| 单词 | abstraction |
| 例句 | The process of abstraction it teaches is an essential precondition for the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The nuns were not interested in constructing a temple of religious abstractions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z However, there are growing examples in animal research demonstrating that animals do indeed use music, and that monkeys and other animals use musical patterns and can hear abstractions in music as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z These abstractions become containers in which they store and handle their ideas, and before they know it they can no longer call anything by its name. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The ants were, together with the New Yorkers, an abstraction, a live mobile, an action painting, a piece of found art, a happening, a parody, depending on the light. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The job at Langley, an abstraction for half a year, moved into focus. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Slavery was not an abstraction, an economic force, a counter in the game of world politics—it was the suffering of men and women. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Classic style is not the same as the common but unhelpful advice to “avoid abstraction.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The weight of heredity is not an abstraction for me. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Slicing away the layers of familiar abstraction and showing the reader who did what to whom is a never-ending challenge for a writer. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The word “chimney” here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dawkins’s could fairly be called masculine, with its confrontational opening, its cold abstractions, its aggressive imagery, its glorification of alpha males. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her paintings feel organic to me, like breathing abstractions of color. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Learning was an abstraction that took place beneath the stares and approbation of the Catholic S.S. that had goose-stepped through the classrooms of his youth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The word was created to mark a function; it was an abstraction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When there was laughter at a joke he didn’t understand Frankie laughed delightedly behind his chair and when the conversation dealt with abstractions his brow furrowed and he became intent and serious. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She was prone to errors of deportment—in moments of abstraction she tended to shift her weight onto one foot in a way that particularly enraged her superior. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I waited a few moments, expecting he would go on with the subject first broached: but he seemed to have entered another train of reflection: his look denoted abstraction from me and my business. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The amount of abstraction that a writer can get away with depends on the expertise of her readership. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He thought of doing a huge abstraction called Substratum Dream of a Flag-pole Skater. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z While the stories were vivid, the lectures were abstract, treatises on obscure philosophical subjects, and it was to these abstractions that I devoted most of my study. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Economic man,” that great abstraction of economic science, is supposed to do whatever it takes, within certain limits, to maximize his economic advantage. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignorant, in the Handdara sense: to ignore the abstraction, to hold fast to the thing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The entries in McCandless’s journal contain few abstractions about wilderness or, for that matter, few ruminations of any kind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything in the world dies, but we only know about it as a kind of abstraction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Double entry, like any mathematical technique, depends on abstraction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was looking over his charcoal flannel shoulder at some abstraction across the dining room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The fourth subsection covers issues having to do with excessive abstraction, including overuse of nominalizations and passives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As writers, then, we should try to get into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private abstractions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It should be stressed that these works wouldn’t have been easy to read even for an experienced adult player: They aren’t accessible unless a person has the drive to excel in the abstraction of chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Equality is just another one of her abstractions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z With an allergy to abstraction and a phobia of cliche, Wilkerson trains a magnifying glass on the historical blob called “the Great Migration” and reveals the humanity of the people who compose it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Classic style minimizes abstractions, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was rare among theorists in conceding value to the uncomplicated perception of nature, free of abstractions, that happened to be Lawrence’s approach. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Newton’s laws were theoretical, rather simple mathematical abstractions from which all of Tycho’s measurements could ultimately be derived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not an abstraction who punished you if you were wicked or rewarded you if you were good, but a real person like Guenever, or fike Arthur, or Him anybody else. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mathematics is thought to be cold, since it deals with abstraction and not with flesh and blood. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words “JANE EYRE”—the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was simply that nobody could figure out what to do with such an abstraction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z On the one hand, there was perspective painting, grounded in geometrical abstraction; on the other, the printing of engraved plates, supplemented by text produced on a printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As with all of Arp’s shifting abstractions, however, its forms are all and, fleetingly, none of those things. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Flat planes of color establish an architecture of abstraction, giving otherwise immaterial elements substantial density. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z They had just been abstractions when we joined, an unknown collection of fellow denizens of Planet Cancer. A kids club where parents die 2012-10-02T19:54:00Z Paint application is mostly smooth, uniform and flat, creating pure, clean abstractions. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z McCoy now paints hard-edged abstractions, generally featuring blocks of a single color; these are punctuated with lines, notches and other small, orderly intrusions in contrasting hues. In the galleries: Artwork that’s designed to fail 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z On the gallery walls hang abstractions in the form of crumpled pieces of paper adorned with spray paint and glitter from the series “Ladies of the Paradise.” Review: Kim Gordon’s ‘Design Office: The City Is a Garden,’ Scrawled Words in Critique 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Gioni said the concept was “to look at abstraction today and to trace back the idea of information as both a theme and a technique.” Beirut’s Art Scene Stirs Amid Tumult 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “She asserts her right to abstraction,” Lewis said. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Hoping to maximize pictorial intensity, those giants of modernism took their lead from Renoir when they began distorting and deforming the human figure, maximizing its monumentality, pushing it toward abstraction. Review | More and more people loathe Renoir. Is it time for a revival? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z At the Whitney the three alternate between abstraction and representation, with the latter frequently being more impressive. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z A jade ear pendant, excavated in 1994 in the area of Ho Chi Minh City, offers a bold example of animal stylization leaning toward abstraction. Review: Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art 2010-02-26T18:30:00Z Press’s style is detailed and her subjects urban; Sussberg prefers rustic scenes, which she simplifies until they are near abstraction. In the Galleries: Creating objects of power This all-star trio unites three improvisers who are not only well versed in jazz’s standard practice, but also interested in thickened atmospheres and architectural abstraction. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The abstractions are sometimes treated like a detour from Bearden’s involvement with the figure, but are actually integral to its final flowering. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Their crispness recalls Man Ray’s photographic abstractions, while the spare but meticulous designs suggest traditional Chinese ink paintings. Review | In the galleries: Some art is sultry, while other pieces are smoky 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Ackermann’s signature line drawings of women idling alone or in one another’s company — as they have tended to do across the history of painting — frequently hover in these abstractions. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Everyone is throwing themselves into this abstraction called Band of Joy, and no one knows what it is. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z But the works here show him forcing that tradition into a new alignment with process and with abstraction and, in this, well ahead of his time. Art in Review: WILLEM DE KOONING: ?The Figure: Movement and Gesture? 2011-06-16T22:00:28Z The Baltimore artist’s “Five More Minutes,” split between Calloway and the Athenaeum, paddles deeper into abstraction. Review | In the galleries: Honfleur show celebrates the wonders of three dimensions 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z While most of the show’s artists remain preoccupied by surface aesthetics, as Mr. Ovilsen, this particular object suggests that for imaginative painters, abstraction may still be a portal to uncharted possibilities. Art in Review: ‘Xstraction’ 2013-06-06T18:13:39Z Similarly, “Leaf” and “One On” scramble the features that usually distinguish painting from sculpture, abstraction from representation, art from life. Sam Gilliam gets his hands dirty with 'Green April' at David Kordansky Gallery 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z I found that concreteness allows for the abstraction to coexist with realism. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Such “seriality,” if you will, was a means by which she pushed her motifs toward abstraction, or explored different materials, primarily charcoal, watercolor and pastel. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z He drew from the nude most of his life and with the titles of his abstractions, he rarely let you forget the presumption of the male gaze. The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Freedom of speech, that noblest of abstractions, can easily coarsen and shrink into freedom of snort. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The show's second half is dominated by superlative examples of New York School abstraction, a great strength of the Albright-Knox collection. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z And I thought that they looked so contemporary at a time when abstraction is being practiced by so many New York artists.” An Aboriginal Artist’s Dizzying New York Moment 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Si-Qin’s sculpture alludes to how the once-radical style of Minimalist abstraction is often co-opted to create deceptive images of moral universality for capitalist enterprises. Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But Mason’s intimate, considered style of abstraction was shunted aside by Abstract Expressionism and overshadowed by Minimalism. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Styles veer from highly realistic to complete abstraction and everything in between. Exhibition makes clear that women artists are all around us — you just have to look 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Even if he were to drop things with me afterward, just to be able to humanize the abstraction would have been valuable. His Comfort Is Not My Responsibility 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In his enthusiasm, Mr Gioia’s analysis of improvisation sometimes veers into abstraction. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Landscapes or interior scenes done with photographic precision were as hotly pursued as paintings on the edge of abstraction. Auctions: London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art 2011-02-18T17:00:06Z Her arrangements borrow from the history of abstraction without accruing too great a debt. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Some of his works — radiantly colored abstractions vibrating with thin lines — hung nearby. A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Her seemingly simple color-infused faces have aspects of both caricature and abstraction. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z But the story keeps wondering off into the streets of the city, taking refuge from abstraction in the pleasures and travails of everyday life. ‘Timbuktu,’ an Abderrahmane Sissako Film About Radical Islam 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z They are paintings, because they hang on the wall, and with their triangles, circles and diamonds, they follow a long tradition of geometric abstraction. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Bauhaus-influenced abstraction and Surrealist figural painting were received with equally vivid interest. At Auction, Buyers Still Happily Dropping Millions for Quality Works 2010-05-06T11:30:00Z His fundamental theme is how social media pigeonholes us and mines our data, a condescending phenomenon that treats us less like human beings than abstractions made up of marketable information. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “There is a tendency toward abstraction that is produced by these negatives and the conditions of the landscape,” said Corey Keller, the show’s curator. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet he also realizes some scenes through abstraction and anachronism, so that he doesn’t fall too squarely on Aron’s side. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z "It's just such a tribute to her, and I think it reveals the consistency of her language of abstraction, from the beginning of her career to the end." O'Keeffe Museum transforms with abstract works 2010-06-12T16:16:00Z That may explain why the museum does not own an example of Hartley’s early groundbreaking “German Officer” abstractions. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z A large painting by Sai, from his “Bombed” series, may at first appear to be merely a geographic abstraction. In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s as if the prose siphoned the light of the poems over time, such that the late poetry retreats into the colder abstraction of this poem from 2007: Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z It started last month in New York, with a show of new work addressing fashion, abstraction and identity at Andrea Rosen Gallery, up through the end of June. Josiah McElheny, Glass Artist, in Busy Times 2012-06-17T02:01:07Z Writing under the influence is an abstraction of the truth. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly started on his particular path of minimal abstraction more than 60 years ago, when the rest of the world was enthralled with the splattery works of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Art and Design: Ellsworth Kelly?s Wood Sculptures in Boston 2011-11-27T05:07:13Z “Abstraction was a little difficult at the beginning,” Ms. Rubell said, yet they finally all agreed that geometric abstraction was an important trend. Art Collectors Show Their Chinese Prizes 2013-12-10T22:23:02Z The hazy outlines of what might be doors, windows, or the gates of heaven and hell hover on the wine red and imperial purple surfaces of Rothko's mural-scale abstractions. The Tate's Mark Rothko exhibit: a room with a view of the subconscious 2011-03-30T13:58:43Z There, Brown visits with descendants, people for whom slavery isn’t an abstraction but a living memory that generations have carefully preserved and passed down. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Is she devoted to abstraction, or to representation? Kay WalkingStick, painting her heritage 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Titled “Landscape,” the room-size installation is somewhere between a severe exposition of the sculptural limits of geometric abstraction and a refined department store display of luxury goods. A walk through Isabelle Cornaro's 'Landscape' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Canin’s grasp of the aesthetics reveals itself in scattered passages of the novel, when he describes everyday objects as geometric abstractions. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Mostly abstaining from easy sensationalism, they are laudably committed to the harder task of making dance work as dance, almost solely through abstraction rather than narrative. Ballet Festival: Skill (Check), Class (Yep), Vision (More, Please) 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Quoting Anna Quindlen and other mainstream feminists, Didion attacks the "abstraction" and "sentimentalization" of the case. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z There’s great attention to realism and at the same time there’s a fable-like abstraction, which is one of the things that fascinated me the most when I read the book. A New Pinocchio Film Returns to the Tale’s Dark Origins 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z He is trying to compress the woman, squeeze her into the flatness of the picture plane, while on the walls around them hang late modernist abstractions that Greenberg once heralded as the future of art. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z But if she had not lived a middle-class life and been academically trained, would her paintings now be slotted as “outsider art” rather than classic early Modern abstraction? ‘The Keeper’ Reveals the Passion for Collecting 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In fact, despite the celebrated “Ocean Park” series, Diebenkorn is at his most exciting while trying to find his way in the middle ground between abstraction and figurative work. Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The Luther W. Brady Gallery exhibition, which compiles chiefly paintings made since 2010, does include a few abstractions. In the galleries: Art history slapstick 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It disturbed our sense of abstraction and minimalism. Lucian Freud exhibition opens with royal visit 2012-02-08T16:31:04Z “When I look back at who that kid was in the early 1960s, I was still painting, a kind of hard-edge abstraction,” he added. Joel Meyerowitz in New Book and at Howard Greenberg Gallery 2012-11-18T03:49:04Z Her black-and-white "Parallax" archival digital prints are closer to op art: striped abstractions that create doubts about what's solid and what's a void. Prographica's 'Space Between Things': the lure of the void 2012-10-04T20:05:14Z A small gallery at the reinstalled Museum of Modern Art is devoted to photographic abstraction. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Are his real gifts for story and character, but his inclinations for abstraction and modernity? City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z “It’s not a reflection of my opinion of her work, but abstraction in general is not always accessible to a general audience,” she said. ‘Ona,’ by Ursula von Rydingsvard, Arrives in Brooklyn 2013-08-30T21:56:11Z The acronym Madi championed an art of movement, abstraction, dimension and invention. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z “My music is more about being the most effective communicator I can be, musically, because it exists in abstraction and we’re not using words,” he said. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah was one of the last musicians to perform in a New York club. The resulting album could win him a Grammy. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z That piece, “The Wave of the World,” an abstraction resembling a surging eruption of mud, was lost for many years and then recovered. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Audi describes his “Tell” as “an abstraction” rather than an updating, one that he hopes emphasizes the opera’s themes of liberty, personal responsibility and nature. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z On initial encounter, they seem to be boxy, uninventive riffs on old-style Minimalist abstraction. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Generalization and abstraction dissipate the impact of his message. Review: Raphael Xavier, Breaking Out of Boxes, Barely 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The abstraction was largely inspired by the visionary work of Miró and Mondrian. The magical movement of Calder’s mobiles — and mind 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z As such, the drawings simultaneously refer to real life — they are based on Adler’s location photographs for a film — and an underlying language of abstraction. Amy Adler at play with forms at once concrete and abstract 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Yet the phrase can be seen as applying individually to Michael’s mixed-media abstractions and Price’s architectural studies. Review | In the galleries: Biennial survey celebrates Mid-Atlantic artists of many mediums 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Richard Serra may have his ideological detractors, but he is certainly today’s greatest living sculptor of Minimalist abstraction. Richard Serra’s Steel Behemoths Get Into Your Head 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Ghostly images of tree trunks haunt these evocative abstractions. Sam Gilliam gets his hands dirty with 'Green April' at David Kordansky Gallery 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In addition, there is a series of abstractions inspired by the patterns of construction boards she acquires at Home Depot. How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, a manicured alligator and blind painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Shirana Shahbazi’s large color abstractions picture what philosophers call “secondary qualities”: the colors, light and textures that contribute to the allure of desirable commodities. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z He walks out in disgust; he doesn't have any appetite for their abstractions. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z Lingering somewhere between abstraction and representation, industrial diagrams and popular illustration, their combination of forms look incredibly fresh. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “We’re fascinated by their mutual interest in color and shapes and abstraction.” At Frieze Art Fairs, No Frenzy but a Sense of Steady Activity 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Both approach craft from a metaphysical vantage point, channeling the abstraction of feeling into dramatic, physical form. Former 'Runway' finalist Bradon McDonald's costumes create character for Jessica Lang Dance 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Tea sets and dinner plates are sharing the Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space with percussion instruments, mysterious figurines and geometric abstractions. In the galleries: Two photographers, two perspectives 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z On the other hand, she might not have been able to explore the politics of abstraction as beautifully as she has. Museum and Gallery Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:03:39Z And new strains of geometric abstraction like Op Art and other eye-boggling experiments with optical kineticism in the 1960s added motion — or the illusion of it — to his repertory. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z Erica Baum reveals the random abstracting powers of the book index — “Nude Figures, Shells, Triumphs” — while reminding us that poetry is but another form of abstraction. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z Meanwhile, a carousel of projected slides, handmade from papers and gels, introduces an abstraction of commonplace materials in miniature, underscoring the precision of the larger arrangement. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z “He lets the wood speak” — and, in so doing, pushes the viewer to comprehend his ideas about abstraction in a new way. Art and Design: Ellsworth Kelly?s Wood Sculptures in Boston 2011-11-27T05:07:13Z The actors here spend a lot of time doing everyday activities — mime calling cards like showering, toothbrushing — that made me long for the abstraction of dance or the greater specificity of an actual toothbrush. Review: In ‘Skin,’ More Than Words and Sometimes Less 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Enthusiasm for the war is captured in several flag-bedecked images by Childe Hassam, alongside intense agony about conflict in abstractions by Marsden Hartley. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Moments earlier, Horton had demonstrated the point while recording a ballad titled “Noumena,” with a hymnlike calm that spiraled into agitated abstraction. Jazz Musicians Unite With One Goal: Celebrating Frank Kimbrough 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Black abstraction, Moten said, emerges from social existence, as in the “outsider” art of Thornton Dial or the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Ala. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The little print's jagged black-and-white sharpness is the apparent "Hard Edged" feature heralded in the show's title, which refers to the geometric abstraction of the 1950s and 1960s known as "hard edge" painting. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The complexity of “The Future” is contained in its title, which refers simultaneously to a terrifying abstraction — an unknowable territory bounded by death, eternity, the end of time — and to a concrete, trivial fact. | 'The Future': Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More 2011-07-28T22:44:40Z Her work is a balance on the edge of abstraction and reality and her predominating colors are muted. Oils that are different, yet complementary, at Prographica 2014-04-03T20:49:48Z "The film is really an abstraction, really only a very minor part of it is autobiographical," he said during a recent phone call from Paris. 'Jealousy' a Garrel family endeavor to create art from loss 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The bullets pierced paint-filled plastic bags beneath the canvas, which bled out to create a drippy abstraction. Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z It proves that the old — in this case striped abstraction — can be made new again and that necessity remains the mother of invention for young art dealers. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Visually, the grim background abstraction demands the same attention as the airless foreground. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Advocates on one side insisted that art, to be black and powerful, had to declare its politics forthrightly, which abstraction could not do. Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Inside the park the other artists’ sculptures also evoke versions of elemental humanism inflected by Modernist types of abstraction. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z Meanwhile, potentially interesting, distinguishing details about Brazilian culture are muted by the director’s commitment to abstraction. ‘My Darling Supermarket’ Review: Cosmic Tales From the Checkout Lane 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s a thriller about hackers, starring Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, and Wei Tang, but it also looks like a work of an awesome abstraction—like an exemplary “late film.” Which Movies to See in January 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The results range from crisply composed still lifes to the ombré abstractions of his acclaimed “Aggregates” series. Bright Prospects: John Houck 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z True to his words, the designer showed deft draping, punctuated with industrial metallics, reflecting the angular mirrors that turned the set into an abstraction of a dressing room. 2010-02-16T13:29:00Z “Applied arts and abstraction, not one or the other. She conjured a language of abstraction from a background of arts and crafts.” A Swiss Dada Pioneer Finally Gets Her Spotlight 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The essay brings all the abstractions home, makes real and painful the cost of ceding an independence of mind. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But some mid-20th-century abstraction shunned brushes altogether in favor of pouring, dripping and spattering. Review | In the galleries: In two exhibitions, three painters put aside their brushes 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z And that, maybe, is the most delicate facet of the cinematographer’s art: To make sure that even abstractions we can’t see, like thoughts and feelings, are always clearly visible. Remembering Haskell Wexler, a Cinematographer More Passionate Than Medium Cool 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Hamid draws enchantment from abstraction, in the style of a fairy tale, and his narrative vantage point shifts through time and space with a godlike equanimity. A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Colors are blurred, bleached and bled together in such a way that the boundaries between representation and abstraction all but vanish. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z That curve is echoed in the rising and falling roofline of the front facade, an abstraction of nearby hills. At Sandy Hook Elementary, a new campus and a new start at site of horror 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It also offers a reminder that the history of modernist abstraction, and women’s contribution to it, is still being written. The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The abstraction of the design renders its daytime illegibility a little less disappointing. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z On his trio’s new record, “The Other Side,” out Friday on ECM, Tord Gustavsen toys with atmosphere and partial abstraction: He’s engaged with the tenets of Norwegian jazz, basically. The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Plus: Hard-edge abstraction, Picasso lithographs and 100 portraits in 100 minutes. Datebook: Youth culture in L.A., Picasso's prints and Isa Genzken's tribute to Michael Asher 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z They are among the things worked into the textured landscapes and abstractions of “Accumulation,” the Virginia artist’s show at Touchstone Gallery. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Their music is architecturally sturdy, borrowing from electro and house, and also florid and misty, taking in some of dub music’s abstractions. How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Mixing that inspiration with the helmets of the Japanese Goldrake robots, Mr. Tisci’s imagination produced the most slender and delicate dresses, using Japanese cranes as symbols and abstractions of an obi sash in leather. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z They include horizontally oriented abstractions whose wavy, partly overlaid lines suggest landscapes, specifically the rolling terrain west of Berman’s Kansas City base. In the galleries: This quilter doesn’t use fabric or thread for his patchwork 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z His recent sensuous abstractions, 20 of which culled from the past 10 years are on show here, tend to be larger and more direct. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z And then, of course, there is the photography itself, which ranges from street photography to figurative portraits to abstraction and minimalism. Impressive exhibition tells the story of Latin America in pictures 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Heavy on parallels and antitheses, they’re even heavier on abstractions, the words just a syllable or two, on rare occasions three, almost never four: Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z He famously said that music and architecture were opposites, that music is completely about abstraction. Rafael Viñoly, From the Drawing Board to the Keyboard 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z They perform a precarious balancing act between symbolic figurative associations and abstraction derived from the inherent qualities of materials in space. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z For a private collector who is interested in optics, color and abstraction, "this is a beautiful unique work with a real physical presence," Ms. Klein said. ArtsBeat: A Guided Tour for a Wannabe Collector at Art Basel Miami 2012-12-07T01:12:22Z Knowing how an event occurred removes it from the realm of abstraction — and genocide has, unfortunately, become an almost abstract term. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In her hands a painting could turn into wallpaper, which could serve as the backdrop for a performance; a beaded handbag and a geometric abstraction could provoke in equal measure. Seeking Historical Exhibits That Speak to the Here and Now 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The terminal, though unique in its form and abstraction in this predominantly traditional city, was designed contextually. Zaha Hadid’s First Posthumous Project Is Inaugurated in Salerno 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z It's an abstraction, really, a comedy about existential cares and social mores in the absence of society. 'Last Man on Earth' is dark in a strangely sunny way 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z But as a Christian who worked very much in that realm, Mr. Choi had his own riff on abstraction, Mr. Lee said. Two Korean Art Pioneers Score the Spotlight at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The more ambitious, Spring/Break Art Show, offers shake-it-all-up collaborations between artists and curators, while Volta is a mixed bag, but with a strong streak of playful abstraction. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z As she grew increasingly absorbed in the realities of her Native American ancestry, she approached them through a series of powerful diptychs that juxtaposed landscapes and symbolic abstraction. Kay WalkingStick’s American History 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Written by Misan Sagay, “Belle” tracks its heroine’s dawning awareness of both her own social, political and legal position and that of the black slaves who, initially, exist for her only as abstractions. Movie Review: ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century 2014-05-01T22:04:13Z First it began incorporating all manner of found objects and nontraditional materials; then it lifted brilliant color from painting and achieved new levels of abstraction. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z The spare purity of the final pas de deux offers a glimpse of the unity of body and spirit, emotion refined into abstraction. Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Most of the paintings teem with busy brush-strokes that bring them right to the edge of abstraction. Jeffrey Simmons’ fastidious geometries in watercolor 2013-01-16T20:29:07Z Here Waldman’s abstractions, with their rhythmic thrust and variation, might be best read out loud. A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z His abstractions on paper are really circuits, hand-drawn in pencil or with powdered graphite for the express purpose of carrying an electrical current. Art in Review: David Goldes: ‘Electro-graphs’ 2014-03-13T21:15:03Z Unexpectedly, the most moving section is the upbeat middle one; it is alternately dreamy and playful, an abstraction of a cruelly arrested childhood. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Plays Arvo Pärt 2012-11-19T22:51:43Z The door is almost an abstraction of the style, drawing on some elements, stripping away others, emphasizing a commanding, classical authority. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z Relish in abstraction did not preclude an interest in figural art. Review: Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art 2010-02-26T18:30:00Z The bookwork plays with sequencing interrupted and reversed time; the wall-based version of the work is an important transitional moment between abstraction and figuration in my practice. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z I told him “Look at what Africans did with abstraction; talk about spirit!” A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z A spate of recent stuffed-stocking sculptures carries on Ms. Lucas’s bodily abstractions and obsessions, generally continuing in the same vein as before. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z When the atonal, reverb-soaked abstraction “Whales” threatened to get too heavy, Branch interrupted her own guttural drones to yell to the sound man. Jaimie Branch trumpets a note of fun into avant-garde jazz 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The drama of “Leave No Trace” is diffuse and vague, but its lack of specificity opens the door to the powerful abstraction of a central and decisive idea. Review: “Leave No Trace” Explores the Ground in Which Poisonous Politics Grow 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “Hard hits create abstraction and I ‘paint’ with targeted fine hits.” VP’s historic election celebrated in cracked glass portrait 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Young Yves pretty much began his career with abstraction, which may help explain how he went so far beyond it. Art Review: ?Yves Klein,? Retrospective at Hirschorn Museum 2010-06-03T21:58:00Z But it does rather brutally ignore the history of African-American abstraction. At the Met Museum, an Abstract Show That Falls Short of Epic 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In recent decades many historians and theorists have averred that the triumph of abstraction during the two decades after World War II — culminating in Minimalism and Color Field painting — was partly enabled by anti-communist paranoia. Art Review: Montclair Art Museum Shows: ‘Oscar Bluemner,’ ‘New Spirit’ 2013-04-25T20:48:24Z But I’m more interested in ideas and abstractions than stories – even my own stories. Meghan Daum on Rolling Stone, personal essays, Internet culture: “We’re so driven by the idea that one person’s story can guide an entire narrative” 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z One commonality is that they are “playing between figuration and abstraction,” in the words of Carlyn Thomas, a curatorial assistant who worked on the show — a balance similar to Ms. Thomas’s own art. Meet the Artists in Mickalene Thomas’s Orbit 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z To preserve the gossamer sense of abstraction she imagined, Ms. Lash wrote the poetic libretto herself. ‘Desire’ Is an Operatic Glimpse Into a Secret Garden 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z All eight contributors are photographers or videographers, but their modes range from realism to symbolism to abstraction. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z After preliminaries the two of them embarked, wrote McEwan, “on a long conversation oddly compounded of intimacy and abstraction.” Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The back-and-forth, at once mutually admiring and desperately competitive, between Lowell’s Bostonian abstraction and Mailer’s New York Jewish caginess is the material of high comedy, expertly analyzed even as it is experienced. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Smith and Chamlee’s images are closer to abstraction than landscape photography. Icelandic magic: One U.S. couple's excursions, on view at Photo L.A. 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z He also argues that getting rid of the “bad habits” of abstraction, pretension and verbal obfuscation will help everyone to “think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration.” George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z But I was drawn to an effortless, thrilling abstraction full of floating light that I couldn’t identify. MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, when people were inundated with austere geometric abstraction, many missed the heart. A 'real' portrait of 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z What was once a teasing abstraction has become an implacable reality. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z We don’t know why he suddenly felt compelled to choose between abstraction and the figure, having facilitated their peaceful coexistence for more than a decade. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z They raise questions like, Is there such a thing as black abstraction? At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Instead of the giant red lips that Man Ray floated above a low horizon, Oppenheim suspends a squadron of kite-like diamond shapes in red, orange and yellow, conjuring ’60s abstraction, Pop Art and commercial design. Meret Oppenheim: Enough With That Tempest in a Teacup 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But for most music lovers, the Pietà undoubtedly remains an abstraction. Review: Europa Galante Tells the Story of a Musical Orphan in ‘Chiara’s Diary’ 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The Brazilian artist Lygia Clark insisted that her geometric painting was true abstraction, with no representational content; later, however, she developed untraditional forms of malleable, wearable sculpture and sometimes designed them to have therapeutic properties. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z Sometimes he slathered it over sections that had been masked off with tape — which he tore off to form hard-edged abstractions whose optical kick is intensified by their dimensionality. Albert Contreras lived an artist's life — twice 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z He is not a character so much as an absence of one, an abstraction in the middle of a mundane slice of suburban life. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z They indicate a familiarity with 20th-century abstraction: Mondrian’s quietly robust brushwork, and the levitating compositions of Kandinsky, Miró and Léger. Review: Flora Crockett, a Forgotten Abstract Painter 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z These sculptures brought a new level of abstraction to assemblage and the notion of “junk sculpture.” An Appraisal: Helen Frankenthaler and John Chamberlain ? an Appraisal 2011-12-28T00:42:54Z This is a world that typically, and often to a fault, values abstraction, ambiguity and the space for audiences to choose their own adventures. Dance Review: ‘Self Made Man Man Made Land,’ by Ursula Eagly 2012-08-13T19:16:12Z It shifts between the topical and the symbolic, factuality and abstraction, the same way its soundtrack alternates protest chants, pop songs and hymns. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z The five copper sculptures that he calls “We the People” look like generic abstraction. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2007, he called his pictures “abstractions from daily life,” saying “they may look natural but they are extremely crafted, very calculated.” Tony Gleaton, 67, Dies, Leaving Legacy in Pictures of Africans in the Americas 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z As he continues to challenge himself, West is also trying to work with "more abstraction". Kanye West: new album is 'Avatar-level masterwork' 2010-08-09T11:23:00Z As abstraction may be a matter of gesture or geometry, he superimposes and combines the two. Albert Oehlen ? review 2011-08-09T12:59:00Z Bearing this in mind as you contemplate John Pai’s winsome bronzes or Leo Valledor’s cool, nearly monochrome acrylics gives their abstraction a special kind of crackle. Art We Saw This Fall 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In other words, its abstraction makes it completely current, a dance for the state of the company and the state of the world. Review: Bent by the Pandemic, the Graham Company Dances On 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z For many Modernists, decoration is criminal, but Mr. Perrault respected the decorative arts tradition of Versailles and translated figurative forms into abstractions that highlight shape, material and light itself. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The words floated in front of moody video images, mostly black and white, blurred to evocative abstraction. Music Review: Schoenberg?s ?Pierrot Lunaire? by Chicago Symphony 2012-02-26T21:30:51Z Several beautiful portraits of mothers nursing their babies deliver both a tender realism and a broad-stroke abstraction of the visceral connection between mother and child. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z One of the few black art dealers, then and now, Mr. N’Namdi opened his first gallery in Detroit in 1981 and focused on black artists working in abstraction. Race, Loyalty and Transparency in an Artist’s Lawsuit 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Her paintings combine a distinctly urban jangle with a slightly tawdry, rather literal inner light, while deftly sampling abstract strategies that range from Frank Stella’s stripe paintings through lyrical abstraction to graffiti art. Art in Review: KELTIE FERRIS: KF + CM 4EVER 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z Matisse had been recognized for the explosive colors he employed as a Fauve artist, which preceded his epiphanies with Cubist abstraction. Matisse's "aha" moment subject of U.S. museum show 2010-03-23T22:35:00Z But “Printemps à Montmartre,” painted a year later, is a scintillating landscape that remains figural and at the same time reveals a leap toward abstraction. Art Review: Severini and Van Dongen, Restless in a Rudderless 20th Century 2011-06-10T12:19:58Z His set suggests a cozy abstraction of a well-scrubbed single-room wooden house, furnished with straight-backed chairs that hang from the rear wall. Review: ‘The Color Purple’ on Broadway, Stripped to Its Essence 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Evil triumphs when we view living human beings as abstractions. Review | What the ‘Resistance Library’ shows us about America’s struggles today 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Neo-Expressionism, abstraction, graffiti, feminism, Conceptualism, Pop and appropriation are among the tendencies, strategies and influences to be highlighted. The Whitney Revisits the ’80s, a Decade of Macho and Money 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z With a palette of photographic black, white and gray, accented in blues and reds, he created weightless abstractions; solids and voids intersect in optical puzzles. Knud Lonberg-Holm: ‘The Invisible Architect’ 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Let’s start with the living room: big colorful abstractions by your generational peers. The Surprising Tale of One of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z One voice hardly ever responds to what another has said, as if the four abstractions were true oppositions, or sealed off from each other like the four elements. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z In violation of the tenets of American abstraction, he embraced the frame, emphasizing its presence by painting on it directly, or including framing rectangles in the painting. Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z His instincts as a composer often lead him toward flowing melody, as on the album’s opener, “Song for Balkis,” a fanfare that yields to kaleidoscopic abstraction. New Music: A New Album From Billy Hart and the Soundtrack to ?Once? 2012-03-26T22:44:04Z If one had to point to bodies of historical painting with which his art is closely aligned, African-American abstraction of the 1960s and ’70s would certainly be one. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z It should be said, the immigrants and races he invokes remain abstractions. Second Thoughts in the Second City 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He used delay and reverb on his trumpet, in long, floating tones and scrabbling figures; his music got closer to the ideal of pure abstraction than that of many of his colleagues. Bill Dixon, Voice of Avant-Garde Jazz, Dies at 84 2010-06-19T21:25:00Z The D.C. painter is known for blending ash, powder and pine needles into rough-surfaced black-and-white abstractions. In the galleries: Artwork that’s designed to fail 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z I can't recall another act of violence on this show or on "The Wire" that turned perpetrators of violent crime into wraithlike abstractions, like something out of a "Death Wish" movie. "Treme's" cheap, ugly showstopper 2011-05-09T03:09:00Z Each of the earlier shows was built around a broad art genre: figurative painting in one case, abstraction in the other. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z Whitney White, who is directing the Soho Rep production, said the play’s abstractions make sense for the current moment in New York theater. Zawe Ashton: On Broadway and Off Broadway, All at Once 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It looks like a systematized abstraction of tossing and turning in bed. Review: The Stephen Petronio Company Reconnects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The show, subtitled "arrival of the modern mind" explores the moment human brains began to embrace abstraction, symbolism and imagination. British Museum puts art from the Ice Age on show 2013-02-05T14:17:08Z They refuse to coalesce into legibility, continually hinting at different possibilities: abstraction, overgrown garden, messy studio, a naturalist’s curio cabinet. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The etchings look like gestural abstractions but are actually derived from the greasy fingerprint trails we create on our phone screens. The growing divide between wealth and poverty, as seen through one German artist's eyes 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The dualities of observation and abstraction, intimacy and distance, often led critics to discover poetry and metaphor in Havas' work. A tribute to Paul Havas, skilled NW landscape painter 2012-03-07T22:57:03Z It’s as though the figure is surfacing from the abyss of color-field abstraction. In the galleries: New perspectives on Old Masters 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But his blues phrasing often veers toward abstraction, his notes smearing and disappearing without an alibi — like a nose on a canvas shrewdly misplaced. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z What happens when an author manages to translate this horror from an abstraction to a gripping tale of immediate particulars? Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Is Emotional, Planetary and Very Turbulent 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Some inclusions look stronger than they did the first time around, including Polly Apfelbaum’s diaphanous dotted abstractions on white silk velvet. Art Exhibitions From Chelsea to the Lower East Side 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Much like the larger picture, the introduction switches between art house abstraction and blunt-force action, and opens on a man as beautifully sculptured and silent as a Michelangelo slab. A Mobster’s Tale in ‘Salvo,’ With Saleh Bakri 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z What O’Keeffe added to nature-based abstraction was sensuality, and Stieglitz was enthralled, first by the art, which he saw in 1916, then by the artist, whom he met later. Art Review: Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-10-13T22:23:17Z When Gaines was selected to participate in the 1975 Whitney Biennial, the curators chose to include one of his older abstraction paintings. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Studies in pencil or crayon demonstrate Ianculescu’s interest in rounded forms, as does “Portal,” the only abstraction. In the galleries: At annual benefit show, the world goes round 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The situation was not much beautified by the exhibition, which, leaning toward colorless abstraction and dry conceptualism, refers obliquely to various ideas about language. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He began showing in exhibitions and, working in wood, terra cotta and metal, he embraced abstraction. William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Its sagging and dented bars of yellow, blue and beige, punctuated with hints of red, form an imperfect grid, a kinder, gentler, more fallible take on hard-edge abstraction. The delight of 'Birdy Croissant' and Anna Fasshauer's other magical, metal creations 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z But abstraction and primitivism are not typical of Rodin. A Centenary and Recent Discoveries Shine a Spotlight on Rodin 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z He challenged the boundaries of realism and abstraction with a boldness that predated Impressionist greats such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Turner's Rome masterpiece breaks records at London auction 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z She moved fairly quickly, though, to nonreferential abstraction, using handmade papers she bought and fabrics she accumulated: strips of worn clothing, ribbons and other sewing basket detritus. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z De Kooning also dropped the figure for pure abstraction not long before Altoon painted his "Ode." LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “Tastes have changed recently, and although abstraction has been difficult, people are more open to it now.” Arts & Leisure: Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color 2012-01-20T13:01:06Z What these abstractions represent is determined by the eye of the individual viewer, not the supposed brain of the devices that fashioned them. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The main exhibition, “A Constellation,” includes the work of 26 artists and focuses on themes of abstraction, the figure and the history of the African diaspora. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But if people resist the moral abstractions we peddle — if that resistance is “an enduring element in ordinary people’s defense of their identities” — then our humility must be so much the greater. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The doctrine goes something like this: Western art of the early 20th century develops in a single direction, toward abstraction. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Dickerman places new emphasis on abstraction as a great collective endeavor that emerged simultaneously across several mutually influencing art forms, from the hands of players who often knew one another. Art Review: ‘Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925,’ at MoMA 2012-12-20T22:03:36Z The tightly wrought stories of classic Hollywood movies are works of extraordinary abstraction, which accounts for their success and their allure, but Crowe takes them at their word, as documentaries of populist can-do spirit. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Paintings and sculpture that give geometric abstraction a digital feel. Datebook: Queer art in all its complexity and digital paintings that get naughty 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Despite being famed for his abstractions, “Ellsworth drew a portrait of himself or someone else every day of his life,” Mr. Rondeau said. Honoring Ellsworth Kelly’s Work by Giving it Away 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Florence von Gerkan’s costumes are wonderful, stark, bizarre — cutting, like the music, a wide swath through the Renaissance, geometric abstraction and contemporary references like the Batman symbol. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z In the century that exalted abstraction as new and radical, Magritte favored a crisp, hyper-lucid brand of figuration that betrayed no trace of his individual brush strokes. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The dark humor, vibrant color and eccentricity that are hallmarks of Ms. Schutz’s imaginative narrative paintings, which mix abstraction and figuration, will be fully on view in this show of her recent work. Notable Museum Openings This Spring and Summer 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Immediately before and after describing his drunken car ride, Hopps talks about art, in his characteristically granular way: Lobdell’s paintings are full of “blunt and atavistic” biomorphism, hovering “right on the edge of abstraction.” The remarkable curator Walter Hopps and the less than perfect book about him, 'The Dream Colony' 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Listeners who overlooked Mr. Babbitt’s philosophical abstractions and thorny analyses — who simply sat back and listened, rather than trying to understand his harmonies and structural processes — often discovered works of great expressive variety. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z Even as he pushed familiar objects to the point of abstraction, isolating them from the world and arranging them with geometric lucidity, he was meticulous about shadows, reflected light and texture. Perspective | Wayne Thiebaud’s artistic eye was so much keener than pop art confections 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Haile King Rubie, 26, explores ideas of African and Caribbean culture in his acrylic abstractions and paintings on found objects like bottles. Kanye West Will Perform at a Benefit for the Watermill Center 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z An alphabet soup of militias, with names invoking lofty abstractions like Liberation and Reconciliation, contend for power, split into factions and victimize civilians. Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ a Brutal Tale of Child Soldiers in Africa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Trengove shoots the film in intimate wide-screen, getting in close to the performers as their characters tamp down explosive feelings, often letting the spectacular landscapes behind them break down into soft-focus abstractions. Review: Boys Become Men in the Unsettling ‘The Wound’ 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s an abstraction of a battle, and yet you see cavalry, steeds, scouts and corpses, all in constant motion. Dance Review: David Gordon?s ?Dancing Henry Five? - Review 2011-10-08T00:39:12Z But something curious has happened on the trip from screen to stage: a layer of abstraction has set in. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z At UCLA's Royce Hall on Thursday, his multiracial 10-member company, Abraham.In.Motion, faultlessly executed his style of postmodern abstraction — a style as comfortable with modern dance vocabularies as movement born on the street. 'Watershed' misses its moment to commemorate civil rights 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z They were known almost as much for their raucous, hard-partying ways as for their exploration of minimalism, abstraction and Pop art. Moses, Ruscha, Bell, Bengston: Backstage with the Cool School of artists, cooler than ever 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z By fortunate coincidence, SAM has just acquired a major O’Keeffe abstraction, “Music—Pink and Blue No. 1,” and Papanikolas is ready to make it a department feature. Seattle Art Museum’s new curator of American art aims to bring creativity to continuity 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Much of “The Founder” deals in the dramatization of abstractions. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z There, she started painting as soon as she landed — playing with various facets of abstraction — and she soon began to get traction in galleries and museums. It's about time world-famous painter Marcia Hafif gets a SoCal solo museum show 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Taya Kyle, who offered emotional testimony at the trial of her husband's killer, also made appearances on behalf of the film, providing a stark real-life reminder of the abstractions of a movie screen. 'American Sniper' trial: Chris Kyle killer sentenced to life in prison 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The artist first exhibited them in 1970, abandoning his earlier abstractions to face down the evil that he first saw as a young Jewish boy in Los Angeles. The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z In that way, the abstraction of animation — its distance from reality — reflects the material. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Benton, however, did not change, or changed in the wrong, retrograde direction, going from experiments with vanguard modes, including abstraction, to the nativist realism that briefly made his name. ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ by Justin Wolff 2012-06-29T22:17:16Z “The untutored form of mark making and the ideas of representation and abstraction were such an important influence in the development of his own oeuvre and arguably in the development of Modern art.” How Childhood Inspires Artists and Their Art 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z There will be spaces that introduce visitors to abstraction and others that tell the story of figuration. Inside Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z At the same time, they’re far too specific to be mere symbols or abstractions — each glazed but unpolished form is an exhaustive record of Fattal’s every pinch and poke. The Week in Arts: Martha Graham, ‘Ink’ and Let’s Eat Grandma 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Lines in black, blue, yellow and red come together to form pictures of people, urban landscapes and explosive abstractions. 'A way for me to honor them': artist Jaime Scholnick on her Gaza images 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “Employing certain traditions of white, European landscape painters but trying to shatter that through abstraction, and through cave paintings too.” Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Bioh’s salon isn’t an abstraction or callback; it’s a Black business set in modern-day Harlem. When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Her selfie stick sculptures are clumsy, combinations of lumpy organic forms a la William Tucker, and upright wood planks familiar to much postwar abstraction. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z All the while he moved fluidly between aspects of abstraction and nature, summoning the skills of an engineer, a painter, a sculptor and a jewelry maker. Review: Alexander Calder’s Intimate, Encompassing ‘Multum in Parvo’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Plus: wild abstractions, sculptures made of salt and collages of flowers crafted with gold leaf. Datebook: A film on losing words, bedsheet paintings, sculptures of salt 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z If he used the glib formulae so common in painting today, such as whimsical abstraction and projected outline images, he might get away, as others do, with a total lack of true painterly knowledge. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z In words and pictures this volume follows her closely as she considers abstraction’s many possibilities. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They call the series , but with so many events happening in so many places, the Iron Throne that everyone is actually fighting over often seems to be a distant abstraction. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky 2012-05-28T15:20:17Z It’s a dreamcatcher of a story that works better the closer it gets to pure abstraction and fantasy. Review: The Cryptic Sparkles in ‘The OA.’ Reality Disappoints. 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s as quiet as Klaidman’s topographic abstraction, whose worn hues suggest earth and erosion. Review | In the galleries: Ghostly presences at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z In a group of photo collages and three-dimensional, puzzle-like sculptures from the 1960s, the artist arranged close-up shots of naked, female body parts into undulating, all-over abstractions or shapes that suggest flowers or landscapes. Hard truths and savage intensity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z So, the abstraction could leave football fans scratching their heads. An Ellsworth Kelly for Football Fans 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Several of the six artists, all local, use staining, a technique once associated with the Washington school of color abstraction. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The two men were in the habit of exchanging postcard-size sketches, with Mr. Kelly laying down fields of color and Mr. Indiana adding large words atop the abstractions. ‘LOVE’ and Other Four-Letter Words 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z This doesn’t only prevent the reader from equating abstraction with the highbrow. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z For him, there is no tension among abstraction, beauty and honest expression. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Bold, colorful geometric abstraction characterized his commercial work as well as his paintings. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z As Balanchine, Merce Cunningham and Mark Morris all observed, you cannot have abstraction where there are human beings on a stage. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z Everything goes into Maggie Michael’s eclectic abstractions, including ink, clay, charcoal, collage, river water and acrylic, spray and house paint — as well as literary and art-history references. Review | In the galleries: Tehran doesn’t reveal itself readily 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z On occasions the photographer would blur his St. Patrick’s photographs, and on their own the streaky abstractions have little to commend them. Review: ‘Donald Blumberg Photographs,’ Observing America on the Streets and From the Sofa 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z By 1948, when his family was reunited in London, Mr. Stanczak was making small, patterned abstractions in bright colors or in black and white. Julian Stanczak, Abstract Painter, Dies at 88 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z There are some familiar Harjo motifs—celestial bodies, mythic and anthropomorphized animals—and a few heavy-hitting abstractions: “Grief is killing us. Anger tormenting us. Sadness eating us with disease,” she writes in one poem. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Down on the fourth floor, regional divisions drop away and the representation vs. abstraction debate plays out. Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But the pressure they felt to keep art and activism apart became close to unbearable for many of the most acclaimed practitioners of abstraction and minimalism. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z These works navigate the divide between abstraction and representation with a form of geometric figuration that owes less to Cubo-Futurism than to de Chirico, architectural rendering and early Renaissance painting of the Sienese kind. Art In Review: MERNET LARSEN: ‘Three Chapters’ 2012-10-04T21:09:17Z That became a conventional query in the 20th century, after pure abstraction erased traditional requirements for skill at mimesis in painting, while the advent of found objects did something similar for sculpture. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z It seems to cross the stick figures of Keith Haring with rigorous geometric abstraction. Anthony Elms Prepares for the Whitney Biennial 2014-02-14T19:28:38Z Within the latter category, this residence is more focused on established and midcareer artists; their house in southern Ontario features up-and-comers; in New York City, it’s all about midcentury Color Field abstractions. It’s O.K. if a Deal Falls Through. There’s Always More Art. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Because of what happened at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the year also ended up becoming the end, in a sense, of Calder’s first classic period of abstraction. Alexander Calder in 1941, at the Pace Gallery 2011-10-18T15:27:51Z The blend of realism and abstraction creates an aura of fantasy, hinting at the absurd expectations of propriety surrounding race and gender. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Why is abstraction often associated with male-inflected industrial things and materials, like house paint and hot lead, and industrial processes like distilling, refining, abrading and polishing? Review | Artist Lynda Benglis became controversial in an instant, but her career has thrived for decades 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z By that time other proponents of geometric abstraction — notably, Mondrian — had already made a strong impression. Art Review: It All Started With a Simple Square 2011-03-11T00:05:42Z Within a few years he moved from abstraction to graffiti, which fascinated Ms. de Kooning, recalled Mr. Haze, 59, who grew up in Manhattan. Alone With Their Muses, Artists in Retreat Wonder if It’s Too Much 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But abstraction, in several varieties, proved to be double-edged. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z His films can look as though they were predicting abstraction's later development. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z This year’s Bethesda Painting Awards appear to split equally between abstraction and representation, a divide that was once more of an ideological rift than it is today. Review | In the galleries: Juried competition puts regional artists at center stage 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Absent having a specific chief executive to write to, he’s writing to us, hoping we’ll look beyond the dun-colored conventions of conservationist arguments — statistics, abstractions — when we consider our despoiled planet. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Turner overturned 19th century conventions, challenging the boundaries of realism and abstraction with a boldness that foreshadowed Impressionists such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Turner's Rome masterpiece to go under the hammer 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z They should be looking for quality, pure and simple, and the fact is that quality in British art in the 21st century often means abstraction, installation or video. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z The result is an elegantly opaque abstraction, in melancholy layers of purple and gray, that echoes the questions of loss and longing that Mr. Hunter asks in his play. Behind the Poster: 'The Whale' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z These works serve as the jumping-off point for a new exhibition at the Flag Art Foundation that explores the radical abstraction techniques of contemporary artists across multiple generations. These Abstract Works of Art Blur the Line Between Two and Three Dimensions 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z His abstraction wasn’t remote from representation, merely a heightening of its expressive power. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z His waterlilies hang suspended in time and space, in paintings that melt into abstraction. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z “But then on the other hand, he was also trying to amend what he thought was the tendency toward abstraction in Cahiers criticism.” At the Movies With François and Hitch 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Assassination by remote control transforms its target into an abstraction, and can consequently seem more sinister than ordinary combat. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Carlos J. Soto’s costumes hint at abstraction, rather than declaim distance as a goal. Review: A ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Plays Out in Shadows and Light 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition of starkness, abstraction and realism might have worked well had Mr. McVicar left it at that. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Salahi freely interweaves Modernist abstraction, Arabic calligraphy and architectural motifs. MoMA Takes a Stand: Art From Banned Countries Comes Center Stage 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z But this rethought and more antagonistic “Monochromatic Light” strikes a new richness in New York, and it affirms how abstraction can give form to suffering and freedom in ways more straightforward expression so often cannot. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Photograph: Columbia Records The cover's format was like a small canvas which lent itself to artistic experimentation, and Steinweiss's work was highly symbolic, incorporating elements of abstraction, and even cubism. Alex Steinweiss obituary 2011-08-05T17:07:37Z When speaking of the suicide of someone he knew only as a comic abstraction, Humphry says, “People we convert into jokes have an obligation not to do that sort of thing.” Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z The abstractions turn away from modern ideas of artistic progress — the present building on the past in an advancing march on the road to a glorious if unseen future. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z “I fell in love with abstraction right away, especially geometric abstraction,” he said in the interview with Dr. Ramos. Freddy Rodríguez, Artist Who Explored His Dominican Roots, Dies at 76 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z It also meant that abstraction was virtually inevitable. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z While it is nothing new to combine abstraction and representation, Ms. Schutz, as usual, adds realism to the mix. Art in Review: Dana Schutz: ‘Piano in the Rain’ 2012-06-07T22:46:18Z The Garden State, or at least a generic abstraction of it, plays a significant role in “Girl Most Likely,” which was written by Michelle Morgan and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Movie Review: In ‘Girl Most Likely,’ Kristen Wiig Has to Go Home Again 2013-07-18T21:25:47Z Although known as an Abstract Expressionist, he favored a style of geometric abstraction that stripped art to the bone. James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “It’s about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho ’50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint,” he said. Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Karen Rosenberg Artists have long suspected that the brief career of Blinky Palermo, who died in 1977 at age 33, is a missing puzzle piece in the history of postwar abstraction. The Week Ahead: Feb. 20 ? 26 2011-02-17T15:17:47Z The reason, Ms. Blazwick explained, is mainly that the aim was to display artists using geometric abstraction in connection with society. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Previously Ms. Boucher has been lost in abstractions; on this album she uses many of the same touchstones, but more directly. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z Here we see Klee adapt such Modernist staples as flatness, abstraction, the grid and evident process to his own carefully tended universe and its hypersensitive denizens. Art in Review: Paul Klee: ‘The Bauhaus Years’ 2013-06-06T18:18:58Z “Pure Painting” spans half a century, beginning with figurative abstractions of the 1940s and extending into representative works of his last years. A Vienna Museum Mounts a Monumental Look at Robert Motherwell 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Titled “Statements of Content,” his notations reinforce the revelations of the Albers/Price show nearby, offering us abstraction as an art of everyday life. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z From the air the canopy’s crosshatched design is an abstraction of the gridded farmland that lies on the far side of the train tracks and freeway. New UC Davis art museum hints at fresh directions for American architecture 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And Polly Apfelbaum does something similar in 1997, arranging little ovals of dyed velvet on the floor, temporarily evokes a luxurious rug and an abstraction that seems made of separate drops of color. Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition, which opens Thursday, includes many of his brilliantly colored paintings of buildings and seascapes known for combining abstraction with recognizable imagery. The Week Ahead: June 26 ? July 2 2011-06-24T14:32:49Z Things like “artistry” or “talent” are abstractions that do not trouble them. Fifth Harmony: A reminder of when girl groups dominated the pop landscape 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The heat of the inferno melted and fused its painted and plastered materials into a dense, lustrous abstraction. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Freud paints to this day with total commitment to reality and no interest whatsoever in abstraction. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z Among internationally minded postwar African artists, he was a pioneer in the melding of naturalism and abstraction, mixing African, Arabic and Western sources with fascinating inventiveness. Ibrahim El-Salahi: ‘Selected Works, 1962-2010’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The Brandenburgs are “a high point in the history of Bach, and very much embodied abstraction, moving architecture,” Ms. De Keersmaeker said. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z These pictures are very nearly abstractions, although their inspiration is tactile. Review | In the galleries: Tim Doud takes a tactile turn 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z An equally crucial musical component is the magnetic resonator piano, which pulses through the mournful blare of set opener Spiral and the abstraction of Fragment Two. These New Puritans – review 2013-06-20T16:59:19Z Yet Episode 11 proves that “Twin Peaks” isn’t merely an exercise in abstraction, either. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 11: There’s No Backup for This 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Harder to place in a spiritual context are Melissa Jessell’s lovely pastel abstractions; Victoria Ridgway’s collages of old snapshots; and Sue Wrbican’s video of a sculpture in motion before a glistening backdrop. Review | In the galleries: At U-Md. space, “UN/Sustainable” contemplates the environment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Richter’s paintings forge conversations between abstraction and representation, art and design, past and future. At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Ultimately, Ms. Blazwick said, the show aims to change certain fixed ideas about abstraction. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z In global cities bidding on commodity exchanges, trade in derivatives and bets on price movements transform labor and cotton into an abstraction. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z These she bends to Western traditions of formal abstraction. Valerie Jaudon's paintings: The more you look, the more you're pulled into her world 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This has been compared to a mashrabiya, and a mantilla, and an abstraction of a Cézanne painting, but its architect, Ricciotti, says it is "the rocky bottom of the ocean, lifted up". Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) – review 2013-06-08T23:05:15Z Here Gauguin was onto a genuinely fresh story, a radical, forward-looking one about a new visual language on the verge of abstraction. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z Instead, he ladles a quavering falsetto, frequently reminiscent of Antony Hegarty, over gorgeous trip-hop-hued electronic abstractions such as the skeletal, tremulous I Never Learnt to Share. James Blake – review 2013-04-10T15:15:01Z Her belief that abstraction was, in her words, “the true realism” never wavered — nor did she ever run out of ideas over her 40-year career. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Rockburne came of age with the Minimalists but never really identified with them; her later works look like post-painterly abstractions, but are deeply referential. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z For most of us, the debt seems like an abstraction. How Romney Can Reduce Spending While Repealing Obama's Cuts to Medicare 2012-08-15T06:07:56Z Outliers intersected with so many of the dominant currents — folk art, regionalism, surrealism, abstraction and even pop art — that to survey their contributions is to survey most of the larger field. Review | They were once outsiders, but now are embraced as American artists 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In keeping with the workshop spirit, the show proceeds by themes, grouping together, for instance, their images of Harlem community life, or their experiments with abstraction, or their approach to political events. ‘Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Josephine Decker’s “First Day Out,” from Ms. Baldwin’s slumbers, veers closer to abstraction, using the words of former inmates to form a percussive voice-over. Review: ‘collective:unconscious,’ the Stuff of Dreams Reinterpreted 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The participants, all based in Washington, both draw from and defy the principles of mid-20th-century abstraction. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Just as the show downplays abstraction, it also downplays New York, an important center of painting. Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The more contemporary art I saw, though, the less I saw myself in the specific and stilted story of modernism — one favoring abstraction and male creators — that MoMA was chronicling. In Praise of the Great Majority 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, he revolutionised sculpture, kicking away the plinth and ditching the smooth surfaces of his former employer, Henry Moore, in favour of rusted or glossily painted, welded steel abstractions. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z The twist: These sights are set among — or squeezed between — eye-grabbing abstractions. 'Synthetic' a colorful show at Winston W?chter 2011-07-21T19:37:04Z The physicality of Cromwell’s world is an expression of his character: he’s not a dreamer, he can’t afford to gather wool or traffick in abstractions. The Year in Novels So Far; Plus, Hilary Mantel! 2012-05-16T15:37:58Z “To celebrate beauty and culture through abstraction when the world was moving towards identity politics — she was kind of defiant in her position, and I have great respect for that.” Beatriz Milhazes Breaks the Circle 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Rather than choose between abstraction or realism, Lawrence deftly navigated between the two. Exhibit of iconic Jacob Lawrence series, reunited for first time since 1958, opens at Seattle Art Museum 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “From when I was very young, I wanted to understand how the body functions; things are dynamic even in abstraction for a painter.” Teaming Up to Pair Art and Ballet in American Ballet Theater’s ‘AfterEffect’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Jennie C. Jones is represented by work that uses acoustic panels to create classic, minimalist abstractions. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Ridley Scott is among the backers of Springsteen & I, a portrait of Bruce Springsteen that will be told through fans' "raw footage … personal insights, abstractions and reflections" about the singer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Beatles fans asked to contribute footage for new film 2012-11-16T10:52:00Z The first full-tilt abstraction is an energetic canvas by Wassily Kandinsky — coincidentally himself a great admirer of Rousseau's non-academic, unencumbered style. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z That sense of condensation and abstraction, joined to the majesty of her mere presence, pushed his films in the direction of melodrama. Ingrid Bergman’s Great Sacrifice for Cinematic Art 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z To Ms. Thomas, the prospect of contributing to a solidarity economy is a refreshingly tangible expression of her values, compared to the abstraction of accumulating portfolio returns. The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Though her images appear to be documentary, Rosales thinks of them as abstractions. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z And he tackles abstraction, the language of his first artistic heroes, the Abstract Expressionists. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z I was curious about how to get past a “victory of abstraction” as a kind of narrative in the way we understand painting. Mike Cloud: Painting Outside the Safe Space 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The equation of redaction and abstraction shifts the focus from government doings to conventions of art. Art In Review: JENNY HOLZER: ?Endgame? 2012-03-15T21:44:07Z One side, which tells the life of David in panels like those of the Crusader Bible, is a marvel of elegant figurative action, bold abstraction and eye-gripping colors and patterns. Exhibitions of Medieval Biblical Masterworks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Though she saw with the eye of a Modernist, her eye was eclectic rather than strict, and open to different forms of abstraction. Florence Knoll Bassett’s Collection to Be Auctioned 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Ohlson juggles the architecture of abstraction to open up consciousness of boundless space, all while emphasizing the painting's strictly finite material presence. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z She took the view that colours float, move and breathe, and her abstractions are landscape-based just as the work of the St Ives painters was, though she claimed no adherence to them. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z You can’t simply throw around hulking abstractions like “lies” and “fear” and “terror,” expecting the reader to mistake speechifying for wisdom. From New York to Barcelona, a Poet With His Eye on Politics 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z These form a hegemony as dominant and one-sided as formalist abstraction ever was. Art Review: In Five Chelsea Galleries, the State of Painting 2012-06-28T22:03:04Z Sonderborg, who made brash abstractions — and argues he learned from both their approaches. Michel Majerus Saw the Future— 20 Years Ago 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z You could quibble about the narrative abstraction of this “Romeo,” but it’s a version in which the movement — and the company’s uniformly marvelous dancing — carries the story. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Since the 1950s the figurative banner was held high by marvelous painters such as David Park in San Francisco, Jane Freilicher in New York and many others, but abstraction, nonetheless, ruled. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Those figurative demands collide with the conspicuously Modern urge for abstraction. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s so much easier to apply reason and logic to an analogy than to operate on an abstraction symbolically. How Can I Improve My Ability to Solve Hard Problems? 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z There she executed grand, nearly monochromatic abstractions that are more physical than anything before them. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, looking at his secret lover, Nick thinks, “In Wani, it was hard to distinguish complete attention from complete abstraction.” Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z On a smaller scale yet quite audacious are small acrylics painted atop reproductions of Mark Rothko abstractions printed on note cards. Review | In the galleries: A stylish mash-up of Japanese genres and African culture 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Thereon hang a few of his vividly colorful paintings combining abstraction and scabrous cartoon imagery. Frieze Art Fair at Randalls Island Park Offers a Bit of Everything 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “We have no word in English for this act which is not either a long abstraction or an evasive euphemism, and we are constantly running away from it, or dissolving into dots,” Professor Hoggart said. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z Survey respondents just don’t acknowledge this when asked about the shapeless abstraction known as “the news media.” Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z A reaction against overly complex, representative works, the art that emerged in this period was characterized by spareness and abstraction. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z And then we began to encounter the next wave: a new form of image-based art that would eventually be called Pop, and a new era of abstraction. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z There was a mournful Blue Period Picasso and a large and wiry Surrealist abstraction by Joan Miro. LACMA's 'Space Sculpture' shot from center stage to oblivion 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The abstractions begin in an unexpected place, with silk-screen fragments that derive from Baroque prints. A lively dance by Pia Fries 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The album is an idea, an abstraction, a sublime idealization of Coltrane’s religious philosophy. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Far from mental abstractions, they were meant to be touched; their solemn surfaces of concrete, stone or brick carried the weight of history. Architecture Review: Renzo Piano to Unveil Addition to Kahn?s Kimbell Museum 2010-05-26T22:53:00Z Mr. Halprin, who had been a fan of Ms. Asawa’s abstractions, complained that the mermaids looked like a suburban lawn ornament. Ruth Asawa, an Artist Who Wove Wire, Dies at 87 2013-08-17T23:07:13Z This tribute to the illustrious gallerist Virginia Zabriskie, who died last year at 91, replicates and extends a survey of abstraction in photography that she mounted in New York in 1989. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The quintet made magic of the soul abstraction, but in this case they needed no fuel from the audience. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Geissler’s aim is to communicate that beneath this abstraction, however, laborers are individuals. “Seasonal Associate” Is a Labor Memoir for the Amazon Era 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Paintings made by running a wallpaper roller or brayer incised with a grid pattern over canvas, and then applying calligraphic marks to the resulting grid, are pleasing abstractions in the vein of Mark Tobey. Art Review: At New Museum, Brion Gysin?s First Retrospective 2010-07-29T21:21:00Z Her temple paintings, made several years before Kandinsky’s first abstractions, languished unseen in her studio. Review | Hilma af Klint, the woman who painted the future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Each developed, in different disciplines — she in sculpture, he in design — rarefied forms of linear abstraction that converged in the medium of drawing, which is what this show is mostly composed of. Gego and Gerd Leufert: ‘A Dialogue’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z As in a Western, where the abstractions of modern bureaucracy don’t exist and all government is hands-on, the exertion of power in the Mob sphere is bluntly physical. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Francesca Fuchs makes small, wonderfully wan renditions of even smaller snapshots and drawings, including mats, frames and those frames’ shadows, that seem to be fading into the mist, toward abstraction. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z Ms. Benning fuzzes the distinction between abstraction and representation in “Rain Signal,” “Holes” and “Gun Blanket,” which suggests a pattern made of handguns being fired. Sadie Benning: ‘Patterns’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Geometric abstractions sanded down to perfection, they’re like something you’d find in nature: weathered stones on the beach or pieces of driftwood. 10 Galleries to Visit in Brooklyn and Queens 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t arty stuff going down — including a performance art festival, tapings for an online opera and a show of abstraction in Exposition Park. Datebook: A performance art fest, an online opera and African American abstraction 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “But at its best moments, it’s also a timely statement that identity is not just an abstraction but a matter of family, livelihood, life and death.” What’s On TV Sunday: ‘When We Rise’ and ‘Tickled’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z By making found abstractions, Hurley links his works to functional traditions that bypass fine art altogether. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z But here the redacted areas are painted to resemble types of Modernist abstraction. Art In Review: JENNY HOLZER: ?Endgame? 2012-03-15T21:44:07Z The film’s title refers both to Mr. Cenedella’s outspoken antipathy toward painterly abstraction and its attendant critical gobbledygook, and to his actual parentage. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But what’s truly different about their music is the way they weaponize their abstraction. Post Malone Smears All the Genres Into One (Emotions, Too) 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z She also points out that his closeted abstractions were the photographs he exhibited, while in his private collection he kept male nudes and portraits of same-sex lovers. Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Richter made abstractions at the same time as these photo paintings, but only in 1980 did he pick up a squeegee and drag it along successive layers of paint, to produce stammering, arrhythmic compositions. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Not surprising, he is still finding himself, swerving between an expressionistic abstraction and a romantic Minimalism that is very much of the moment. Art in Review: ‘I Am the Magic Hand’ and Antony: ‘The Cut’ 2013-06-27T20:04:50Z Machine drawings by landscape designer Alexander Robinson, director of the USC Landscape Morphologies Lab, are visually bland abstractions produced from topographical and other data. Meditations on southern California's water lifeline 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z To convey the act of painting, and the thinking of the painter, Winslow incorporates spectral figures, geometric shapes and regions of sheer abstraction. In the galleries: An artist’s past, present and future 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “There is the idea of a Patrick Bateman,” he says in the early in the narration, “some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory.” American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Otnes turned to abstraction in the early 1960s as magazines were increasingly moving away from illustrations in favor of photographs. Fred Otnes, Illustrator and Collage Artist, Dies at 89 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Yet where artists in São Paulo often took a rigorous approach to abstraction, Pape and her Rio colleagues Clark and Oiticica were dreamier. Lygia Pape’s Brazil, From the Beach to the Barricades 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z This is abstraction but reality based, as are the mysterious Shadows paintings. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z She saw exciting developments in abstraction, conceptualism, and performance emerging on both East and West Coasts. A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Once the mortally ill Queenie becomes a person and not just an abstraction, death and fear become part of the story. Books of The Times: ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ by Rachel Joyce 2012-07-29T21:26:22Z His personal life, meanwhile, remains an exquisite abstraction — close-ups of his mournful wife, scenes of domestic bliss and of horror — with none of the visceral realism of his fights. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z Mr. Nitegeka is best known for his use of abstraction, notably his dramatic installations that involve forests of crisscrossing plywood planks, connected at irregular angles, painted black. An Artist’s New Migration Song 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z While focusing on 19th-century objects, he made judicious use of a few contemporary artworks, hanging an abstraction by local painter Frank Faulkner, for example, in the traditional dining room. A Historic Hudson Valley Home 2014-01-21T05:00:00Z Many of the artist’s serene abstractions are inspired by flowers; slicing them into closely placed stalks makes them suggest forests. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores how castoff materials can be a venue to enlightenment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z From the outset it focused on avant-garde European artists, with Picasso – Guernica was shown at the second edition in 1953 – Giacometti and Magritte, but also on geometrical abstraction. São Paulo Bienal/ArtRio – review 2012-10-09T12:59:03Z Bonding as friends within a convergence of predigital scenes — punk music, skateboarding, graffiti, queer politics and zine publishing — they shared penchants for funky cartooning, offbeat social satire, quirky abstraction, folk art and old-fashioned graphic styles. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z Then, about ten years ago, her art took a profound and thrilling turn — painting gestural, calligraphic abstractions, bristling with unsettled tensions that evoke the dislocations of war and the disorder of the climate. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z They were visibly influenced by the idealism and playfulness that undergirded early 20th century abstraction — from cubism and Russian constructivism to Duchamp, Picabia and Léger. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Mondrian wanted to “create a spiritual space between the viewer and the work of art,” said Küster, and he saw his abstraction as “a form of meditation to get to this divine truth.” Want to Understand Mondrian’s Paintings? Try Dancing to Them. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Other works play with abstraction and figuration in inventive ways. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A general revival of interest in painting since then, particularly abstraction, gives his art a sense of freshness and pertinence that it didn’t project then. Stuart Davis, Heady Abstract Realist, at the Whitney 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Reality and fantasy intermingle, as do abstraction and representation, nature and artifice, attraction and dread. The gorgeous but threatening world of Marion Estes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Seattle artist Gala Bent’s graphite/ink/colored pencil/gouache drawings in “Particle Playlist” tend more toward abstraction. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Fused into abstractions, the disparate pieces yield paintings that are as eventful as epic Renaissance canvasses. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The Indian-born D.C. artist’s “Into the Light,” also at the university’s museum, consists of hard-edge symmetrical abstractions that invoke multiple Eastern spiritual traditions. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Also, a colorful set of abstractions: Squares within squares by Josef Albers of the Bauhaus. Who Said Art Is Only for the One Percent? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z He is also intrigued by artist Ruth Root’s “wonderfully weird abstractions” at 356 Mission in Boyle Heights. Essential Arts & Culture: Parsing Kusama, outcry over Philip Johnson update, art's woman problem 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “Baby, Baby” is also hers: a standard gestural abstraction centered on an octopus with an open mouth and a touch of Francis Bacon teeth. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z One is 50-feet long - a mesmerizing black-and-white all over geometric abstraction tightly integrated with his figurative imagery. NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z They were also meant to be easy for anyone, regardless of capacity to grasp abstraction, to “get.” The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z “Maps are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place,” they write, pointing out that maps also reflect cultural values of their eras through what they do — and do not — include. ‘You Are Here’: Mapping Climate Change, Make Believe and Murder 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z When the Future Became Now In the second decade of the 20th century, abstraction became the holy grail of modern art. Art Review: ‘Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925,’ at MoMA 2012-12-20T22:03:36Z Large paintings from the 1950s through the 1990s illustrate Frankenthaler’s inventive, poetic use of color in abstractions inspired by nature. Notable Museum Openings This Spring and Summer 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z These days, the Wu-Tang Clan is an abstraction — a symbol, a logo, shorthand for a kind of unpredictability that mainstream hip-hop has largely abandoned. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The first time that I really looked at the La Guardia tower, it looked like an abstraction. The Airport Tower as Art 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Paintings that boil down human experience to a stew of signs and symbols, and set the 20th century on the path to abstraction. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z "These abstractions, I think of them as kind of healing exercises." Crazy babies and pantyhose: 5 must-see works at OCMA's 'Avant-Garde' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Apparently, he would not allow someone to show his blurred photorealistic oil paintings unless they also showed his abstractions. How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, a manicured alligator and blind painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The show ends with a ramp devoted to works made in the United States, including a slide projection whose jumpy color abstractions are time-lapse photographs of traffic in New York, a city he often visited. ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,’ Vision and Precision in a Fluid Braid 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z While he’s known as a figurative artist, large swathes of his paintings teeter toward abstraction. Review: Seattle Art Museum’s Wyeth exhibit confounds expectations 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Freud kept his focus on depicting the human body even when the prevailing fashion in art turned to abstraction. Lucian Freud exhibition opens with royal visit 2012-02-08T16:31:04Z The works look like a cross between Abstract Expressionism and the mechanically produced “machine” abstractions of Pinot Gallizio. Art Review: The Independent, a Maverick Forum 2014-03-06T22:48:57Z Diebenkorn went back and forth between representational and abstract work before ending up firmly engaged with abstraction during the final decades of his life. Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Simpson then turns the drawings into sculptures made from mostly hard, humble materials like fiberboard: from three dimensions to two and back to three, with abstractions and distortions incorporated along the way. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z European abstraction provided a form for his art’s embodiment of Japanese aesthetic philosophy. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Each movement in “Partita” does relate to the original Baroque dance, but they are abstractions, holding seeds of those original meters and feels, but quickly moving further. Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z So he stopped painting abstractions, and turned to figurative images. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z At the Whitney show, her abstractions were, for me, a revelation. Beyond “the eternal feminine”: Novelist Dawn Tripp reimagines the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z But all three create aesthetic realms that fuse with personal experiences and philosophical ideas in a sort of preternaturally precocious leap of abstraction. “An Elephant Sitting Still,” Reviewed: A Young Chinese Filmmaker’s Masterly Portrait of Political and Intimate Despair 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z But wresting early abstraction from exclusively male hands was a different order of magnitude. Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim: One Work, Many Layers to Love 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z And as a Black artist committed to abstraction, he devoted his life to paintings that refrained from the recognizable images and overt political messages favored by many of his colleagues. Sam Gilliam, Abstract Artist of Drape Paintings, Dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z You can package Jackson Pollock as drips and Barnett Newman as zips, but de Kooning, who painted both opulent abstractions and big, blowsy dames, resists easy branding. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z Unsurprisingly, he has little patience for tech’s free-market mythmaking or for the gauzy abstractions — cloud, mobile, search, social — used to describe its products. The Problem Is in the Internet’s Bones 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In Paul Steinberg's lovingly rendered abstraction of the Indomitable, the enormous cannon doubles as a corridor into Vere's impossibly white cabin. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z I loathe figurative contemporary art except when I don’t; ditto on abstraction. How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much “Train” is like an abstraction of missionary-driven westward expansion; an ominous drone is punctuated by ripples of percussion as the Hosts teach the Arrivals words and skills. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z In all these ways he opened the door to a freewheeling combination of representation and abstraction that is still playing out. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z His work is most impressive when games with abstraction and figuration lead to pivot points between the two languages, or call attention to a basic harmonic shift between seemingly irreconcilable visual tonalities. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The so-called “founders” of the United States—another questionable use of the term, actually—thralled to abstraction. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The painting become a gestural abstraction paradoxically constructed from linear geometry. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z He also edits the words into an associative, aural abstraction: an overlapping narration that is out of sequence yet in sync. ‘The End of Time’: a slow-ticking meditation on time 2014-02-06T22:45:00Z The further the poem moves into abstraction, the deeper it seems to plunge into a well where words reflect no light. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z The piece accompanies two other abstractions, including an untitled painting featuring a loosely rendered hand amid insistent passages of black, white and gray. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Sánchez was making abstractions with blocky passages of color and interconnected geometric lines and shapes. Zilia Sánchez’s Island of Erotic Forms 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z That they connect with Surrealist drawing, biomorphic abstraction and exquisite doodling is only the half of it. A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In poetic language, he goes about tearing down the era’s lofty critical demand for abstraction as art’s theoretically highest value, replacing it with a matter-of-fact catalog of everyday ephemera. Starring Cate Blanchett, 13 times over: Actress commands a stunning range of roles for 'Manifesto' 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Where most of Hofmann’s students turned to gestural abstraction, Müller espoused an eerie, anxious figuration with ghoulish details. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z His work, while borrowing from the bright colors, patterns and geometric forms of modernist abstraction, has a very handcrafted feel. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Starting with Hindu mythology — filled with ambiguities, abstractions and contradictions — is as nervy a move as Aru lighting the lamp. Young Heroines Who Are Saviors, but Not Saints 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z There is a surprising resonance in Ms. Benning’s reality, as suggested by the gouache, an abstraction painted on newsprint. Art in Review: Sadie Benning: ‘War Credits’ 2013-05-02T19:32:50Z In the Iran-born local artist’s paintings, designs that recall traditional Persian tiles and manuscripts decay and disappear into modernist abstractions. In the galleries: Deeply in the present but beholden to the past 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z His magnified and cleverly cropped portraits will always draw people’s attention — especially in galleries where they are surrounded by abstraction. Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Kelly developed his rigorous approach to abstraction as a young artist in 1948, pivoting away from the psychologically charged paintings of the Abstract Expressionists who dominated the New York scene. Ellsworth Kelly, Abstract to the End 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z You can point to the hype around painting, specifically abstraction, that has encouraged the equivalent of a fancy airport art for newly rich collectors. At ‘Greater New York,’ Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, the director Pierre Audi described his new production of Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” for the Metropolitan Opera as an “abstraction” rather than an updating. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z I could assess the risks as abstractions: Who is to say that I would rage uncontrollably at the excessive doses of hormones? Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z During those years, Mohamedi was alternately describing or distilling natural forms substantiating anew how crucial nature — especially trees and plants — are as a path to abstraction. Three Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Between the abstractions were tidings of peace-and-love optimism, of loss and loneliness, and of uncertainty. Music Review | 'We Are Plastic Ono Band': Amid All That Experience, Innocence 2010-02-18T00:28:00Z There’s so much interest from younger artists in abstraction. The Koreans at the Top of the Art World 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z “The Source,” on the other hand, works because of — not despite — its abstraction. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z His home is filled with sculpted abstractions, a concrete representation of living inside one’s mind. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Rebel Girls to Rachel Bloom 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “Really sort of unbelievable,” she wrote to Stieglitz, as she tried matching Hawaii’s surreality with the abstraction of her art. O’Keeffe’s Paradise, Lost and Found 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z First, the title, after one of Pollock’s masterpieces, indicates a greater attention to abstraction. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He began chafing against what he saw as the limitations of abstraction. Alfred Leslie, Artist Who Turned Away From Abstraction, Dies at 95 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z For example, the complex history of colonialism, largely expunged from modernist abstraction, is brought into play in one of the exhibition’s earliest entries, “The Catherwood Project” by the Argentine artist Leandro Katz. Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z A neo-Cubist abstraction, it is aptly likened in the show's catalog to De Kooning's celebrated paintings of women from the late 1940s and early 1950s. LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z His earliest works, beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the ’70s, were geometric abstractions, inspired in part, he said, by New York’s skyline. Freddy Rodríguez, Artist Who Explored His Dominican Roots, Dies at 76 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z In short, her monochromatic abstraction is never fully abstract. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It was all laid out in front of me, and suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z In her 2009 essay “On the Frontier,” Ursula K. Le Guin took stock of an abstraction endemic to both the American West, where she was raised, and her chosen genre of science fiction. The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z It's a slick inversion of conventional turn-based tactics that keeps you moving and focused on maneuvering without getting bogged down in abstraction. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Is a Strategy Masterpiece 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z And while I find the idea beautiful — I have always found the idea beautiful — it was also an abstraction. The wrong kind of queer 2014-01-06T01:00:00Z The rest of it is a beautiful abstraction of religious imagery, rich in cantilevered balances. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance at Tribeca Arts Center - Review 2011-10-31T21:36:31Z It may evoke, rather fittingly, a small striped abstraction that Robert Motherwell made in 1941-44 and titled “Little Spanish Prison.” At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z It is surrounded by three other elegant, geometric abstractions, in restrained palettes of black, white, red and gold. Gloppy abandon meets elegant restraint at Blum & Poe's Kazumi Nakamura exhibition 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Instead Cities Aviv, the Memphis rapper, was playing a set full of abstraction and abrasion. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Go Where the Night Takes You 2012-10-18T10:31:45Z She said they were similar only "at very general levels of abstraction." NY judge: 'Disturbia' did not copy short story 2010-09-23T01:46:00Z Their purplish, blurred silhouettes seem printed on top of the ridges of milky paint depicting pale, layered figures and puddling abstractions. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z If indeed stardom is an abstraction, then I think that one wants to connect oneself with that which is more tangible in life. Delroy Lindo on his "Da 5 Bloods" pro-Trump role: "He felt reviled because of his love for America" 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z These two radically different artworks hang side by side at the Philadelphia Museum, where they seem to represent a crossroads for their maker: abstraction or figuration, black and white or color? The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Homemade cartoons, coded languages, recycled surfboards, futuristic Realism, revisionist histories, cultural mash ups, haunting memento mori and loaded abstractions come in all shapes and sizes. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z He painted wry turns of phrase — “What looks good today may not look good tomorrow,” for one — but also scintillating abstractions. Michel Majerus Saw the Future— 20 Years Ago 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z While Monotones veers close to abstraction, no one knew better than Ashton how to showcase stars, and Marguerite and Armand elicits magnificent performances from its guest principals. Royal Ballet: Ashton Mixed Bill – review 2013-02-13T17:50:49Z So those lines that we consider as being abstract, they’re probably more attuned spiritually than they are to abstraction. Wadada Leo Smith, Raising Issues With a Horn 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Was a next step toward abstraction in the back of his mind? Experiencing Museums as They Should Be: Gloriously Empty 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It would be a crime against absurdist-theatrical nature to make the abstractions of Beckett’s masterpiece concrete. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Waiting for Waiting for Godot’ 2013-08-23T19:25:35Z The studio recording offers the sense of abstraction—it distills much of what Coltrane was doing in concert performances, it suggests it, it signifies it, but the album also domesticates it. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z “The careful focus on the contents, on the subject matter, is rich enough that it didn’t need this extra layer of abstraction.” Sally Mann Turns Her Lens to Friendship and Loss 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “To put it all together is to see how her approach remains consistent across this wide variety of disciplines — and how abstraction permeates everyday life.” Puppets, Purses and Paintings, Too: An Overlooked Artist With Range 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z For a recap, simply see Kei Ninomiya’s gorgeous abstraction of social distancing past, all bristling translucent porcupine spines and padded or metallic latticework, like portable personal gates. Janelle Monáe and Ralph Lauren Make the Case for Clubbing 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z As he gleefully constructs a Bollywood musical number around the Muslim prayer ritual and choreographs a chorus line of burqa-clad kidnappers, his amateur actors constantly remind us that free speech is not an abstraction. | 'the Sheik and I': ‘The Sheik and I,’ Directed by Caveh Zahedi 2012-12-07T02:52:56Z His boyhood embodied the kind of folksiness that he would later deconstruct in works that rendered classic American imagery — road signs, billboards, the 20th Century Fox logo — into foreign abstractions. Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z A blend of geometric abstraction, Minimalist sculpture and playground, these simple grids of colorful PVC tubing were usually suspended from free-standing frames and often placed outside. A Jesús Rafael Soto Installation Opens in Houston 2014-05-07T21:46:51Z In her wall text at the start of the show Ms. Haskell divides the artists here into realists and modernists, the latter being those who tended toward relative abstraction in reacting to their surroundings. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z Her undated acrylic-stained pastel abstraction demonstrates the influence of her early teachers, D.C. colorists Morris Louis and Gene Davis. Review | In the galleries: The unique perspectives of the Washington Women’s Art Center 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z This contrast is obvious enough when you juxtapose the powerful abstractions of Terry Frost and Patrick Heron with the actual, tourist-strewn landscape, but wherever possible Fox sharpened it with an anecdote. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z But the D.C. artist’s spare abstractions do conjure a sense of space. Review | In the galleries: Powerful messages that require few words 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z And through the wide-angle view afforded by a retrospective we can see thoroughly, and logically, how abstraction and figuration interlocked in de Kooning’s art of this time. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z Mutability is a central theme of these paintings, which show a body that melds with the visual language of abstraction. Review | In the galleries: A painful, political take on the art of cruel shoes 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z She saw animals every day — cows, chickens, pigs, frogs, turtles and goats — that had previously only existed as abstractions on her urban bookshelf. Journeys: Traveling in Southeast Asia With a Rock-Star Baby 2010-12-17T20:45:37Z So, working from the photographs, Thomas deconstructs and reconstructs the images, creating extraordinarily intricate compositions with engaging tensions between realism and abstraction, depth and surface, and the viewer and the viewed. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The show’s subtitle is apt: between Surrealism and abstraction. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z Then the saxophonists each took a chorus, and here they transmitted their differences, surgical arpeggios versus smoky abstractions. Music Review: Two Saxophonists Step in as a Pair of Substitutes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z She is simply exploring the history of abstraction in and around painting and demonstrating that, all things considered, there is plenty of room to move. Art in Review: Rebecca Morris 2011-01-06T22:09:45Z Abby is appealing, and when Stone is on screen, her performance bypasses the pretensions of a movie constructed on abstractions. 'Paper Man': writer's block and middle-age angst 2010-05-06T20:03:00Z His computer-generated abstractions flow from hue to hue like synthetic rainbows. Review | In the galleries: Even when extravagance is the theme, less can be more 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z And that fablelike quality, which absolves “Phoebe in Winter” from any demands of realism, sometimes tips it over into abstraction or silliness. Theater Review: ‘Phoebe in Winter,’ by Jen Silverman, at the Wild Project 2013-06-11T19:21:07Z Rather than a human event, it often seems like an immeasurable abstraction, like negative infinity. Books of The Times: ‘Poilu,’ a French Memoir About Serving on the Western Front 2014-04-20T21:11:41Z Their views of the sea and the Brooklyn Bridge inspired experimentations with abstraction, as seen in the 27 works on view. Notable Museum Openings This Spring and Summer 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z For him, geometric abstraction is an opportunity to express something about the modern human condition. Peter Halley’s abstract works are on view in a new exhibition in Connecticut 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Many artists were exploring abstraction at the time, and some critics, Mr. Hannah admitted, didn’t seem to get what he was doing. Duncan Hannah, Artist and ’70s Chronicler, Dies at 69 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It displays the same inclination toward the reduction of human appearance to near abstraction paradoxically associated with the same sense of expressiveness. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z This is not a facsimile of a traditional Chinese garden, but an abstraction rendered in the pavilion’s beige granite. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The abstractions recall elements of Kandinsky’s late paintings of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z It was also a good reminder that for someone like Mr. Cobb, jazz history isn’t a shapeless abstraction. Music Review: Jimmy Cobb Expands His Act at Village Vanguard 2013-08-22T21:37:37Z Suspend at least briefly the belief that a tragic vision, or abstraction, is essential for entry into art history’s pantheon. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Even as he spent a good portion of the late 1960s and ’70s exploring harmonic and rhythmic abstraction, Mr. Foster never quite surrendered to it. Frank Foster, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Dies at 82 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z To anyone who imagines an art lecture to be a droning hour of hard-to-remember dates and abstract expressions of Expressionist abstractions, an evening with Ms. Bernier was a gateway to another realm. Rosamond Bernier, Art Insider Who Turned Lectures Into Theater, Dies at 100 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The Maryland artist is showing a half-dozen abstractions, each six-inch square. Review | In the galleries: Hanging garments symbolize violence against indigenous women 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z A stylish, meticulous realism begins to insinuate itself, negotiating various truces with abstraction, often through the drawing process. Art Review: Lines That Kept Moving and Knew No Boundaries 2011-10-06T22:45:51Z Much of the abstraction happened in the rhythm section, which emulated the slippery ebb and flow of the current Wayne Shorter Quartet, with enigmatic pockets of space. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z In the end, though, she told a writer for Artforum last year, her design and art sensibility, her sense of abstraction, “came from architecture.” Elaine Lustig Cohen, Designer Who Left Her Mark Everywhere, Dies at 89 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z "There comes in age an abstraction of self from those about us," he wrote, but he remained alert and active until his death at the age of 77. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z In the 1983 profile in The Times, Mr. Ashley explained why he came to see his operas, in all their complex abstraction, as ideally suited to television. Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z New is Ms. Kure’s embrace of sculpture, with, again, abstraction and figuration merging. Art in Review: Marcia Kure: ‘Tease’ 2013-06-13T20:51:46Z Tracts of cursive consider the income gap or light pollution, while little blocks of color allude to abstraction and a compass rose conjures cartography and sign painting. Review: Squeak Carnwath Speaks With Her Varied Palette 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z They look like enigmatic maps, with floating pictographs and tracks — Smith’s response to professors who emphasized abstraction. Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Shaped by the Land 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Zola Jesus So far people have thought about Zola Jesus the things that she probably wants them to: she’s dark, she’s maybe a bit difficult, she prizes spooky abstraction. Playlist: Screams That Charmed, and Other Overlooked Highlights 2010-12-31T19:54:24Z “My work hovers between abstraction and representation,” he said. The ‘Haunting’ of Gary Simmons 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z His divorce in 1952 coincided with a move toward greater abstraction and broaching of more universal themes dealing with the human psyche. ?Will Barnet at 100? at the National Academy Museum 2011-10-09T04:00:20Z As she does not speak English, Mr. Olmos provided her with a synopsis in Spanish, but even so, she said she found much of the play, which relies on ample symbolism and abstraction, confusing. ArtsBeat: ‘Bravest Woman in Mexico’ Sees Her Story on a New York Stage 2013-04-18T15:16:53Z If we accept that hand axes are art, we state that abstraction comes before figuration, sculpture comes before painting, and art is always part of a wider range of phenomena – an aspect of everyday life. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z Many works here blur categories, combining things that supposedly didn’t go together, especially abstraction and figuration. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Last month, an exhibition on abstraction came down, and works by artists like Roman, Ilya and Taras went up. Tanks and Teddy Bears: Ukrainian Children Paint the War 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z “She lives in a world of abstraction, almost,” her mother said. V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z For his part, Burgess says the team is taking pains to balance artistic and documentary elements and to avoid clouding the historical figures in abstraction. This D.C.-based choreographer creates dances about trailblazers, hoping you’ll embrace their ideals 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Eventually, creative engineers such as King Tubby and Lee Perry would take the dub side into whole new areas of bass-heavy abstraction. Genre busting: the origin of music categories 2011-08-25T21:04:01Z She seems to have abandoned her more decorous abstraction for “Half a Head,” a large sharp-nosed not-quite human creature in deep orange surrounded by, but also constrained by black. At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z And that idea of abstraction included even the “destroyed” sweaters from the 1980s re-visited. From Jil Sander to Burberry, there were men?s wear risks in Milan 2012-01-15T19:51:37Z In the Alexandria-based artist’s geometric abstractions, the existential breach between things — whether neurons or people — is represented by boundaries that divide blocks of color. In the galleries: Deeply in the present but beholden to the past 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But abstraction is less helpful in capturing violence through language. Review: ‘She’ Brings Stories of Sexual Violence to the Stage 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z They introduce a new bravura yet evoke the more methodical early abstractions. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The best tended to eschew abstraction in favor of a stubborn fidelity to how things actually look. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Historically, gestural abstraction has been tied to emotional registers, with dynamic brushwork regarded as the carrier of expressionist meaning. James Hayward's monochromatic installation delivers contemplative bliss 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It certainly jumped for me, asserting itself as one of Kandinsky’s greatest, freest paintings, with a scale and abandon rivaling many of his abstractions. Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But a meeting with Piet Mondrian quickly prodded him into abstraction, which he souped up in surprising ways. When It Comes to Calder, the Same Piece Is Always Different 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Truth and justice are divisive abstractions, too easily deconstructed or dressed up in gaudy ideological colors. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Studying his work and sources I began to think about combining figuration and abstraction, and melding manipulated planes and organic shapes. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Others transform pre-existing patterns into wild geometric abstractions — such as the wall-hanging made out of old radiators. Watts to Joshua Tree: A tour of Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Museum 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Color, light and space are more refined and translucent, and sometimes the accompanying shadows add momentary abstractions in the background. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The subtly dazzling abstractions of the Bauhaus doyenne Anni Albers—perhaps the most influential textile artist of the past century—prove that a loom’s warp and weft are the undeniable equals of a paintbrush. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Raúl Esparza, “Seared,” and Yvonne Rainer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z I’m thinking of the ways these painters and others, who wanted to avoid being trapped in didacticism — political, ethnic or formal — managed to incorporate their lives and histories into abstraction, often in symbolic ways. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z The miracle of Miró is that he moves from reality to surrealism and even abstraction without missing a beat. Joan Mir?'s art is more alive than ever 2011-08-15T12:08:33Z “It absolutely is an abstraction,” Hill told me. EJ Hill Wants to Take You on a Ride 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z A different sort of disturbance characterizes Gallery B’s “Destroy the Picture,” a show of abstractions by 18 artists who all received the same advice from Beverly Ryan, their teacher at Alexandria’s Art League School. Review | In the galleries: Art, interrupted, in ‘Carte Blanche,’ curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z These moments are wonderfully strange but lost in a sea of abstractions. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Nearly all Mr. De Keyser’s work teeters between abstraction and legibility. Raoul De Keyser, Belgian Abstract Painter, Dies at 82 2012-10-17T07:00:04Z Nearby, two pictures painted, or rather carved in oil paint, by Pierre Soulages in August 1956 and August 1959 are reminders that the most powerful Expressionist abstraction in Western art struck deep roots in France. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z Clocking in at roughly 90 seconds apiece, the animations are woozy abstractions resembling great bells swinging and unraveling in the air. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Leigh regular Timothy Spall plays the gruff-but-sensitive title character, who risked his reputation when he started exploring abstraction with his line-work and coloring. 'Selma' crafts an intimate portrait of the civil rights movement 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z She has identified Black abstraction, which she sees at play in music as well as visual art, as one of “four pillars” for CAAM, and an organizing theme for the museum’s programming. Mapping a Bold Vision for the California African American Museum 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z At times, the contours almost seem to take shape — into bodies, or a landscape — only to wander, unpredictably, back into abstraction. In the Studio With an Artist Devoted to the Line 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z “Clement Greenberg felt it was a disavowal of his modernist argument,” said Mr. Delahunty, recalling the critic who championed abstraction and Pollock’s career. Two Museums to Host Pollock ‘Black Pourings’ 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Viewed up close, the seamless illusions fall apart into myriad patches of colored paint; the magic partly is in how your eyes and mind flip between seeing the realism and seeing the abstraction. Review: ‘Richard Estes: Painting New York City’ Features Works in Abstract Realism 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Her colorful, ingeniously improvisatory work is widely accessible and effortlessly evades any label that might occur: craft, outsider, abstraction, Pop. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z By the early 1950s, Mr. Pace was meeting with considerable success as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, known for dark, energetically worked abstractions achieved through a distinctive blend of brushwork, drawing and staining. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z But Heldman’s larger importance was that his club, which had an open-door policy for novices, served as a bridge between the old guard mainstream and the expressive abstractions of the avant-garde. A jazz retrieval, a Beatles translation & Cat Stevens redux | New recordings 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The title track is a shadowy abstraction of “I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You,” while “...One to Ninety-Two” makes a rhythmic gantlet out of “The Christmas Song.” Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z Still, it’s fair to say that during the brief automotive golden age when the L.A. freeway was flowing swiftly and easily with traffic, it became in the dominant cultural narrative a kind of abstraction. Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet there's a stretching of language toward abstraction in the work of these poets that makes it difficult to present in another language. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore 2011-07-08T21:55:11Z “Trump keeps summoning monsters of abstraction — things that aren’t real — they’re extensions of the ordinary, fears that you have that he plays on,” Mr. Colbert said. Stephen Colbert Uses Profanity to Describe President Trump’s ‘Soul’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He had no interest in pure abstraction, though. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z Avery consistently made gentle, optimistic, profoundly optical paintings that defined their own strip of no man’s land between representation and abstraction, refusing both extremes through their use of simple shapes and saturated colors. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z They are all there, abstractions provided by the artist for you to enrich with your own memories and experiences. Waves of color tell Northwest stories in Michael Dailey show 2014-03-13T20:15:55Z But in their formal economy is a deeply concentrated vision, balanced between figuration and abstraction and never tipping over fully into either. Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Sometimes you’ll almost discern the contour of a landscape or the dark shading of a limb, but ultimately the shapes all drift back into a desolate, spacious abstraction. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z There, Ms. Rapaport is presenting sculpture by Martin Puryear, who blends abstraction, craft traditions and historical forms such as the Phrygian cap worn as a symbol of freedom in the French and American Revolutions. Making Public Art a Contender 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Especially important is her virtual banishment of white — which is so closely tied to geometric abstraction’s supposed purity, from Malevich and Mondrian forward. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Aspects of Color Field abstraction show up as bright bands indicating rainbows, suns and mountains. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Certain trips require a little deepening first — the capacity for abstraction and clunky poetic metaphors about existence. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Still, in the 1940s through the 1980s, this London cohort did collectively amount to a significant movement toward a new approach to figuration that resisted the prevailing trend toward abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptualism. MoMA Galleries to Change Their Focus 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Siebren Versteeg’s algorithmically generated painting machine makes attractive abstractions, suggesting that AI is slowly closing the gap between rational computing and corporeal creativity. Pittsburgh Report: Five Places for Healing Through Art 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The paintings aren’t actually abstractions at all, but landscapes, sensitive nature scenes of the world we live in now. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But Ms. Lloyd’s intention seems to be to create an in-between art: between stasis and movement; between realism and abstraction; between artificial and personal; between video, photography and sculpture. Art in Review: HILARY LLOYD 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z And Balla’s “Numbers in Love” from 1920-23, a startlingly prescient painting whose extruded numerals and planes recall the Futurist love of speed, also suggests a 1960s artist trying to reconcile Pop Art and hard-edge abstraction. Art Review: ‘Italian Futurism, 1909-1944,’ at the Guggenheim 2014-02-20T23:31:22Z Pelton used abstraction to convey personal meaning as opposed to just dripping paint on canvas, like Jackson Pollock, or making abstract forms, like Ellsworth Kelly. Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History’s Sidelines 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z I tend towards abstraction if I can: it's more interesting than pictures that simply tell a story. Photographer John Stewart's best shot 2011-01-05T22:00:01Z The curators of the exhibition emphasize the degree to which Wyeth is engaged with abstraction throughout these works. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in With his mesmerizing, pointillist paintings of appliqué ducks, flowers and complex mandala patterns resembling needlework, Glenn Goldberg also operates in the confusingly gendered gap between domestic craft and Modernist abstraction. Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age 2010-09-02T21:48:00Z In the course of the film, Bannon only occasionally lets the mask of political abstractions slip and reveal repellent and dangerous prejudices that underlie the policies that he has advanced. Another Documentary Inadvertently Honors Steve Bannon 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z For a young person with a terminal illness, daily life is an existential crisis, compounded by pain and by the discomfort of fitting in among people to whom mortality remains an uncomfortable abstraction. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z An abstraction of mortality -- a fade to black -- it is also redolent of green-screen technology, the special effects method for layering separate video streams into a fictive whole. A meditation on green -- the color, not the sustainability shorthand 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes evoking the blocky figures of the Russian Constructivists, the exceptional “Platform” presents two panels side by side, with contrasting figurative styles, types of material and degrees of abstraction on four surfaces. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z “Paglen photographed the drawing hundreds of times through a microscopic lens, then stitched the images into one large abstraction of color washes and wispy fibers,” explains the wall label. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Layman makes a leap toward abstraction, while still employing his usual housebound inspirations and working methods. Kitchen cabinet as a glassware labyrinth: Isaac Layman's digital trickery lets you see more than the naked eye can 2010-07-08T20:44:00Z Effortlessly combining abstraction and representation, expressivity and precision, mystery and fact, these images are as important as anything she did. Three Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The strongest current at the fair is abstraction, which takes a variety of forms. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The “Abstract Art” exhibition, which he organized the following year, was one of the first surveys of abstraction at any major museum. Dutch Museum Director, Also an Artist, Gets a Show of His Own 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Making the play’s vision more uninvolving still, Bernadette often talks about her own experience with detachment and even a touch of poetic abstraction. Review | Theater review: ‘I Killed My Mother.’ The audience was an unintended victim. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z That flute was in turn dwarfed by a neon light sculpture on the back wall that echoed the instrument’s shape, forming a one-armed abstraction of an ankh, the Egyptian hieroglyph signifying breath of life. Review: Claire Chase Explores the Flute’s Possibilities 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z This second exhibition of her work at Senior & Shopmaker reintroduces New Yorkers to her historically significant geometric abstraction, above all her pioneering efforts with early computers. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Whether in two or three dimensions, naturalism is invariably modified by abstraction. Art Review: ?Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture? at Japan Society 2012-03-22T20:20:17Z “But for us, the ones who survived this century, this long, long century, there are no abstractions anymore.” Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It's not an abstraction in Rwanda, for instance, when Wood walks among people who two decades earlier were locked in a bloody civil war. In the age of Google Maps, why walk the 4,000 mile Nile River? Levison Wood's book explains 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Precise, playful, blurring the lines between figuration and abstraction, they are tiny worlds unto themselves. The Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair is back. Here’s what to see 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Though facing the politics of the day, Sirk unfolded the underlying abstractions, too, and did so with a whiplash irony that renders his philosophical judgment all the more desperate. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Then, after a tidy selection of Eastern European abstraction that flaunts the museum’s Chagalls and Brancusis, “Picasso and the Avant-Garde” ends on a down note. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, that agony we cannot feel, that death we look at like a cold abstraction. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z And yet, in that same era, Picasso’s jitters are nowhere to be found in an icon of abstraction that is also two-based. Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The piece uses a combination of musical abstraction and lyrical content to interrogate themes of migration, displacement, citizenship and belonging. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z These themes continue in his paintings, where he sits out modernist abstraction, preferring instead to explore his brilliant rendering techniques and the different representational styles — advanced and less so — they enabled. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z And it’s worth noting that Young’s work — complex geometric abstractions — has been enjoying something of a late-career revival in recent years. In HBO's 'Brillo Box,' the true story of how a $1,000 purchase became a $3-million Warhol work of art 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z When he returned to abstraction at the end of his life, he tried several styles. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Suh Se Ok, 89, uses a traditional ink brush to paint heavily blotted calligraphic abstractions, some composed of just a few strokes, on knobby mulberry paper. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The composition of “Townscape, Paris,” painted in shades of black, gray and white, owes something to aerial photography, but the crisscross brushstrokes reduce what might have been a figural picture to near abstraction. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z A new awareness of the physical possibilities of the art object is everywhere apparent in these works, and abstraction is constantly broached, if rarely embraced completely. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z Their complementary interests are showcased in the first gallery, which places Hamilton’s large-format photographs depicting tools and pictures hanging together on pegboards alongside Escobar’s grouped abstractions of white and red-brown paper inside wooden frames. In the galleries: Art that expresses the feel of Foggy Bottom 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Thanks in part to years of exposure to the Expressionists, who valued process over polish, and mixed realism with abstraction, his style had changed, loosened up. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z But the overall transition from figuration to abstraction is not presented here as a linear progression of the kind we are familiar with from Western art. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z And that jagged black abstraction just below her left thumb? film: Now Queen of the Firing Range 2010-10-08T20:59:00Z Elizabeth is committed to Marxism as an idea, yes, but she’s fighting for more than an abstraction. Review: Both ‘The Americans’ and the U.S.S.R. Will End. Can This Marriage Be Saved? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z More important for the motivation to build the new building, however, is a room of six abstractions by Clyfford Still, selected from 28 monumental paintings given in 1975 by the pivotal Abstract Expressionist. SFMOMA's expansion offers a deep dive into blue-chip artists' works 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Is that large geometric abstraction by Dean Fleming that opens the show delirious merely because its forms are on the diagonal? Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z This may be the perfect show for a hot Phoenix summer: a big dose of cool, intellectual abstraction. Spring Shows to Keep Art Lovers Busy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z On the songs they shared before “Watch the Throne,” Mr. West tended toward paranoid internal narratives while Jay-Z delivered abstractions about power. Music Review: Jay-Z and Kanye West Swap Stories on Saturday Night 2011-11-06T18:44:46Z Leaning toward abstraction, the seaside view heralds the path that Wassily Kandinsky would follow three years later at Murnau in Germany. Auctions: In an Uneven Night, a Lesson for Art Investors 2011-02-10T14:23:15Z The commitment to ceramics had kept her outside the art-world mainstream, while abstraction — she never made usable objects — separated her from the pottery scene. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z For one thing, like their surroundings, these slightly loopy, often looping abstractions reject stylish chic or high finish. Art in Review: MARGRIT LEWCZUK: ?Art Work? 2010-12-02T22:13:00Z Fewer stars, more exalted ensembles, greater abstraction, wider points of reference? For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The most straightforward images are abstractions composed from various found objects. Paul Pescador's layered images riff on consumer overload 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But the single “Grow Up To” is more of an abstraction — albeit a hypnotically catchy one. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z As he weakened, he changed his practice from strenuous studio performances to abstractions, still lifes and collages of flowers and body parts. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The instruments alone are the result of human abstraction, they didn't grow on trees. Sophie Hunger: Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere 2011-07-20T12:03:02Z Combining Cubist abstraction and funky expressionism in dissonantly gaudy colors, her paintings range freely from the broadly sociopolitical to the intimately personal. From Dana Schutz, Concoctions of Cubist Abstraction and Funky Expressionism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A group show looks at the nature of abstraction at the intersection of painting, photography, video and installation — all of it riffing on the architectonic. Datebook: Abstraction and architecture, African American photographers 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z As a painter, she was “looking for something in between abstraction, figuration and expressionism,” she told Ms. Abelleyra, but became uncomfortable with the medium. Lourdes Grobet, Photographer of Mexico’s Masked Wrestlers, Dies at 81 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z She also has her place in a more global museum, where pictures and people shuttle through endless encounters and no abstraction is pure. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.” Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Rayonism predated Malevich’s levitating Suprematist abstractions, 14 examples of which lord it over the next gallery. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Those people are not mere abstractions, faces on a TV screen whose personhood and life experiences are transmitted via the mass media…and often in a distorted and inaccurate way. Black America is so very tired of explaining and debating 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z If there is one weakness, it's Hemon's fondness for abstractions, as in, "The funny thing is that the need for collective self-legitimization fits snugly into the neoliberal fantasy of multiculturalism." Elegant, elegiac essays from Bosnian-born writer 2013-03-18T18:08:08Z Mackintosh's masterpiece is the Glasgow School of Art of 1897-1909, later hailed as a precursor of modernism on account of its simplicity and abstraction, but which is far more than a diagram of the future. Outcry over Glasgow School of Art extension 2011-02-25T19:22:40Z Landscape paintings and photographs, which involve the sky, and to some extent the sea, are always close to abstraction. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z The pictures are abstractions with a hint of Stuart Davis’s Picasso-influenced still lifes, and are partly modeled on fabric patterns and the logos of apparel retailers such as Burberry and Tommy Bahama. Review | In the galleries: Tim Doud takes a tactile turn 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z And this retrospective, spanning the Whitney’s largest floor and accompanied by a spectacularly learned catalog, is a testament to how abstraction can embody multiple flows, without ever settling down, and open new vistas of freedom. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z It helped that he lived in Paris from 1948 on and that his gestural abstractions, which drew on Eastern and Western sources, enjoyed great success in Europe and the United States. Zao Wou-Ki, an Abstract Fusion Master 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The art of this time and place was a mix of Persian, Islamic and Central Asian-Turkic traditions, and artists combined abstraction, representation and writing in innovative ways. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z Wyeth committed at least two unpardonable sins, hewing to a realist style during an age of abstraction and irony, and achieving extraordinary popular success. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in Moments later he played an abstraction of the melody, his embellishments swirling in fast little eddies, elusive by design. Music Review: Band?s Rapport Runs Deep, and the Undertow Swings 2011-02-23T22:59:31Z The stack of tilted, floating rectangles in Josef Albers' painting "Black Frame" appears at first to be pure abstraction. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet, he adds, it's also "an abstraction of decades of time rather than a short narrative episode." 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z The room seems to be all about oppositions: vertical and horizontal, spontaneity and calculation, figuration and abstraction, gay and straight. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z Andrew Kuo shows a geometric abstraction so beautiful you wonder if he might dispense with the explanatory legends, funny as they are. Art in Review: ‘Ten Years’ 2013-07-25T21:01:46Z Several canvases from that time display a sensuous but unexceptional mix of Surrealist and Constructivist abstraction. Critic?s Notebook: Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds 2011-04-14T22:25:54Z Maybe it’s the abstraction of her gaze, her apparent unawareness of being observed. Strange ‘Creatures’ roam through Francesca Sundsten’s paintings 2013-07-18T19:55:48Z Her truck sports a brightly colored geometric abstraction that she described as “a game of balance and tension.” Putting Art on Wheels and Taking It Back to the Streets 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes that expression is experimental, yielding extreme distortions that border on abstraction. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z Nam’s “Netted” is inspired by urban patterns yet ventures into abstraction. In the galleries: Four curators share one spotlight 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z As the drama of “Bodied” intensifies, it seems to move further and further, with increasing abstraction, from the specifics of its story and their implications. “Bodied,” Reviewed: The Eminem-Produced Battle-Rap Movie Is a Confused Satire of P.C. Culture 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The resulting work at Kerris was marked by a transformation from a gestural handling of paint to a more controlled form of abstraction. Paul Feiler obituary 2013-07-22T11:06:28Z “Colorful Life” is considered an important moment in Kandinsky’s journey from figurative painting to abstraction. German Panel Says Kandinsky Painting Should Go Back to Jewish Heirs 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z This is because of, in part, her preference for painting, which was relatively unpopular at the time, and her particular style, which imbued abstractions with a cartoon-based, expressive spirit. Elizabeth Murray Estate Moves to Gladstone Gallery 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Although his prose is mostly serviceable and sometimes collapses into abstraction, he brings the town and especially the natural surroundings alive without ever disrupting the pace of his swift-moving tale. Book review: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Earth’ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z We learn that the mask, full of innocence and boyish charm, is an abstraction of the face of her son, Norbu. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Stand close to the painting and it dissolves into minimalist abstraction. ‘Chuck Close Photographs’ is about more than photography 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But that happens to many families — my primary quibble with “Skinfolk” is that Guterl’s distanced prose and chronic abstraction holds us back from seeing how this statement applies specifically to his. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z But in the final analysis, if indeed stardom is an abstraction, as you say, then I think that that heightens the need to connect with that which is tangible and real in life. Delroy Lindo on his "Da 5 Bloods" pro-Trump role: "He felt reviled because of his love for America" 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Jane Wilson, a painter whose best-known works were landscapes that occupied a niche nestled between representation and abstraction, died on Jan. 13 in Manhattan. Jane Wilson, Artist of the Ethereal, Dies at 90 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z I could even call it a kind of poem, making music out of abstractions while traversing the past and the present, the real and the surreal. ‘Epiphany’ Review: A Holiday Party, but What Are We Celebrating? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The building is solemn with its robust abstractions and playful with its curves and striations. Museum Review: The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas 2012-12-01T00:56:04Z The artist employs oil, acrylic and auto-body enamel in the same pictures and contrasts precise rendering with looser brushwork that verges on abstraction. In the galleries: Playful piece will keep you on your toes at Flashpoint Gallery 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The show also uses archival material to argue for a holistic approach to Thomas’s artistic identity, a seamlessness that includes no major breaks, such as retiring from teaching or discovering abstraction. Review | For beloved D.C. artist Alma Thomas, beauty wasn’t just about art. It was essential to life, too. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z They pulse and swirl, approachable even as they court abstraction: a credit to the players, especially Todd Neufeld on guitar and Loren Stillman on alto saxophone. Ambrose Akinmusire, Drake, the Roots, St. Vincent 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z Each floor is anchored by a central gallery of abstractions. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z On paper its dizzying suggestions include calligraphy, figure and abstraction; natural growth, runaway cursive and mapping. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Carpets and glazed ceramic plaques, both emphasizing color, as well as wooden wall reliefs are fashioned with a multicultural symbolism that favors abstraction. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. List, who often works in galleries, is heavily influenced by visual art, creating movement in conversation with the Hellenistic period one time, and 20th-century abstraction the next. Dance Review: Rob List, Performance Artist, at Parker?s Box 2010-06-27T23:00:00Z “I like abstraction, color for color’s sake and things that are archaic and primitive,” Castor says. T Black Book: Florists 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z There will be no color, no text, no images, no YouTube videos, nothing but abstraction. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z It is possible to imagine several varieties of landscape painting, portraiture and abstraction evolving from these amazing pictorial concoctions. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z The view of the arena at Nîmes in southern France, where bullfighting takes place, manages the contradictory feat of being both truly figural and close to abstraction. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z Last month, Howard House presented a compelling exhibition of Henry's mature abstractions from the 1990s and early 2000s. Review: Howard House's second Henry show offers a window onto artist's emergence 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z She came to prominence in the 80s with her knitted "paintings" – produced by stretching threads of wool across canvas or wood in monochrome or patterned abstractions. Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos – review 2012-11-08T18:04:29Z In the Emirates at that time, the acceptable form of advanced contemporary Arabic work was calligraphic abstraction, which Sharif disdained, as he did all forms of “nationalist” art. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z His 1911 “Still Life With Gingerpot I” is more conventionally descriptive, yet the splintering lines indicate his embrace of Cubist structure, which sets him on the path to abstraction. Art Review: Modernism From a World in Convulsion 2011-02-10T23:01:06Z Adams has in the past evoked immense natural forces — such as in his “Become” trilogy, which includes the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning “Become Ocean” — and here he balances both abstraction and transcription. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z We step into an abbreviation of the modern museum, a pristine display of what resembles mid-20th-century abstraction. From packaging material to modern totem: The wry art of An Te Liu 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “Hard Edged: Geometrical Abstraction and Beyond,” at the California African American Museum. A new exhibition features the work of 46 artists — from emerging figures to well-established names — working in the arena of geometric abstraction. Datebook: A performance art fest, an online opera and African American abstraction 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The performance takes its time, as Hawkins develops his improvisation alone over bass and drums, with gathering abstraction from the tune. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z It’s the great before and after of my family’s history, and so the story is not an abstraction to me. Where is the best place to present Japanese American internees’ art? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Last year's "12 Years a Slave," based on freeman Solomon Northup's antebellum memoir of his kidnapping and years spent on Southern plantations, used a life to make the abstraction of slavery concrete. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Bleckner veered toward romantic metaphor in paintings that recycled decorative emblems and styles regarded as obsolete at the time, like geometric abstraction and op art, into meditations on loss and grief. Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The words are prompts, suggestions, light abstractions that aim to emulate the mood of the production. Drake Rebuilt Hip-Hop in His Image. Now He Wants You to Dance. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Zelinski is careful to toe the line between abstraction and a more traditional science display like those in a museum or visitors center. From the Depths of Space to the Walls of a Gallery 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Blackness in abstraction, as the curator Adrienne Edwards has written, is a more capacious and immanent model of artistic creation than many of our institutions can handle. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Her fearlessness is the through line, starting with two abstractions from the 1960s whose muscular forms and brusque paint-handling are reinforced by dark, radiant colors. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Africa’s Daughters, With Stories To Share George Balanchine once dismissed the notion of abstraction in dance, arguing that as soon as you place a man and a woman onstage, you have a story. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili at Danspace Project 2012-03-20T22:12:25Z Weighing tons, his spindly abstractions of steel and bronze — “The Long I,” “Cut Out,” “0 + 1” — inscribe the landscape like quick strokes and squiggles of some titan’s pen. A Blacksmith?s Touch Makes Music Light 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z The latter pictures complement detailed yet stark abstractions by Linn Meyers, each of which punctuates a similarly rippling expanse with a perfect circle. In the galleries: Brentwood Arts Exchange filled with flora 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Postwar art saw abstraction definitively push figurative painting to the margins, where it mostly languished for a generation. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Nowadays, to depict the world in shades of gray is to choose in favor of abstraction and timelessness. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The results had an affinity with geometric abstraction that gave it another layer of appeal. Stephen Posen Knows How to Fashion a Line. So Does His Son. 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The works present as stormy, earth-toned abstractions, but they are deeply site-responsive, their ingredients gathered in New Mexican mesas, Ozarks bluffs, Louisiana wetlands. Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z I realized O’Keeffe was making abstractions as early as 1915, when she was only 27. Beyond “the eternal feminine”: Novelist Dawn Tripp reimagines the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “We wanted to turn around and say, well, there are artists who are doing these things differently, through abstraction or conceptual art.” Whitney Biennial Picks 63 Artists to Take Stock of Now 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The resulting works of art are not the extreme abstraction of nature that Georgia O’Keeffe rendered, but they are not quite scientific illustrations, either. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The members’ shows have become walled fortresses of figuration and complacent gestural abstraction. Art Review | '185th Annual': Academy Gives Art Some Wiggle Room 2010-02-19T05:57:00Z Other lineages, connecting art and pathology, suggest themselves: Kazimir Malevich’s obsession with the tuberculosis bacterium, as a model for the development of abstraction, or Hannah Wilke’s unsparing documentation of her own terminal illness. Please Smell the Art: Anicka Yi Will See That You Do 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z In fact, Dean’s project could be summarized as exploring the violence abstraction causes, or makes possible. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Massimo talks largely in abstractions and poses annoying rhetorical questions like: “What is a wall? What is a ceiling?” Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z But to a modern viewer, all this yields a captivating interplay of realism, abstraction and psychological mystery. ‘A Shared Legacy,’ at the American Folk Art Museum 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “It’s an abstraction of a very basic Chinese art translated into architecture,” Mr. Yao said. A Taiwan Museum Featuring All of Asia 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z And the ones that do often center on questions of identity — be it ethnic or regional — or around a particular artistic movement, such as abstraction. Argentine slums and a Unabomber cabin: How 'Home' at LACMA rethinks ideas about Latin American art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Howe, who died in 1983, was a pioneer of contemporary Native American art whose style combines abstraction with passionate, expressive dynamism. Warhol Foundation Overturns 8-Year Smithsonian Funding Ban 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Reminiscent of the 1960s Op Art movement, especially the British painter Bridget Riley, Auerbach’s hypnotic paintings, sculptures, books and prints reflect abstraction, Minimalism and even Pop, with a meticulous attention to craft. | Tauba Auerbach on Book Fairs, Knitwear and the Grateful Dead 2014-02-07T23:13:47Z Lavender hazes of snowflakes, sidewalk drawings at night, the Acropolis in white Greek light — her reverent naturalism borders on abstraction. Art Trek: Roberta Smith’s Tour of the Sizzlers on the Upper East Side 2014-04-03T22:52:07Z This exhibition shows a pair of those early map works as well as an array of more recent canvases, which focus on pure color abstraction. Datebook: A show about radical weavings, rooms that rain, architectural photography 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The curators built the show around four themes: abstraction in utopian ideas, the study of architecture, communication, and the everyday. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Despite the abstractions in the lyrics, there were real people in the songs, living and breathing in a real and defined world. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z As is often true in animation, “Frozen 2” soars highest when it embraces abstraction, as in one number with a pitch-black void that entertainingly evokes Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin.” ‘Frozen 2’ Review: The Cold Still Never Bothers Them 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He added that Turner was both inspired by and competed with older masters, while he also looked towards modernism and abstraction. Famed British seascape by J.M.V. Turner up for auction 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Even though it's a shot of a clean blackboard, it represents what I want to say about the relationship between reality and abstraction. Alejandro Guijarro's best photograph – a Cambridge University blackboard 2013-06-19T17:12:58Z She was celebrated for giving a new life to abstraction, with shows everywhere from the Guggenheim in New York to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos – from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park 2013-06-20T17:16:00Z How quickly the abstractions of the “Passion” can snap into something knowable — borderline documentary — just by changing the lens. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z While some were dismayed by the vulgar treatment of the female form, friends like Jackson Pollock accused de Kooning of betraying the cause of abstraction by returning to human subjects. Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Crowner’s shapes are usually scavenged, suggesting that reality is rife with potential abstraction. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Namely, that the curatorial task, full of the increasingly foggy abstractions of international art language, has clouded the instincts of an otherwise conscientious person. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z Bearden’s far more obscure abstractions at DC Moore have tended to be given short shrift in his biographies and retrospectives. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z It was almost like here in Prattsville was the American predicament on a small scale, that red vs. blue, right versus left, where abstractions and ideology and sweeping statements keep us divided. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z It isn't a chore to immerse one's self in mathematical concepts and other abstractions; it is like stumbling across a home you didn't know was there, but always suspected existed. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z In the group of conventionally structured but graphic and gloriously weird oil landscapes that, along with a series of less successful small watercolors, comprise his solo debut at Karma, he leans heavily into painterly abstraction. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It didn’t take long for this abstraction of a city to come to life. In Campeche, Pyramids Are Everywhere. Crowds Are Not 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z I saw an abstraction to the whole media frenzy of it. 2010-02-04T01:56:00Z But they are filmed in ways that convey them as abstractions rather than concrete processes. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The place, to me, is no longer an abstraction, and Mr. Khalifa clearly fears for its fate throughout. Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Gregor’s trademark, monstrous geometrical abstractions that deface nature and alienate communities, turns out to reflect not simply his aesthetic sensibility but something malevolent in his soul. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z In particular, these large, vertical cardboard-on-canvas works appear to feast on the painting and sculpture of early Modernism, when abstraction and representation were not seen as mutually exclusive. Art in Review: MARK GROTJAHN: ?Nine Faces? 2011-05-12T21:00:18Z Politics is not an abstraction for “City So Real”; it’s about where and how you live. ‘City So Real’ Is an Election Story Pulsing With Life 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z In South America he was associated with an ethereal and utopian strain of geometric abstraction. Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’ 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “He was an extremely nuanced colorist in his abstractions — they were very mysterious paintings,” said the dealer David Zwirner, who owns several Kwiatek pieces. Making Art by Day, Guarding It at the Met by Night 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z There are so many connections between Palermo and American abstraction.” Inside Art: Blinky Palermo?s American Tour 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z But abstractions like labor and the economy never exist in isolation from society and, in the larger sense of the word, from culture. "American Factory" filmmakers on how the Dayton-set doc became one of the year's most joyful movies 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The TGP inspired her to reach out to the broadest possible audience, which often meant balancing abstraction with figuration. Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Dies at 96 2012-04-04T02:45:28Z At the time, China, for most Americans, was a wondrous abstraction, an inscrutable assemblage of four hundred million future Christians, consumers, or citizens, depending on your game. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The result, like a waking dream, seems to swim between abstraction and sweaty physicality. The Oracle; Erhebung; Mayerling – review 2013-06-08T23:05:19Z It isn’t to say, either, that representing war is an impossible enterprise, or that documentary or testimonial modes have more limited aims than abstraction or epic. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Though it shares a certain priapic undertow with Wild Beasts' Smother, and the dreamy abstraction of James Blake's debut, it's basically out there on its own. Best albums of 2012, No 7: Alt-J – An Awesome Wave 2012-12-06T14:25:00Z By folding and unfolding the screen Ms. Islam generates different arrangements of vertical bars: a marvelously protean abstraction. Art Review: The Magic of Movies, Born From a Single Snapshot 2011-08-18T22:24:34Z His turn to abstraction when he moved to New York in 1966 is just one example of Bowling running against the grain. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z The Cool School influence is apparent in the restraint and gentle abstractions, but there’s a litheness to the players’ interactions. ‘Temporary Kings’ Review: Alluringly Reserved 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s amplified by the use of collage, found images and energetic cross-references, most often to pop art and expressionist abstraction. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Lam has composed a modern Chinese opera for the pedal steel, and Björklund is now finishing a series of solo pedal-steel abstractions. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z It came to a head in the 1980s with a series of “abstractions” that did double duty as camouflage tarps and Rorschach blots. At Auction, Unknown Warhol Sculpture That Was Gift to Boyfriend 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The orderly abstractions, which include two triangular benches made with Kenny Wine, suggest cubism and stained-glass windows, as well as the endlessly replicable matrices of computer graphics. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The quickness of the strokes are immediate — many of the compositions shade toward abstraction, slowing down just enough to allow for a windswept palm. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z As for Manet's celebrated flatness and concision – the supposed link between illusion and abstraction – I do not think it has been exaggerated at all. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z Perhaps the only way it works is if couples, like Matalin and Carville, view their beliefs as abstractions — like opinions they came to through some sort of logic and that remain out there. Can relationships survive different political views? 2012-10-12T15:56:00Z Rather, it is an abstraction, a sort of X-ray of the musical texture. Review: Angela Hewitt Decodes Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Her eventual solution was geometric abstraction — flat planes of smooth color in abstract shapes that unfold as landscapes. 'Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective' downplays the painter's key early works 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “Space” is an abstraction, “a template which can be dropped over any point on the earth’s surface”. Pride of place 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z These are subtly emotive contemplations, where passion is filtered through considered abstraction. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z Literary analysis, meanwhile, often relies on generalization and abstraction, turning fictional characters into representative figures rather than treating them as specific individuals. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “Go back to some of the early interviews. She talks about it very forthrightly,” she said, adding that the title of the play is not “an abstraction.” ‘Told It Like It Was’: Ntozake Shange’s Tales of Black Womanhood 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z And that’s really Majok’s American territory: the place where the airy abstractions of policy play out in the anguish of personality. Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z She’d always preferred practicalities while he preferred abstractions, but in this choice to go bald they found common ground. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z But the sculptor, a recent arrival from Mali, sometimes moves toward abstraction. In the galleries: Chinese ink paintings, enhanced with water and words 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Slowly, however, the solitude starts getting to him, and the outside world sinks into abstraction as technology becomes less and less reliable. Five Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Also evocative of nature are abstractions by Anne Marchand, whose “Elemental” hints at oceanic motion, and Eve Stockton, whose “Burst” centers on a sunlike form in gleaming silver. In the galleries: Delineating a cultural frontier 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised. When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z One reviewer spoke of the composer's "refrigeration of Chekhov's Three Sisters into icy abstraction". Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Though this show followed a similar path, Jay Z remained an abstraction throughout — this wasn’t his stage, even if he was nearby, watching. Review: On ‘Formation’ World Tour, Beyoncé Through ‘Lemonade’-Tinted Glasses 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In the 1940s she set off on a painter's path at the age of 16, and was among the first British artists to take to abstraction. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z At the Met, the decision to project the runaway ads onstage and have the performers recite lines from them provided crucial context and eliminated any possibility for abstraction. Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z It's a stupefyingly intimidating trove of inspiration that winds through most of Miles's major periods: from bop to modal to light-touch abstraction, on to deep funk and, finally, a bid at mainstream pop. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z Research journals provide Gates with graphs and charts, which he uses as compositional elements in the geometric abstractions he paints on aluminum panels. In Theaster Gates' latest work, poignant power from the remnants of our history 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Photograph: Riley Bridget Riley, London Her paintings' harlequin abstractions might thrum and bulge like an acid hallucination, but Bridget Riley has always played down op art's associations with summer of love psychedelia. This week's new exhibitions 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z There’s that exquisite abstraction, that freshness you get when you let Rico London rock out.” The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z We also highlight the two forms of sculpture, abstraction and figurative, and document as far as possible why certain artists choose one or the other, or moved back and forth. In Transit: In London, a Century of British Sculpture 2011-01-30T11:00:53Z In a large oil on paper patchy, pale colors almost dissolve the walls into abstraction and turn the ceiling into a ghostly Monet “Water Lilies.” Three Artists, Three Arcs, One Gallery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The German artist's exhibitions have featured comic-strip drawings on notebook paper reminiscent of boyhood doodles, messily gestural painting moving between suprematist-inspired abstractions and figuration; collages, enormous sculptures and collections of junk-store treasures. Artist of the week 79: Andreas Hofer | Skye Sherwin 2010-03-18T13:04:00Z “Rain” takes painting a few steps further into abstraction than Turner’s boldest seascapes at the end of his life. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Photograph: Estate of William Scott But Scott's painting never stayed the same for long, and Nicholson pushed him further towards abstraction. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Radiating rays and repeated chevrons mix with forms rooted in the botanical, mechanical and diagrammatic, the cosmological mappings of mandalas and sand paintings, the symbolic abstractions of Native American tapestries. 'Phantom Color' at CB1 transcends in black and white 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In 2003 Mr. Barnet again changed course, returning to abstraction and resuming the engagement with bold shapes, vivid color and dynamic compositions that characterized his painting in the 1950s. Will Barnet, Painter, Dies at 101 2012-11-13T23:34:33Z They play feminine nature to Brancusi’s masculine abstraction, in the conventional senses of those gender terms. Review: Lynda Benglis Celebrates the Fluidity of Nature at Storm King 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Meghan Brady produces exuberant, partially collaged abstractions that she calls “paper paintings” in a former schoolhouse in Maine — one which, when still in service, was attended by Louise Nevelson. An Elegant Return to Form at Independent Art Fair 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Because of the silence of the soundtrack and the immobility of the camera, time seems to slow down, and action mutates into abstraction. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z But like the shards of real poetry and invention embedded in the abstraction of “FAR,” they just slip by. Dance Review: Wayne McGregor at Montclair State University - Review 2011-10-28T22:16:09Z I find these first large-scale abstractions, christened the “Night Journeys” by the poet Richard Howard, pretty theatrical. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z They begin with the earlier abstractions, geometric, even architectural compositions, from a master draftsman. At Cornish College, a vivid Robert C. Jones retrospective 2014-02-21T00:05:15Z But such abstractions were far from anyone’s mind in May, as the Garfield and Roosevelt bands, and 13 others from across the country, descended on Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan for Essentially Ellington. Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z Mr. Lewis’s gift is to turn highly complex phenomena into engaging stories, while Mr. Sorkin possesses the complementary ability to ground lofty abstractions in recognizable human motives and aspirations. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z For Close, breaking up images of faces into frictionless grids of amorphous abstractions was not only therapy for the condition of face blindness. Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Born in Washington in 1915, a grandchild of slaves, she studied science at Howard University, then plunged into art with sculpture and prints blending Socialist Realism, modernist abstraction and African influences. Art in Review: ?STARGAZERS?: ?Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists? 2011-04-14T20:26:17Z “The group’s iconic style can be seen as a hybridization of Eastern-Asian calligraphic traditions and the tendencies toward gestural abstraction that were evolving across international modern painting,” Smith said. Retelling the Story of Abstract Expressionism Through Women Artists 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z For a long time, Mr. Gaitonde’s reputation, which barely existed in the West, languished in India, partly because abstraction as a genre was viewed as culturally irrelevant, even un-Indian. V. S. Gaitonde Retrospective at the Guggenheim 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z He, too, said that pursuing abstraction as a black artist was a lonely road. Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z “Seated Figure With Hat” is by the Bay Area’s Richard Diebenkorn, one of those artists who shifted between abstraction and representation without apparent injury to his person or reputation. Portraiture show blends the abstract and the recognizable Images in the “Aperture” series are hovering rectangles that recall early televisions, computer screens and grayscale 1960s geometric abstraction, while the “Interior” works divide space into slightly fuzzy grids. Marsha Cottrell at Eleven Rivington 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The style balances many opposing tensions: grandeur and democratic sentiment; aspiration and retrospection; and here, abstraction and decoration. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z Work in the gallery’s second room takes this idea a step further, presenting photographs of abstractions created from printed and cut images. From drops on a computer screen, Valerie Green creates tiny kaleidoscopic worlds 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He was critical of the lack of content in dance and of most contemporary choreographers, whom he believed hid behind a cloak of abstraction. Nigel Charnock obituary 2012-08-07T14:06:41Z Still, within a global history of abstraction, the Western variety has its own substantial chapter, one that is still being written. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z It’s possible — indeed, fun — to compile a list of aesthetic references for Morris’s abstractions. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events. DVDs: Jim Carrey as the Id Unleashed a Bit Before Its Time 2011-02-25T20:14:20Z Reminiscent of the curved dabs in Cafritz’s abstractions, the beads link photography to painting, and organic archetypes to invented ones. Review | In the galleries: A multi-sensory exhibit with cherry blossoms and a dire warning 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z In New York, photographs by Jennifer Tobias document the hieroglyphic beauty of social distancing markers adhered to the city’s sidewalks: butterflies, hearts and colorful abstractions that the heels of countless passers-by are gradually erasing. Epidemics: A Force for Life-Changing Innovation 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z We believe that theatre – where there is no screen between performer and audience, where we are not abstractions to each other but living, breathing beings – is the place to do this. Verbatim theatre: the people's voice? 2010-07-15T16:02:00Z In breezy, congenial emails to Salon — lightly peppered with typos and ampersands — the CPC elaborated on its ideology, alternating between clear wording and strange abstractions. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z This lavish, thrillingly revisionist show challenges the bias of postwar American art history in favor of New York, abstraction and Conceptual art. Review: ‘What Nerve!’ Presents an Alternative History of American Art 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The challenge in opting for abstraction as a production concept is that atmospheric imagery can come across as vague, even blank. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z All these works — the guitars, the glasses — pointed toward abstraction, but again Picasso moved on, leaving it to others to develop. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z But abstraction can be easier for the eye, than the ear, to absorb. Music Review: Peter Serkin Brings Musical Abstraction to 92nd Street Y 2014-05-12T21:40:29Z They cross and recross the line between abstraction and representation, also between private and public, between the natural and the artificial, always reminding us that images deluge every aspect of life. Art in Review: Michele Abeles: ‘English for Secretaries’ 2013-05-16T20:38:50Z If I’m going to talk about the environment, I’ll need to start with this river, which is not an abstraction. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z What develops in the arena of each work is so physically present and visually complicated that issues of abstraction and representation fade away. Art in Review: Dona Nelson: ‘Phigor’ 2014-05-09T01:36:22Z And certain strands of her more recent work have a meditative, existentialist cast — a reminder of Ms. Piper’s initial hopes for the transcendent potential of abstraction. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z He had some success with it, although he always found oil painting an intractable medium, and pure abstraction a stretch. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z A new piece, tentatively titled “Song for Now,” was almost all flow, a shadowy abstraction. Music Review: Calm Demeanor, Assertive Sounds 2011-05-09T22:16:50Z Around Town There is plenty more abstraction around town. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z And he holds the banner of abstraction high here with a picture that’s basically a giant swoosh of pink. When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Covering more ground than the exhibition, it should appeal to anyone even mildly obsessed with quilts, or the history of geometric abstraction outside painting. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Installed with a lot of bare wall between them, her 12 abstractions make the gallery seem cavernous. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z In these tiny pictures from the early 1920s, he defines the lasting tension in his art between American-derived realism and European-derived abstraction, between populism and classicism. Stuart Davis, Heady Abstract Realist, at the Whitney 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The second turns the massive fiberglass and epoxy resin abstraction into a Brobdingnagian incense burner. With these Evan Holloway sculptures, the possibilities are almost infinite 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Black paintings, a distinct and widely celebrated category of postwar American abstraction, took on a whole new meaning in Marshall’s often moving representations of black life since the 1950s. Best art in 2017: Our critic's top 10 exhibitions, plus one very big worry 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z We readers, though, may never come to care about these “fish-tailed quasi-humans” because Millet fails to introduce them as individuals or invest them with any meaning: They are just pretty abstractions under the sea. Book review: ‘Mermaids in Paradise,’ by Lydia Millet Bringing abstraction to a performance medium once dominated by narrative was one of Cunningham’s basic goals, and Mr. Atlas honors it. Art in Review: CHARLES ATLAS: ?Joints Array? 2011-08-18T20:43:15Z Amongst all the violence and abstraction I found it to be this really sweet unconventional romance at the end of it. Colin Farrell on Why He'll Never Make a More Unusual Film Than 'The Lobster' 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z He broke away from traditional forms of presentation and turned toward abstraction. Singapore Honors a Son of China 2010-10-06T11:30:00Z His aerial views of Dutch landscapes are interrupted by what look like patches of Modernist abstraction, though he didn’t insert them in the pictures; the Dutch government did to hide military sites. Art Review: ‘A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial’ 2013-05-16T21:04:47Z His desire to learn realist technique was thwarted by a series of instructors who favored abstraction. In Search of Sleep, with Bob Ross 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It was filled with colorful works of decorative abstraction — psychedelic florals and ethereal patterns that look like nature viewed through a microscope, leaning toward the surreal. There’s a New Artist in Town. The Name Is Biden. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z In his New York solo debut, “All New Women,” the young German painter Leonhard Hurzlmeier explores relatively unfamiliar ground in the gap between abstraction and representation, pushing toward both illustration and pure geometry. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It was at the Bauhaus that he decisively embraced abstraction. Art Review: ‘Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,’ at the Morgan 2012-07-26T23:09:42Z Mr. Winters, 67, was one of many young art students at the time who felt Kelly’s influence in the way that he “rooted his abstraction in the real world.” Ellsworth Kelly, Abstract to the End 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z But loose brushwork and a gorgeous palette of sugary pastels that ease the way into deeper blacks and indigos mean that the pieces almost work as abstractions, too — pure expressions of art-historically inflected painterly innocence. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He never went for the expressionism, abstraction or mysticism of a Dylan or a U2. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Even then, there is an impulse toward feminism and abstraction that would characterize her later work. Shahzia Sikander’s Exquisite, Entangled Worlds 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Narbi Price, based in Newcastle, works from photographs and says he is interested in "blurring the line between figuration and formal abstraction". Five make John Moores shortlist 2012-08-30T11:32:27Z The layered abstractions, produced by combining several printmaking techniques, are complemented by the multi-tiered works the Maryland artist terms “print constructions.” At the Corner Store, Goertel’s photos make a splash without the flash 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Designed by Nike, the team’s red away jersey amps up their American identity with an abstraction of the U.S. flag and three stars. US women honor '99 world cup champions, and America, with World Cup jerseys 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Its characters and settings are presented as something like layered cut-paper silhouettes, and the birds who populate the book are sometimes detailed, sometimes the simplest of abstractions. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z For Ms. Messner, it was more a matter of avoiding a subject she had long considered an abstraction. In Love and Out of Debt 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Composed by Mr. Murray, it’s a swinging tune with a pensive yet intrepid melody, and a midsection of bristling abstraction. Review: An All-Star Jazz Trio Explores Form and Freedom 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Swift’s adopted home of New York City goes from an idealized abstraction to the locale of a more specific heartbreak in the progression from “Welcome to New York” to “Maroon.” Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ (Lindsay’s Version) 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z As an immigrant living and working in the birthplace of Abstract Expressionism, Uklański states, “Neither English nor abstraction is my mother tongue. These paintings ‘speak’ an aesthetic ESL.” Artist Piotr Uklański Explores Immigration in a New Miami Exhibition 2013-12-06T05:00:00Z The most recent paintings in the show are abstractions of wavy patterns based on close-ups of the fur of his cats, Bella, Marigold, Lily and Tito. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Terrorism and surveillance are treated both as facts of life and as vaporous abstractions. Review: In ‘Jason Bourne,’ a Midlife Crisis for a Harried Former Assassin 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z A traveling retrospective explores the artist’s early little-known experiments in various media and traces her journey from biomorphic abstraction to the grids and stripes that made her reputation. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The work is in assorted media and ranges from sheer abstraction to meticulous realism. In the galleries: Using heat to create several kinds of artworks 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z He enjoys exploding that division between figuration and abstraction. Harold Ancart Brings His Kaleidoscopic Trees to Chelsea 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z He still makes minimalist yet heavily worked abstractions, generally featuring craggy circles or battered color fields. In the galleries: Nature’s serenity 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But this tribute program salutes the experimental filmmaker’s early celluloid work, in which he manipulated the physical medium to explore the possibilities of abstraction. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Postwar, composers headed into extreme abstraction, while Stockhausen pioneered electronic music, all in an attempt to create music fitting for the times. TV highlights 19/02/2013 2013-02-19T06:59:01Z Without the layer of abstraction provided by Disney’s cartoonists, it’s harder to ignore the uneasiness of this particular romantic adventure. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Pelton’s exquisitely finished, otherworldly abstractions are full of mysterious shapes and distant horizons, glowing vessels, flowers, several kinds of stars and other celestial events. ‘Agnes of the Desert’ Joins Modernism’s Pantheon 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Journalist Karen Houppert, in her investigative book “Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice,” replaces the abstraction with two true-crime sagas set in Washington State — Spokane County and Grant County, to be precise. ‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor 2013-05-01T18:25:42Z He was one of the most significant figures in post-1945 European abstraction. Art: Chinese Master, Modern Brush 2011-03-31T12:30:05Z “Public art was considered second- and third-generation modernism,” she said, referring to sculptures of geometric abstraction often in front of office buildings. Making Public Art a Contender 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The Richmond artist’s pictures feature the vivid colors and flat planes of hard-edge abstraction, but are clearly modeled on bits of buildings and landscapes. Review | In the galleries: ‘Evolving Traditions’ from a nontraditional artist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Rather than oppose dominant abstraction, these artists probe the tension between the figurative and the abstract. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Her spotted print built a bridge between pure abstraction, pinnacle of Modern art, and vernacular subject matter, a language emphatically down-to-earth. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z That is part of our unfortunate reality in America, but Blackness also exists outside of that, in realms of abstraction like in the earth, in space, in the sea. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Their power is so explosive that they undermine his profession of faith in abstraction. Review | Is he or isn’t he an abstract painter? Two museums differ. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Best known as one of the leaders of the Dada movement, the French artist veered from Impressionism to radical abstraction to photo-based realism; from painting to performance to poetry. MoMA Plans a Fall Show Centered on Francis Picabia 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Early in her career, she settled on drawing as a primary medium and abstraction as a mode, unusual choices when the most visible avant-garde Indian art was figurative painting with a political bent. A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Wartime quilts confirm once more that abstraction is hardly the province of modernist painters. Wartime Quilts Honor Battles and Leaders, but Mostly Art 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The precedents for Matthew Langley’s handsome abstractions include Gene Davis’s stripes and Barnett Newman’s color fields punctuated by the thin vertical absences he called “zips.” In the galleries: Deconstruction that’s carefully constructed 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z There are passionately beautiful treescapes by Mondrian before he turned to abstraction. Van Gogh to Kandinsky; Edvard Munch: Graphic Works; Picasso and Modern – review 2012-08-04T23:05:38Z Mr. Nickas is known as a connoisseur of contemporary abstraction, and you’ll find plenty of examples among the works in the main rooms of the house. Art Review: ‘Creature From the Blue Lagoon,’ in Bridgehampton 2012-08-02T21:41:16Z “Get Out” isn’t exactly a horror film, but what it borrows from the genre is, above all, an element of symbolic abstraction. A Few Thoughts About British Actors Playing American (and African-American) Roles 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The late 1940s was when de Kooning first caught fire, when abstraction and figures first merged. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z That exhibition, which covered the same time period in which “Untitled” was painted, revisited the postwar years in which she developed her style of simple, Constructivist-like abstractions. A Mural Designed by Carmen Herrera Will Be Painted by Bronx School Students 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “Color is tied to our way of seeing, of perceiving the world,” he explained, while the abstraction of black and white “offers an additional expressive possibility.” A Look Back on a Life’s Work Capturing Conflict 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The Modernist insistence on the separation of representation and abstraction robbed painting of essential vitality. Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century 2010-03-26T16:33:00Z Mr. Chamberlain’s bent and folded metal pieces have a beautiful excess and also brought a new level of abstraction and color to postwar sculpture. ‘Chamberlain/Prouvé’ at Gagosian Gallery 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Mr. D’Arcangelo was well known in the ’60s for his expansive, graphically vivid paintings of highways and road signs, which combine Modernist abstraction and Pop Art. At Armory’s Winter Antiques Show, Volumes of Variety 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Per Kirkeby, a celebrated Danish painter and the exhibition’s oldest participant, is represented by just one lyrical canvas combining gestural abstraction and landscape. Art Review: Chilly Scenes (and Sounds) of Scandinavia 2011-07-07T21:56:29Z “I liked his idea of abstraction as a palliative response to that trauma,” Mr. Eleey said. Inside Art: MoMa PS 1 Plans 9/11 Exhibition 2011-07-28T20:48:32Z He was a neoconservative with no time for Matisse or Picasso, and certainly no interest in the coming of abstraction. For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Green, gray and purple occasionally appear, extending the range and amping up the intensity of the quotidian dramas these animated abstractions elicit. What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo's off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Meantime, our contemporary mania for abbreviated text updates—think Twitter, Facebook, and BlackBerrys—feels as if it stands in direct opposition to jazz's deliberate, instrumental abstractions. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z Yet Wu’s unorthodox liberty eventually offered a model to two living painters, both senior figures of contemporary Chinese abstraction, whose art is in the show. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z All of the images are deftly made, but my favorites are ones that create a tension between realism and abstraction. Artists build a skillful 'Architectural View' at Prographica 2011-11-10T22:23:09Z Versteeg, the standout, contributes a suite of six canvases that look like variations on the same gestural abstraction — looping black and white squiggles touched with green and purple. Computer-generated art that meditates on authorship and creativity 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Making a political case for Miró’s later work is a harder sell yet, as he turned increasingly to abstraction during and after the war. Art Review: ‘Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,’ at National Gallery 2012-08-02T19:39:06Z We stopped in front of an art gallery exclusively devoted to portraits of Abraham Lincoln, rendered in varying degrees of abstraction. A 'perfect storm' for the paranormal: touring America's most haunted town 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “Story ballets. I like stories. I’m not interested in abstraction, which makes me kind of old-fashioned.” Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness. At one point, closeups of jostling bodies blur into a passage of delirious, hallucinogenic abstraction. Art Review: Youth, With Hopes and Bliss Intact 2011-05-27T23:41:29Z Abby is an appealing lost soul with a redeeming streak of spunkiness, and when Ms. Stone is on screen, her performance bypasses the pretensions of a movie constructed on abstractions. | 'Paper Man': Jeff Daniels, Lisa Kudrow and Confusion 2010-04-22T23:41:00Z But as with van Gogh’s work, Bess’s small, intensely personal quasi abstractions seem designed to withstand the onslaught of biography. Critic?s Notebook: Forrest Bess Paintings at Christie?s and Whitney Biennial 2012-03-22T21:35:57Z One of his techniques was to hold up white cards or other objects in front of the camera to disrupt real-world scenes into bold abstractions. Ray K. Metzker, Art Photographer, Dies at 83 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z At Olitski’s death in 2007, opinion about him was split: did he advance abstraction and foreshadow minimalism, or simply create decorative works? Promising Exhibitions From Coast to Coast 2011-03-17T04:45:08Z I wanted to evoke that kind of functional abstraction. Kyle Abraham’s Second Act at City Ballet: Spare, Wintry, Abstract 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Body and abstraction merge in a piece whose two triangles are actually the artist’s arms held up or down on the diagonal. Jared Bark’s Black-and-White Photo Booth Creations 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Intriguingly, his trio features the pianist Bill Carrothers and the bassist Billy Peterson, an Upper Midwest crew adept with melodic abstraction. New Music: New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio 2012-09-24T21:53:19Z It’s the brain’s attempt to anchor an abstraction, to make the spirit world and the boring world finally align. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z These personal narratives hover between abstraction and representation, with suggestions of fishing-baskets and other staples of Cambodian life alongside allusions to organs like the stomach and lungs — symbols of strength and fragility for Mr. Pich. Cambodian Art Emerges From Horrors of a Murderous Past 2010-12-29T15:30:02Z The earliest works in the show are three small dry point etchings from 2008, 2010 and 2012 remarkable for their variety of delicate marks and their brinkmanship between abstraction and representation. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Greaves realized that ideal, concretely and passionately and personally, in “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One,” but his modernism is no arid abstraction. The Daring, Original, and Overlooked “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Constitutionally restless, he shopped through styles, and in the 1950s shifted to gestural abstraction, then the vanguard mode. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Glenn Ligon, the New York artist, is best known for canvases stenciled with fragments of famous texts that explore the experience of being black, and some deliberately slide from legibility into abstraction. For Glenn Ligon, Home Is Where History and Friends Are Inspirations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Davis and Mr. Taborn are two pianists with an ear for stark clarity and unflinching abstraction. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In 1935, she co-founded the American Abstract Artists group, which started staging annual exhibitions and picketed the Museum of Modern Art for not showing abstraction by American artists. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Any harm bucketing down below is at best an abstraction, just as it is in 1929, when the play shows us suicides of despairing stockbrokers but none of the pain radiating through lower social strata. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And it sets the stage for someone like Rashid Johnson to work within conceptual art and abstraction, but more freely. How a Museum Show Honoring Breonna Taylor Is Trying to ‘Get It Right’ 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “She started with abstraction when people in Beirut were just discovering Impressionism. In the ’60s, no one was paying attention to her, and then when they started paying attention, the war started. Saloua Raouda Choucair, Early Exponent of Abstract Arabian Art, Dies at 100 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The colorful abstract painting, in which Mr. Hantai bunched up the canvas, creating an overall abstract pattern, may appeal to younger artists today because many of them are taking a new look at abstraction. Inside Art: At Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, Yoko?s on View 2010-08-05T21:30:00Z Henson’s abstract-expressionist abstractions are vibrant and dynamic, with colors and gestures that evoke fire. ‘Hide & Seek’ reveals the beauty in details 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z These are neither traditional ceremonial statues nor epic industrial abstractions. In the galleries: Art that expresses the feel of Foggy Bottom 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “Where the image hovers between representation and abstraction, it left a mark — and it leaves a mark in our memory,” he says. His art centers on silent-era race films with African American actors, names that 'Fade to Black' 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z It begins with an amazing sight: six of the paintings from Guston’s groundbreaking 1970 show at Marlborough with which he unveiled his abandonment of abstraction and more or less scandalized the New York art world. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Where Brooks' and Sargent's paintings have a neo-Impressionist feel to them, Marsden Hartley's "Eight Bells Folly: Memorial to Hart Crane" is stylized to the point of verging on abstraction. Controversial 'Hide/Seek' appears at Tacoma Art Museum 2012-03-21T22:54:40Z By taking the information away, I get to create an abstraction that makes people think about data: “A black man with a show about data? That must be about killings.” Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In this situation, people are given an opportunity to imagine their own content — they can layer themselves upon my abstractions. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Modern abstractions or nostalgia cannot themselves generate ideas for structures of lasting value,” he wrote in 1988. James Stewart Polshek, Quiet Giant of Modern Architecture, Dies at 92 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z There was spiky abstraction in the first half of the set, along with some poetry by Mr. Grimes, delivered with authoritative clarity by Ms. Myers. Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z For a long time, the whole dilemma was a strange abstraction. Should I defrost my freezer boys? 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z A marvel of abstraction and Technicolor design, it proves that it’s possible to make a great movie musical without great music. Movie Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Among the other sculptors are several whose styles meld abstraction and natural forms. Review | In the galleries: Zenith celebrates 40 years with two exhibitions in two spaces 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Instead of going further down the road of abstraction, he decided to return to "recognisable imagery". William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z On display are several earth-toned abstractions that echo the landscape as well as other paintings with subjects that are more recognizable, such as her famous flower and skull pieces. Five Reasons to Visit Santa Fe 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z Robert Rauschenberg’s backdrop — an abstraction of Monet’s Impressionist landscapes and Seurat’s pointillism, with contributions made by both Jasper Johns and Mr. Taylor himself — brought an immediate burst of applause. Review: Graham, Cunningham and Taylor, All Together Now 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Nagle's weird and eloquent abstractions look to one of art's most ancient sources, decorated clay, to conjure exquisite little objects whose acute refinement is shot through with pain. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Does Larry Bell’s big early abstraction fit the Vertigo section because of its refracting mirrored surfaces? Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Even lacy hosiery was made by hand, fringes were created from feathers and shoes were imprinted with surreal abstractions of men’s footwear. Special Report: Haute Couture: Skeletons, Family and Religion 2010-07-06T17:38:00Z “Here he jumped into a territory of abstraction and a plane of color in a way that was certainly unrecognizable.” A Deep Dive Into Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’ 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z He gravitated not to the traditional painting faculty, but to teachers interested in Conceptualism, including performance and mathematically determined abstraction. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Those paintings, drawings and prints, gestural explorations of the humble and the grand, continually shift along the fluid continuum of figuration and abstraction. Roger Herman ceramics: bold, bawdy and ... is that a little bondage sketched on there? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But the pure abstraction of the full-height windows is not without symbolism. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z "I honestly didn't know that I was heading towards abstraction," he said. Don Peebles obituary 2010-05-02T17:23:00Z Her pain was offered as something other than an abstraction — but so was her perseverance, girded by the drive to refine raw experience into art. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z One of my theories is that until the advent of abstraction, women artists were not free to convey their experiences directly. Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History’s Sidelines 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Much of Lawrence’s appeal, as SAM director Kimerly Rorschach noted at the preview, resides in “the tension between the realism and the abstraction.” SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Asphodel Meadows is an abstract piece, but it's an abstraction through which the emotion bleeds freely. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Using his glamorizing treatment she celebrated her own pantheon of heroes, from Gertrude Stein to Elizabeth Murray and Pat Steir, painters who infused New York School abstraction with feminist imagery. Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z TERN, she said, aims to bury Caribbean “coconut art” clichés with abstraction, new media, conceptual photography. At Future Fair, Discovering Emerging and Undersung Players 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Casalegno, who was born in Naples, Italy, drew inspiration from “The Futurist Cookbook,” published in 1932, which also used abstraction to explore the aesthetic ramifications of technology and mass media. Flavorful Bites in a Virtual Reality 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In Act I, when the king’s hunting party gathers, complete with two impressively large dogs, a bit of abstraction is introduced into the look of the production through some sculptural gray trees. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z Fourteen square black-and-white marble panels, which Kelly designed as abstractions of the stations of the cross, hang on the walls and an 18-foot-tall redwood totem rises in the apse. In ‘Austin,’ a Monument to Ellsworth Kelly’s Vision 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Hartmann’s art was ornate, figurative and deeply Russian: characteristics seemingly at odds with Kandinsky’s vibrant geometric abstractions and cosmopolitan air. Music Review: Mikhail Rudy in ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ at the Guggenheim 2012-09-29T01:39:38Z With Duchamp’s Industrial Age sculpture, Weston’s elegant camera picture and Warhol’s serial imagery as background, these still life compositions dissolve into abstraction as you scrutinize them. It's bathroom art: Joel Holmberg's toilet portraits 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z But when combined with the brilliant works of Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary choreographer who died in 2009, sonic abstractions come to life. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z On the basis of pure social abstraction, Sutpen has spurned his own child, his first son. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Yet even as her history emerges, she remains an abstraction, a symbol of her people’s suffering, while the general’s wife and daughter, with their fears and dawning comprehension, become more wholly human. ‘La Llorona’ Review: The General in His Horrific Labyrinth 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Wall works similarly refer to gestural abstraction but involve photographic processes and sewing instead of the artist’s hand. Katy Cowan: Art about art, with a playful side 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z One idiosyncrasy of Howard’s ritual of grief is his letter-writing; he’s the Herzog of mourners, writing missives of aggressive complaint to his three guiding abstractions, Love, Time, and Death. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z There are soft abstractions by D.C. colorists Tom Downing and Howard Mehring, and a picture made by Gene Davis before stripes became his field. Review | In the galleries: Tehran doesn’t reveal itself readily 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z This applies to the repeating patterns of the landscapes — fed by Art Deco, the comics, Navajo blankets, Yoakum’s landscapes and quilts that Brown collected, as well as Minimalist abstraction. The Keeper: Roger Brown, the Artist as Voracious Collector 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Her first show, in 1945, was shuttered by the Turin police before it even opened, and for decades after, her erotic watercolors and rubber-slicked abstractions were appreciated by only a few. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Younger artists who claimed to be embarked on a quest for spiritual authenticity were turning out gestural abstractions that looked more like imitation de Koonings. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Then, over the next decade, Guston began to switch gears, a new recruit from figurative work to full-blown abstraction. Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z A multidisciplinary artist, he is well known for stylized paintings that mix figuration and abstraction in vivacious, accessible ways and emphasize the joys of Black life. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z He described his dance as “a kind of compendium and abstraction of my rage.” Review: Ailey Rages in ‘Survivors’ and Finds Humor in ‘Roy’s Joys’ 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Not far from Kimberley were sites of rock carvings dating back thousands of years, symbolic and patterned — early abstraction, Katz said, noting their inspiration. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It was as if the mainstream and the avant-garde had been allowed to gather and miscegenate in pure, visual abstraction. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z To create one of his lacey abstractions, Scott Short elaborates on a production process Franz Kline used 60 years ago. Art Review | Whitney Biennial: At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking 2010-02-25T22:21:00Z Sci-fi lives in abstraction and allegory, and this approach allowed them to deliver criticisms of racism and prejudice into US households. Bleep me up Scotty: why is sci-fi suddenly so sweary? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z It is a challenge to show how intuition and inspiration yield insight and creativity, and to capture abstractions in a literal-minded medium. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z In fact, “the illusions, delusions, the abstractions of art and lunacy . . . all spring from a few cells that were rearranged by a mistake but remain physical cells. With mass.” ‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’: Sebastian Faulks’s latest foray into war 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z A concise visual essay on age-old associations of the masculine with rational abstraction and the feminine with the messy body, it looks as if it had been made in the 1980s by a second-wave feminist. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z His body is buried in Rimini’s cemetery, and I arrived at the grave, a dramatic abstraction of the prow of a ship, as darkness was falling. Inspired by Rimini: a tour of Fellini’s magical home town 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “You feel the flatness and abstraction, but also realism and layers, and I guess you could say a soul.” ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z As a kind of diary of her inspirations, Fujii’s music troubles the divide between abstraction and realism. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Within abstraction, Ms. Jaramillo has experimented and evolved, spending more than a decade making works on paper and then coming back around to painting. A Painter Who Puts It All on the Line 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Architects failed, he added, by regarding architecture as an “abstraction separate, in a sense, from the values or the qualities that the peoples of the various cultures require in their buildings.” Paul Oliver, Pre-eminent Authority on the Blues, Dies at 90 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z My father died when I was 13, and I also dealt with his death through abstraction. Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History’s Sidelines 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z By contrast, Rosi’s protagonist is something of an abstraction or a useful cliché. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The weird symbolism in Jo Baer’s paintings fuse the grays of her early Minimalist abstractions with visions of Irish myths and monuments. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Finishing with What a World, which drifts with beautiful abstraction for weeks, she emits one last caffeinated laugh, and leaves to enchanted applause. Joan As Police Woman – review 2012-08-06T11:12:06Z There’s a continual fluctuation in forms, references and degrees of abstraction. ‘Hilma Who?’ No More 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Such poetic abstraction risks sounding flip out of context, but the qualities of Ewart’s compositional practice made the gesture seem more like an authentic celebration of multiplicity and invention. Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The first, for career achievement, goes to composer Wadada Leo Smith, whose inventive musical notations also function as works of geometric abstraction. 'It's a big deal': $100,000 Mohn prize for Hammer's Made in L.A. biennial goes to dancer Adam Linder 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Her paintings definitively explode the notion of modernist abstraction as a male project. ‘Hilma Who?’ No More 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Much to critics’ dismay, he dropped the style, becoming instead an important member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, which was noted for its then-unfashionable stand against abstraction. An Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts Contemplates the Oeuvre of Richard Diebenkorn 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z There is, for instance, an odd, intriguing, not quite successful painting that superimposes two paintings of houses on a brushy, brown abstraction resembling Mark Rothko’s work. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z But here those grand abstractions take form as actors in an apocalypse as it might have been rewritten by R. Crumb with an assist from the Marx Brothers. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z Its overarching theme is that abstraction is reality-based, distilled from lived experience, and actualized through highly personal approaches to process and materials. Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach 2010-03-18T22:29:00Z He wanted to merge ghostly abstraction with concrete immediacy, the sensuous world with tremors of the vast unseen. Perspective | Jack Whitten: once neglected artist lately the toast of the art world 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z This is when he switched from abstraction to a style of figurative art engaged both with brute politics and the existential comedy and influenced by underground comics. Perspective | Museums are still mounting major exhibitions this fall, with no shortage of big-name artists 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s a bulwark against the dehumanizing mode of the opposition, and a way of keeping injustice from glazing into an abstraction. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Her abstractions array simple forms, mostly circles and squares, in complex juxtapositions. In the galleries: Scenes of nature with allusions to religious art 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Police brutality is not a surprise to us; it is an all too common personal experience; it is not the stuff of anecdotes, abstraction, or apocryphal storytelling. A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Finding ways to adapt abstraction to an aesthetic of dissent, he made a picture whose brash color alone shouts an alarm. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z On a handsome set, by Erhard Rom, that places Victorian furniture within a majestic, neo-Classical hall, Dona D. Vaughn has staged a production that emphasizes, perhaps a bit too heavily, naturalism over abstraction. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z The show, he writes, “proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture and vernacular image-making that has been largely overlooked and undervalued relative to the canon of Modernist abstraction and Conceptual art.” ‘What Nerve!’ at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z His portraits teeter towards abstraction, even as they record violent reality in acid colours. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z Zippy 1960s abstractions with clean lines and bold colors, they make no bones about their sensual materiality as paintings. A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The soundless stillness that spills from Yaegashi’s intimate abstractions has nothing to do with the silent authority of solemn situations or sacred spaces. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z That show is of work by Walter Kravitz, who devises sinuous abstractions in gray and black, often modeled to simulate rounding and shadow. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Above all, we sense a growing desire among voters around the world for leaders to assert greater authority and deliver deeds rather than process, results rather than abstractions. Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z And we pull back for his gratifying architectures of form and space, amplified by color and portents of abstraction. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z "Promiscuous abstraction" is the phrase she uses to describe his art in the 1960s, and it is hard to think of a better one. LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The methods of the caricaturist “involve reduction and abstraction” and often “a degree of humor and commentary,” she said, adding that Picasso’s caricatures informed his mature portraiture. Picasso’s life, portrait by portrait 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But because “Dreaming Zenzile” too often favors symbol and abstraction, the audience is denied this connection. ‘Dreaming Zenzile’ Review: A Tribute to Mama Africa 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Also self-reflexively oblique are Christopher Wool’s translations of his own painted grisaille abstractions into pale gray prints resembling much-enlarged newspaper reproductions. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z “It’s a little bit of an abstraction of the scene I found in India. It was my tiny mind trying to put it to this gigantic music.” Mark Morris’s Love Letter to India, Through Music and Dance 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s an informative and engaging presentation of the nature of Arp—one of the greatest modern sculptors—as well as of the nature of sculpture and of abstraction. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z When Harry beats his wife, yelling, “I could kill ya!” there’s an eerie abstraction to the scene. 2010-01-09T03:25:00Z Pat Adams is something like the Jan van Eyck of postwar American abstraction. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The second room features gestural abstractions by Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline and a drippy, brushy, patchwork picture of numerous people by Larry Rivers. Art Review: ‘Re-View: Onnasch Collection’ Is a Postwar Journey 2014-02-20T23:25:13Z He also took sandpaper and chemicals to the lithographic stones, creating difficult-to-categorize abstractions that embrace chance and accident. Jean Dubuffet at Museum of Modern Art 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z She also varies her formula with the vibrant “Mardi Gras” pieces, abstractions that suggest the complexity of urban fabric rather than evoke individual edifices. In the galleries: Gunpowder and teddy bears 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z In “One Eye,” Ms. Eisenman flirts, as she sometimes can, with abstraction. Nicole Eisenman, Fluidly Merging Past, Present and Future 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The mushroom cloud is one of those images that’s hard to process without resorting to abstractions. Art Review: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Black and White 2011-06-30T21:47:55Z He was, alternately, a crafter of burnished, timeless imagery and a proto-modernist obsessed with abstraction; a social realist and a fiercely political social activist. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Rendered in a style that injects an unexpected element of abstraction into slick, Pop-flavored photorealism, the pictures use food and commercial packaging as a springboard into deeper meditations on desire, temptation, and memory. Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager's large-scale paintings are on view in Los Angeles 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Mehretu kept moving, and in the process forged a new sort of decolonial abstraction right inside the tradition of Western art. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Uta Barth’s photographs have always nodded heavily toward painting — particularly the misty look of Impressionism, which influenced pictorialist photographers, and strains of abstraction. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Both muted and boisterous, they challenge the conventional history of abstraction and reflect the talents of the Gee’s Bend collective, especially those of the Pettway family. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z It succeeds but does him no favors because abstraction suits him best. Critic’s Notebook: Tweaking Rap’s Rules, but With Respect 2013-01-16T23:12:10Z At a point when the pre-eminence of abstraction was steadily being submerged under the plastic tide of Pop, Guston had joined the polluters. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z If you wanted to make Guston look semi-normal — conventionally, classically Modern — you would foreground his 1950s abstractions and hang them together, a wall of gestural elegance. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The Arlingtonian’s pictures emphasize the eeriness with compositions that are closer to abstraction rather than traditional landscape. In the galleries: ‘Strange Landscapes’ explores gardens of unearthly delights 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Cézanne’s willingness to transform objective reality into something stratified, ordered and apparently impersonal led the way into cubism and the highly ordered abstraction of Mondrian. Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z As a young man — Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 — he was drawn to the modernist art movements coming out of Europe — cubism, futurism, geometric abstraction, atonal music. 'Where the Heart Beats': Zen Buddhism and the music of John Cage 2012-07-11T19:53:04Z Had DeLillo created a world of pure abstraction where the reader would be left to float in the zero-gravity chamber of the death fable, everything to think about and nothing to latch on to? Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The story is full of archetypal characters and familiar situations, which, Nicolas, you seem to approach by stripping things down, almost to the point of abstraction. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Driving in a Noir L.A. 2011-05-22T18:41:11Z At just under 10 feet by 20 feet, each of four mural-size abstractions in the first room at David Kordansky Gallery envelopes a viewer’s field of vision. Storms of color wash through Mary Weatherford's latest work 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Tooker, often called a symbolic, or magic, realist, worked well outside the critical mainstream for much of his career, relegated to the margins by the rise of abstraction. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z Yet, in another sublime paradox, this very dramatic compression and abstraction renders the remarkable cast’s performances all the more powerful. Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” Challenges Hollywood to Do Better 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Success is the abstraction here; struggle is the vivid core. Rick Ross Tries On a New, Streetwise Role 2012-08-01T13:32:00Z Rather, it was to set up a powerful contrast between our desire to be fully and luxuriantly immersed in familiar narratives — the cyclorama experience — and the more anarchic and unsettling freedom of abstraction. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The contributors forgo abstraction but only a few are realists in the usual sense. In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z You wanted to know what Simpson might have made of a summer storm or a wintry chill, even in abstraction. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z Bobb-Willis is interested in how these artists applied a sly sense of abstraction in their portraiture, pushing representation beyond realism and stereotype. Black Beauty: Photography Between Art and Fashion 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z With a few defining strokes, he paints whimsical faces on tables, chairs and doors, breaking with Modernism’s abstraction, blurring the boundary between art and design. Gaetano Pesce Adds ‘Performance Artist’ to His Portfolio 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Plants, then, are a gateway to abstraction — much like the windows, staircases and other neutral bits of architecture from which Mr. Kelly derived some of his early paintings. Art Review: Ellsworth Kelly’s Plant Drawings at the Met 2012-06-07T20:16:13Z He played with representation and abstraction, naturalism and symbolism, three-dimensionality and two-dimensionality, external-reference and self-expression. Review: Picasso show lives up to the hype, and more 2010-10-07T21:38:00Z Alexandra Harris This year's has this evening gone to a cultural history arguing that modernism has just as much to do with English teashops and churchyards as exotic European -isms and abstractions. Guardian first book award goes to Romantic Moderns 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z “She has this extraordinary talent for distilling form, landscape, abstraction and color,” Mr. Kelly said. Two Galleries Share Yoko Ono Show, and a Hometown Return to New York 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In other canvases, planes of color and areas of white balance landscape and abstraction behind scaffoldings of green lines. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Purifoy made abstraction out of junk and political art out of hairbrushes and drinking fountains. Noah Purifoy, an artist forged by fire 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Sillman, a virtuoso of motion, brought to Gladstone Gallery not only commanding new abstractions but a pandemic surprise: small, tender floral still lifes, ardent promises of new life. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Always use concrete words and phrases in preference to abstractions.8. Gove's golden rules for writing: can you do better? 2013-07-01T14:30:59Z They differ from the carefree geometries of much 1960s abstraction the same way the emotionally charged clumsiness of the Early Renaissance contrasted with the perspectival ebullience of the High. Alice Trumbull Mason, Alone and With Friends 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It featured six young artists whose work, departing from the Paris-influenced abstraction of an earlier generation, used figure painting to create historical narratives. Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z “Even in 2015 there is an impulse to imagine that geometric abstraction just plays with ideas up in the clouds,” says the show’s curator, Benjamin Colman. Peter Halley’s abstract works are on view in a new exhibition in Connecticut 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z This is seductive abstraction that conjures very special atmospheres, moods and humours. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z First up is “Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture,” the first museum survey of works made of wood by the painter of austere yet sensuous abstractions. The New Season: New Museums: Crystal Bridges Among Anticipated Openings 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z Somewhere along this journey, Crist began making eye-popping abstractions such as “Pulsating Diamond.” In the galleries: Brave new worlds and fantastic heroines 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z First, the invitation itself, with multicolored pieces of spongy fabric pressed into the cardboard; then, the words, printed in double lines like a train track: “energy, abstraction, humor, action, color, instinct, spontaneous, fast.” Fashion Review: Ralph Lauren Plays Polo 2014-02-13T19:01:54Z Based in the Bay Area, Jones practices a kind of muscular abstraction bolstered by conceptual heft. Works of defiant beauty by Samuel Levi Jones 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s a sad, heartfelt novel, though the poetic abstractions of the writing fit awkwardly with its scenes of desert combat. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Action Jack is gone and his Conjoined Triangles of Success are now back to being a business-school abstraction, rather than a real-world corporate torture device. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 4: Irrepressible Genius 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z It seemed infinitely elastic, as if its members could theoretically push the music far into abstraction and still make sense but that they preferred to work within limits. Music Review: Abstract and Fluid Jazz 2011-02-10T23:29:00Z But abstraction for me is about getting a little deeper into the soul of the country and expressing the inexpressible.” Some of America’s best Black artists are joining forces for a show about Black grief — conceived by a legendary curator who died last year 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “We are animals driven by lust, hunger and aggression, but also delicate creatures in love with beauty and abstraction. Those two sides of our nature collide in unexpected, infinitely variable ways.” The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Instead her grids and stripes suggest game boards or paneling — generic forms of abstraction at large in the culture rather than associated with an individual artist. Art Review: ?Sherrie Levine: Mayhem,? at Whitney Museum - Review 2011-11-10T23:15:08Z With their belief in the power of abstraction and conceptual art, “shouldn’t that be part of this mix that’s made available to audiences these days?” From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It wants not only to explain the financial crisis of 2008 — following the outline of Michael Lewis’s best-selling nonfiction book — but also to make the dry, complex abstractions of high finance exciting and fun. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It may also be a model for a whole practice of painting, where the border between representation and abstraction recedes into a blur. Titian and Gerhard Richter: Keeping Faith With Painting, 5 Centuries Apart 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Behind the figures, generally flat horizons divide the backgrounds into two colors conjuring abstraction at its most severe. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z They were all studying with painters who specialized in a brand of European gestural abstraction called Art Informel. ‘Living With Pop’: Capitalist Realism at Artists Space 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The results recall Colby Caldwell’s series of digital abstractions based on a corrupted computer file, but in Dana’s work the corruption is intentional. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “Thinking about the window paintings and the way in which she’s merging these multiple realms together, there’s always this tension between representation and figuration and abstraction in her work,” Karasoulas said. Her Views From Close Up Are on Everyone’s Radar 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z For him, music wasn’t just an abstraction, an intellectual game of pitches and forms. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “I wanted an emotional musical landscape that was more towards abstraction and musique concrète than the cultural specificity of blues,” Mr. Mann said by phone from Los Angeles. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z When you look into the value of things, it’s all an abstraction. Jeff Koons Lends a Hand and a Name 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z It can be easy to think of representation as an abstraction, as a political cudgel, a tedious rallying cry, a bore. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z While Walter sometimes pushed his landscapes to the brink of jewel-toned abstractions, Dunkley aligned the expressive powers of natural form and painted textures into a recognizable but uncanny, highly symbolic world. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z This year, it’s clear that those exploratory abstractions were also seeds. Monique Prieto at Chimento Contemporary: Finding a face in the clouds 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z This evocation of nature is in the tradition of Romanticism but also draws on post-painterly abstraction and conceptual art. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The most direct of the pictures are found abstractions, accidental color-field paintings encountered randomly in Paris, Los Angeles and elsewhere. In the galleries: The devil is in the details in an exhibition filled with symbolism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The “Swan” series culminates in paintings whose segmented targets on red or black anticipate the unequivocal abstraction of Kenneth Noland, the 1960s Color Fielder. ‘Hilma Who?’ No More 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The result is a glowing environmental abstraction and an oasis of Zen-like calm. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z It was followed by another Mr. Barceló painting, “España Economica,” which depicts the detail of a map of Spain while bringing it to the brink of abstraction. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z The exhibition also presents other murals in which giant letters are fused into near abstraction and colorful works on paper, and a stained-glass window in which outlines of letters are confusingly layered. Art In Review: KAY ROSEN: ?Wide and Deep? 2012-03-01T22:52:10Z Geyrhalter's documentary work, freed completely from plot obligations, brings the technique to the brink of abstraction. Austrian cinema: a province shaped by past masters of pessimism 2013-06-19T09:57:23Z Having revolutionized art a hundred years ago, geometric abstraction no longer threatens any established values. Cary Smith’s Paintings Riff on Modernist Conventions 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Kandinsky influenced Hartley’s leap into abstraction, but at the risk of blasphemy, the Hartley looks as strong if not stronger. A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Jarvaise describes them as elegant abstractions in the lyrical style then known as Abstract Impressionism. Robert Therrien Gets a Solo Show at the Albright-Knox 2013-07-12T11:57:00Z They showed an artist reveling in photography’s primary substance, light, but maintaining the same level of artifice and even abstraction, and the same awareness of her medium that pervades all her art. Sarah Charlesworth, Artist of Deconstructed Photographs, Dies at 66 2013-07-01T00:20:45Z Despite the success, the virality was an abstraction to the group until a few months later. Grammys 2015: 'Music's' biggest night'? That's rich 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Settling in New York, Mr. Kawara found he couldn’t realize his installation ideas to his satisfaction; also that he was too interested in language to pursue abstraction. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The stripes and dots enlivening these pieces nod to early modernist abstraction, or maybe the Pattern and Decoration movement. Roger Herman ceramics: bold, bawdy and ... is that a little bondage sketched on there? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z And Ms. McCarthy has been the most invested of the five in abstraction. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z Hymnlike at the outset, resting on a slow drift of chords, it soon unraveled into shapelessness, with Mr. Stanko briefly grasping at abstractions, unsupported by his band. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z When all standards of evaluation give way to prejudice, conspiracy theory, and cults of personality, chaos is not an abstraction of artful exploration, but a demonic threat stepping on every shoulder. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The history of sacred art — and, indeed, the history of modernist abstraction — is rich with examples of secret meaning sequestered in captivating aesthetic phenomena. For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Brook’s words can flow almost effortlessly from plain practicality — stand here; walk that way; start again — to dizzying abstraction. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z In the British art world, abstraction was still viewed with suspicion; outside that world, it had a highly specialised appeal. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Theaster Gates makes and sells individual art objects that are hard not to like, for their own sakes: lovely sculptures that explore the history and meaning of ceramics; compelling abstractions made out of urban detritus. Being Edward Hopper 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z From a distance, the paintings in Samuel Levi Jones’s exhibition “Burning All Illusion,” at Galerie Lelong, resemble sedate geometric abstractions, structured around the traditional artist’s grid. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z When she went back to the studio, she started to layer her torn abstractions with blank burlap, new drawings, and even some of Pollock’s discarded drip paintings. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In his hands, indigenous craft methods, colorful abstraction and complex symbols fuse into iconic forms. Jeffrey Gibson’s art, on view at SAM, knocks down boundaries with gentle taps and potent blows 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z In these works paint is laid on in broad, rough slabs, becoming earth and also incipient abstraction. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z Most of its characters are abstractions, and so are most of its conflicts. Review: An ‘Evita’ Newly Tailored for Our Time 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z During a tour of his studio, he took pains to show abstractions that were never purchased or realized. An Indian Sculptor With Monumental Ambition 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Maybe this rich, dense show signals a shift, though: Who cares about abstraction anymore? What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z More or less any pursuit can be reduced to nerd-inspiring abstractions. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Other works revolve around oppositions between geometric abstraction and messy assemblage. Art in Review 2010-02-18T23:04:00Z Far from abstraction, she is looking to create moments of such intensity that music ceases simply to be sound, but becomes an all-consuming, synaesthetic experience. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z This format allows Young to focus on details, streamlining them almost to abstraction. Review | In the galleries: Studies in ‘anti-landscapes’ and seeing the unseen 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Her career—which began in her native Romania and then Paris before she emigrated to the U.S. in 1941—encompassed Surrealism; abstraction, both geometric and biomorphic; and figuration, including portraiture. ‘Hedda Sterne: Printed Variations’ Review: Elevating the Everyday 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z From the beginning of his career, he unwaveringly championed the centrality of abstraction to the living history of modernist art. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z The Palestinians, to the extent that they are mentioned, function as an abstraction, as if the polarization of Israeli politics didn’t concern them at all. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Upstairs, in the gallery for resident artists, Jung Min Park is showing painted-and-snipped pieces that range from filmy abstractions to partly realistic city scenes. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Inside is an undated abstraction by Loló Soldevilla, a pioneering Cuban modernist. Lessons in Modernism at the Tefaf Fair 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Twelve years later she abandoned the models for bold abstractions of Moroccan patterns, and then landed on her current style, which was inspired by a graffiti work she spied in New York. Katherine Bernhardt’s Fruit Salad Mural Graces the Walls of Venus Over Los Angeles 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z So the abstractions of Hieronymus Bosch paintings were not just printed on the sensuous and shapely outfits, where a taut bodice grew out of a multifolded hipline or emerged from soft fabrics flowing around it. Special Report: McQueen's Mesmerizing Finale 2010-03-09T18:27:00Z Mr. Bradford has opted to tackle the full spectrum of subjects, which is what makes his abstraction feel deep. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z Threaded with calligraphy, they read as abstraction but can also be understood as landscapes, or an anthropological excavation of them. Covid. A Coma. A Stroke. José Parlá Returns From the Edge. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z How are skill and quality evaluated in a form that holds both meticulous realism and exuberant abstraction and in an art world that sometimes values concept over craft? CoCA’s group show demonstrates the continued power of painting 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “Crowded Solitudes,” his new album on the Clean Feed label, features an alert trio with Kris Davis on piano and Gerald Cleaver on drums, bringing tangible shape to compositions that often court abstraction. Eric Revis, Holding Down the Center Again 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s a nice respite in a fair that leans, on the whole, toward the chunky Modernism of Art Deco or geometric abstraction. Review: At Salon Art + Design, What to Check Out 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z From a distance, the bold grey-black bars of Khan's huge image recall the calming abstractions of an Agnes Martin painting. Artist of the week 80: Idris Khan 2010-03-25T13:25:00Z The 14-minute piece, in which the player presides over a sprawling array, came across as a strikingly modern abstraction of an ancient ritual, teetering between sober and ecstatic. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Take out the gauzy abstraction, the heartwarming clichés, and much of what DeSantis is describing in “The Courage to Be Free” is chilling — unfree and scary. Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Even more confusing are the relationships between figure and ground, abstraction and representation, solid object and open space. Take another look: The alternate world of 'Barbara Kasten: Stages' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Other interludes unfold around the abstractions Marley grappled with during his self-imposed exile in Europe and Africa, regarding his spiritual questing as well as his uncertainty about what role he should play in Jamaican society. ‘Marley’ at Baltimore’s Center Stage offers up the music but not the man 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z His abstraction was personal and specific, the result of a lifelong quest for a language sufficiently expressive to capture the nuances of the little patch of the world he called home. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z He would, eventually, transcendently, apply them to abstraction. How Mexico’s Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The Brooklynite’s canvases show insurrection but emphasize flashes of light amid darkness and billowing clouds — the sort of strong yet ethereal forms favored by the Romantic artists who nudged painting toward abstraction. Review | In the galleries: Turning the commonplace into uncommonly fine art 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Of all the artists participating in Festival Promenade, Callum Innes, an Edinburgh resident who shows with a local gallery, could be called the most traditional, with his paintings unashamedly exploring pure abstraction. Edinburgh festival: art comes out of the gallery 2012-08-10T21:54:01Z The works on hand back this up, ranging between figuration and abstraction, by various routes. Art in Review: ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUMMER ON THE INSIDE’ 2012-08-16T20:03:38Z It helps to let go of the Euro-American idea that abstraction is purely a formal phenomenon; in Indian modernism it can also be a rupture in narrative. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z The album’s lyrics conform to rock rather than to theatrical music, favoring poetic abstractions over clear narrative. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra Finds Herself in a Concept Album 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The piece, “Liberty Bell,” a special 3-D animation of an enormous abstraction shaped like a swaying bell, was planned for Philadelphia. ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z And he used abstraction as one forceful implement in his toolbox. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z A decades later, in “Recent Paintings,” he sheds off abstraction but moves further into history. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Bucklow showed me one of his latest works – a photo of a huge painting, widescreen like an epic American abstraction, at the centre of which is a man wrestling a woman. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z It’s sensational, and it positions his painting in the top ranks of late-20th-century abstraction. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This is where my conversation with abstraction begins. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z They were abstract, and they engaged with the history of 20th-century abstraction. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z She also made mysterious, corporeal abstractions simply by pressing a tissue box against a photocopier, crushing the soft sheets like petals and leaving us with the yawning portal of an emptied container. Jay DeFeo 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Bielawa’s work begins as a Neo-Romantic portrait in bittersweet melodies and plush harmonies, and gradually makes its way toward abstraction in a dark finale built of sustained and slowly sliding tones. Music Review: New-Music Benefit Becomes the Art Itself 2010-09-28T21:13:00Z Ms. Branch uses extended technique and blustery abstraction to a dizzying effect. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z During the first half of his long and productive career he was a figurative painter; then around midpoint, when many artists are set in their ways, he turned to abstraction. Art in Review: John Heliker: ‘A Tribute’ 2012-06-07T22:50:50Z He sensed a crisis for abstraction generally, a crisis of limited pictorial resources and dwindling, repetitive outcomes. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “The Metal Master,” a funk groove bracketed by clanking abstraction, indirectly evoked the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Music Review: Scott Robinson at Jazz Standard 2012-10-28T21:31:16Z In fact, in these enormously sophisticated pictures, Joe Wardwell presents three quite different things at the same time: landscape painting, rock lyrics and brushy abstraction. Words and images conjure new meanings in Joe Wardwell’s paintings 2013-04-25T22:44:36Z The flat, angular pose emerges as a wholly unexpected abstraction of famous photographs of Nijinsky dancing his radical "Afternoon of a Faun." Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He plays with both an attunement to abstraction and a keen intensity. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There is abstraction here, but it never collapses into pure experimental expression. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z His voice is still piercingly nasal, his lyrics full of tightly condensed abstractions: “Used to see the TV screen as the place to land my dream in.” A Tribe Called Quest Returns to a Changed World With Joy and Grief 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But it is about experiencing the real, material world, not photography and not theoretical abstractions. Art Review: William Eggleston at Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-05-02T21:26:29Z The meeting of abstraction and figuration is suggestive. Art Review: ‘Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna,’ at Neue Galerie 2013-06-06T21:38:06Z Ghersi often speaks like this, sharing high-level abstractions on the artistic and philosophical motivations of her work. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z That intelligence expressed itself through an art that ricocheted across styles and media, from tightly massed collages to huge abstractions of Matissean richness. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Mitchell fell under the spell of Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, whose bold, large-scale abstractions liberated her from her academic training. Painter Joan Mitchell finally gets her due 2011-05-02T10:57:09Z At Galeria Estação, a São Paulo gallery, the paintings of the farmer turned artist Alcides present trucks, speedboats and other conveyances in a vivid, streamlined style that seems conversant with Brazil’s history of Neo-Concrete abstraction. Art Review: The Outsider Art Fair Features a Global Vision 2014-05-08T21:52:59Z There is a curious, sometimes frustrating reticence in Mr. Fleischner’s invariably elegant work, which often involves walls, as in large, shadowy, black-and-white photographs of flat surfaces that verge on pure abstraction. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z With the expanses of black peeking through the bright color, these works hold abstraction and realism in a new tension, as confirmed by a display case with military regalia like von Freyburg’s. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Organized by Matthew Higgs, director of the alternative space White Columns, it charts a literal-minded kind of abstraction that uses common materials and, often, painting as a jumping-off point. Art Review: In Five Chelsea Galleries, the State of Painting 2012-06-28T22:03:04Z Quaytman; her paintings blend elements of geometric abstraction, photography and literary history. Helen Molesworth, MOCA's new chief curator, relishes the possibilities 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z "I want more than the allure and enchantment of abstraction; I want a dance that wakes me screaming out of my dreams." Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z His new paintings are strong-colored works that balance gracefully between representation and abstraction. Joe Bradley Begins Again 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In the booth’s tiny space, Mr. Bark pursued body art, serial imagery, narrative work, Minimalist abstraction and early appropriation art. Jared Bark’s Black-and-White Photo Booth Creations 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The assumption, in advanced circles, was that abstraction was wholly superior, raising large, lofty questions about the essence of painting instead of getting bogged down in the picayune details of postwar life. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z At home, he could erupt into sudden violence or disappear into cold abstraction, but on camping trips, he was warm, charming, fun. Grand Teton National Park: Truth in Beauty 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Anyway, you may simply know Jordan as “the lobster guy”, after his most famous proposition/abstraction: the idea that lobsters and their serotonin levels explain why human hierarchies exist and are good. Pity Jordan Peterson. Can a giant lobster analogy ever replace a sense of humour? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In his atelier, Mr. Cardin viewed the female body as an abstraction, a hanger of sorts. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z It is not idealism to believe in Europe; still less is it a bureaucratic abstraction. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is important the way shows of postwar geometric abstraction are. A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In “Folk Incest,” she is also commenting on her artistic lineage, on inherited tools of postmodernism and abstraction. A Dance of the Unspeakable 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The abstraction of a single dangerous limit removes climate politics from our immediate lived experience and into the locked conference rooms of global institutions. What zombie films tell us about climate change: there's no one happy ending 2013-03-22T16:37:53Z She was working in abstractions, writing briefs for people she would never meet. The new year is the time to ask: Do I have the job I really want? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z There is a kind of lyrical abstraction there that is very personal. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The daughter of a textile trader, Ms. Shah traces her affinity for abstraction and craft to growing up with stacks of fabrics and swatches arraying her home. Komal Shah, Champion of Female Artists, Works to Raise Their Profiles 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Here, 19 canvases explore some of the subjects, styles, moods and meanings encompassed by representation, abstraction included. Review: Leidy Churchman, ‘The Meal of the Lion’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Going into the weekend, as other parts of Manhattan took steps to return to normal operations, normalcy in Chelsea remained an abstraction. | Chelsea's New Normal 2012-11-06T22:00:21Z In art, abstraction usually means taking a nonobjective approach to sculpture, painting and photography. Eva and Franco Mattes, the Art of Deletion 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z At first, she is only an abstraction: a pyramidal form in a black veil, swaying ever so slightly to his song. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z And of course, such sophisticated abstraction ended up elevating the status of mathematics as well. Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z The space is in Chelsea, but there’s no cerebral conceptualism, cool abstraction or painterly gesture on view. Street Art That?s Finding a New Address 2010-03-03T23:13:00Z Cain, 42, has been making caustically colorful, improvised abstractions since the mid-2000s and had been commissioned to hide construction walls during refurbishment of the atrium’s skylight. With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Variations of these gestural abstractions crop up across the exhibition, each painting bearing a loose but decisive inheritance to post-1980s German and American abstraction, which still excites because it did away with abstraction’s stodgiest rules. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Some of Williams’s abstractions are very nearly landscapes, or at least include such hallmarks of the genre as horizon lines and sky-blue backdrops. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z That important early painting — said to have marked the artist’s transition from figuration to abstraction — sold for $30.9 million with fees, with back-and-forth bids by phone. The S.I. Newhouse Auction: 16 Paintings, $177.8 Million 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The exhibition curator, Jessica Todd Smith, likens it to Stieglitz’s “Equivalents” series, abstract images of clouds he shot in the 1920s and 1930s, because the photographs “tried to do what painting does with abstraction.” Georgia O’Keeffe in a New Light, Hawaii to New York and Between 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z A stronger explanation of the Flynn Effect is that we do better abstract thinking than our ancestors did because our social environments promote abstraction. Are humans getting smarter? 2013-06-03T20:25:00Z Perhaps, beyond abstraction, Whitten really wanted to capture the essence of Black life, or personhood, which he often described in his interviews as “soul.” Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The new survey reflects developments since then, among them a renewed interest in performance and abstraction, and a simultaneous embrace and rejection of digital media. Art Review: Squiggly, Tangly and Angular 2010-12-01T22:55:00Z He views the abstraction of the wildly pockmarked head, which looks as though it might have been hit by a meteor shower, as alluding to sounds — the string section, the brass. A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It’s a George Condo Creation 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z In the art itself, certain opposing, often overlapping elements were in constant play: urban and rural imagery, naturalism and abstraction, nationalism and internationalism, the political and the personal. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z That attitude toward painting, particularly abstraction, has been with us for decades. In Michelle Fierro's painting, mistakes lead only to possibility 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In no particular order of precedence, consider first gender and abstraction. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z They are some of the most lovable abstractions in modernist art history, partly because they are too casually handmade to be purely abstract. Alexander Calder, MoMA’s Household God, Still Holds Sway 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z When the abstraction becomes reality involving flesh-and-blood male and female defendants with lots to lose, the shortcomings of the criminal justice system become shockingly clear. ‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor 2013-05-01T18:25:42Z The work’s enveloping abstraction scuttles the possibility of conceptual dignity offered by an institution founded to embrace challenging new art. MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The exhibition kicks off with a 1924-1925 painting of flowers by the influential Stanton Macdonald-Wright, a key figure who supported the tenets of Cubism, an abstraction in Los Angeles in the 1930s and '40s. Crazy babies and pantyhose: 5 must-see works at OCMA's 'Avant-Garde' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It is an abstraction grounded in the real world. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z That is where the Whitney show begins, in postwar Paris in 1948, the same time and place that shaped Ellsworth Kelly’s entree into abstraction. A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z At the same time he was immersing himself in a European-inflected American modernism, which led him to explore abstraction, the career-track vanguard mode of the 1940s. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z The blank Photo Realist sky seemed to taunt the abstraction. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Women, Heyman showed, are always at risk of being seen as an abstraction—something less than fully human. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z I think how the high priests of abstraction work is fascinating. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z But as we gain a glimpse into one of their lives, we wonder at the cost of such relief brought on by abstraction and the burden created for those doing the math. Lesley Nneka Arimah’s debut story collection is vibrant and fresh 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Is it that one missing girl is “every parent’s nightmare” but two hundred an abstraction, a number too surreal to fathom? Why is the media ignoring 200 missing girls? 2014-04-30T18:51:00Z In the 1940s, Sekula made small abstractions favoring the grid structure, saturated colors and a lyrical, delicate sense of line. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The disparaged subcategory of “zombie abstraction” persists, usually used as a springboard to greater complexity. Review: At NADA Art Fair, Collecting for Pleasure, Not Status 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z He flirted with abstraction in some landscapes, but his work was always representational. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Others are placed, like punctuation marks, between the larger abstractions. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z A vast complex at the site of historic Benin City, the museum was conceived by the Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye as “a kind of abstraction of how Benin City would have looked before.” When a Visit to the Museum Becomes an Ethical Dilemma 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z As the show’s title suggests, though, Mr. Ortman was not eternally committed to abstraction. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z On this occasion, she explores the territory between representation and pure abstraction with compositions that mostly center on blue and white vertical stripes with bits of black. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The haunting halls of the Scotland Street School and the colorful, protruding stone abstractions outside the Daily Record Building. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Her book describes the year she spent eating only animals she had killed herself – a common, if hypothetical, answer to the abstraction and scale of the mostly invisible meat industry. A nice bit of squirrel: should we chow down a diet of invasive species? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “He represents the reality that a younger generation of artists continues to embrace abstraction and challenge the notion of what ‘Black art’ is supposed to look like,” she said. ‘Fighting for Change’: Life as a Black Artist 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Most of one wall at the Athenaeum, which is hosting the retrospective, is dedicated to abstraction, including the show’s oldest dated item. In the galleries: Watercolors, silkscreen, portraiture in Alexandria Parsed into 10 “chapters,” with its swirling rhythms, involuted structure and flights into abstraction, “Time Passes” presents an especial challenge to the pre-post-pandemic brain. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z And they’re apt to favor what they can see, touch, smell and hear over abstractions and ideas. The First Fully Illustrated Selection of Pablo Neruda’s Question Poems 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But she added something confidently her own at every stylistic stop: whether realism, social realism or abstraction. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z They made gestural abstraction begin to look operatic and sappy and uncool. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In the 1960s he was one of the founding figures of minimalism, and his stark, bracing canvases were lodestars of an austere new abstraction. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The roots of the Memorial for Peace and Justice lie in the post-utopian 1970s, in contemporary earth works and site-specific installations that combined Minimalist abstraction and scale with a Conceptualist capacity for political metaphor. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z "Prior to the storm I was experimenting with working in abstraction, but was questioning my motives," O'Neal said. Exhibitions plumb artistic responses to disaster 2013-02-05T21:46:04Z Indeed, perhaps his chief contribution to the development of Chinese painting since 1950 was his defence of abstraction. Wu Guanzhong obituary 2010-07-07T17:42:00Z And let’s not forget that repeating stripes are among the hallmarks of midcentury abstraction, which used them almost invariably to expel spatial illusion from the canvas. Gianna Commito 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He began his career when the city’s art scene was identified with colorful abstractions, often made with poured pigment. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits ‘Of This World’ and beyond 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The sobriety of abstraction is often undermined by the explosive power of a childlike scrawl meant to suggest a face. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In “Figuring Flesh” — the most morbid, chaotic section — the body is physically violated in various ways, by war, religion, abstraction or explorations of gender. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “La Journee des Lemmings,” more than 10 feet wide, is a sumptuously textured abstraction in intricately woven wool. A survey of June Wayne at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z To the naked eye, there is little in common between Thiebaud’s figural oeuvre and Kline’s or de Kooning’s raging exercises in abstraction, to say nothing of Chamberlain’s crushed metal heaps. Auctions: Stellar Auction at Sotheby's for Some Classics of Contemporary Art 2011-05-10T11:30:05Z Quaytman's exhibition includes about 100 old and new paintings that blend elements of geometric abstraction, photography and literary history. MOCA's 2015-16 art exhibitions include Matthew Barney show 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It seemed to me to be a geometric abstraction of a giant tree — until a pigeon peeped out from one of the openings. Documenting India’s Distinctive Birdhouses 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Scientists are no more qualified than anyone else to comment on those two abstractions, but they have gained insights into the physical world rather more dependable than those in the Scriptures. The Serpent's Promise by Steve Jones – digested read 2013-05-05T17:29:01Z Its real subject, or at any rate the most trenchant theme to emerge from behind its abstractions and intangibles, is the one suggested by the title, borrowed from Stravinsky’s book of études for young pianists. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z After she embraced geometric abstraction, the French critics disowned her for decades. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet a purely revisionist approach ignores the ways in which Asawa’s art is still remarkably contemporary, how it is a clear articulation of midcentury art’s engagement with spatial abstraction. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Transformer’s modest space isn’t big enough for an Albert Bierstadt landscape or a Robert Motherwell abstraction, but it can hold another art-museum monument: a gift shop. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z And he brought a spooky sci-fi abstraction to an untitled piece of his own making, seemingly groping his way forward in the dark. Music Review: Terje Rypdal at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-06-28T22:33:32Z Others utilise increasingly complex CG abstractions that represent some aspect of the series, including Daredevil’s dripping wax, Halt and Catch Fire’s microchip, or Mad Men’s falling man. Transparent to Game of Thrones: how TV perfected the title sequence 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Some kind of unspoken narrative hovers behind the engaging arrangement of images and abstractions in the larger ground floor gallery, perhaps even a dark tale of desire. Tom Gidley, Howard Hodgkin and Bridget Riley – the week in art 2012-06-01T15:31:33Z Three museum exhibitions currently in San Diego recall the shifting status of abstraction in painting and sculpture. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Rosenkranz’s contributions poke fun at various strains of postwar painting, including the monochrome and gestural abstraction, while maintaining a close relationship to the body. Art in Review: PAMELA ROSENKRANZ/ NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF: ?This Is Not My Color/The Seven Habits of HighlyEffective People? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z Three chairs, each painted a solid color and overlaid with knotty fabric abstractions hand-woven by Kasten, are lumpy instances of this. Take another look: The alternate world of 'Barbara Kasten: Stages' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The large quantity of painting and drawing gives lie to complaints about the underdog status of these forms, while the predominance of figurative work is a welcome departure from the current craze for abstraction. Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In the case of Arp, a revolutionary figure in modernism’s movements of abstraction, Dadaism and Surrealism, this complementary group show illumines just how foundational and remarkably inimitable Arp’s abstractions really are. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z We can see Imagism clearly as a mode of art-making in which the big art-historical battles concerning realism and abstraction mean nothing, but where the little rules of care and craft mean everything. ‘3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980’ Review: A Celebration of the Weird 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z This brings us to the question of reality and abstraction in art. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z Though she rejects the word “style,” Milhazes defines her approach to art as geometric abstraction. Brazil’s Top Modern Artist gets Rio Homecoming 2013-08-26T17:01:30Z In the late 1960s, when many British artists were drawn to abstraction, the two declared themselves a living sculpture whose every move was art. A Museum at the Center of the Gilbert & George Universe 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The most instantly recognizable voice in contemporary music, he opened a new chapter in operatic history, pushing the bounds of duration and abstraction. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Eventually, Ms. Rama — who died last year at 97 — moved on to geometric abstraction before turning to themes of the body and discarded objects. Curator From Menil Joins the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It included Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and other lyrical 20th century realists, and, in the work of Arthur Dove, it dipped one toe tentatively into abstraction. This Museum Has a Lived-In Look 2011-03-15T10:00:00Z Realistic details fuse with abstraction in a painting by Pat Goslee, who was inspired by watching an office building’s demolition. Review | In the galleries: 21 artists explore and expand notions of recovery 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Two triangles assembled from gleaming gold tags are geometric abstractions rooted in gift-shop junk. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z And yet this abstraction is, if not tangible, utterly concrete. Jodi Melnick?s ?Solo, Deluxe Version? at New York Live Arts 2011-09-18T04:00:03Z “We’re transposing a nineteen-thirties language to lower Manhattan, which has gotten overrun with glass and abstraction,” the architect said in a recent interview. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The speech also appealed to reason, abstraction and logic, framed by binary oppositions: conflict and harmony; morality and power. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It is 1915 and he moves into total abstraction, while cutting off all ties with the past by saying his predecessors were "counterfeiters". Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But ultimately, Little Richard’s hypersexual nonsense lyrics show us how lust defies language, how our most intense desires can become wild abstractions. Perspective | Life is a scream: Remembering Little Richard, the self-described king, queen and architect of rock-and-roll 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Traylor was a natural stylist and a born storyteller who pushed images of the life around him toward abstraction with no loss of vivacity. Art Review: Bill Traylor Finally Gets a Spotlight in New York 2013-07-04T23:46:01Z It deals mainly in platitudes and abstractions, with just enough detail to hold your interest and keep you hoping for something more. | 'The Ides of March': ?The Ides of March,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-10-06T12:00:00Z “For political reasons, I found the kind of large scale, macho-man abstractions of early SoHo beneath contempt,” he said in a 2015 Artspace interview. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Dwoskin happily mixed all available modes, often in surprising ways: documentary with fiction, abstraction with concrete observation, theatrical enactments with diary-like recordings, personal fantasy with social issues. Stephen Dwoskin 2012-07-12T15:55:13Z These machine-like abstractions could only have been made by a human. In the galleries: Jason Gubbiotti’s ‘War Paint’ at Civilian Art Projects She was talking to Ellsworth Kelly and she was having an impact on him as well as the other way around — even though he’d already arrived at a commitment to pure abstraction. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z He’s more like an abstraction out of Hegel made flesh, the uncaring, unstoppable essence of the times in which he lives. | 'Richard III': In Power Grab, the Force Is With Him 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z From ikats and hand-blocked abstractions to zigzags and indigo designs, the patterns decorate the fronts of some frames and add a subtle punch to the insides of others. John Robshaw Collaborates with Mondelliani on Sunglasses 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z In this “Living Abstraction” succeeds totally, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp seems almost a self-contained paradigm of this museum’s recent reinvention: an artist who could make abstraction into a high calling, in fine and applied arts equally. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z To some extent, there was freedom in this, one that allowed her to explore abstraction. Where the Sky Meets the Sea: Jennifer Guidi Leans Into Beauty 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z In theory this is a work of hardcore abstraction; in practice it is instant uplift. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z “In a milieu of competition, abstraction, individualism and hard work, this section was a little bit of an oasis than most students get to enjoy in 1L.” Love and Law: Recent Mergers in 1L, Section 6 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z His colorful abstractions of the image echo with references to the work of his Pop Art predecessors, calling to mind Andy Warhol’s portraits of Mao Zedong. | In a Gagosian Gallerist’s Personal Work, Cultures Collide 2014-01-15T18:17:52Z And whether they projected high-minded abstractions or hippie-conversant psychedelia, these experimental film artists had a ’60s optimism that new media could shape a new society and a new consciousness. A Countercultural Dreamland From Tokyo Flickers at MoMA 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, Scott was known as a pioneer of abstraction in Britain and exhibited alongside Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost, Victor Pasmore and Patrick Heron. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Sandara’s contribution to the undertaking are small black-and-white abstractions, painted while listening to Lao music and arranged on the wall to resemble the maps used to clear the bombs. In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The Frankenthaler is a watery abstraction of earth tones and secondary colors, suggesting a deep vista into a wide-open landscape. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z In his later work, where he plays on various kinds of abstraction, the paintings look like the props used to dress stage sets. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z It was not about geometry or abstraction as ends in themselves. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The philosophical discourse that underpins the story – the clash of ideals and abstractions with material reality – is extremely complex. Crime novels roundup | Book reviews 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Both Ann and I are at the age when death is no longer an abstraction, but rafting the Grand Canyon had never been on my bucket list. Older adventurers stay young at heart rafting the Grand Canyon’s rapids 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Pure abstraction, with its implication of perfection, is beside the point. Ranjani Shettar: ‘Night skies and daydreams’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z He sought reconciliation and salvation through mystical abstraction. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In these books a volcano distills the landscape to abstraction, birds’ nests are wrought, and irises bloom and fade, bloom and fade. Paper Gallery: Books by Ryan McGinley, Robert Longo and More 2012-06-28T22:29:24Z Her work, which incorporates painting and silk-screen, is abstraction that winks at the corporate landscape. Review | In the galleries: Creating a world of her own 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z A visionary composition on a series of spoken reflections about a literary work — itself full of layered free-association — Gee's intricate, prismatic film might sound as if it must be buried in abstraction. 'Patience (After Sebald)' evolves into its own incredible journey 2012-05-10T20:29:04Z Sailing was still an apt illustration of the kind of empirically minded problem-solving that Mr. Dennett has long preferred to the abstractions of more traditional philosophy, to the great irritation of some colleagues. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z A more obvious reason to eliminate the face, though, is that doing so removes the whole problem of the contrast between realism and abstraction. De Kooning exhibit highlights tension between portraiture, abstraction 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z I’m reading it and thinking, do we really understand: If you were enslaved, freedom and humanity are not these abstractions. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z They are elegant, gritty works, alive with spontaneous splashes, pours and rivulets of paint, and they effortlessly claim a place in the history of American postwar abstraction, stain painting division. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z “Her art is as much about abstraction as it is about racial politics,” Holland Cotter observed in his New York Times review of Jackson’s projects at the Whitney Biennial. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Freed of its function, and visible in a way a roof typically isn’t, the beautifully constructed mosaic evokes the serial minimalism of an Ad Reinhardt painting and the language of abstraction. Using Discards to Build Art (and Rebuild a City) 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z This foundation’s inaugural show presents more than a dozen paintings, works on paper and photographs by Wool, the painter who wrenched abstraction into the No Wave era. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The score sprawled through big-band jazz, folk melodies and long passages of hovering, clanging percussion — a kind of relentless abstraction of bells tolling. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z If, for instance, you judge the work by criteria that developed in the West around modernist abstraction, you are surely missing the point. Introducing the greatest aboriginal artist unknown in America 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Do you see any parallels between your work as a geologist and your attraction to abstraction? They Built a Home, and With It, a Collection 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Funk art, a more bohemian rejection of highfalutin pure abstraction, is especially well represented in eccentric ceramic sculptures by David Gilhooly and Robert Arneson. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z We are animals driven by lust, hunger and aggression, but also delicate creatures in love with beauty and abstraction. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Geometric abstractions by the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark will add a transcendent counterpoint to similar work by Europeans and Americans. The Week in Arts: Alicia Keys, Mark Morris and an Expanded MoMA 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The bulk of the works are still lifes of a sort, although the selection also includes gestural abstractions and hard-edge geometric patterns modeled on Amish quilt designs. Review | In the galleries: ‘Hard and Soft’ juxtaposes the delicate and the durable 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Back in left-wing Paris 50 years ago, Aillaud’s silent, unconsoling art appeared as the antithesis of gestural American abstraction, offering the most alienated view of an industrial capitalist society. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But Eastwood doesn’t fill the movie with the details of practical politics; he sets up Chris’s fighting with a mighty, intensely focussed abstraction. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Instead, he invites his guests to traffic in abstraction. Review: ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ Puts Stand-Up in the Spotlight 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The more urgent abstraction — defeating the plague, or in today’s parlance, “flattening the curve” — renders them provisional, at best. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Here he pushes the traditional ink medium to new levels of atmospheric abstraction with a range of innovative, sometimes crazed brush textures and pale washes. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z This abstraction and Mr. Pomare’s sculptural sense of space — his configurations are always interesting, often surprising — save “Radeau” from melodrama, despite the scream with which it ends. Dance Review: For Women Amid Waves, Shared Fears and Rhythm 2010-11-23T22:44:00Z Women gather up their aprons and bend over them like farmworkers, and the dancers’ shadowy hand ballet turns field labor into stylized poetry, an abstraction of bending, sweeping and grasping. Review | 60 years on, Alvin Ailey’s dancers take the stage — and prove why the company is unlike any other 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The young Glasgow-based artist's works pose the question with vigorous abstractions: neon squiggles, gestural lines and bright planes of paint. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-29T23:10:59Z Last week marked the debut of her first solo show, called “Channels,” at The Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, a collection of bright abstractions on nine, large-scale black or white canvases. In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In other pieces, Kephart uses the scorched surface as the basis for elaborate paintings — often landscapes but occasionally abstractions. In the galleries: Using heat to create several kinds of artworks 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The foundation's inaugural show, “Maybe Maybe Not,” presents more than a dozen paintings, works on paper and photographs by Christopher Wool, the painter who wrenched abstraction into the No Wave era. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z According to a museum news release the show will demonstrate that Still was on to pure abstraction in the early 1940s, in advance of his colleagues Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko. The New Season: New Museums: Crystal Bridges Among Anticipated Openings 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z He described the dance as being about the "abstraction of time and space through movement." 'Available Light,' a performance art landmark, makes the leap from 1983 to 2015 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z So this is an exhibition about the nature of abstraction – about where it meets the stuff of life. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z The series of abstract cloud studies shot in the 1920s and 30s transcends representations of the physical world and offers a world of abstraction and metaphor. Behold Vermont, From Above 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The work includes fiery abstractions made with clotted oceans of paint and delicate prints with hues of pink and refined tracery. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z So is “America Today,” which manages to knit together abstraction and figuration, American and European modernism, New York City and the rest of the country, and, above all, optimism and despondency. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In those moments, Lil Pump went from a pest to a peer, and Mr. Cole from an abstraction to a real human. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The stripes’ thickness and direction followed from the canvas’s edges and the brush’s thickness, resulting in abstractions derived from painting’s most fundamental components. In Frank Stella’s Constellation of Stars, a Perpetual Evolution 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z His version of abstraction bears the same relationship to the traditional nonobjective thing as his portraits do to conventional portraiture. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z However, many have pointed out that Homo economicus — that instinctively self-interested, bartering, trading linchpin of economic theory — is little more than an abstraction. Letters to the Editor 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Obama’s rise to the presidency helped Mr. Gaines view history as something other than an abstraction. Julian Gaines Has a Question: ‘How Do I Paint Oregon Black?’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z To many, the black paintings signaled a step back — a retreat from avant-garde abstraction to retrograde figuration. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The shows in question don’t always set out to focus on abstraction per se, but that doesn’t stop them from providing a lively account of some of its movements. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z Her beautiful abstractions fairly burst with the excitement of discovering layers of brilliant color beneath matte coatings of black or white. Julia Dault composes musical eruptions of color 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It tends to moves on an axis between realism and abstraction. "Flee": Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z But it also has the benefit of a sizzling solo violin line to rescue it from becoming an exercise in dry abstraction. Critic?s Notebook: The New and the Newer; Hold the Preconceptions 2011-08-09T22:58:14Z Virtue, like the late Dutch-born British artist, paints impressions of landscapes verging on abstraction. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Even as a child, Caroline Kent was immersed in the language of abstraction. An Artist Who Paints in Cryptic Pastel Symbols 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z If you’ve ever seen “Triumph of the Will,” you can see Hitler not as an historical abstraction but a man, one whose ability to rouse a crowd remains chilling. The year’s unlikeliest bestselling author: Hitler 2014-01-09T15:54:00Z It’s a great space to stand in and think about abstraction as an infinitely renewal energy source. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z Like many of her peers, she moved fairly quickly into abstraction. Where Blue-Collar Art Is Having Its Moment 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Tauber-Arp believed abstraction was connected to everyday living, and this show, her first in the United States in nearly 40 years, will present an overview of her considerable achievements. Perspective | Museums are still mounting major exhibitions this fall, with no shortage of big-name artists 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Here, geometry and abstraction predominate; you can take the blocks of primary colors as a cityscape, or not. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z The photography world has been ruled in recent years by a fascination with abstraction and experimental processes and techniques. Art Review: Experimental Strategies at Aipad’s Photography Show 2014-04-10T22:13:56Z They were mainly abstractions parading as pictures of inanimate objects: a flower pot, a mountain, a pile of dog feces. Dieter Roth’s Works Live On as a Family Business 2013-01-17T13:00:00Z Blank canvases that he buries in soil attract microbes and mold; drowned in rivers, they collect mineral deposits and emerge as marbled abstractions. | A Dangerous Method 2014-02-27T14:00:33Z But at its best moments, it’s also a timely statement that identity is not just an abstraction but a matter of family, livelihood, life and death. Review: ‘When We Rise’ Charts the History of Gay and Transgender Rights 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z From the start, in her own sculpture and painting, she bucked the trend that equated political art with figurative work, and invented her own modes of queer abstraction. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “It an abstraction, and then we know that they’re going to be born, and they turn out to be monsters later.” Watch a Tense Pool Scene From ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Blinky Palermo, a precocious art star in Europe at the time of his sudden death in 1977 at 33, comes across here as remarkably focused, not the least in his unwavering dedication to abstraction. Art Review: Thinking Outside the Canvas 2011-04-26T23:58:11Z He joined Rio de Janeiro’s avant-garde circles while still a teenager, making crisp geometric paintings inspired by Mondrian’s abstractions. Celebrating Hélio Oiticica’s Prodigious Run 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Likewise, his wall drawing turns the gallery into a hypnotic abstraction. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Rieux, like medical workers today, must obey the demands of an abstraction — harm minimization — giving them priority over more human impulses: touch, affection, mercy, pity. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z But the ensemble’s spirited rambles from reggae to swinging bop to rough abstraction? ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z In 2017, he announced that he had made his last paintings, a series of 47 abstractions. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z On other occasions he takes cover behind the abstractions of the pulpit. ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Kate Fitzgerald’s abstractions suggest landscapes, an affinity highlighted by incorporating scraps of maps. In the galleries: Medicine chests as a medium for reflection 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Lucienne's iconic fabrics took their cue from the abstractions of Joan Miró and Paul Klee; her 1951 Calyx pattern, with its flower-like cups joined by thin stems, is a modern classic. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-26T00:07:01Z It didn’t adopt abstraction as its defining advance style. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z When he’d applied, Shiokava assumed that he’d become a painter — and devoted himself to studying drawing, painting and silkscreening, a medium in which he produced a rather predictable array of abstractions and landscapes. The Hammer biennial's breakout star? A 78-year-old retired gardener from Compton who once worked for Marlon Brando 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Same with her home: an abstraction of unplastered lath, partly unfinished and partly a fantasy. Review: In ‘Noura,’ an Iraqi Refugee Leaves More Than Home Behind 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z It is a lesson in the power of abstraction to experience the two, side by side. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The redemption of these abstractions is genius—the irresistible force that blows practical objections aside. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Grill, who grew up in Western Springs, Ill., outside Chicago, worked her way toward abstraction gradually. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Occasionally, a dancer slides into shot, or a ship glides past, but it gradually becomes apparent that these are Cunningham's preoccupations, too, precisely what inspire the wonderful abstractions of his choreography. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z You can glimpse it in the ghostly shadows that haunt the laboriously reworked surfaces of her abstractions, where stray textures roam and partially painted-over sections bespeak decisions that didn’t work. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But Bodkin is no revivalist, and many of the strict theories that once attempted to explain and justify American abstraction hold no sway over him. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Through the abstraction onstage comes the intense performance of Ms. Komsi, who was riveting on Friday. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z Bella's going to college is bantered about early as an abstraction. "Twilight" taught us the dangers of young women not choosing themselves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Great swirls of blurred luminescence burst through deep blackness, creating a gestural abstraction. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It is hard to imagine many casual park visitors being captivated by the conceptual systems that gave rise to such rarefied abstractions. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z If art is about trying to see things how they really are, what is the value of abstraction? Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z In a panel called “Dead Horse,” one sees a haystack, cavalry and a dead horse, enlarged as a poignant detail that threatens to destabilize the abstraction with a powerful, representational and emotional focal point. Review | Mark Bradford turned a bloody Civil War battle into art that will haunt and entrance you 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Plus: abstractions of L.A., art from Cuba and a daylong art party on Grand Avenue. Datebook: Art that skewers the art world, an installation about dance, abstractions of L.A. 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z When last he showed at Adah Rose Gallery, Chris Trueman was making energetic, brightly colored abstractions whose many abutting or overlapped lines were defined with masking tape and executed with spray paint. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The abstractions go on, until this: She asks me a word I don’t know right away She says it’s hard to pronounce, but easy to say. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Kim studied art in South Korea and was part of the Korean Informel, a movement that originated in France and favored vigorous, expressive abstraction. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Washington’s color painters helped pioneer the shift of imagery from messy abstraction to rigid geometry. When the Washington Color School earned its stripes on the national stage 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “Rules for a Knight” is divided into brief reflections on 20 heady abstractions, ranging from “Courage” and “Justice” to “Speech” and “Death.” Ethan Hawke: Actor, novelist — spiritual guide? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z This would be a good subject for a novel; but rather than pursue it, “Ferocity” retreats into abstraction. ‘Ferocity’ Brings Florida Noir to Southern Italy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The master plan is careful to respect and give breathing room to the 1939 building, which achieves an unusual balance between grandeur and pedestrian scale, not to mention between ornament and spare abstraction. Metro's Union Station master plan a significant shift 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Abstract Expressionism was a movement defined by using abstraction to express the subjective emotion of the artist combined with spontaneous action. Exile in (artistic) Guyville: We gotta fight for our right to parity 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z “I knew the recognition was going to happen sooner or later,” said Mr. Little, who has stayed true to his labor-intensive approach to abstraction emphasizing color, design and structure. James Little, Unapologetic Abstractionist Painter, Catches the Limelight 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Mehretu said her current solo show at the Whitney, through Aug. 8, felt like a recognition of abstraction’s importance after the efforts of Bowling and others to fight in its corner. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z They had used abstraction in previous works to investigate the overlap between queer activism and craft traditions. An Artist’s Portraits, Stitched Together on the Subway 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z He painted sausages, potatoes, tart little abstractions, flamingos, herons, cars, horses and carts. Sigmar Polke ? sorry I missed you 2010-06-16T15:10:00Z His music is politics by other means, in search of a form, alighting toward a future that could grant him dignity, when he could be something other than an abstraction. Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The characters in the novel are motivated by love of family rather than by duty to country or abstractions like saving the world. Without 'Twilight's' supernatural chill, can Stephenie Meyer still thrill readers? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z I'm hoping to create an original live experience … This piece isn't aiming to be all about spectacle or abstraction though there is good helping of both in the production. Karen O reveals new 'psycho opera' details 2011-08-26T10:59:19Z Bjork has always been masterful at making pop abstractions feel familiar. The best music of 2015: Young Thug, Ellie Goulding and Kelela shine 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Now, when he’s not teaching in Hanoi, he’s outside Paris, making lush mixed-media abstractions. Undaunted, Asia Week Forges Ahead 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z She developed a vocabulary of linear forms so small that they feel like a secret language — as if geometric abstraction had been converted into some kind of private expressive code. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z A few smaller, vertical paintings in another room recall Chinese and Japanese landscape scrolls, gracefully merged with Western abstraction. Storms of color wash through Mary Weatherford's latest work 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s also an intermittent exercise in pure abstraction, a rapid-fire, cacophonous assault on the senses. In ‘The Color of Pomegranates,’ the Cinema of the Cryptic 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He was absorbed in his fantasies and private missions, aware of the basest necessities and the most transcendent abstractions, and almost nothing in between. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z It evokes a clinging toddler, she said, while creating an “element of abstraction” in the sculpture and a space where a small child can wriggle through and play. Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Like “Portaleza,” it asks you to engage entirely with abstractions, which is hard enough to pull off in person. When the Audience Is Stuck at Home, the Play Is in the Mail 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In her early abstractions, she struggles to unify the washes of color, which so inspired the Washington Color School painters, with the exploration of line and marks. Review | For beloved D.C. artist Alma Thomas, beauty wasn’t just about art. It was essential to life, too. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z They are prime numbers, he muses, divisible only by the number one and by themselves, and the author elaborates the thought in a fashion that is both elegant abstraction and profound human portrayal. Books of The Times: Paolo Giordano?s ?Solitude of Prime Numbers?: Scarred Souls 2010-03-11T22:53:00Z “I may keep coming back to these locations and photographing, but the abstraction is that I may not get the answer that I’m looking for,” she said. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z So the Neo Geo connection is not so far off base, while Light and Space, and modernist abstraction in general, emerge more as a target. Art In Review: PAMELA ROSENKRANZ: ?Because They Try to Bore Holes? 2012-04-12T19:58:06Z Lily Stockman’s strikingly simple geometric abstractions at Gavlak gallery possess a mysterious confidence. Flower beds? Body parts? The compelling abstract paintings of Lily Stockman 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Or they begin in empty textual abstraction—“the drift of the signs,” as he put it—before being rejuvenated by an encounter with something solid and actual: The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z So while there is a degree of abstraction that appeals to modern eyes, there is also an emotionally gripping, real-life specificity. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z As ever, though, there were some great abstractions, like their signature bows blown up in leather smothering the torso. Westwood, Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf play on style 2013-03-03T03:01:05Z In combinations of gray or white, primaries or secondaries, their quasi-Cubist shatterings and flattenings create abstraction as a kind of mounting rubble, but Freud’s face-shielding hand and arm are always discernible. Jasper Johns Stays Divinely Busy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z In the surprising collage titled "Rock Garden," Horiuchi abandons his more well-known very flat abstractions to provide a realistic sense of space and place. Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery 2010-04-08T20:16:00Z Of course “pure” abstraction carries narratives of its own, about making choices and why, as Mr. Bradford is fully aware. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z The first striking thing about “Birds of Maine” is DeForge’s trademark abstraction. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Their first set began with a loose reading of the ruminative melody to “Monk’s Mood” and ventured quickly into abstraction, dispatching with the standard ideas of what it takes to interpret Monk’s music. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z As a photographer, he resisted modernizing trends toward abstraction and new kinds of technical wizardry. Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z The show charts his progression into increasingly florid work — near-cryptic symbology woven into baroque, calligraphic abstraction, which he made nearly until his death in 2019. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The film opens today, and with its bluff, romantic resuscitation of the cinema’s classic adventure-tale genre and tone, it’s perhaps Gray’s most radical attempt at abstraction and displacement. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Taken as a whole, a stew-splattered platter assumes the colorful abstraction of a de Kooning painting, and the dullet sings in gorgeous harmony, balancing heat, flavor, texture and aroma. On a quest for doro wat, but the natives know best 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It also suggests, in its abstraction, the unrepresentable enormity of Rachel’s situation. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s almost like the medium of pop, you can’t hide in the distortion or abstraction of it. | Jason Pierce: Jason Pierce Fave CDs: Iggy Pop, Link Wray, Panda Bear 2012-02-24T21:37:29Z By 1953 my pictures appeared to have reached a stage of total abstraction and I was one of that very small band of British abstract artists much ridiculed by our critics ... William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Larger and more complex than her previous works, the paintings draw on 1960s abstraction but look new. Art in Review: Sadie Benning: ‘War Credits’ 2013-05-02T19:32:50Z “For many Americans, the conflicts in Syria and Iraq have become abstractions, separated from our lives by geographic as well as psychic boundaries,” Elliot Ackerman writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z And his band mates on the album, Gary Versace on organ and Gerald Cleaver on drums, can handle churning swing or dark abstraction. The Week Ahead: July 31 ? Aug. 6 2011-07-28T15:11:28Z Alice Trumbull Mason, a painter who never got her due, turned to abstraction at 25, in 1929, when its American adherents were few and it was viewed as a foreign, even Communist element. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z It requires a sense of style as well as a sense of metaphor, a sense of abstraction, of the conjuring of life and the realization of solid ground through perfectly chosen touches. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The Garment District apartment where Mr. Little lives with his wife, Fatima Shaik, a writer, is hung with dynamic abstractions by artists including Toshio Iwasa, Stanley Whitney, Thornton Willis and Stewart Hitch. Color and Design Matter. So Does Optimism. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Corse says the private girls’ school she attended afforded her the luxury of a well-trained art teacher who cultivated in students a serious interest in abstraction. The 'whoa' moment and Mary Corse: The painter who toys with light is finally getting her due 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z “All of them dissimilar artists, from different periods of time, but surprisingly, all interested in abstraction,” Segura and De Freitas write. Pop-up show ProyectosLA brings provocative work from 18 Latin American galleries to L.A. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z From whimsy to abstraction, the six artists in “Language of Line” at Neptune Fine Art may use similar parlance, but to diverse ends. In the galleries: From the everyday to the fantastic 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The abstractions representing Ms. Peavy here suggest brightly colored embryos or sleek flying saucers drifting among amniotic fluids or intergalactic ethers. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The show is an overview of precisionism, the modern American movement that fetishized factories, ball bearings, silos and skyscrapers in an attempt to merge American realism with European abstraction. Review | Art of fanatical efficiency that has more to do with your Facebook feed than you think 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But where film encourages realism, theater can embrace allegory and abstraction. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Kent’s abstractions pay homage to nature principally through color and texture. In the galleries: At Hamiltonian, a birthday celebration of a different sort 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Quilts soon caught her eye, quilts in which traditional patterns were interpreted in unique ways, quilts in which the artistic vision included a refined sense of color and abstraction. Everyday materials made extraordinary: Southern quilts at BAM 2012-06-27T20:39:03Z The album consists of nine tracks, the longest and least songlike of which is a tumbling abstraction of “Money, Money, Money,” the Abba tune. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z Their folded, stitched and cut surfaces evoke all manner of abstraction, from the sliced canvases of Lucio Fontana to the gestural webs of Jackson Pollack and the evocative volumes of Eva Hesse. Folded, pleated, burned, torn: Artist Samantha Thomas' tactile webs of intrigue 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The giant among them is “Vessel in a Drift of Diamond Light in the Sky of the Mind” from 1944, when Graves was pushing closest to abstraction. For February, 3 shows at Seattle galleries worth your time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The other half of this show features a new series of “Elevator Paintings,” allover abstractions in which cloudy washes overlay discordant backgrounds. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z A surrogate for both geometric abstraction and men, this form is often paired here with a sinuously Surrealist lock of blond hair and red lips. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z He trafficked in a passing sort of abstraction whose meanings remained open-ended and up for debate. Christo’s Billowy Visions, Fleeting but Unforgettable 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z A stage of shiny black was shaped like a squared-off abstraction of Seurat’s model. ‘Little Dot,’ a Seurat-Inspired Work by Suzanne Bocanegra 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z All the while her paintings acknowledge the impossibility of ever being able to represent these histories and their aftermaths, by testing the capacity of abstraction to convey them. My Artist Ghost 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Predictable, supposedly subversive play with the semiotics of Modernist art and popular culture is so ubiquitous, and ultimately so exhausting, that you might almost wish for a revival of pure, formalist abstraction. Art Review | 'The Armory Show': Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z Ms. Adnan’s painting, with its little central rainbow banner, signals that the abstraction by women in this show will not be just Euro-American, but global. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z His path was never straight from material realism toward greater abstraction. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z “In a way,” he said, echoing Marsalis, “it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is.” Rafael Viñoly, From the Drawing Board to the Keyboard 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Oddly, the insular abstraction of its drama evokes—perhaps unintentionally—significant and terrifying real-world political crises. “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It is possible, in other words, when visualizing the abstraction that is Bach’s music, to respond to, to amplify and to challenge it. Review: Bach’s Violin Solos, With Numbing Video Accompaniment 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z ‘Nature” and “loveliness” are two words not immediately associated with the art of Ellsworth Kelly, marked as it is by spare, almost ruthless, color-soaked abstraction. ‘Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons’ Review: Beyond the Beach 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Full of detail while also evoking fingerprinting, they’re a kind of abstraction of specificity, a generalized refusal to generalize. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z On paper, he extends the geometric abstraction of Suprematism into real life as a high-minded form of room decoration, while hinting at industrial materials in his paintings. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The grand sweep of his work is all here, from eerie hyper-realism to bold abstraction, much of it painted in an infinite and textured palette of grays. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Gerhard Richter, Bruce Davidson, Cartoon Advertising, Football 2011-11-03T20:10:14Z Various pigments — oil and acrylic paints and walnut ink are just a few — flow freely in Michael’s five mixed-media abstractions. Review | In the galleries: Biennial survey celebrates Mid-Atlantic artists of many mediums 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The other is Jacqueline Humphries, whose dense abstractions of halftone dots and emoticons reaffirm painting as an ideal medium of digital perception. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z After a while, the causes of the industrial working class were eclipsed by the divisive abstractions of the culture war, and by the time Barack Obama came around, they dominated. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z They hang in this show like the nuclear family of advanced abstraction. ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,’ Vision and Precision in a Fluid Braid 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But in “Mural,” Pollock opened up into canvas-covering gestural abstraction, with raw, sweeping lines applied with the action of the full body. Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z When depicted without horizon, a cloudless sky or an evenly clouded sky is an abstraction of itself, a colourfield on canvas or paper, which the eye reads as "sky". Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z Then, in late September, the piece will travel to the Armory, where the audience will be immersed in panels by Julie Mehretu, an artist whose abstractions share preoccupations with Sorey and Rothko. 50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z He later pivoted from brittle acoustic abstraction to warped folk exotica to modular synthesizer exploration. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “Dead Lecturer/Distant Relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980” is, among other things, a show about race and abstraction, with work drawn from more than 50 Asian American and African American artists and poets. Art We Saw This Fall 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Spare car parts crept into his abstractions, often giving them a strong horizontal orientation. Take a ride through artist Salvatore Scarpitta’s works in Hirshhorn exhibition Yet those who devote themselves to numbered string quartets or painterly abstractions should not feel pressure to forsake their destiny. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The set proceeded from this baseline, with an enveloping atmosphere and an arid, soft-hued tonal spectrum, like a sonic equivalent to the painterly abstractions of Georgia O’Keeffe. Music Review | Kneebody: Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too 2010-02-19T06:17:00Z Her vibrant abstractions feature swoops of bright and sometimes grainy pigment and recall the sense of motion in Morris Louis’s work. In the galleries: Sensing ‘vibrations’ of the Washington Color School 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z To explore Latin American — and South Asian — modernism beyond abstraction? A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z “What is truly important,” Mrs Cisneros says, “is that it allows us now to tell the story of geometric abstraction as a whole. It brings the movement together.” A time of gifts 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Her art is a synthesis of Paris abstraction and Islamic aesthetics, and her approach to sculpture prefigures minimal and post-minimal work of the 1960s and 70s. The best art exhibitions and events for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z His early paintings, from what he later called his symbolist period, were brightly colored abstractions that incorporated some of the unusual shapes from his plumbing catalogs. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z This exhibition includes many of those, but dives deep into the artist’s early career, when he tried his hand at more profligate styles, like Impressionism, abstraction and pointillism. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps the painting is a pivot point where the flatness of Western abstraction merges with the smooth surface of the hijab. Art that forces us to reconsider what we think we know 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z But there are a few artists who ventured into abstraction with Modernist spirit. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z Is it that is “every parent’s nightmare” but 200 is an abstraction, a number too surreal to fathom? Why is the media ignoring 200 missing girls? 2014-04-30T18:58:00Z But it’s the electroplated etchings, sometimes daintily figurative and sometimes scarred into abstraction, that most fully express the aims of “Redoubt,” reflecting an artist seeking newer, freer shores. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z As tightly constructed as a proof, it first lays out Mr. Padamsee’s principles of abstraction in a sequence of graphs and charts and then furnishes numerous examples in the form of elegant, Mondrianesque line drawings. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z There’s found abstraction: Weathered posters hung in galleries by the Italian artist Mimmo Rotella; animal bones that were at the root of Henry Moore’s sculptures. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Once a figure of international renown, Jesús Soto is now mostly remembered as a minor Modernist who worked in the overlap among hard-edge abstraction, kinetic art and Op Art. Art Review: ?Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970? at N.Y.U. - Review 2012-01-13T16:11:35Z Yet the color sense of Pickett’s abstraction is evident in the pictures, which mostly portray women. Review | In the galleries: Turning the commonplace into uncommonly fine art 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z In Ancient Greece, Cynic philosophers rejected social and political convention, as well as the heady abstractions of philosophy itself, desiring nothing more than to live in accordance with nature. A Dog’s Purposelessness: Alleged torture on the set of “A Dog’s Purpose” is disgusting, but unsurprising 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Here, you may recall where you began: with abstractions by Still and Newman that read as metaphors of spiritual immanence. Art Review: ‘Re-View: Onnasch Collection’ Is a Postwar Journey 2014-02-20T23:25:13Z They lasted for a very short period because in the ’60s the government decided, no more abstraction. In Ella Fontanals-Cisneros’s Collection, Latin American Roots Run Deep 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z From the pop melodicism of his early solo albums to the transcendent abstractions of his later work, Coltrane kept obsessively searching for ways to capture the fragile beauty and spiritual yearning of the human experience. Netflix Has Some Great Music Documentaries. Here Are 11 of Them. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z "One thing about abstraction is that if it's gonna have a life of its own, it's gotta find some way to have a narrative quality or narrative impulse," he says. Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z These arrangements in gold and black distill the motifs of Buddhist temples into stylish abstractions. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z She pegs White, the earlier photographer, as a closeted gay man who resorted to abstraction as a way of “passing.” Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Sweet Land” — a phantasmagoric abstraction of American history, and of the impossibility of knowing its truth — might have been the opera the country needed most in 2020. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Loops and netted figures, made with a flick of the wrist, repeated almost ad infinitum over large canvases, yielded what looked like lovely, large abstractions with a personal touch. Perspective | An exhibition of the beloved Kusama with everything but Kusama herself 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z They could hardly be more different from Mary Heilmann’s lush and intuitive abstractions on canvas, and Jessica Stockholder’s equally painterly assemblages of commercial goods, also on view here. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Made with the help of Big Ink, a New Hampshire company whose portable press allows printmakers to work on a monumental scale, “Stupor Mundi” is an abstraction that suggests Persian, Islamic and Celtic motifs. Review | In the galleries: Contemplations on the memory of personal spaces 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z So why did the same artists choose to depict humans with such bizarre abstraction? Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Da Vinci surpassed this' 2013-02-05T16:44:01Z Belief in most of the 20th century’s rationales for abstraction is a guttering flame. Review | How one abstract artist refuses to be boxed in 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But its strongest animating idea is that fake news is not simply a political abstraction. Review: ‘After Truth,’ the Deluge 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The digitization of culture — the abstraction of all those beautiful things into streams and algorithms — feels to many of us like a permanent loss. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z As the Phillips Collection’s Elsa Smithgall, curator of the Chase exhibition, puts it, “His approach to art gets eclipsed by the new art of abstraction, and he falls out of favor very quickly.” Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z His effort depicts a tumbling wave, carefully combed to suggest brush strokes, surrounded by a small universe of shells that oscillate between meticulous naturalism and visionary abstraction. Art Review: Asia Week in New York Includes More Than 40 Shows 2012-03-15T22:26:26Z Her focus on abstraction, she added, marked a departure from the past two commissions. On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of Faith 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “He painted on an epic scale, and the paintings prefigure abstraction.” Inside Art: The Whitney Heads for the High Line 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z While not directly addressed in the exhibition, Mr. Hanses’ extremely simple concept invites thinking about realism and complexity versus abstraction and simplicity in toys. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Some satisfactory abstractions coalesce from hundreds of blocks of solid color, divided by black rivulets into maplike forms. Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Last month, the graffiti writer turned fine artist JonOne was painting one across the street from the museum, applying layers of pastel blobs to create a festive abstraction. A Graffiti Museum Where the Writers Are in Charge 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In paintings of the catenary wires and structures along the tracks near Union Station, the industrial landscape is rendered realistically, but the vertical towers and flat planes of color hint at abstraction. Galleries: ‘Alive and Present, ‘Enduring’ “Visions of a Makah” are the visions of Frank Peterson — vivid paintings and carved masks that combine abstraction and figuration in surreal portrayals of Native Northwest Coast figures, symbols and legends. 3 Seattle-area art exhibits to check out now, from the must-see to the weird and wonderful 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z They are glorious works of art — turbulent abstractions as well as enchanting portraits of faraway worlds that are the stuff of sci-fi movies. In 'Earth + Space,' NASA photo archives reveal the universe's vast beauty 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z He was so successful in these gambits that curators who championed minimalist abstraction, and who thought figurative art inherently passe, were willing to set aside the fact that Close was still painting faces. Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Conceptually the piece feels like a cousin to Beyoncé’s recent visual poem, “Black Is King,” which also relished abstraction, drawing from sound and imagery and metaphor to define Blackness positively and holistically. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Wu, by contrast, faced denunciation for his commitment to abstraction; many of his paintings were destroyed. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Similarly engrossing is a set of almost 100 small, wood-framed blackboards, each with a black-and-white painting; among them are abstractions, portraits, still lifes, nudes and gnomic texts. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z Concrete art flourished in South America during the postwar years, a strain of geometric abstraction with utopian ambitions to communicate with a universal audience. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z A few years earlier, in the late 1950s, Lichtenstein was himself making brushy, rough and jumbly abstractions, but even then he never quite let go. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z The pull between looking and listening or, in Mr. Jones’s case, narrative and abstraction is at the root of “Story/Time.” Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Troupe Links Stories and Dance 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Other works teetering between image and abstraction are by Marley Freeman, Ouattara Watts and Maja Ruznic, whose more clearly figurative new effort makes her look less Rothkoesque, which is a good thing. At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Herrera is known for paintings, collages and sculptures in which fragmentary forms derived from Disney cartoons and similar sources are composed into lively abstractions. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z “I got sick and tired of all that Purity!” he said in a 1977 interview, referring to abstraction. Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Amusingly, the work of the most famous theorists of post-war abstraction are both hanging here, painted more realistically than de Kooning’s Marilyn. Portraiture show blends the abstract and the recognizable They also look strikingly current, like the darkroom abstractions popular with young, contemporary photographers. 2010-02-12T00:02:00Z Eugenides’s gold ring may appear to be an exception, though it has a geometric abstraction about it: the Möbius strip ring suggesting that an Escher-like, unsolvable puzzle lies within. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z By the early 1970s, abstraction was in decline and the art world was entering into a period of creative yet fecund disarray that continues today. Kay WalkingStick, painting her heritage 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And there is plenty of beauty in the play’s abstractions; at its heart “Epiphany” is a love letter to the indefinable and unnameable. ‘Epiphany’ Review: A Holiday Party, but What Are We Celebrating? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Another quibble is that Alison is working at a level of abstraction that insures she can apply almost any shape to almost any text. The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z One of two Korean galleries in Frieze Seoul’s section for emerging Asian galleries, it presented wily abstractions of flat, bright color by the Korean artist Hejum Bä. Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman began looking at Native work and became heroes of American abstraction, Indigenous women represented the world in patterns, lines and shapes. The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z This is a crew attracted to roving abstraction but capable of tight focus and brisk concision. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z There she become more committed to abstraction and quickly gained footing in the downtown New York art world. Joan Mitchell: A Painter at Her Peak 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The output might be pretty, multicolored abstractions, but the interesting part is how they are made. 5 million Wikipedia articles made into art? How Jason Salavon turns code into cascading color 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z This group exhibition spotlights the work of such painters as Chuck Close, whose mid-20th-century portraits bucked the trend of abstraction. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction Instead of “What you see is what you see,” Mr. Stella’s closed-off pronouncement about his own early abstractions, Mr. Whitney might propose, “What you see is where you start.” Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z For the most part, classical ballet deals with myth and legends, while its neoclassical heirs prefer abstractions and hypotheticals. The Jerome Robbins revolution: He found his angels on the Manhattan streets 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z “Architecture is frozen music,” Goethe reputedly said, a phrase that suits the abstractions in the Athenaeum’s “Pattern and Repetition.” Review | In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In Butler’s hands, the slaves and slave owners Dana meets — and befriends, nurtures, protects and betrays — become individuals rather than historical abstractions. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z The reason is that an “art world” is not an abstraction. Thirteen Crucial Years for Art in Downtown New York 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z A book billed as an “end-of-empire novel” might easily lose both reader and character in the high-altitude, low-oxygen air of abstraction, especially when the empire in question is the largest state in recent history. Book Review Podcast: 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Air' 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Hard-working seamstresses, they live only in each other’s orbit, rendering love an abstraction “over there, in the impossible beyond: tenderness was there, in the heavens.” Review: New Books by Anna Gavalda, Daniel Sada, George Singleton and Others 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The idea is to experience an emotional understanding, so it’s not just an intellectual abstraction.” Laura Poitras Prepares ‘Astro Noise’ for the Whitney Museum 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z She might have added a soft blouse, with a tiepin at the neck and a trailing abstraction of a bow. Special Report: Celine's Chic Severity 2010-03-07T18:39:00Z They achieve a balance of abstraction and representation — and a fusion of figure, architecture and landscape — equaled in European painting only by Sienese masters like Sassetta. Art Review: Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art 2011-09-29T22:39:43Z Such pictures as “Still Looking Over” shift from abstraction to realism as the loosely painted foreground leads toward a more solid sense of place. In the galleries: Artist takes a detour on her journey to the past 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Mohamedi’s work involves geometric abstraction, but within that there’s a real humanity. Wadada Leo Smith, Raising Issues With a Horn 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Bradford’s art takes Locke’s idea and flips it around by creating modernist abstraction from everyday materials of black culture. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z Yet the film’s formal abstraction, far from creating emotional distance, is unexpectedly moving. Review: ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’ Reveals the Invisible Tentacles of Mass Incarceration 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A visit to the artist Piet Mondrian’s studio in 1930 changed all that, encouraging him to explore abstraction in his work. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z |
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