Sentences with phrase «younger tradition of abstraction»

Within this cluttered context of temporality, community, spatial dynamics and market pressures, the artists in «Wall Works» press on, synthesizing the legacy of wall - based painting and the much younger tradition of abstraction.

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These young artists sought a decisive break with tradition yet were skeptical of modernism's linear trend toward reductive abstraction.

After World War II, the artistic culture in Italy was characterized by a clash between the tradition of figuration and new modes of abstraction, and by a proliferation of artistic and theoretical movements incentivized by a young generation of artists and by a new international exchange of ideas.

To be a young artist who engages with the daunting abyss of the abstract tradition, these artists critique and burlesque the enormity of the philosophical trajectories of abstraction, while not quite wanting to let them die.