Sentences with phrase «work on an abstract painting»

When you work on an abstract painting, you can't really edit the painting politically.

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There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.

There are important works in the permanent collection (almost always on view) by Mondrian, Chagall, Picasso, and Warhol, as well as a large number of abstract paintings by Makevich, which are well - worth seeing if you have an interest in Russian avant - garde.

Open studio showing new works of three artists featuring large scale abstract paintings by local educator Mike Irwin, contemporary abstract still life paintings by Jeanne Dentzel, and printmaking, assemblage and conceptual riddles in his numerous works on paper by local educator and arts activist Dug Uyesaka.

During his last decades — he died in March 1993 — he again made abstract paintings and works on paper.

Are we homogenizing the work of someone who labors for weeks on a portrait vs. someone who perhaps is an abstract artist and takes 1 day to complete a painting?

Working primarily in oil on canvas, my paintings are essentially abstract in form and are emotionally connected to the landscape that surrounds us.

The crowded installation of huge abstract paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and painting - sculpture hybrids, augmented by works on paper, tracks the New York artist's fifty - seven - year career.

If much contemporary abstract painting has a «hands off» mentality, then the work in Phaedo is very much «hands on» even when it is minimal or slight.

Consider the most visible trend in recent years of Zombie Formalism, a kind of reductive, easily produced abstract painting, sold quickly to collectors queued up on waiting lists and hungry for innocuous, decorative works in a signature style, so much so that the name of the artist himself becomes the brand.

Art fairs are often associated with abstract painting (much of it looking the same), stunt pieces (almost instantly forgettable), and neon sculptures (brightly and, in many cases, annoying), but, at this year's Armory Show in New York, some galleries had on offer works that explicitly addressed the political situation in the United States.

Around 1970, while in the John St. studio, Frances began working on large horizontal abstract paintings that were involved with ideas of gravity, slow painting time, indeterminate color, and trying to create a complex painting space that appeared geometric, but alternately shifted into a deeper space.

In addition to her widely popular Infinity Rooms, such as LOVE IS CALLING, Kusama creates vibrant paintings, works on paper, and sculpture with abstract imagery.

Perfecting his computer - based technique into what he calls «frictionless drawing», blue monochromatic works on display demonstrate how these abstract and vector - like gestures are meticulously transposed onto canvas using acrylic, tape, UV ink and spray paint.

Also included are a collection of small works on panel, that seem to quote from the complex non-linear narrative of Hackett's abstract paintings.

A studio visit with the New York - based painter and drawing maker David Row, who presents his recent work, traces his development, and reflects on abstract painting's open - ended possibilities of meaning.

Blue Mountain Gallery presents new abstract paintings by Janet Sawyer in a group of works on canvas and smaller works on paper.

In her recent show with the Beijing satellite gallery of New York's Chambers Fine Art, she has concentrated on what she calls landscape paintings, which don't present landscapes so much as a kind of floating abstract world reminiscent of the work of the Chilean modernist, Roberto Matta, in their atmospheric effect.

Avery's daring color juxtapositions and abstracted depictions of classic subject matter exerted a highly important influence on Post-War American painting and anticipated the works of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottleib, among others.

The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier figurative work, but these paintings, on view through July 7, aren't about garden design or abstract composition.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

She uses odd humor, interior logic, and palimpsest - like surfaces — evidence of her working everything out on the canvas, to create paintings of abstract characters in imaginary worlds.

More recently, multiple paintings and works on paper by Lewis, the late abstract painter whose first museum retrospective debuted last fall at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (and opens June 4 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas), have appeared regularly and covered the April catalog.

I was made aware of this helpful piece of writing by renowned photographer Carl Chiarenza, whose work is included in a small group exhibit of abstract paintings and photographs currently on view at Main Street Arts Gallery.

While the first exhibition in 2008 * focused on the iconic Estate Paintings, White Abstracts and History Paintings which established Coventry's reputation in the 1990s, Works 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibWorks 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibworks that have never before been exhibited.

The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is devoting a large - scale retrospective to the abstract painter Serge Poliakoff (1900 - 1969): in all, some 70 paintings and many works on paper from the period 1936 - 1969.

The colour fields are inextricably linked to her black and white canvases, the subjects of the latter — sparingly painted so as to retain the appearance of the canvas weave — resulting from internet searches that occur to her whilst working on the abstracts.

Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.

The objectness of the shaped paintings from this period makes them always more than the working out of abstracted, biomorphic or geometric forms on a flat surface, since the form of the support itself is a biomorphic or geometric abstraction.

Currently the official story of avant - garde abstract painting and sculpture in America that is on view at the Whitney Museum, denies works of scores of artists that demonstrate that American painters and sculptors by the late sixties went beyond minimalism creating a new expressionism.

All of which was brought to mind by I Don't Give A Damn / Every Moment Counts, an exhibition of abstract paintings and works - on - paper by Peter Plagens.

Amongst the younger, so - called Post-Conceptual artists, we also find works that can be experienced as comments on the abstract painting's position in recent art history.

By the 1970s, de Kooning abandoned any form of representation concentrating solely on lyrical, abstract paintings that are widely considered some of his most triumphant works.

Although the works rely on figuration, they operate within the realm of abstract painting.

Richter initially engaged in Abstract Painting in 1976, thus meaning that the present work draws on nearly two decades of various technical and abstract investigations.

Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty years, while Bradley, on the other hand, shifts gears without pause: from starkly minimalist to gestural abstract paintings with stops in between, from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.

His fourteenth solo exhibition with Pace, this recent body of large scale paintings and works on paper highlight Mangold's continued evolution and mastery of abstract painting.

While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.

Mixed media abstract expressionist painting using brush work, montoype, gouache, acrylic paints to blend an expressive work from her «Plains Series» based on her visions of the weste...

Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4 - 21, 2010 The following extract is taken from «Sydney Ball: prophet of abstraction» by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract -LSB-...]

Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each painting that make it look so realistic and abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every painting (piece) and every small detail in the painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.

The entire show consists of six different chapters, each showing different relation between the body and the space, from a large 8x2 meter charcoal studies depicting football hooligans fighting, four paintings of the skaters in a modern art museum breaking a series of paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, six black paintings representing the infinite space beyond the surface of the abstract paintings, a cast resin sculpture and a drawing of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, all the way to the interactive app that allows viewers to interact with the works on view.

Caivano's works incorporate an uncompromising yet individual approach to the tradition of abstract painting, drawing as much on unique perceptions of colour, space, texture, volume and light as on art history.

At one point as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set of blue paintings with some subtle white abstract elements on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.

Haring considered the shop to be an extension of his work and painted the entire interior of the store in an abstract black on white mural, creating a striking and unique retail environment.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

I need to have conventional stability in relationship to family so that I can start working on a very difficult process of abstract painting.

While continuing this dialogue with the history of aesthetics, Paintings represents a shift in McElheny's work towards a focus on the history of painting, and proposes that there is ongoing potential to be found in the utopian and revolutionary desires that gave rise to abstract painting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

At once an abstract painting (or two), a figure, a squeegeed monoprint on fabric, a found object, a memory, a sculpture, this work has numerous points of entry.

Architectural subjects, including paintings of the weathered barns and buildings on the Stieglitz property that blend the descriptive and the abstract, emerged as a theme, as did a number of panoramic landscape paintings and bold, color ‑ filled abstractions that often visually related to the subjects she was working on at the time.