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moved through space and time. Mohamedi is most often associated with Agnes Martin, an American painter known for her abstract expressionism. Mohamedi was not aware of Martin until late in the career, and her similar use of lines and grids is purely coincidental. Mohamedi attended the Bhulabhai Institute of the arts with V.S. Gaitonde, the 20th century’s most famous Indian abstract artist, as well as Tyeb Mehta, a renowned painter and member of the Bombay Progressive Artists ' Group. Both artists…

artist, was a semi-abstract expressionist who was best known for her artwork in the 40’s. Piper was one of only four African-American abstract painters to have a solo exhibit in New York. This showcase, which led to her fame, was a series entitled Blues and Negro Folk Songs and all included pieces were directly linked to blues music or musicians. Slow Down, Freight Train was one of the 14 pieces in the exhibit and it is my belief that this work of art captures the semi-abstract style and then…

father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the cello and piano, and also wrote poetry. In school, Wassily did not just study art; he also studied…

Absurdity is key to this exhibition and bringing some humour or levity to minimalist art which otherwise is too often seen as confrontational, anti-humanist, emotionless and intellectually cold. Minimalism may hide its humour behind imposing machine-made structures or recontextualized ready made industrialized forms, but curator John Hampton attempts to show a lighter side of minimalism, he attempts to show us that it is inherently absurd that we take it so seriously. Upon entering the space,…

The Hirshhorn Museum: Rings of Adventure The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has always generated conversation about its choices. Even after it had just been constructed, its architectural choices were the subject of critique. Two days after the museum opened in 1974, Ada Louise Huxtable, of The New York Times, gave the following review: “[The building] is known around Washington as the bunker or gas tank, lacking only gun emplacements or an Exxon sign… It totally lacks the essential…

the viewer looks beyond the massive canvas filled with a vast array of colors and abstract forms, and searches deeper within the piece, they will experience what the Abstract Expressionism movement was all about. They will participate in the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma through the vigorous and angry gestural strokes, chaotic composition, and the massive size of the piece engulfing them completely. Abstract Expressionism emerged as a new form of self-expression mainly in New York, the…

fellowship. She's not only a painter, but a professor and author as well. In 2011, when she released her painting "Full Bloom", she was set to accomplish abstract nature in it's best forms and that's precisely what she did. Taking a look back at the historical value of the painting, the techniques she used gave a greater perception of abstract reality. By gracefully placing each stroke of paint it allows the eye to feel emotion from up-close and even more from afar. Using a 74 by 110 sized…

Paul Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionist Per the art story foundation, Jackson Pollock was born Paul Jackson Pollock, and he was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five children, the son of a surveyor constantly moving from place to place all over California, he went to high school at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, CA. There is where he met Philip Guston who introduced Pollock to Theosophical ideas (Freedgood 111). Which prepare Pollock for his future dealing in…

The Abstract Written Portrait of Gertrude Stein In abstract art, the viewer has the free will to analyze and interpret the significance of a painting. In the same way, Gertrude Stein is able to transmit the sense of open interpretation in “Portraits and Repetition” by experimenting with language and using a peculiar way of writing in which she denominates “insistence.” She also introduces the reader to the voyage of her life when she realizes that there is no such thing as repetition, and to…

the camera. The text then endorses the path to truth, as a viable alternative to the common path of falsehood, when it use a physical object to mimic the process of collecting concrete facts instead of speculations and stories, represented by an abstract object. In doing so, the reader can come to realize the reality that the pursuit of truth is the most well-grounded and accurate form of acquiring knowledge. Considering every journey needs a purpose to strive for along the way, the poem…