Collectors of American Art don't consider Alice Neel part of the Ash Can School or the American Modernist School, and the glitzy works by Abstract Expressionists attract the Post-War collectors.
For the next 20 years they showcased modern art with an emphasis on African-Americans, including work by abstract expressionist Norman Lewis, Boston-born Lois Mailou Jones (known for incorporating African images into her work) and lesser-known Washington-area artists.
The Sundial is among a string of works by the abstract artist, who died in 1986 aged 88, to be targeted by thieves in recent years.
At Sears you could purchase contemporary art by leading Abstract Expressionists such as Robert Motherwell.
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Valuation becomes a matter of ratios of highly formalized GAAP earnings in relation to fluctuating prices adjusted by highly abstract notions of variance and value at risk.
Basic research is driven by big and sometimes abstract questions: How did the universe begin?
The self-conscious modernism of "Time Out" and "Mingus Ah Um" was announced on their covers, both of which featured abstract art by S. Neil Fujita.
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Large abstract paintings by Spanish artist Miquel Barceo are on display until 29 July, their thick texture belying the artist's background as a sculptor who works with metals.
What caught my eye this month is "The Sisters" (below), a hypnotically luminous 1991-93 abstract work by Brice Marden, one of America's leading artists and the subject of a new book, "Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus" (Phaidon).
Strangely, in his study of spectators standing in front of a vast, whorling abstract painting by Jackson Pollock, it is the painting, brought sharply into focus, which appears classically still, and those quietly viewing who seem chaotically undefined.
Founded by Dr Anton Rupert, a tobacco billionaire, conservationist and critic of apartheid who was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1916, the museum is housed in a beautifully restored early 19th-century mission church, with mostly expressionistic and abstract canvases by South African artists, including Irma Stern and Maud Sumner.
But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.
An example comes from a study (abstract only) led by JRC collaborator P.
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It was even felt by artists who, like Pierre Bonnard and Fairfield Porter, never produced an abstract painting in their lives, but were nonetheless influenced by the way in which practitioners of abstraction created what Mr. Diebenkorn called "invented landscapes, " nonobjective images that evoked the world of tangible reality while steering clear of literal representation.
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"What people will be seeing are abstract sequences which are inspired by the kinetic activity around the bridge, " said Villareal.
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Partly plated with 24ct gold and commissioned by the Incorporation of Goldsmiths, the abstract sculpture was designed to symbolise the importance of the three honours in the history of Scotland.
Or maybe algebra is fun and Dragonbox is an app that teaches adults how algebra can be more than just an abstract intellectual torture device employed by junior high math teachers.
Collectors may also glom on to Jean Dunand's vases, many of which he inlaid by crushing eggshells and shaping the fragments into abstract shapes.
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Russia therefore has quite good relations with some countries that are democratic, and quite bad relations with some countries that are autocratic: it determines its policies on a case by case basis not through reference to some abstract ideological construct.
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The player is let loose into an abstract world built on sound and structures inspired by electronic music.
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In its relatively short lifetime, abstract art has been illuminated (and obscured) by two influential critical attitudes.
Art includes a huge abstract painting of mostly black and white splatters of paint by British artist Kate Palmer.
"Landscape with a farm, " a second figurative painting by Dutch artist Mondrian -- who is better known for his abstract works -- was left behind as the burglar ran away.
"Baggage, " by the Cape Town-based artist Randy Hartzenberg, is an abstract portrayal of the white-minority government's campaigns in the 1970s to force black, mixed-race and ethnically Indian South Africans into separate townships.
By that time Mr Twombly had found his style, one that diverges distinctively from Abstract Expressionism and almost satirises it.
It took a while, but finally the art world is appreciating the role played by Frelinghuysen, Morris, Shaw and Gallatin in developing a uniquely American form of abstract art.
You also need an abstract black and white TV commercial that makes no sense, preferably directed by a European who goes by one name and screams at the caterer for bringing carbs onto the set.
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