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Category Archives: Abstract
Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010
. . . . . . Louise Bourgeois ”Maman” CBC News
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Jacob Tolmie
. . . . . . . . Jacob Tolmie, The Ram, mixed media, flourescent light, 80 x 110 cm, 2004 . . .
Maya Lin – “Pay attention to that which is invisible.”
“….viewers can walk through “Blue Lake Pass,” a particle-board construction based on the mountain range near Lin’s second home in Colorado – where she lives part of the year with her husband and two children. Lin’s work, while often called … Continue reading
Maya Lin – “A Spiritualized Geometry”
“What interested Frank Lloyd Wright in Japanese art was its reliance on the “conventionalization of nature,” by which he meant a process of simplifying natural forms down to an essential geometry. If one is willing to accept a certain turn-of-the-century … Continue reading
Maya Lin – Systematic Landscapes- An act of participation
Maya Lin – Systematic Landscapes Maya Lin is the well-regarded American sculptor and landscape artist who won the commission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. at the fresh age of 21 years. “I think psychologically all these pieces … Continue reading
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg: Combines Curated by Paul Schimmel, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. “This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, … Continue reading
David Smith “Sculpture- Free from collusion, obedience, and exploitation.”,
One critic has written: “The ferocity of his attack on church, state and press, and on the inhumanity of just about every instrument and symbol of the capitalist system, leaves no doubt about Smith’s conviction that in order to attain … Continue reading
David Smith “Its existence will be its statement”
this sculpture will not be the mystical abode of power of wealth of religion Its existence will be its statement It will not be a scorned ornament on a money changer’s temple Or a house of fear It will not … Continue reading
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David Smith “power, structure, movement, progress, suspension, destruction and brutality”
David Smith Untitled (Candida), 1965 Stainless steel, 103 x 120 x 31 inches “Profoundly influenced by the welded sculptures of Julio González and of Picasso, Smith started devoting himself entirely to metal sculptures, constructing compositions from steel and “found” scrap … Continue reading
David Smith “exploration of an open, linear structure”
He spent the thirties and forties within the frame of modern convention. After World War II, together with his Abstract Expressionist friends, Smith reached for a larger feeling beyond that frame, prewar art having become too small and fine-fingered. He … Continue reading
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