Sentence examples for mode of abstraction from inspiring English sources

His work was reimagined in France as a mode of abstraction.

He even played host, briefly, to exponents of color-field painting, a mode of abstraction that took its bearings from Greenberg's nostalgic ideals of progressive modernism and aesthetic purity.

For most of his long career he has stayed faithful to a mode of abstraction steeped in his own preoccupations: enigmatic harmony, elasticized rhythm, a multilayered arrangement of texture and pulse.

Working directly on canvas with a brush and occasionally chalk using a light, even frugal touch, Mr. De Keyser — who switched from acrylic to oil paint in the mid-1970s — reviewed nearly every mode of abstraction from gestural to geometric, but always avoided extremes.

Originated in his initial contact with Emily Carr, his complex relationship with Coastal Indian art was described in a journal entry, "The Indian mode of expressing things from the inside out, out of deep interior identification with the spirit of the image portrayed, gave me my inventive impetus as well as helping me with my personal mode of abstraction" (6 ).

In his later work he continued to shift between modes of abstraction and representation.

By transforming familiar, even mundane, modes of abstraction, the artist invites us to re-evaluate the distinction between so-called fine and decorative art.

She's deconstructed the structure of the text so that it's more about form, and in that case it's following modes of abstraction and minimalism".

These paintings echo the hallowed mode of geometric abstraction.

He distilled them into a mode of chaste abstraction based on observed fact: details of architecture, happenstances of light and shadow.

BRIDGET RILEY New oils and gouaches by the former doyenne of Op art (seen here and in the gallery's West Twenty-fifth Street space) raise her current mode of decorative abstraction to pitches of urbane bliss.