Robert creates unique work that balances negative space
with near abstraction of elements.
Not exact matches
At our last lunch, on Lexington
near 60th, not long before his final illness, he noted
with disapproval the anorexic waitresses and expatiated engagingly on why the fashions of androgyny are part and parcel of the propensity for
abstraction that is the fatal flaw of Western culture.
With several major adaptations under its belt,
Abstraction Games looks to continue to establish itself as a leader in the space, while also working on their own projects and games in the
near future.
PT: This is not a «pure» landscape show, you have included a deliberate mix of artists whose approaches range from plein - air to
near geometric
abstraction, and yet all are undeniably involved
with landscape, in particular the image of the tree.
With «Song of the Earth» den Breejen has shifted the focus of his text based paintings from images of Rock - n - Rollers and celebrity bad actors, to more abstract color and poetry based
near abstractions.
Though the modernists played
with vases and flowers, distorting them into Cubist
near -
abstractions, or incorporating collage in ways that were revolutionary at the time, still life innovation may have peaked in that era.
Here Thiebaud was in agreement
with Philip Guston, a
near contemporary of his, whose work incorporates a diversity of ingredients from painterly
abstraction to comic strips.
Kalm notes: «Brown has transformed her neighborhood views into
near fantasy scenes that conflates science - fiction landscapes
with Color - Field
abstraction.
A comparison between that work and the latest work in the show, Mountain and Meadow (1960), on loan from the National Gallery of Art,
with broad washes of color, exemplifies the transition Avery made from a more realistic, impressionistic style earlier in his career to
near abstraction in his last few years.
We are presented
with four works: in Tower Block, a blank monitor is interjected
with high rises, surreally spliced into
abstraction via arbitrary image edging; in Floor, three parallel projections explore the surface texture of floorboards
with a
near - fetishistic, intimate scrutiny; in Shirt, worn fabric is rendered nonfigurative, the patterns and folds becoming landscape instead of fashion; while in Moon, a twin - screen installation, presents us
with 21 miniature viewing - windows from which we voyeuristically glimpse the moon, creating a field of juddering orbs.
The significantly larger and more ambitious two - part Richter
abstraction, Gelbgrün (Yellow - Green)(1982)-- which exhibited at documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, that same year, as well as in the artist's acclaimed «Panorama» retrospective at Tate Modern in 2011 — sold to a telephone bidder for # 9.5 million,
near its high estimate of # 10 million, and came to # 10.8 million
with fees.
But a romantic would note the way
abstraction's emotional content connects
with subsequent generations often living in a
near parallel universe.
With shades of Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown, Claude Monet, and a sort of raw deconstruction of Henri Rousseau, Weber's special gift is for evoking and recreating the organic tumult of fecund places in the most convincing manner despite her aesthetic of near - abstraction, animated in her paintings with the chaotic spirit of actionist expression
With shades of Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown, Claude Monet, and a sort of raw deconstruction of Henri Rousseau, Weber's special gift is for evoking and recreating the organic tumult of fecund places in the most convincing manner despite her aesthetic of
near -
abstraction, animated in her paintings
with the chaotic spirit of actionist expression
with the chaotic spirit of actionist expressionism.
Demonstrating Ligon's acclaimed strategy of pushing appropriated text into
abstraction, Stranger Study # 11 is the result of the systematic overlaying of stenciled passages from Baldwin's essay
with black oilstick until they coalesce into
near illegibility.
Jill Moser recapitulates the effect 57 years later in Mirroring Mist (2014), while Meyer's tempering of her gestural impetuosity
with discreetly and carefully modulated shapes and brushstrokes links Mitchell's work
with the hard - edge strictures followed by Westfall and others
near the opposite end of the
abstraction continuum.
Diebenkorn may well have made his decision to drop
abstraction because of external influences that he might have been better to ignore, There would have been some influence from
near artist neighbours and friends who were working figuratively, and he may have been turned off
abstraction by his problems
with the «New York School».
acting for the Environment Agency (
with Gerry Facenna QC) in an appeal against its refusal to issue water
abstraction licences for sites
near to Special Areas of Conservation protected by the EU Habitats Directive