How do you perceive the current world of abstract art?
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DC: It seems there is a renewal of abstract art today.
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I love abstract art, as much a traditionalist as I am.
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Our collection of abstract art surpasses any museum collection in the area.
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And how do you envision abstract art in a global art world?
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You know abstract art was illegal in China twenty years ago. Illegal.
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The same is true of abstract art—more familiarity means increased liking.
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"In the Abstract," Art Bernstein, Sue Contessa, Peter Galasso and Aida Izadpanah.
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Why does the CIA have an abstract art collection in the first place?
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SETAUKET "In the Abstract," Art Bernstein, Sue Contessa, Peter Galasso and Aida Izadpanah.
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He made abstract art comprehensible — without in any way compromising its mysterious power.
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They did not have a representative sampling of abstract art by black artists.
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The men's range of influences included science, literature, engineering and even abstract art.
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Abstract expressionism uses gesture and was an important development in abstract art (Action painting).
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He also participated in many of the dialogues about the future of abstract art.
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Photo Cities Like You've Never Seen Them Photography that turns architecture into abstract art.
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Related: Candy-Colored Illustrations Turn Frowns Upside Down Can a Cat Be Abstract Art?
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He hadn't yet experienced abstract art viscerally, immediately, with all his heart and soul.
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Yet the canon of abstract art is and remains mostly associated with white men.
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"Word got around among black artists that I bought abstract art," Mr. Ollie said.
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Like Sekula, Anne Ryan brought her experience with poetry to bear on abstract art.
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What they also include is a domestic setting with abstract art on the wall.
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The canvases will be abstract art and left with the idea, the event over.
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It's abstract art or avant-garde music or an in-joke from someone else's family.
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In the late 1870s, Hilma Af Klint, a pioneer of abstract art, attended a séance.
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I will continue exhibiting abstract art of underappreciated artists and continue to educate the public.
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Catch their full, drippy throw-down below — who knew these two were abstract art savants?
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The vibrant abstract art of Machineast, modernized in 3D, gives new perspective on shape making.
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Merce's teaching and his work was in line with the abstract art of that time.
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Earth-tone ceramic tiles cover the floors throughout, and colorful abstract art adorns the walls.
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She makes something that looks like conventional abstract art, but reaches impishly beyond its borders.
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Abstract Expressionism marked the first time in history that pure abstract art would rival old Modernism.
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One young revolutionary in Cairo I've known for years has withdrawn into hashish and abstract art.
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Abstract art has been produced in Latin America, Asia and Africa, often encompassing more traditional idioms.
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Pornographic deepfakes don't merely exist as abstract art projects; they're masturbatory aids, to put it bluntly.
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To those more predisposed to abstract art, such as myself, these remain his strongest visual works.
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Related: We Want to Live in Gloombones' Grungy Neon Universe Can a Cat Be Abstract Art?
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The lobby's gray tones continued here, setting off dark furniture, abstract art and a retro clock.
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"I don't understand abstract art, but I'm not stupid enough to think it's worthless," he said.
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"I want to make abstract art that's funny, happy, energetic, joyful," he exclaims at one point.
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It still resonates with artists, but most abstract art today doesn't appear to come from the soul.
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If it wasn't a vacuum, it could almost pass for a kind of semi-abstract art piece.
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Like shape in abstract art, both Creeley and Olson pursued forms that liberate words from their referents.
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That one was Frankenthaler, whose ways with liquid paint mightily influenced much abstract art of the sixties.
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With the help of a willing human, the machines could produce abstract art in pen and ink.
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And it arrives at a moment of long-delayed acknowledgment of abstract art by African-American women.
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People who score high on openness, for example, tend to like envelope-pushing music and abstract art.
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He said the lesson he took from the visit was that "I could gamble" on abstract art.
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"It looked like some weird piece of abstract art," an eyewitness told BuzzFeed News at the time.
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Colorful abstract art adorns the walls, highlighted by a piece by Sol LeWitt near the entrance: hudsonyardsgrill.com.
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But thanks to Thayer's disdain of abstract art, the destruction part doesn't make an appearance in his collection.
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There was a surgeon simulator, reactive abstract art, and a puzzle game about binding wooden trinkets with rope.
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Along with Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, the Dutch painter is one of the fathers of abstract art.
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What's really interesting to me is that in England, there's democracy, but they can't really understand abstract art.
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I'm forced to approach this tweet like it's abstract art and not try to force "meaning" on it.
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Abstract art was the equivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words, but colors and lines.
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"American Abstract art is a lie, a sham, a cover-up for a poverty of spirit," he wrote.
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The bed was flanked by bedside tables, and above the headboard hung a pair of abstract art prints.
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It is almost as if the words "Asian" and "abstract art" are not allowed in the same sentence.
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Ms. Granger carefully schedules blocks of time — two hours minimum — to paint, particularly large canvases of abstract art.
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Via Boing Boing Related: 100 Days of Artistic Resistance Against Trump Begin Now Can a Cat Be Abstract Art?
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For Buffet, abstract art was solely decorative; it was a false art form that did not represent real life.
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Af Klint started creating her first works of abstract art in 1906, predating Kandinsky and other known abstract painters.
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T. and I want to curate modern and abstract art, though my tastes lean more nude-positive than his.
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Inside, corridors are lined with polished stone and walls are decorated with abstract art and heart-shaped neon signs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cynics who view pricy abstract art and scoff "a kid probably painted that" are finally right.
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I represent his estate and the rebirth of interest in his work is continuing to revitalize the abstract art world.
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Marni (center), another brand fond of graphic motifs, showed a knee-length tunic in a pattern that recalled abstract art.
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Af Klint has started creating her first works of abstract art in 1906, predating Kandinsky and other known abstract painters.
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If you didn't know what you were looking at, you might think Kennedy's photographs were elegant works of abstract art.
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"I'm always looking for ways to switch up the watercolor abstract art that I'm typically drawn to," Nibbs told Insider.
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Children will then make their own abstract art, using assemblage and collage to incorporate items like string, paper and wire.
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The teaching was doctrinaire modernism—Cubism, Bauhaus design, and the inexorable triumph of abstract art—none of which impressed Katz.
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We find in his archive books on abstract art, Cubism, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse, with careful notes in Chinese.
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They also agree that in summer 1929, Krefeld was planning an exhibition of international abstract art, including works by Mondrian.
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"The use of the landscape as a point of departure for making abstract art is intriguing to me," Lippincott stated.
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Spanning five decades, the pieces highlight the aesthetic and personal affinities between these two heavyweights of 20th-century abstract art.
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When they are put together, especially on that BLANK CANVAS at 17A, you get a piece of ABSTRACT ART (61A).
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So they become abstract art with quotation marks, or a painting that acts as an illustration of an abstract painting.
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As with abstract art and amoebic home goods, these blankets and rugs give the viewer the space to free-associate.
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The 35 artists in the show work in a range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, abstract art and traditional drawing.
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They can just slap their food down onto these Jackson Pollock-inspired plates and turn their holiday food into abstract art.
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Yet even viewed as abstract art, the staves have a compelling energy in their subtle alchemy of lines, color, and geometry.
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I was impressed by contemporary abstract art that hung on the walls, as well as river-facing floor-to-ceiling windows.
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And so I told the story of his artistic career in a book, Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art and Lawrence Carroll (2018).
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However, if you take Morellet, Barré, and Hantai, along with Yves Klein and Pierre Soulages, as a measure of what was going in abstract art in France, apart from the Support-Surface group, which has also gotten attention in New York in recent years, you get the mistaken idea that only men were making abstract art in France.
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For me, their significance relates to the potential of abstract art to embody and (with the appropriate verbal supplements) convey political meaning.
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The projections happened after sunset, turning the 250' structure into a huge light installation, a giant abstract canvas for Eno's abstract art.
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Once people start looking at art, and the audience is gathered—which usually starts with figurative art, then abstract art will follow.
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And, thanks to theosophical believers like Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Hilma af Klint, spiritualism itself has had a pivotal role in abstract art.
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As an artist coming from London to New York, he was interested in the boundaries of what was happening in abstract art.
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The "Abstract Art" exhibition, which he organized the following year, was one of the first surveys of abstraction at any major museum.
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More recently, the pianist and composer Michael Brown wrote "Surfaces" after studying the abstract art of the pianist and painter Roman Rabinovich.
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Wood's position was in step with the isolationism of the 1930s, when abstract art was viewed by many as a Communist plot.
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Although aesthetically similar, in sharp ideological contrast, Kazimir Malevich and the Suprematists created anti-materialist, abstract art that originated from pure feeling.
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Rather they suggest possible sources and explanations for modern abstract art, unearthing a whole world of beauty invisible to the naked eye.
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When Charles Eames met Ray Kaiser, they were both at the height of their fields (architecture for him, abstract art for her).
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Philip Pavia (sculptor), one of the leaders of "the Club" and his publication It is was seminal in the championing of abstract art.
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And there was abstract art on the walls that looked way chicer than what I could even pick out for my own apartment.
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For an abstract art creation, move the container in a circular motion while you dribble and drip the color onto the surface below.
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In some ways it's a continuation of the dichotomy between representational and abstract art—it eschews immediate recognition for a more expressive quality.
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But, as a sixth grader, he took the advice of a friend in class, who leaned over and suggested he try abstract art.
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Mr. Klein, who had been a chemist at General Motors and was no fan of abstract art, was horrified by the Cubist painting.
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Standard hotel rooms all come with handcrafted wooden headboards, sheer white curtains, abstract art, plush sofa chairs, pillow-top mattresses, and glass showers.
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Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art continues at the Baltimore Museum of Art (10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD) through January 19.
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This week, Pantone picks the color of the year, the origin of abstract art, Albrecht Dürer's ads, crowdfunding Kusama in Toronto, and more.
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This controversial group argued for the importance of representational art at a time when abstract art was more favorable and dominated the art world.
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It's a relatively new thing, and the general movement, at least for Iris, is in response to the popularity of minimalism and abstract art.
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Other eye-catching accents ranged from the heavy mustard-hued drapes and cherry-red bedside tables to an abstract art print above the bed.
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It is always problematic to extract extra-visual meanings from abstract art, and it is especially so with Satterlee's fundamentally intuitive and improvisational work.
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Although the finished ABSTRACT ART will probably never hang in a museum anywhere, I hope that it's fun to check out and solve nevertheless.
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Kaleidoscope: Color and Sequence in 1960s British Abstract Art continues at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (West Bretton, Wakefield, United Kingdom) through June 18.
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The non-figurative works by Keserü Ilona, Bak, Maurer or, István Nádler and János Megyik, among many others, defied the official disapproval of abstract art.
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She notes that Native women have long produced abstract art—way before others recognised the art form—which is now reinterpreted by Native American painters.
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I'm not suggesting that these elements should be read as avatars for actual objects, which would be a wrongheaded way of looking at abstract art.
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Humans have long thought that we held a monopoly on creating abstract art — that it was part of what separated us from other hominin species.
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Wrapped up in one another and without a proper beginning or end, the series of colored-pencil-drawn illustrations allude to nudes and abstract art.
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You've said "Underneath the Bitumen" was inspired by Kazimir Malovich's "Black Square," a 1915 painting that has been called the starting point of abstract art.
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The term referred to various kinds of abstract art-making, including gestural painting, so-called lyrical abstraction, and the "staining" (tachisme) of canvases with color.
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Modern Map Art Prints recently caught my eye on Kickstarter: it's offering backers a map that you can turn into a unique work of abstract art.
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There, I came across the work of someone with evident, unabashed passion who was exploring abstract art-making's fascination with the expressive power of pure form.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NEW ORLEANS – Can abstract art conjure up both the prehistoric and the posthuman within the confines of a specific place?
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Related: Four Artists Explore Two Different Branches of Abstract Art It's All Color & Chaos at Helen Frankenthaler's New Exhibition Is Chang Liu's Our Generation's Jackson Pollock?
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It seemed that every new publication dealing with this particular brand of neurostimulation announced some new, and often contradictory, miracle application for tDCS: Appreciate abstract art!
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Though she drew inspiration from postwar American sculpture, Ms. Whiteread's solidifications reintroduced human emotions into abstract art and subtly engaged with love, fear, illness and death.
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This exhibition is part of a larger effort by Anita Shapolsky Gallery and A.S. Art Foundation to promote education of and appreciation for American abstract art.
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But although all his music comes with clean, computer-crafted abstract art, he comes naturally to a frugal, tech-savvy ecology-firster's skepticism of physical product.
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But Chagall left after only a year, embittered by his students' embrace of the bold abstract art of two other professors, Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky.
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While some Americans felt embarrassed by this contortionist comic, the French embraced Mr. Lewis's humor as both an abstract art and social satire of American life.
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The woodblocks have the compression and legibility of cartoons and news photos, the formal daring of abstract art and the literary punch of modern short stories.
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And because I spend so much time looking at modern dance, I think I have grown to love abstract art: It all just looks like dance.
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The owners' aesthetic preferences lean toward mid-century abstract art, rather than the more obviously environmentalist work shown by its northern neighbor Sculpture in the Wild.
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Part abstract art performance, part sexy dance routine, the video shows a bunch of people flinging their bodies around in weird, wonderful and occasionally creepy ways.
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Based on Barron's stymied research, it seemed it would be very difficult for the average citizen to learn much about the abstract art on the CIA's walls.
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If abstraction was the wave of the future, as it was called then, it followed that going from abstract art to figuration would be a historical regression.
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Hoping to simplify and beautify the phenomenon of quantum physics, a new art project takes a swing at filtering the dynamics of atomic motion through abstract art.
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Nkondo's perspective-spinning short is filled with warped lines, shifting colors, and abject terror—and actually hides a solid message about how to look at abstract art.
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By e-mail, Perl observed that a "miraculous achievement" of Calder's abstract art was that it spoke to an international audience — successfully and on its own terms.
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Related: These Aerial Photos Make Salt Ponds Look Like Abstract Art Breathtaking Aerial Photographs Capture London's Kaleidoscopic Landscape Aerial Footage Makes Remote Locales Look Like Other Planets
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Related: Turn Your Image Searches into Abstract Art with This Browser App Humpback Whales Record an Ambient Album That Speeding Comet We Landed on is Making Music
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Sneek says that he doesn't feel he is a very skilled 3D modeler, so as a result abstract art influenced the look of the 360-degree video.
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Related: Turn Your Web Browsing into Abstract Art Rafaël Rozendaal Takes Over Times Square with Two Kissing Faces Rafael Rozendaal Explores "Deep Sadness" With Vibrant New Website
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Her use of this material is a critique of the male-dominated world of abstract art and the view of the kitchen as a woman's primary workplace.
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Related: Immerse Yourself in Abstract Visuals Distilled from Nature This Artist Is Teaching Neural Networks to Make Abstract Art Intricate Salt Mazes Laced with Serenity and Sorrow
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He allows you to see how abstract art has been shaped less by the lofty theories of yesteryear's critics than by the teeming circus of everyday life.
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Related Skiers Become Black-and-White Abstract Art in 'PBK1' An Experimental Horror Film Marries Grotesquery and Feminist Poetry Stark Geotagged Photos Shed Light on American Poverty
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So if you're one of those people who tends to walk around with a screen that looks like abstract art, pay for AppleCare+ when you buy the phone.
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If figuration in art served as a guide to forming that narrative, abstract art made the work of divining the intent and ideas behind the work even murkier.
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Now, working mostly out of Munich, SatOne's paintings are making an impression on the world of abstract art through a self reflexive exploration of color, shape, and distortion.
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With a full cafeteria, soaring ceilings, wall-size abstract art and concrete floors, the office copies its look from Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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And she began telling her sitter about wonderful kinds of new art coming out of Europe: abstract art — she called it nonobjective — that reached for the spiritual realm.
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Satterlee's paintings, having eluded the categorical distributions of abstract art, are ultimately couched in their own terms, a syntax that can feel a step outside the precincts of language.
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The suites, decorated in rich blues with abstract art that evokes the ocean, include soaking tubs; use of the Trump Spa lounge areas; and, in the evening, Trump wine.
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Newness is a part of abstract art (beyond the '60s) perhaps because it is so often tied up with attempts to create an entirely unknown — and therefore "new" — thing.
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The art market demonstrates that abstract art is still in the forefront of art sales, with Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Still, Motherwell, all first-generation abstract artists, commanding high prices.
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The CIA's abstract art collection isn't as "secret" as a series of articles made it seem—but it's more politically significant than it appears, and there are still unanswered questions.
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In this context, the striped, polka-dotted canvases in the CIA's halls are more than just "zestful" decor — they indirectly symbolize the use of abstract art as Cold War propaganda.
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David Livingston/Getty As for Ronan's "chic and effortless" updo, Townsend, the actress's mane man, says that the inspiration for the textured chignon came an unlikely place: American abstract art.
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Born in 1938 and still active, Baselitz, a painter and sculptor, trained first in the state-backed socialist realism of Communist East Germany before discovering abstract art in West Berlin.
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When the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca, Spain celebrated its 50th Anniversary this year, they enlisted audiovisual artist Boris Divider to create a real-time generative audiovisual experience.
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Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. created a catalog diagram, similar to his Cubism and Abstract art charts, with one line linking Raphael to Caravaggio to Velázquez to Goya to Manet.
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Related: This Artist Is Teaching Neural Networks to Make Abstract Art A Twitter Bot Is Generating Fantastic New Words This Robot Wants to Paint Your Portrait—With or Without You
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Related: Solar "Smart Palms" to Power Dubai's Public Places This Solar-Powered Tornado Sculpture Lights Up and "Talks" To You These Aerial Photos Make Salt Ponds Look Like Abstract Art
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Related: Dive into Deep Dream Infinity in These Trippy Music Videos [Premiere] 'Pikazo' App Lets You Paint Neural Network Art Masterpieces This Artist Is Teaching Neural Networks to Make Abstract Art
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Related: If Picasso Painted 'Alice in Wonderland'... We Got an Artificial Neural Network to Name Random Objects in the VICE Office This Artist Is Teaching Neural Networks to Make Abstract Art
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Related: Dive into Deep Dream Infinity in These Trippy Music Videos [Premiere] 'Pikazo' App Lets You Paint Neural Network Art Masterpieces This Artist Is Teaching Neural Networks to Make Abstract Art
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"It is unfortunately supposable that some people will account for these photographic images as 'abstract art,' or will see them as 'beautiful shapes,'" writes author Wendell Berry in a book foreword.
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One of these is not worth their asking price (the latter piece of abstract art can be bought for $99)—I can imagine you can figure out which one that is.
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Amid the ubiquitous fresh faces and ethereal makeup of summer, bold lips stand out like a piece of abstract art among impressionists — and this could explain why we're so into them.
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The timeline of the group's history blends seamlessly with the colorful, abstract art, allowing the uninitiated (like me) to gain a surprisingly clear understanding of it all, without too much effort.
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By establishing a dialogue between the painting and the wall, he also reminds us that relationships are the basis of being, and that nothing achieves self-sufficiency, not even abstract art.
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Now a 47-year-old husband and father, he continues to bring his passion for art and music to life with 'TAPEstry Art,' wherein he creates abstract art on old cassette tapes.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Recently I was delighted to stumble upon an interview in the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, which offered excellent surprises, notably about abstract art, politics, and humor.
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With this new system, the seat bracket consists of one part - which looks like a mix between abstract art and science fiction movie - that is 40 percent lighter and 20 percent stronger.
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"Zaha Hadid's most radical expansion of design repertoires for architecture and urbanism is inspired by an explosion of possibilities through early abstract art movements at the beginning of the century," he explains.
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But in "Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art," edited by Courtney J. Martin and published last month by Gregory R. Miller, there is no picture of Ms. Joyner anywhere.
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"Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction," at the Museum of Modern Art, looks like a typical march-of-styles historical survey, tracking high points in the boom decades of abstract art.
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Courtesy Ryoji Ito / MOMA The show suggests that the rise of abstract art as a paradigm, after the Second World War, opened up possibilities for women, precisely because it masked personal identity.
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The painting that caught the curator's eye was"Running Freed More Slaves Than Lincoln Ever Did" (19933), part of the exhibition "Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art," which opened last September.
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Those "completely constructed" works of recent years were among Mr. Gursky's best, Mr. Rugoff said, because he was establishing a dialogue with abstract art and composing pictures the way a painter would.
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But away from those widely reported "blue chip" sales, mainstream auction houses and dealers are still trying to recover from the bursting in 28 of the speculative bubble in young abstract art.
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You can turn them into color-field cookies, into abstract art cookies, or into those peppermint stripe cookies (above) that are inspired by a series of brush-stroke paintings by Ellsworth Kelly.
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Park had a lasting impact on American art and artists, in part due to his surprising mid-century pivot back to figurative work in a time when abstract art was the trend.
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None of the artists imagined the October revolution in advance, though they welcomed it when it came; and neither Lenin nor Stalin ever took any sympathetic interest whatsoever in aesthetically revolutionary abstract art.
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The Editions at Play website also catalogs digital books by other writers, and is home to a number of back-of-the-napkin concepts that blur the lines between books and abstract art.
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In 1950, Hasegawa enthusiastically welcomed Noguchi to Japan, which he hadn't visited for nearly 20 years, and moderated a public lecture Noguchi gave and wrote a forward to his book on abstract art.
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His understanding of the part-to-whole relationship was completely at odds with the American insistence that there were only two viable compositional options for abstract art, the all-over or the relational.
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She helped found the Arab Cultural Center in Beirut and in 19743 exhibited at its gallery in what was often cited as the first showing of modern abstract art in the Arab world.
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Having already withdrawn from the history of abstract art, which she witnessed, even if from a distance, af Klint pulled even further back by effectively setting an entry point well after her death.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One of the interesting things about Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is that neither she nor her work can be written into the early history of abstract art.
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Apple says it's launching with 10 Selfie Scenes, including the Millennium Falcon and Mega-Destroyer from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as well as more general urban and nature scenes, and even abstract art.
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Four works of American abstract art also were added to the Old Family Dining Room, including a work that made Alma Thomas the first African-American female artist featured in the White House collection.
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The Wikipedia entry for abstract art contains only a handful of female names — like Georgia O'Keeffe and Hilma af Klint — who basically serve as footnotes to giants like Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, and others.
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Marilyn Lerner is an outlier in the domain of abstract art: her inspirations include Hilma af Klint, game boards, tantric art, and trips to Turkey, Africa, and Southeast Asia during the 212s and '20083s.
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While the CSFA cultivated its own unique school of abstract art, it also exposed its students to New York abstract artists like Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt through summer sessions from 4523 to 1949.
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One study found that psychiatric patients tend to require far fewer medications for anxiety and agitation when photos of landscapes hang on hospital walls compared to walls adorned with abstract art or left bare.
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And finally, on collectors: We may state it as a principle at this point that collectors of contemporary art do not want to buy highly abstract art unless it's the only game in town.
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An influential art school, it fostered the vibrant abstract art of Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa, and Mohammed Melehi, and proves how modernism could be embraced in non-Western cultures in new and surprising ways.
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She has relinquished a successful business career to become what she calls a full-time "mission-driven" collector of a very specific niche: Abstract art by African-Americans and members of the global African diaspora.
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It is partially a prolongation of Alfred Barr's abstract art family tree of 1936, but the Tate chose to do away with all links to the world beyond art, something that Barr did include tangentially.
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If you've ever wondered whether the title on a work of abstract art — say "Blue No. 2" — influences how you feel about it, you'll be intrigued by a new study from the University of Pittsburgh.
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In the Western hemisphere, however, a few artists had taken up fiber as a medium for non-representational or abstract art in the '229s and '70s, though Mukherjee did not identify with Western trends either.
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In the Western hemisphere, however, a few artists had taken up fiber as a medium for non-representational or abstract art in the '60s and '70s, though Mukherjee did not identify with Western trends either.
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In truth, abstract art was never as pure or self-contained as its champions liked to claim, and formalists who insist on seeing it as the polar opposite of representational painting do it an injustice.
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Isou's invented letter-like symbols are not to be seen as carrying a useful message, but solely as the object of semi-abstract art: creating a third visual way after the figurative and the abstract.
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The song I always return to is "Land", the album's nine-minute closer, which contains so many wild shapes and rhythms it feels like Smith is painting a piece of abstract art with her voice.
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In fact, when the American government wanted to fund abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s as part of the Cold War, they had to do so secretly because of bipartisan political love of representational art.
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Reflecting the current mood of many contemporary art dealers, Mr. Koh described business as "very slow" after the speculative excesses of the boom (and bust) in abstract art by young practitioners three or four years ago.
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Both artists appear in Galerie Lelong's healthy introduction to Grupo Frente, the abstract art movement they participated in during the fecund 1950s along with Lygia Clark and seven others, many of whom deserve more renown here.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BALTIMORE — Walking through the first gallery of Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art feels a bit like being on a slow rollercoaster ride.
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Ms. Sánchez hasn't said that she left because of the revolution, but already by the end of that first year, Communist Party officials were expressing doubts about the expediency of abstract art to further their cause.
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As the genre grew in popularity, art directors began to elevate their styles by bringing on artists such as Franco Grignani, Richard Powers, and David Pelham, who translated the thematic content of the books into abstract art.
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François Morellet, a French painter and sculptor whose use of unorthodox materials like neon lights, sticky tape and metal rods left a distinctive mark on postwar abstract art, died on Tuesday at his home in Cholet, France.
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Since his days bombing the same bricks that birthed the word graffiti, the Italian-born, mathematically-educated artist Moneyless (real name Teo Pirisi) has seen his work rise from vandalism to the vanguard of contemporary abstract art.
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I don't think I have a career ahead of me in abstract art, yet I did enjoy how the story mode gradually introduced ideas like white space and a balanced canvas to reveal larger concepts of art.
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Abstract art did not culminate in the 1960s and it is about time we got around to embracing that fact, and not the fake news that institutions and various authorities have repeatedly tried to foist on us.
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A 133 article published by Anna Seaman in The National praised Halaby's work on the occasion of a major retrospective at Ayyam Gallery, yet the artist's inclusion into the often cited canon of abstract art remains a footnote.
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Related: Enter Restricted Government Areas in Virtual Reality James Bridle Takes Us "Under the Shadow of the Drone" This Artist Is Teaching Neural Networks to Make Abstract Art "Computer Thoughts" Projected onto a Giant Dome via Neural Network
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I'm not prepared to take on the entire complex and beautiful history of abstract art, nor do I intend to list the many virtuous (and virtuosic) Black abstract artists who are representing our times with profound aesthetic acuity.
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Cuba was introduced to nonobjective or abstract art in 1949, with a Havana exhibition of works by Sandú Darié, a Romanian who emigrated to the island in 1941 and became a crucial force among the artists of the 10.
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Presided over by an outgoing Turkish-German impresario-hair stylist named Fatime Kahveci, the place consisted of a cozy bar and salon decorated with Che Guevara posters and abstract art by local painters, and a back-room hair salon.
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Where some theorists of abstraction in Europe and the United States sought to purge painting of all ornament and historical lineage, Ms. Farmanfarmaian produced an abstract art proud of its debts to local architecture, interior design and contemporary fashion.
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If the US and North Korea get really serious about blowing each other up, it wouldn't be very long at all before the US military remodeled that gantry, whose location is known down to the millimeter, into an abstract art installation.
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On returning to Havana the next year, Soldevilla reprised the proselytizing role that had led her to Paris, this time by cultivating a home-grown generation of artists who shared her commitment to the social, progressive ideals of abstract art.
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Related: Best of 2015: The Year in Performance Art Artists Examine "The Problem of God" in a Massive Group Show It's Art: 12 Horses Tied To Art Gallery Walls Leftover Cowhide Becomes Abstract Art in the Hands of Anneliese Schrenk
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For generations, artists have tried to wrap tangible form around such ruminations on the ineffable; in modern art, exercises in the material in the service of the unknowable have been mainstays of certain abstract-art makers for more than a century.
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Ms. Farmanfarmaian (pronounced far-mahn-far-MY-ahn) emerged as a key actor in the worldwide development of abstract art in recent years, as curators of American and European museums began to map a global history of postwar painting and sculpture.
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"Then he sent me a link, to the most vile porn site I have ever seen," she recalled the other day in the living room of her tastefully decorated apartment on Fifth Avenue, filled with abstract art and overlooking Central Park.
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Among the topics addressed in his latest thriller, "Origin": the wide-ranging talents of Winston Churchill, the elusive appeal of abstract art, the exciting peculiarities of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral and the latest insane developments in the world of artificial intelligence.
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There are eight different styles available, ranging from geometric layouts of circles or triangles to designs that are inspired by existing works of art like Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover (embedded below) or the abstract art of Piet Mondrian (above).
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Articles on Choucair claim that she became interested in abstract art during her stay in Paris in 1948, and that she was a pupil of the post-impressionist Fernand Léger for a while and worked in his studio for some time.
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But in historical context, the paintings seem not so different, after all, from those in the Intelligence Art Collection, in that they indirectly "celebrate historical accomplishments in intelligence"— in this case, the CIA's use of abstract art as a propagandistic Cold War weapon.
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Sometime around the turn of the 20th century, Dutch painter Piet Mondrian started working with stark lines and geometric shapes in bold, high-contrast colors, a form of abstract art he called Neo-Plasticism — and what we now know colloquially as color-blocking.
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As the great powers sought to destroy each other in World War I with fearsome new weapons like tanks, poison gas and armed airplanes, Malevich was envisioning a postwar utopia visible only in the new world of abstract art, Mr. Drutt said.
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Its creations include Geo-Art Oto earrings, which arrange emeralds, sapphires and diamonds in a yellow-gold form that references Cubism and abstract art; and the more romantic Talisman Constellation 8 ring, setting an architectural medley of diamonds atop a yellow gold band.
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What we now know is that af Klint's long, secret body of work, starting in 1907, preceded the first known works of abstract art by Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia and others, which appeared around 1912.
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The small scale of these representational sculptures, set low on the floor, recalls Joel Shapiro's famous Untitled (1973–74) series of metal miniatures, which began with him making a small horse — a radical break from the abstract art tendencies of the time.
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The release coincided with "slutwave," an ironic term coined by the blog Hipster Runoff to refer to singers like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Ke$ha, a new wave of American pop stars who made sex-positive pop songs while wearing abstract art for clothes.
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Their conversations with Frick's much older collection are complicated and — for the viewers not steeped in how abstract art might relate to art and objects from different eras — the exhibition experience is greatly enhanced by an audio guide written and read by de Waal.
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The original abstract eye in North America is a female eye, and I go further to say during the time that abstract art was being made in North America; the men that created it were being exposed to Native art in museums, women's art.
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According to the gallery press release, this was the impetus for bringing this diverse group of artists together: From its origins at the turn of the twentieth century, abstract art has looked to the cosmos as a paradigm for a new sense of space.
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Recognized by MoMA's founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. who placed him in the seminal 1936 exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art, Kupka continued painting non-illusionist compositions that transmit a pleasurable tension when read as bounded and polymorphous, like "Circle and Straight Lines" (1937).
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With the reorganization of cultural institutions in Estonia, local artists and intellectuals were brought into this new cultural sphere, but social realism in Estonia remained a loose ideology controlled by lazy bureaucrats and subject to many preexisting European influences such as abstract art and Expressionism.
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" The prevalence of pushing the abstract-art envelope and testing the limits of technology are some of the most satisfying components of Triantafyllidis's work, he continues, "With the latest piece, Mountain, I was interested in the visceral intersection between the virtual and the physical.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Phoenix Art Museum has received a gift of 63 artworks from Nicholas Pardon, co-founder of the SPACE Collection, which claims to be the largest collection of post-1990s abstract art from Latin America and the United States.
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The real difficulty is that Epic Abstraction, with its second-tier selections, doesn't effectively present its thesis that the vitality of postwar abstract art is both universal and ongoing; it draws upon, but does not productively extend or support, productive revisionist thinking about the canon.
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By utilizing topological diagrams which often consist of many small abstract sections that, together, compose a pattern, multifaceted shape, or grid-like structure, Winters is able to focus his attention on two compositional formats central to abstract art: the centrally located shape and the all-over grid.
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I know now that it's human think about sex all the time or to swear or make lewd jokes or to want to make loud abrasive art or abstract art to not travel or to know how you're going to eat next...or to just question authority!
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After hearing the painter and sculptor Fernand Léger speak at the École des Beaux-Arts, she spent time at his studio before coming into her own as an early member of L'Atelier d'Art Abstrait (the Studio of Abstract Art), led by Edgard Pillet and Jean Dewasne.
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Before departing Bohemia, versatile Kupka experimented with symbolism and religious allegorical themes — and this exotic taste for evocation informed his subsequent experiments with nonrepresentational color, form, space, and line to the point where this little-known Czech painter is now heralded as an "inventor" of pure abstract art.
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Still, Mr. Safer sometimes raised hackles, as when he questioned the basic premise of abstract art in a 1993 report, calling much of it "worthless junk" destined for "the trash heap of art history" and saying it was overvalued by the "hype" of critics, art dealers and auction houses.
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Considering the unique developments she brought to abstract art over her 60+ year career, not to mention her enduring commitment to social justice issues, it remains telling that the inbuilt product of "greatness" in the art world continues to manifest in ways that are overtly Western-centric and male.
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For starters, they'd been painted over in 1957, and finding the murals before the imminent destruction meant going through 32 dayrooms, all with the same circular shape, and chipping away paint to determine if the color fields below were abstract art or older layers, sometimes seven paint colors deep.
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Hasegawa spent the last years of his life in San Francisco, hanging out with the Beats and Zen practitioners Gary Snyder and Alan Watts, teaching drawing at the California College of the Arts and believing that only in the United States could he create abstract art influenced by Japanese traditions.
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She has been compared to Brazilian artists of the Neo-Concrete movement, such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, but she had little direct contact with those circles; the lines of influence run through 1940s Paris, and the international gathering of abstract-art enthusiasts known as the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.
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Like many of his Indian colleagues, he was fully conversant with developments in contemporary European art but was working in fresh directions — demonstrating, for example, that Abstract art was not a Western invention, as it is often assumed to have been, but had distinctive sources and forms in other cultures.
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Across two floors of this gallery, she has intermingled works by her contemporaries (Stanley Whitney, Terry Winters) and earlier titans of abstract art (Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin) with several historical works, including a hanging scroll from 1760s Japan that depicts a solitary scholar's hermitage as a curtain of gray brush strokes.
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Across two floors of this gallery, she has intermingled works by her contemporaries (Stanley Whitney, Terry Winters) and earlier titans of abstract art (Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin) with several historical works, including a hanging scroll from 1760s Japan that depicts a solitary scholar's hermitage as a curtain of gray brush strokes.
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" They refer to what he began to recognize as his ability, through abstract art, "to make a collage of references that I could modulate ⎯ a sculpture, hovering between architecture and a farm tool, or between a figure and a crystalline structure, which can express something else, and that something is what I seek.
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In Japan today, difficult-to-categorize artworks like Nishimura's can — and perhaps should — be appreciated in the wider context of expressionist and abstract art forms, of which Japanese modernists, from members of the postwar Gutai group to the multidisciplinary artist Tarō Okamoto (1911-1996), certainly have put forth their own distinctive offerings.
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A research paper titled "Colors, Emotions, and the Auction Value of Paintings," published by the CentERlab at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in February, set out to uncover hidden trends in abstract art, like the colors that are most likely to attract buyers during auctions, and the hues that spark positive emotional responses.
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I Love Dick dramatizes women's creative processes from their own perspectives: Chris on the floor putting her letters together, Devon (Roberta Colindrez) writing a play about male beauty, Toby (India Salvor Menuez) creating viral performance art, Paula (Lily Mojekwu) replacing Dick's bland abstract art collection with highly specific pieces by women of color.
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Abstract 2452's Masters (Where Were the Mistresses?) Saturday, November 21094–Saturday, February 2152 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 265th, 210065-63pm Panel Discussion: Lives of the Artists Spouses, Children & Friends Saturday, December 26th, 6-22pm Abstract art has roots in the late 19th century and reached ascendance in the late 40's – 50's.
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Kafka, however, belongs to a different stream of thought: Pepperstein has become preoccupied with the Jewish heritage of Eastern Europe that was the precursor to the degenerate abstract art condemned by Socialist Realism, and that coincided with the first wave of emancipation of European Jewry that ended in the catastrophes of gulags and concentration camps.
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His previous designs include the DuMont (a retro enclosure for a combined iPad mini and Bluetooth speaker); the Mondrian (a PC tower inspired by the colorful abstract art of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian); and the Mid-Century (a red-oak-and-birch PC enclosure designed to fit into an alternate universe "where desktop computers were used in a 1960s Mad Men office").
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This situation is illustrative for me of the conundrum of leaning on major collectors for exhibition support: by lending their works to exhibitions like Generations, collectors are able to make inroads into the canon, to help reorient it to acknowledge that Black artists were at the forefront of abstract art throughout the post-war era, though they were often ignored.
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The premise is that a group of single men and women enter some sort of condominium-building laboratory where the men and women are kept in separate living quarters, then enter "pods" where they can interact with potential partners of the opposite sex while separated by an opaque screen that looks like abstract art stolen from a low-end Miami spa.
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And because she is Natasha, what started out as a very rustic tart suddenly does have to be beautiful, as she arranges the sliced vegetables in such a way that the tart suddenly looks like abstract art, curling the edges of the tart in on the veggies, but sometimes letting the edges of the carrots drape over the sides like little tendrils.
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At the very least, af Klint's belated entry into the canon calls into question the various narratives of the birth, life, and death of abstract art, from its origins in early part of the 20th century until its so-called termination in the 21915s — coinciding with the death of painting and originality, and the concurrent rise of appropriation and uncreative acts.
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Works like Dial's or Minter's, with their uncompromising allusions to slavery and racism, those indelible scars upon America's soul, demonstrate that, in the hands of such artists, whose lives were shaped by a firsthand understanding of the legacy of a painful past, abstract art could be made to break out of its precious, hermetic-aesthetic zone and say something about the real world, too.
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Enhanced by video installations in which Krasner details her aesthetic practices and belief in painting as an instrument of revelation, Living Colour captures the artist as vividly as it does her art, charting her breakthroughs in the face of 20th-century America's cultural intransigence and narrow-mindedness to become a leader in the development of abstract art, progressing through cycles of radical self-reinvention across six decades.
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During this Community Day, part of a free series taking place the first Sunday of every month through September, families can go on a self-guided scavenger hunt through the galleries and investigate the show "Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan," which illustrates how the abstract art of Noguchi and his colleague Saburo Hasegawa (1906-57) reflects the traditions of Japanese calligraphy.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There were two exhibitions in New York this spring — to which you can now add a third — that shed new light on what was happening in abstract art in France after World War II. The first two exhibitions were François Morellet at Dia: Chelsea (October 28, 2017 – June 2, 2018) and Martin Barré at Matthew Marks (February 19863 – April 7, 2018), which I reviewed.
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After time spent with Mr. Ukai's detonations of detail, you may be in need of retinal relief, and you'll find it in the show's scattering of abstract art: in biomorphic pastels by Julian Martin (at Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia); in tantric paintings from western India (Galerie Hervé Perdriolle, Paris); and in sewn canvases by Sidival Fila (James Barron Art, Kent, Conn.) With Mr. Fila's work, outsider shades into the less dramatic category of self-taught work.
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The strain of occult thinking that runs through abstraction, beginning with Hilma Af Klint (255–228), arguably the first abstract artist, and continuing in figures as diverse as Piet Mondrian, Antonin Artaud, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Charmion Von Wiegand, Simon Gouveneur, Alfred Jensen, Forrest Bess, and Leo Kinney, goes against the mainstream's narrowly focused insistence that — historically speaking — abstract art progressed until it became a materialist enterprise that would cut its ties with its symbolist and mystical beginnings.
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It's unsurprising that his donation to the PAMM is massive, with many of the works migrating to the museum's permanent collection, and others becoming part of a three-part installation: On the Horizon: Internal Landscapes (June 9, 2017–September 83, 2017), which examines the horizon as it relates to the body and self; Abstracting History (September 21, 2017–January 7, 2018), a show of abstract art reflecting on political and spiritual history; and Domestic Anxieties (January 18–April 8, 2018), a set of works exploring architecture and everyday spaces as sources of emotion and duress.
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