Word: abstraction
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...physics class, and fittingly, his installations, which incorporate his paintings, can be massive. Parents and Children measures 23 ft. by 54 ft. by 16 ft. and literally spills down the wall and onto the floor, the overflow composed of little pieces of plastic that together form patchwork carpets of abstract art. Each of his canvases swims with details. Humans, angels and the devil sometimes lurk in the corners. But the main focus is on the elemental forces--time, energy, gravity--that Ritchie brings together in intense knots of color...
...York University dorms while he was moonlighting as a superintendent in Manhattan apartment buildings. In the Big Bang and other cosmological transformations that can never be realistically depicted, he saw a void his imagination could fill. The result, says fellow painter Carroll Dunham, is work that is "much more abstract than most art that has a narrative basis. And much more narrative than most abstract...
...contemporary art world that celebrates expressions of multiculturalism, Fukuda's paintings and sculptures, all abstract, are prized for uniting the aesthetics of south and east. The synthesis comes naturally for him. The grandson of Japanese immigrants, part of a wave of 190,000 people who moved to Brazil during the first four decades of the 20th century, Fukuda, 58, was born in coffee country in Sao Paulo State, where his father had a factory that made fans. Fukuda, who has no formal art training, began his apprenticeship by painting Japanese landscapes on the fans after he came home from school...
Aesop Rock makes backpackers across the continent salivate. He is the embodiment of “lyricism,” spitting out line after abstract line in ideal multi-syllabic, rapid-fire fashion. He makes his own beats, off-kilter pastiches of lo-fi drums and weird bass noises. Devoid of charisma, he is a bastion of grim determination and pure skills. And best of all, he is Underground—known only to the backpacking elite, his primary means of publicity for several years was the internet. Now on New York City’s Def Jux label?...
Though members of the Board of Overseers said Summers was only there to listen, and conversation focused on the abstract far more than any particulars, the two-hour meeting on Saturday touched on a number of issues that are starting to form a theme for Summers’ entrance onto the University stage...