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NORTH ADAMS — For Hideyo Okamura, abstract art works the same way as classical music. Neither is intended to represent anything concrete, but both elicit an emotional response through composition – either sound and rhythm, or color and brushstrokes. Okamura, an abstract artist, aims to keep his pieces open to interpretation. “I Was Wondering That […]
Even if she is not there physically, with the installation of bending arc complete at the new St. Pete Pier, Janet Echelman has a homecoming. Related: Four distinct works of art unveiled at the new St. Pete Pier. The Boston-based artist was born and raised in Tampa. But her prestigious artistic career has taken her […]
Detail of a painting by Ha Chong-Hyun, from the “Conjunction” series, hanging in his studio. Guelda Voien In recent years, the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea has had a moment, to say the least. The practice of abstract painting attracted an abrupt appreciation both in his home country and abroad; some of the avant-garde works have […]
Carla Badiali, “Composizione (Composition)” (1937/1942), oil on canvas, 23 x 19 inches. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; Nevertheless, Painting in Italy from the 1910s to the 1950s: futurism, abstraction, concrete art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive insight into the fullness and […]
Elsworth Kelly. JACK SHEAR Ellsworth Kelly, who began his influential 70-year career with exciting advances in abstract painting which he would continue to explore and perfect, with rigor and spirit, for decades, died yesterday at the age of 92. Matthew Marks, the dealer who represented the artist in New York, confirmed his death, which was […]
Verena Dengler, “American Painting” (2015), mixed media and spray paint on paper, 19 1/2 x 25 1/8 inches (50 x 64 cm), paper size, 23 5/8 x 29 1/4 inches ( 60 x 74.3 cm) frame size (all images courtesy of Thomas Duncan Gallery) LOS ANGELES — “Suspicious Fugue of the Speculative Ego as pragmatic […]
A painting of a 37-year-old chimpanzee has won $10,000 (£6,450) for a Chimp Haven sanctuary in northwest Louisiana. The primate, which uses its tongue to apply color instead of a brush, received the most votes in the chimpanzee art contest organized by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Five other shrines competed, using […]