Sentences with phrase «works about abstract painting»

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Through Aug. 16, 2014 Mark Bradford at White Cube Hong Kong Known for his abstract, layered collage paintings, Los Angeles - based Mark Bradford is presenting «a series of new works about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning, in the world's most densely populated city.»

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.

Discover more about the abstract artist's style of painting and the influences behind her ground - breaking work

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.

One of few who instantly grasped the significance of Guston's new painting was none other than his former abstract friend and colleague Willem de Kooning, who realized that the works were actually about freedom.

Among the second group of abstract paintings at Firestone are works such as «Thunderbird» (1970), where a geometric cluster of blue lines, each about the width of standard masking tape, floats on a vibrant, flat red field.

Ryman was intrigued by the abstract expressionist works of Rothko, de Kooning, Still and Pollock and became curious about the act of painting and began experimenting in 1955.

But each of the artists» works are also about the misjudgment of a real environment — a real chair made out of special rope (Campana); a box made of terracotta and glaze (Cherubini); a lamp made out of found metal (Coolquitt); an abstract painting titled after a transsexual (Ferris); and collage, deceptively flat - looking, made from among other things, feather and beads (Alvarez).

He had joked about how funny it would be if he started making abstract, geometric paintings once they got to New York, but he didn't really expect his work to evolve that way.

Talking about his latest works McDermott said, «In the Sonnet Paintings, I have tried to depict the abstract with clarity... The paintings possess a photographic quality but what they depict is not ever obviouPaintings, I have tried to depict the abstract with clarity... The paintings possess a photographic quality but what they depict is not ever obvioupaintings possess a photographic quality but what they depict is not ever obvious.»

He is presently working on a book manuscript about the status of abstract painting within the discourses of Minimalism, with a particular focus on the work of Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer.

He soon made New York his home and shifted from performance, video, and installation - based work to making abstract paintings and drawings about color, light, and space.

Assuming that my perceptions of Anne Smart and John Pollard's paintings have any accuracy, a comparison between my account of their work and Pollock's reveals that an enormous shift in thinking about abstract art has taken place.

enamel paint and metallic powders on archival paper 10.5 x 8.5 inches in 20 x 16 inch matte abstract work on paper, small abstract, colorful abstract work on paper, soft colors, light blue, purple About the artist: Bruce Weldon Murphy was born and raised in Tyler, Texas.

AMCDThinking about your work in its entirety, it is very interesting to me that you work simultaneously on both the portraits and your more abstract works, in the case of this exhibition that would be the Dome paintings.

In this excerpt, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies, such as his belief that true abstract painting is nothing more than «lyrical, charming and decorative».

Like Juarez Paintings, Iarnród is composed of works that function as abstract landscapes — they are specific to their location, seeking to reveal something about their source.

Just as the figurative paintings of Giorgio Morandi, whom he admires, are not about merely depicting vessels, so Sean Scully's definitive abstract works have narrative structures when they evoke associations of figure and landscape, of window and mirror, or of religious forms and themes such as altar or resurrection.

Speaking of the figurative aspect of works that largely appear abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good abstract painting, but I'm often not interested in what people talk about when they talk about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»

Neo-futuristic abstract expressionism best describes the genre of Johnathan's work; colorful and evocative, his paintings create powerful visual discourses about the relationships we form with pop culture and its most iconic characters.

KSWithout belaboring that «end of painting,» I guess one of the things that interest me about that work of David's, and it's the same thing I see in yours, is that it holds together the abstract and the pictorial, the process and the image, in a way that I also see in Georg Baselitz and other people.

Ann Knickerbocker blogs about abstract paintings seen recently in San Francisco including works by Indira Martina Morre, Teo Gonzalez, Judith Foosaner, Patrick Wilson, Marilyn Levin, Lora Fosberg, and Reed Anderson.

It was also the exhibition that confirmed Richter's status as one of the leading artists in the world, and was described by Storr in his introduction as «long overdue» in the United States.2 In 2003 Richter embarked on a small but substantially sized series of paintings entitled Silicate [CR: 885/1 -4] inspired by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 12 March 2003 about the shimmering qualities of certain insects» bodies.3 The resulting four large paintings are perhaps the most overtly biological of the abstract works in Richter's oeuvre, suggestive of cell formations and genetic sequences seen under the microscope.

Ellen Schwartz writes in 1977 about his show at John Weber, where his constructed paintings were still abstract: «Humphrey's latest works, meditative rather than communicative, require the suspension of conscious efforts to grasp them before they will yield their secrets, which lay within ourselves all the while.

Jeff Elrod -(pictured above) After a disastrous train wreck of a lecture at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2009, I started to think differently about his abstract paintings that are part elegant monochromatic gestural works and part nostalgic elegy to early digi - art, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st century.

In these works, paint is applied with a brush, but it's not about the stroke or mark in the abstract expressionist sense.

Mr. Bradford selects some 20 paintings by Still (1904 - 80) and, in adjacent galleries, presents new abstract works he made in response to them, in that way starting a dialogue about Abstract Expressionism.

Apfelbaum moved painting to the floor in what she calls «fallen paintings,» abstract works made of synthetic velvet and dyes, packed with metaphors about class and gender.

«I was conflicted,» the artist explains, «I was trying to find a clever way to approach painting because I felt like it wasn't acceptable to earnestly make abstract work, even though I was earnest about it.

The figurative work becomes more wistful and supposedly lyrical as the forties progress, culminating in the «Hammersmith» paintings of semi-abstracted atmospheric river and outdoor scenes, such as The Gardens of Hammersmith No. 2, made at about the same time as his first forays into abstract painting and collage.

Memories are fresh about the craze from 2013 to 2015 for process - based abstract paintings made mostly by young, male artists whose prices reached hundreds of thousands of dollars as investors flipped the works repeatedly — until the bubble burst last year.

Tworkov's work from this period is commonly referred to as geometric or minimal, and it has been often misinterpreted as a repudiation of abstract expressionism; however, while it is true that the artist did believe that the painterly self - expression of the 1950s had become hackneyed, his late paintings were more about the addition of the intellect, vis - à - vis formal structure or planning, than about the elimination of the subconscious impulse.

The work proceeds from a cartoon Graham found in a 1950s men's pulp magazine, where two persons are standing in front of almost identical caricatured representation of two abstract paintings by the artist «Picado» made about 40 years apart.

A: What is it about combining the mediums of painting and digital photography that excites you, and why do you think they work so well together when forming abstract images and concepts?

You can not accept what people have said about Motherwell, Abstract Expressionism, and abstract painting until you discover this work for yourself.

I've found an interesting thought about Laskers work: «Sometimes abstract painting seems like a deliberate endgame testing its own limited permutations.

In his 1986 book, «Working Space,» Stella speculated about what it would take to guarantee abstract painting a viable future, given that its ancestry is so thin and recent.

In the short film above, called Jackson Pollock 51, the American abstract painter talks about his work and creates one of his distinctive drip paintings before our eyes.

Many abstract expressionists are said to create paintings about human tragedy, doom and issues within the world, though their works are devoid of figure or subject matter.

Bois worked directly with Kelly on the book and will share insights about the artist's years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he began painting his signature abstract forms.

About the Show A Collective Memory: 2007 to 2017 highlights Arabi's seminal works from 2007 - 2017, including both figurative and abstract works, as well as a selection of his newest paintings.

There is something of Jacqueline Humphries» meteorological turbulence and lean viscosity, and like Humphries, she remains wary of the esoteric baggage attached to abstract expressionism but open to the possibility that painting can shoulder a newer metaphorical weight that neither confirms nor denies the place of data in meaningMy sense is that these works offer a less encumbered romanticism, something I was reminded of when talking with Erin in her London studio about her works and those of Günter Umberg.

I knew about his work through reproductions of his abstract paintings seen in old art magazines and largely through the writings of Donald Judd.

Bois, who worked directly with Kelly on the book, will share insights about the artist's years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he began painting the abstract forms that would later define his career.

Spanning the six decades in which O'Keeffe was at her most productive and featuring over 100 major works, the forthcoming exhibition at Tate Modern will chart the progression of her practice from her early abstract experiments to her late works from the 1950s and 1960s, aiming to dispel the clichés that persist about the artist and her painting.

My favourite works are all by female artists, who are so often absent from Italian art history: Carla Accardi's fluorescent and candy - coloured Rotolo Arancio and Rotolo Verde (Orange Roll and Green Roll, both 1967), painted on sheets of rolled - up transparent plastic sheeting; Irma Blank's Twelve Chapters (1977), 12 laboriously hand - written books filled with the artist's elegant abstract signs, and Lisetta Carmi's I Travestiti (Transvestites, 1965 — 71), a pioneering and much censored photographic project about the trans community in Genoa.

While the work exists successfully in this context, it does also raise interesting conceptual questions about the nature of individuality and artistic identity in abstract painting.

From the early 1960s onwards, his work began gradually to be represented in several important exhibitions of abstract expressionist painting, although he was particularly sensitive about the correct meaning given to his work, an attribute which caused him to decline an offer to participate in the 1962 exhibition on Geometric Abstraction at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art.

For Benjamin Butler, the tree is used as a modest framework for creating abstract paintings - his work references traditions of landscape paintings as well as sentimental attachment to nature, but more so they are about composition, design, paint, and color.

The nearest I have come to thinking I'm seeing deep space in abstract painting (aside from no - account atmospheric stuff) is in Anne's work from 3 years ago, where the difference between the larger areas contrasted with other incredibly detailed areas, so that the focus of the work seemed to change, to pull the viewer (well, me) in and out, like a kind of sucking in and pulling out, This is my punt, and I'm still unsure about it.