Sentences with phrase «world of abstract artists»

These might be thought of as unanswerable questions, but by looking at key historical figures and exploring the private world of abstract artists today, Collings shows that there are, in fact, answers.

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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.

Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

The greatest draw is in Los Angeles where the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting the first major museum retrospective of the late assemblage artist Noah Purifoy, and at the Hammer Museum, after exhibiting around the world, Los Angeles - based abstract artist Mark Bradford is finally getting a solo museum show in his hometown.

Similarly, people often compare Cubism and abstract art to Einstein's spacetime, but his general theory of relativity did not appear until the middle of World War II — and artists could not possibly have understood it.

Hoskote, in the book, notes the influences of abstract artists like Frantisek Kupka, or Alberto Burri, the Italian creator of post-Second World War Arte Informale, Shahane sees in his practice Arte Povera or «poor art» of the 1960s.

Representing the response of Mexican artists to art movements from around the world with a cosmopolitan vision, the exhibition also features the artwork of abstract sculptor German Cueto, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Abraham Ángel, Roberto Montenegro and Rufino Tamayo.

Here, the artist treats «abstract» as a verb, displaying his artistic world's priority of process above outcome.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

Yet Kandinsky's curious gift of colour - hearing, which he successfully translated onto canvas as «visual music», to use the term coined by the art critic Roger Fry in 1912, gave the world another way of appreciating art that would be inherited by many more poets, abstract artists and psychedelic rockers throughout the rest of the disharmonic 20th century.

Mark Bradford is an American abstract artist who's fast becoming one of the art world's hottest properties.

Eventually evolving from a microcinema to a community - based editing facility, EZTV was home to production facilities where artists created everything from feature - length narratives to short abstract works and computer art; EZTV established one of the world's first galleries dedicated to computer art.

Working Artist Project recipient Xie Coamin's exhibition Samsāra, currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, combines the Buddhist mandala with the imagery of the World Trade Center in an abstracted composition that evokes the visual culture of his Chinese background alongside the documentation of United States history.

Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800 artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the likes of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are opinion - makers, as we've seen with Hernan Bas among others).

Ruth Asawa, an artist who learned to draw in an internment camp for Japanese - Americans during World War II and later earned renown weaving wire into intricate, flowing, fanciful abstract sculptures, died on Aug. 6 at her home in San Francisco, where many of her works now dot the cityscape.

A new exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky's work shows how the artist used his synaesthesia - the capacity to see sound and hear colour - to create the world's first truly abstract paintings.

Artists such as Phil Dike, Rex Brandt, George Post, Nick Brigante, and others experimented with abstract form, reflecting many of the larger changes taking place at that time in the art world, most notably the rise of Abstract Expressionism.

Coming of age as an artist during the 1960s, on the heels of abstract expressionism during a period when the art - world was dominated by men, she succeeded in expressing her unique artistic vision and voice and continues to do so to this day.

This major exhibition looks at the ways in which artists have explored the intersection of rock and culture in tools, structures, myths, language, and systems of abstract thought as man has strived to understand and manage our world.

In the years after World War II, a group of New York artists started one of the first true schools of artists in America, bringing about a new era in American artwork: abstract expressionism.

It is this collective expression that relates to the world the purpose of the abstract artist and opens up the idea to what these wonderfully creative people are really doing.

Taking the plunge into a fascinating imaginative world, Sigethy will again team up with sculptor Liz Lescault for «Fathom Full Five: Going Deeper,» a sequel to their May 2013 «Fathom» exhibition that featured beguiling forms, abstract but undeniably organic, started by one artist and completed by the other — with the promise, this time, of two large - scale installations.

'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»

The AAA also arranged for abstract artists from other countries to show with the group in America... Activities of this type culminated in the 1957 AAA publication, The World of Abstract Art [which is] to this date not only a major research tool but a seminal art document of the 1950s.»

23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.

The three artists share an interest in depicting — in hard - edged artworks of pulsating abstract painting — the vibrating, undetermined power of the universe and the movement of the world as reflected in everyday life, according to the gallery press release.

Embracing the linear, abstract and geometric, and the human desire to locate order and beauty in a world that often provides neither, Dahlgren's solo exhibition — his second here — features works (many site - specific or performative) that express how an artist can cultivate awe - inspiring impressions stemming from deliberation and recurring tasks, and from the alteration of domestic objects and common items such as weighing scales, coloured pencils and darts.

As George Woodman, the artist's father, has pointed out, «Modernist abstract art devotes itself to the form of the square, the rectangle, the box, the intersection of streets, the whole right angle world of horizontal and vertical.

Under new curator Clara M. Kim, a few trends have emerged among the 15 participating galleries: firstly, reappraisals of African - American artists later in life, among them abstract painter Jack Whitten (Alexander Gray Associates); secondly, «Global Pop», a nod to Tate Modern's autumn show «The World Goes Pop» (17 September — 24 January 2016), with Brazilian and Japanese Pop artists, such as Keiichi Tanaami at the stand of Tokyo - based Nanzuka.

When abstract art burst onto the stage in the Western art world in the early 20th century, its practitioners quickly resolved themselves into two distinct camps: the gestural abstractionists, who built upon the liberatingly loose compositions of Post-Impressionists like Cezanne to create non-objective paintings emphasizing the artist's hand, and the geometric abstractionists, who seized on the it - is - what - it - is essentialism of Euclidean geometric shapes.

Using «trash» from the streets, the artist made works that combined the grittiness of the world with abstract expressionist painting and taboo subject matter.

The artist toys with the boundaries of the literal and the abstract while looking through the visible world, dissecting matter until it dissolves into immensely beautiful fields of color.

Part botanical renderings, part abstract drawings, Kelly's simplified, confident depictions of plants reflect how deeply the artist's minimalism is rooted in the natural world.

The Serenity of Madness is structured into distinct sections: one corresponding to the artist's private world, peopled with friends, family and long - time collaborators; another takes up the public sphere but with a more abstract dimension of experience, utilizing light, memory and temporal, spatial, and spiritual displacement.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Dance of Light, a solo exhibition featuring 70 radiant, spiritual works that evoke an abstract vision of the natural world by Bang Hai Ja, celebrated as being among the first generation of professional artists from Korea to embrace abstract art in the modern era.

Referencing both a human figure and «the spirit of a bird,» as the artist says, this dark, abstracted form depicts a bird in the corvid family, which includes grackles, crows, and ravens, common in large cities around the world.

Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

Contemporary Abstract Art in Asia and the West provides a opportunity to see major artists from around the world such as Pat Steir, Zhu Jinshi, Su Xiaobai, Peter Peri and Chrstine Ay Tjoe side by side, exploring and revealing the power of abstract art today.

During the 1950s, Leslie's studio became an important meeting place for New York artists, and Leslie was also a regular presence in the world of abstract expressionism, frequenting the Cedar Bar and participating in the 1951 Ninth Street Show.

Closely connected to the innovative European artists of the 20th - century, her goal was to make the natural world abstract in order to make it more aesthetically appealing.

In the hands of artists as diverse as Chadwick, Rita Donagh, Rachel Whiteread and Cathy Wilkes — as well as their US peers such as Hesse, Benglis and Wilke — abstracted processes, far from designating a retreat from the world, allow space to explore the body, biography, memory, and social politics.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Gifted to UB in 2000, the collection includes important works by artists of the abstract expressionist movement, such as Joan Mitchell, Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis, Karel Appel, Michael Goldberg, Antoni Tàpies, and Paul Jenkins, and a world - class collection of works on paper.

This exhibition of work by New York - based artist Summer Wheat (U.S., born 1977) features a suite of large - scale abstract - figurative paintings that serve as both portals to imaginary worlds and as mirrors that reflect interior states of being.

The abstract artists working during Fascism, the Second World War and its aftermath, have received little attention and so this exhibition of around 200 works is refreshing.

In the artists words «This exhibition highlights the last part of my research and my progress in the abstract art world.

However anodyne their affect, the Finiliars, created by the artist Ed Fornieles, do not exist in a void but are tied to real, if abstract, things: Each one represents a world currency, and its behavior is determined by calculations that analyze the value of the currency

MOCA's permanent collection is comprised of nearly 6,000 works of art created since 1940 in all visual media, including masterpieces of abstract expressionism and pop art as well as inspiring new works by artists from around the world.

Greatly influenced by the influx of European surrealist artists who emmigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois's early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood.

In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Commito will show paintings that, while abstract, also look beyond their own geometric formal language to the world outside them — conveying the artist's interest in architectural space, the materiality of our everyday surroundings, and the productive process by which impressions and recollections are converted into images.