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[Post] Making Real a new ode to abstraction
Making Real, the Or Gallery’s small exhibition of contemporary abstract art, proposes something charmingly old-fashioned. It suggests that abstraction is poetic and meditative, that it has the ability to engage us, even transport us, ...
[Book] Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors (4th Edition) Addison Wesley
[Site] Themes in American Art: Abstraction
A National Gallery of Art resource on themes in ... few, however, embraced abstraction, and gradually the new ... Abstraction dominated American art beginning ...
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[News] McMakin packs ideas with sheer beauty
Seattle artist Roy McMakin strikes gold with his show "Purplish" at James Harris Gallery, writes Seattle Times art critic Sheila Farr.
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[Video] another clip from one of Vin Grabill's works
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[Post] The Toothpick Test Chapter Five Now we're really going to whizz ...
The Toothpick Test Chapter Five Now we're really going to whizz through a bunch of these fellows, sort of hitting the high spots. Since I found so little material on early also-rans, there weren't lots of ways I could buttress my theory ...
[Book] Discrepant Abstraction (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts) The MIT Press
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[News] Column: Show No Mercy
Happy Halloween from "Show No Mercy", as this month we talk with Funereal Moon [above], Lustmord, and Samothrace. read more
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[Post] Nick Seguin - Meisje Abstraction
This is my deceased beloved friend Meisje (pronounced May ; sha). Meisje is a Dutch word meaning “girl” Although my family thinks it means “lady” We’ve disputed about this for a long time. =). In this image she is eating snow during a ...
[Book] Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art : Practices and Debates) Yale University Press
[Site] abstraction - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Definition of abstraction from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
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[News] News in brief
Daniel Haxall, assistant professor of art history at Kutztown University, will present a Gallery Talk at 12:10 p.m. today at the Palmer Museum of Art.
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[Video] short clip of Barcelona Mosaics by Vin Grabill
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[Post] When I write aloud
I read aloud as I write my elegy On A Halloween Night- To sing my prose To keep my spirit guide -company; When I write aloud, When I write aloud; The difference is: The residue that filaments from my brain to the page.
[Book] Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction Skira
[Site] ArtLex: Abstraction
Defines the term in the context of art with artwork samples, quotations, and more.
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[Post] November 02nd, 2008 - American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos
American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos Kay WalkingStick Opening in February 2008 The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Art StairwayKay WalkingStick, a trustee of the Montclair Art Museum and the first Native American female ...
[Book] Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis The MIT Press
[News] Celebration Gallery and Studios to be open by 2009
The Celebration Mall in Rehoboth Beach is expanding into visual arts by creating new studio spaces and a gallery.
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An experiment with pointillism -- using grains of color to make this macro of an orange blossom look more like an abstract painting. I like to experiment with at least one photo in a series.
[Video] art work by eric whiteman
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[Post] Abstraction, a compendium of definitions and thoughts surrounding ...
my thoughts: 1. that which has no name but which is nonetheless real 2. wordless 3. specific but unknowable 4. beyond the self 5. or so deep in the self so as to not be perceived 6. never seen but somehow known 7. what is wished for ...
[Book] Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural Fictions Princeton Architectural Press
[News] IN THE GALLERIES: Foreground Memory
Maggie Michael's paintings appear to be speaking to each other, and it's not difficult to understand how her paintings can speak to a viewer, too.
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Dach einer Umhausung für Einkaufswagen in Wiesbaden. Roof of a cot for supermarket trolleys in Wiesbaden. ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ Abstraktion (lat. abstractus- quot;abgezogen quot; Partizip Perfekt Passiv von abs-trahere – quot;abziehen, wegschleppen, -führen; entfernen, trennen quot;) bezeichnet einen Denkprozess, der bestimmte Eigenschaften von nicht-dinglichen und dinglichen Einheiten (Entitäten) zur Begriffsbildung in sprachliche Beschreibungen fasst. Nichtdingliche Einheiten sind zum Beispiel: quot;die Kälte quot;, quot;die Eilfertigkeit quot;, quot;die Wachsamkeit quot; und dingliche Einheiten quot;Fahrrad quot;, quot;Haus quot;, quot;Baum quot;. Alle mentalen Denkprozesse ob geisteswissenschaftlich oder naturwissenschaftlich, sind durch Abstraktion ein Konstruieren einer abstrakten Wirklichkeit, die nur den Menschen als denkendes Wesen zugänglich sind. So ist der Inhalt der Zeichnung eines Architekten eine nicht-dinglich dargestellte Abstraktion des noch zu bauenden Hochhauses - das erst dann konkrete (dingliche) Wirklichkeit erlangt, wenn es gebaut ist. Abstrakte Kunst ist eine Kunstrichtung, die mit dem Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts begann, als die ersten Maler sich, als unmittelbare Folge der immer weiter voranschreitenden Entwicklung der Fotografie, immer weiter von der Wiedergabe oder Interpretation der realen Natur in ihrer Malerei entfernten. Man sprach deshalb auch von quot;gegenstandsloser Kunst quot;, ihre überzeugten Anhänger von quot;absoluter Malerei quot;. Zu den Wegbereitern der abstrakten Malerei gehören der französische Maler Francis Picabia (1879–1953) und der Russe Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), der sein erstes abstraktes Bild eigenen Angaben zufolge im Jahr 1911 malte. ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a leather soccer ball to a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behaviour. Similarly, abstracting happiness to an emotional state reduces the amount of information conveyed about the emotional state. Abstraction typically results in complexity reduction leading to a simpler conceptualization of a domain in order to facilitate processing or understanding of many specific scenarios in a generic way. Most typically abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym of abstract art in general. It can, however, refer to any object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed another work. In the truest sense, abstract art is not really abstract. ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ L’abstraction en peinture se réfère a une peinture non-représentative, et non non-figurative, car il peut y avoir, et il y a très souvent la présence de figures dans la peinture dite abstraite. L’art abstrait nait au début du XXe siècle avec, entre autres, Wassily Kandinsky ou František Kupka. ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ Il termine astrazione indica il procedimento mentale attraverso il quale si sostituisce un insieme di oggetti con un concetto, più generale, che descrive gli oggetti in base a proprietà a loro comuni. Per esempio, a partire dall'insieme di tutte le automobili esistenti, si può ricavare il concetto generico di automobile in base alle caratteristiche condivise da tutte le auto (hanno quattro ruote, un volante, ecc.). La parola deriva dal latino abstrahere (scostare). L'Astrattismo è un'esperienza artistica nata nei primi anni del XX secolo, in zone d'Europa lontane tra loro, dove si sviluppò senza intenti comuni. Il termine indica quelle opere pittoriche e plastiche che esulano dalla rappresentazione oggettiva della realtà. ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ ▪▫■ □ □ ■▫▪ La abstracción (del latín abstrahere, quot;separar quot;) es, en filosofía, una operación mental por la que una determinada propiedad de un objeto se aísla conceptualmente, a efectos de reflexionar sobre ella sin tomar en consideración otros rasgos de aquel que momentáneamente se desea ignorar. Si, a partir de la reflexión o la comparación de múltiples objetos, la propiedad que se aísla es lo que se considera común a los mismos, el objeto de la abstracción es un universal; la cuestión de si los universales existen o no de alguna manera separadamente de la reflexión intelectual sobre ellos (es decir, si efectivamente existe algo común a los objetos, más allá de la hipótesis concebida por la persona que los contempla) y, de existir, cuál es su naturaleza, es uno de los temas que más disputas ha producido en metafísica, y uno de los criterios fundamentales que separan a empiristas y realistas. Arte abstracto, estilo artístico que surgió alrededor de 1910 y cuyas consecuencias múltiples han hecho de él una de las manifestaciones más significativas del espíritu del siglo XX. El arte abstracto deja de considerar justificada la necesidad de la representación figurativa y tiende a sustituirla por un lenguaje visual autónomo, dotado de sus propias significaciones. Este lenguaje se ha elaborado a partir de las experiencias fauvistas y expresionistas, que exaltan la fuerza del color y desembocan en la llamada abstracción lírica o informalismo, o bien a partir de la estructuración cubista, que da lugar a las diferentes abstracciones geométricas y constructivas.
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[Post] Charismatic Abstraction
“Moira Dryer opened up something new in abstract painting and helped relocate something that had always been there. That something that no one else talks about because we lack a credible vocabulary to define: the vernacular soul. ...
