Word: abstractionism
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The turn in his paintings from figural abstraction to expressive, purely non-objective forms around the year 1914 was not merely a formal exercise in “composition” but the visual instance of an explosion in ontological certainty, an intimation of amassing conflict.
Based on its name, it would be natural to think that “Afrostraction,” last week’s show in the Adams House Art Space, was some sort of combination of “Afro” and “abstraction.�?...
If abstraction was not the theme that tied together the show’s diverse elements, were the works on display somehow connected by their “Afro-ness”? To be certain, the featured artists are all members of the black community, but their subject matter and...
Game Face Mike Tyson showed up at a prefight press conference with a tattoo on his battered mug, a Maori-inspired abstraction that nearly encircles his left eye. "I didn't like the way my face was looking," Tyson said by way of explanation. Whatever. He may not be heavyweight...
“I think the figures come out of the abstraction in Delaney’s works,” he says. “Delaney tends to preserve a clear line between the figure and the background.”