Procedural Abstraction
Procedural abstraction is the process of converting a specific procedure into a general procedure by ignoring certain details. This is used during the design process to allow th...
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The Geometry of Hope: Latin Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, an exhibition at N.Y.U.’s Grey Art Gallery, poses two interesting questions: What characteristics ide...
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The refrain of “I Like ’Em Big and Stupid,” singer and comedienne Julie Brown’s little-remembered 80’s-era pop exegesis on female desire, came to mind while I was look...
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Open-form, welded-metal sculpture is now so familiar to the art public that it's sometimes forgotten how radical and controversial it was among traditionalists when it made its debut in the 1950's ...
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The American painter Megan Olson (born 1971) calls the current exhibition of her paintings Still Movement, which I take to be an allusion to still life-an impression that's amply confirmed in pictu...
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How much experience can be embodied in a rectangular patch of color? If we’re to believe Helen Miranda Wilson, whose recent paintings are on display at the DC Moore Gallery, quite a lot. Each...
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New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee's Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the winter of 2002-3, should have their collective knuckles soundly rapped. There ca...
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During a question-and-answer session in Berlin, New Hampshire last night, Barack Obama received a multi-part question about how he identified himself racially, race relations and his commitment to...
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For anyone with a serious interest in modernist painting and its role in shaping the course of 20th-century American art, the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has a fascinatin...
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It was the 19th-century British critic William Hazlitt who shrewdly observed that writers “who lack delicacy hold us in their power”; the same might be said of certain painters. One of ...
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Procedural Abstraction
Abstract, Domestic
