Sentences with phrase «with nonrepresentational»

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).

Jones challenges viewers to see beauty in his chaotic, mixed - media works that merge nude subjects with nonrepresentational, abstract elements.

It had been only three years since he had begun painting again after his long postgraduate hiatus, and he'd initiated his return to the medium with nonrepresentational works: the «Carat» series, 2005, in which crystalline diamond shapes float on black backgrounds like oversize stars in a darkened sky.

Not exact matches

Here's where the confusion with abstract and nonrepresentational art really comes into play.

Mr Stella's nonrepresentational works appear to have little in common with Mr Koons's pop - derived imagery.

With this exhibition, Tegeder investigates, based upon her nonrepresentational repertoire, the influences of 20th century Modernism upon a 21st century artistic discourse that recalls original elements while elaborating further upon both ideas and techniques.

Though nonrepresentational, Vibrations recalls Whitten's experience attending Jackson's funeral: «He was laid out in a magnificent dark mahogany coffin lined with creamy white satin, surrounded by flowers.

All 12 are nonrepresentational, to be sure, with broad areas of meandering color and beautifully indeterminate line.

The work in About Abstraction suggests a kinship with the Abstract Expressionist movement of 1940s SoHo and San Francisco, and illustrates the enduring vitality and power of nonrepresentational art for well over a century.

WORK Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with confident mark making and nonrepresentational forms that could be said to mimic geometric high - end fashion.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

The works can be organized into the following groups: anthropomorphism (imbuing the form of an animal or inanimate object with human features or behaviors), biomorphism (having a nonrepresentational form or pattern that resembles a living organism), and rhizomorphism (comprising a root - like structure).

An early practitioner of nonrepresentational painting, Stella gained early, immediate recognition in 1959 with his series of coolly impersonal black - striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head.

In post-World War II America, however, the primacy of abstract art was clearly acknowledged, and by 1961, when Norman Rockwell painted The Connoisseur — his visual treatise on the subject juxtaposing Jackson Pollock's nonrepresentational art with his own illusionistic imagery — Abstract Expressionism had been covered in the popular press for nearly fifteen years.

Via the gentle sheen and fractured architecture of Untitled (Nearest Window) and the waxy consistency of Untitled (Departed Blue Relief), Lee tweaks nonrepresentational art's most rigid parameters with loving attention.

I started my calendar paintings — the first of these nonrepresentational paintings after I had made valentines with a bunch of squares and with a heart in them.

On the other hand, Rachel Lachowicz's construction of Plexiglas boxes filled with blue cosmetic powder seemed to create an interesting kind of surrogate for nonrepresentational painting.