Not exact matches
In a letter to a
young artist seeking advice, the
abstract painter Thomas Nozkowski wrote in 2006, «Recognition, when it comes, sometimes can
seem like a misunderstanding.»
As Matthew Israel writes in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where
abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings
seem like they could have been made by a current
young abstract painter.
As Matthew Israel writes in the full - color catalogue accompanying the exhibition, «in a moment where
abstract painting has definitely returned to prominence — Held's 1950s paintings
seem like they could have been made by a current
young abstract painter.
It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to
younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking out ways of sustaining the validity of figurative painting at a time when
abstract imagery of all kinds
seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.