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.
Not exact matches
(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
languages —
abstract 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 slog
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 slog
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 slog
with 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.