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• in Politics
  Thinking Beyond Symbolism
  Substituting abstract ideas with symbols: Dangerous practice?
  by atlasaks / on May 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “abstraction”

 

• George McNeil

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Paul Behnke photoblogs a visit to the recent exhibition George McNeil at Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York. Behnkes photos, including closeups, portray the tactility and varied touch in McNeils paintings.  The gallery notes that the works on view were from "1957 and 1969. This period demonstrates an important ...
  5 days ago

• Abstraction of the Real Figure

  
  Fine Art by Kelly Borsheim: Artist in Florence, Italy — Authority: 95
  Cari Amici (Dear Friends), It is sometimes a strange thing to understand -- this getting to realism in art through abstraction. The idea basically is that the artist is not just copying from a model. She is creating a design based on what she sees in the model. I want to capture a gesture, for gesture is a ...
  1 week ago

• Dana Gordon

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  James Panero profiles painter Dana Gordon . Panero writes that Gordon is "dedicated to the conversation of art - a visual conversation that is articulated through basic colors, shapes, and lines... Rather than exhaust a simple language, Gordon has demonstrated how a few basic elements can captivate us with a ...
  1 week ago

• Blots, Stains & Smears

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Paul Behnke photoblogs a visit to the recent exhibition Blots, Stains and Smears at Transition Gallery.  The show, curated by Phillip Allen , featured paintings by Mark Joyce , Iain Nicholls , and William Gharraie . The gallery notes that this is the third in an "ongoing series of shows examining aspects of ...
  1 week ago

• Bushwick’s walls touched up and crisp!

  
  Sarah Schmerler — Authority: 92
  How it’s done. Even on cold days. Corner of Varet and Bogart.
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• Open NFC stack now available for Android 4.0, makes NFC hardware easy to use for OEMs

  
  JFAN - Just Found Android News — Authority: 145
  The good people at Inside Secure have ported over their Open NFC stack to Ice Cream Sandwich, giving OEMs one less hurdle to jump when getting devices ready for upgrading.  The new 4.3.3 release allows almost any NFC hardware to become Android compliant by using a Hardware Abstraction Layer and special kernel module ...
  1 week ago

• Open NFC stack now available for Android 4.0, makes NFC hardware easy to use for OEMs

  
  Android Headlines - Your Trusted Android News Source — Authority: 526
  The good people at Inside Secure have ported over their Open NFC stack to Ice Cream Sandwich, giving OEMs one less hurdle to jump when getting devices ready for upgrading.  The new 4.3.3 release allows almost any NFC hardware to become Android compliant by using a Hardware Abstraction Layer and special kernel module ...
  1 week ago

• Artistic Explorations: Layers & Lines (1)

  
  Fenfolio — Authority: 79
  The festive season already seems like a long time ago and life has returned to normal (well, almost). Last week finally saw a great weather spell so I took the opportunity to have a walk, get my head around a new painting friends commissioned me to do and take photos. The fresh air would also help to banish the last ...
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• What Paint Does

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Robin Greenwood considers the dual (and competing) roles of paint as both a material and as a "designator and articulator of form and space." He asks: "how do we reconcile illusion with being abstract? This conundrum is probably why the phenomenological aspects of medium and ground keep being obsessed over, as a ...
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• Google Earth Images as Abstract Art

  
  polis — Authority: 486
  Wandering through satellite images captured by Google Earth, artist Marco Cadioli uncovered manmade landscapes resembling geometric art. In his 2011 series "Abstract Journeys," Cadioli took these unintentional compositions and compiled them into screen shots and video vignettes through the lens of early 20th-century ...
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  Free Wordpress Themes — Authority: 94
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• new book – ‘The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan’ by George Steiner

  
  my mind on books — Authority: 108
  The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner (New Directions, 2012) (amazon.co.uk – 15 Jan, but not yet released as of 16 Jan) Product description from the publisher: From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western ...
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• Alberto Burri: Form and Matter

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Laura Cumming reviews the exhibition Alberto Burri: Form and Matter at Estorick Collection, London, on view through April 7, 2012. Cumming writes that "Although the earliest works in this show are figurative – a melancholy bookseller, a melancholy fish out of water – Burri, along with many Italian artists of ...
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• Encountering Gesture

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Victoria Webb looks at the gestural work of several painters including Elisabeth Cummings, Anne Smart, Alan Gouk, and Gillian Ayres. All of the works all exhibit a preference for "high chroma with an abstract and gestural bent," and Webb notes with appreciation Gillian Ayres remark that "using oil paint is like ...
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• The Indiscipline of Enjoyment

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Andy Parkinson muses on the exhibition The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from 1960 to Now , on view at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre through March 10 2012 (formerly at Tate St. Ives) . Parkinson writes that "Opticality seems an important sub plot in this show, and its’ not just the ...
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• Bill Jensen @ Cheim & Read

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Caleb De Jong reviews the exhibition Bill Jensen at Cheim and Read, New York, on view through February 18, 2012. De Jong writes that Jensens "new paintings provide a tonal and chromatically hushed experience. Brush-marks no longer create unified composition, instead forms float atop the picture plane and ...
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• Rothko: Looking at Looking

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Tess Thackara considers Sandra Lousadas extraordinary photographs of visitors to the 1961 Mark Rothko exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery. Thackara writes: "Often compositionally beautiful, the black-and-white images reveal onlookers lingering before paintings, leaning against gallery walls and columns, lazing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Helen Frankenthaler: Prints

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Sarah Kirk Hanley blogs about Helen Frankenthalers groundbreaking prints. Hanley writes that "Frankenthaler’s contributions as a painter are generally the focus of discussion, but her achievements as a printmaker are equal – if not greater – in importance. In fact, she continued to make inroads in this medium ...
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• June Leaf & Edwin Dickinson

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Mario Naves reviews the exhibitions June Leaf: Recent Work at Edward Thorp Gallery (through January 28, 2012) and Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect at Babcock Galleries (through January 27, 2012. Both exhibitions, Naves notes, celebrate "intractable individualism - the hard-won visions of sundry loners, ...
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• Ray Parkers Meta-World

  
  Painters' Table — Authority: 119
  Ray Parker, Simple Paintings from the 1960s at Washburn Gallery, New York on view from November 17, 2011 - January 28, 2012 Ray Parker, Untitled, 1962, oil on canvas, 77 x 68 inches (courtesy of Washburn Gallery) Ray Parkers "Simple Paintings" from the 1960s, on view at Washburn Gallery, are loosely brushed ...
  2 weeks ago

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