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Systemic art
Systemic art. Term coined by the critic Lawrence Alloway in 1966 to refer to a type of abstract art characterized by the use of very simple standardized forms, usually geometrical in character, used either in a single image or repeated in a pattern arranged according to a clear principle of... Read more |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York New York)
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is an international showplace for twentieth-century art, that is committed to the exhibition of nonobjective art and a movement "from the materialistic to the... Read more |
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Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly 1923-, American painter, b. Newburgh, N.Y. He moved to New York City in 1941, studying at Pratt Institute, and later attended the Boston Museum Arts School. In Paris during the late 1940s, he studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and met many giants of modern art. He began... Read more |
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William Baziotes
William Baziotes , 1912-64, American painter, b. Pittsburgh. Baziotes's works of the 1940s and 50s are largely abstract images, usually with brooding, primitive qualities encompassed in rich and muted colors. He taught in New York City at several schools including the Brooklyn Museum Art School and... Read more |
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New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more |
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Calvin Klein
KLEIN, Calvin American designer Born:Bronx, New York, 19 November 1942. Education:Studied at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 1959-62. Family:Married Jayne Centre, 1964 (divorced 1974); child: Marci; married Kelly Rector, 1986 (separated). ... Read more |
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Michael Kelly
KELLY, Michael 1968–PERSONALFull name, Michael Joseph Kelly; born May 22, 1968, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Michael and Maureen Kelly. Education: Attended Carolina Coastal University; studied acting at the Actor's Studio.Addresses: Agent—Innovative Artists, 1505 10th St., Santa Monica, CA 90401.... Read more |
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Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (Agnes Bernice Martin), 1912-2004, American painter, b. Macklin, Canada. She moved to the United States in 1931, became a U.S. citizen in 1950, and emerged as an important artist in the late 50s and early 60s. Martin is best known for her spare, abstract all-over grid paintings.... Read more |
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Adele Simpson
SIMPSON, Adele American fashion designer Born: Adele Smithline, in New York City, 28 December 1904. Education: Studied dressmaking at Pratt Institute of Design, Brooklyn, New York, 1921-22. Family: Married textile manufacturer Wesley William Simpson, 1930 (deceased); children: Jeffrey, Joan.... Read more |
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Totems of tempered grandeur [Correction 9/29/11] ; Art; Kelly conjures...
...random - into new compositions...totem-like forms Kelly went on to make...method of its making is kindergarten simple: Kelly cut out long...years after its making, the work still...coldly mechanical, Kelly's rearranging...since, all his abstractions have been rooted... |
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Ellsworth Kelly: Relentlessly immersed in the abstract ; At 88, Ellsworth...
...relentlessly immersed in abstraction: creating color...or rectangle, or making drawings depicting...Yet while Mr. Kelly's lifelong focus...the world, Mr. Kelly said: "He's been...lot of attention, making color and form stand...juggling several new sculpture commissions... |
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Unfashionably late. (painter Ellsworth Kelly)(Kelly Read)
...Every year a "new" painting is touted...come. Ellsworth Kelly is arguably the...considered spent. Kelly found otherwise...his best work. Kelly's hard-edged abstraction must have seemed...Donald Judd's abstractions than Kelly's restoration...continues to persevere, ... |
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Columns of colors; Abstractions in 3D focus at Hirshhorn.(ARTS &...
...such as Ellsworth Kelly and Donald Judd...parts of faceted abstractions. The totems are...championed by influential New York critic Clement...relocated to Texas, New York and San Francisco...freedom of their abstractions, Truitt rapidly...Truitt started making thicker, taller... |
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Modern masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.(Modern Masters:...
...their art. Working in New York, California, the...the United States, and New York specifically, became...course entitled "Effect Making," which examined how...Gene Davis, Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, would...The final section, "New Images of Man," features... |
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National Gallery makes room for a New Master, in the flesh
...keep up with the new ones? Then again...abstractionist Ellsworth Kelly in 1978. Kelly's kind of abstraction argued that content...whole enterprise of abstraction. Or it could be...piece can be read as making a strong declaration... |
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Kelly's green. (painter Ellsworth Kelly)(Kelly Read)
...thinking of Kelly. Kelly, of course, has...after the war), Kelly was living in Paris...he returned to New York from a six...Jasper Johns was making his first "Flags." (Kelly and Youngerman...The simultaneous abstraction and literalism... |
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Joanna Pousette-Dart
...actual pleasures of making art, she also...Marden, Ellsworth Kelly; to name artists...Achilles' Heel of all abstraction (or its Saving...Pousette-Dart's new paintings. Her...occurs in Ellsworth Kelly's hard-edged epigraphic abstractions. For all its radiance...Dart's mature ... |
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Joanna Pousette-Dart Moti hasson gallery.
...actual pleasures of making art, she also...Marden, Ellsworth Kelly; to name artists...Achilles'Heel of all abstraction (or its Saving...Pousette-Dart's new paintings. Her...occurs in Ellsworth Kelly's hard-edged epigraphic abstractions. For all its radiance...Dart's mature ... |
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Echoing Ellsworth Kelly in electrifying fashion ; Artist's mural offers...
...piercing and provocative new wall mural at the...her fresh take on abstraction, is the latest artist...recapitulation of Ellsworth Kelly's "Orange White...century galleries. Kelly's painting, typically...and polish of the Kelly quotation. One of...s brawny mark-making on the land. ... |