In its relatively short lifetime, abstract art has been illuminated (and obscured) by two influential critical attitudes.
Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.
Later, after World War II, when critics and curators at last warmed to abstract art, it was Jackson Pollockthey embraced--not the earlier cubists.
The self-conscious modernism of "Time Out" and "Mingus Ah Um" was announced on their covers, both of which featured abstract art by S. Neil Fujita.
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It sounds like atonal music, or so goes the joke, a one-liner as inescapable as the popular response to abstract art: My child could paint that.
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It took a while, but finally the art world is appreciating the role played by Frelinghuysen, Morris, Shaw and Gallatin in developing a uniquely American form of abstract art.
Because the best abstract art has the power to cut through the rigid conventions of direct representation and externalize interior essences to show us things not as they look, but as they are.
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While the plein-air paintings of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists seem studied in comparison with the informality of these watercolors, we search the Sargents for evidence that their creator was aware of the developments in abstract art during the first decades of the 20th century.
The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.
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Abstract Expressionism and Pop art obviously did better over the past 50 years.
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Art includes a huge abstract painting of mostly black and white splatters of paint by British artist Kate Palmer.
He studied art, dabbled as an abstract painter, and drew political cartoons for newspapers.
The works on display range from abstract and figurative paintings to video and performance art.
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Art-historical references to such abstract painters as Franz Kline, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko pass through the stage pictures.
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Each specialises in contemporary Canadian art, ranging from photoconceptualism to sculpture, abstract painting to First Nations artworks.
Preeminent international contemporary art gallery White Cube will be showing US abstract artist Mark Bradford and Mexican conceptual artist Gabriel Orozco, among others.
He began as an abstract painter at CalArts and evolved into representational, folkloric art about a fisherman's family during a teaching stint in Nova Scotia.
It provided a gateway to abstract expression, historians say, changing the very definition of art.
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