessarily worked with pre-existing artistic language, one that had been forged in experiment, failure, and self - doubt.
Chamberlain's idiosyncratic approach to titling is indebted to the often quite abstract ways in which these writers interacted with language and, more specifically, with quotidian words, not only as referent but also as sound and mood.
Written language is central to Khan's painting, sculpture, and photography — from his stamp paintings, with their abstract forms built up from densely printed words and phrases, to the vast inscribed tablets that constitute his monument for the UAE Memorial Park, inaugurated in 2016.
The artist talk will be held in German language and is organized by G2 Kunsthalle on occasion of the current exhibition S T R U K T U R with abstract paintings by Leipzig born and Berlin based artist Peter Krauskopf.
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.
Having lived in Seoul, Hong Kong, New York (where she is currently based), and Toronto, Chun investigates how ESL texts not only educate the non-English speaker in a language of empire, she also abstracts and resources and makes use of the sounds of English itself in an attempt to demystify the way these sounds — in combination with the submissive attitude needed to learn them — tacitly articulate a world order.
With her new show, In Any Case, Vogt plies the abstract mechanics of language and writing - beyond words and their meanings - found in pattern, shape, gesture and rhythm, to create handmade accordion books.
Perhaps it's something like Pensato's paintings — animal and «human» personages anthropomorphized into the barest semblances of themselves, erased (to use Pensato's own language), and re-represented, brutally, in the grammar of «high» art, with the painterly strokes and complex surfaces of abstract expressionism.
By combining broad expressive brush strokes with detailed line drawings, Dona has developed a language of paintings that is both representation and abstract.
In characteristic fashion, these large - scale abstract paintings combine a diverse range of technical approaches, references and rhythms, creating dynamic and bold compositions with strong gestural identities, in a constantly shifting yet unified visual language.
With a visual dialogue established initially by working illegally with spray paint, making large - scale murals and site - specific work without permission, the artist has developed a process of painting that crosses abstracted, ambient fields of colour and gesture with traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogWith a visual dialogue established initially by working illegally with spray paint, making large - scale murals and site - specific work without permission, the artist has developed a process of painting that crosses abstracted, ambient fields of colour and gesture with traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogwith spray paint, making large - scale murals and site - specific work without permission, the artist has developed a process of painting that crosses abstracted, ambient fields of colour and gesture with traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogwith traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogans.
On view at 537 West 24th Street from May 4 through June 23, 2018, with an opening reception for the artist held during Frieze New York Week on Thursday, May 3, from 6 - 8 p.m., Evolution features videos and prints that mark a return to Rovner's unique, abstracted language.
New commissions and existing works across installation, film and live performance offer multiple approaches to the term: from a literal engagement with the history of critical psychiatry and mental health assessments, to abstract explorations of psychological processes and languages.
David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.
Kiran Chandra «sinterest in language systems is shown in a vitrine installation containing abstract watercolor and gouache paintings, paired with hand made and natural objects - stones, dried bark, driftwood, shells, and seed husks.
Armed with a spray of vaporized oil pigments, Ferris has created a fresh and original abstract language that combines her own distinctive approach to mark - making with the history of abstract painting.
Drawing upon a lifelong interest in architecture, Ouadahi creates a hybrid language of structural design and abstract painting that infuses the rigid form of monotonous buildings with color and light.
Like enlarged versions of his paintings within paintings, the more abstract works in New Plants combine Wood's interest in painting from direct experience with his fascination with the many forms and genres found throughout art history, deepening and extending his investigation of the language of painting.
Eva Berendes» practice draws on the history and language of abstract painting in conjunction with the application of craft and applied arts.
As an artist interested in mining the dense marks and language of the urban environment, married with a concern for contemporary abstract painting, the easiest thing in the world would be to embrace a provisional aesthetic of rough materials and utilitarian supports.
In these works the artist combines the language of figurative painting with the formal approach of abstract painting.
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