(The Tachistes, such as Nicolas de Staël and Jean Fautrier, who invested small-scale abstraction with quaking sensitivity, were frail counterparts of the Abstract Expressionists).
Generally, sustainable yield of small-scale abstraction schemes is estimated on the basis of analytical solutions applied to constant-rate test data and forward modelling with the estimated transmissivity and storativity.
Dove (1880-1946) is often credited as the first American or European artist to make an abstract painting, since the small abstractions he began in 1910 apparently predate by a few months the great improvisations of Wassily Kandinsky, the celebrated Russian emigre to Germany.
Three small abstractions in shiny tones of purple, orange and blue concern U.F.O.
Within a few years, she was making small abstractions covered with paint dripped in continuous, looping lines.
Small abstractions avoid the long realist tradition of painting as a window, and also the shorter, late-Modernist one of painting as a flat wall.
But his paintings — of Antiguan flora, the insignia of European nobility, or small abstractions of stars and circles that recall the Pop Art of Robert Indiana — open onto a world much larger than that small dwelling.
Seen up close, his recent portraits are complex grids composed of tiny swirling squares, circles and ovals of color within color -- small abstractions pulsing and vibrating with life, like giant amoebas, or blown-up pixels from a television screen.
