Sometimes I feel like it's all so formalist and decorative.
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I am admittedly a Madisonian scholar and a constitutional formalist.
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But this formalist treatment of inanimate objects isn't Winogrand's typical mode.
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" He added, "Thematically, I'm always a formalist from beginning to end.
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His corpus is a formalist fantasia the way most rituals are.
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I am definitely not someone who thinks instinctively on a formalist level.
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Claudia Rankine, his formalist readings cordon him off from what the poems
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On both occasions, the dividing line was between formalist and ideological critics.
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Macdonald's taste in comedy is, by his own description, formalist and classicist.
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It marks the director, Kirill Mikhanovsky, as a gifted formalist (and humanist).
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The conversation between expressionist and formalist painting is a metaphor for this.
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My initial impression was that Ford had extracted a row of four cells from the formalist grid and permeated them (more precisely, three out of the four) with the nuanced and defiantly anti-formalist factor of the artist's touch.
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I don't want to harsh painting's mellow by getting all formalist on it.
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Kavanaugh is much more of a formalist—who sees clear lines of demarcation.
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Gestures that depart, however slightly, from the formalist baseline, in this context feel huge.
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But Foodman quickly made it clear that he wasn't into footwork as a formalist.
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It seems like Scott might have once held that formalist position, but not anymore.
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What if cool analysis and formalist precision had gained greater purchase at the time?
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The push and pull between biographical readings and formalist readings of artwork rages on.
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The Greek prankster formalist Yorgos Lanthimos made "The Lobster," his first movie in English.
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At first, "This Bridge" reads like a sendup of a so-called formalist dance.
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Pleasant as Portugal the Man may be, they tie themselves in too many formalist knots.
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He's a formalist poet who has the words "sight" and "vision" tattooed on alternate wrists.
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"It's impossible to argue from a formalist standpoint that Really Bad Chess is good," said Gage.
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Though strictly formalist, the works hint at mythic narratives, an allusiveness reinforced by their Latinate titles.
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His framing is resolutely formalist: subjects firmly composed laterally, from edge to edge, and in depth.
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Her work is formalist, but she doesn't write often in the forms we associate with poetry.
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She isn't a sensualist shape-shifter like FKA twigs or a subversive formalist like St. Vincent.
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"Mother Tongue" convincingly accesses emotive fragments of generational female experience within a framework of formalist rigor.
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Her work aspires toward the absolute — toward utopic, formalist transcendence — even while acknowledging its absurd impossibility.
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Examples in the exhibition play wittily on Cubist sculpture and formalist photography of the early 20th century.
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Stephan refers to a formalist vocabulary, but turns any lingering obsession with the "framing edge" upside-down.
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Her formalist approach always points towards something else: a state of mind, a question, or a proposition.
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His latest amalgam — the simplest and most balanced — is an eye-teasing sandwich of contrasting formalist strategies.
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Mr. Everson tests your patience with an opening that initially registers as a tediously obvious formalist gesture.
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While I hold many liberal views, I also believe in a formalist and fairly textualist approach to interpretation.
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For decades, he has cultivated a style of Formalist Pop Surrealism that balances between fine and commercial art.
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I don't fault artists for empty formalist constructions — Carly Rae Jepsen and Red Velvet fascinate for similar reasons.
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Under formalist guise, she hops from one story to the next while casually drawing thematic connections between them.
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Maybe it's the competition from Cosme, which takes a much less formalist approach to high-end Mexican cooking.
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These works are pure and formalist, but so suggestive that it almost seems inaccurate to call them abstract.
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Then there was, of course, the sublimely British Monty Python, and the formalist silliness of early Steve Martin.
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Until he left for New York, Mosset seemed comfortable with Clement Greenberg's formalist precepts of flatness and self-referentiality.
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Encountering Dick and his formalist sculptures—one is just a brick sitting on a table—is the last straw.
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The artist's formalist approaches also dazzle, such as the shimmering texture of the red gown, which appears like satin.
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If there's art about life and art about art, Dangerfield's comedy was the latter — he was the supreme formalist.
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Dulac avails herself of dramatic camera angles, taking a cue from such early 20th century formalist photographers as Rodchenko.
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But this was a view that made sense only if one still pledged full allegiance to the formalist reduction narrative.
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These are not the precision painted strips of a Bridget Riley canvas or one of Gene Davis's formalist stripe designs.
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Poet Artist stands as a marvelous pop-formalist jewel, and evidence that Jonghyun had matured into a supreme pop polymath.
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But it was among the first cracks in the formalist wall, precipitating a rapid expansion of inclusive, maximal art-making.
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Soaring through space like an aerodynamic electric train, a streamlined surge of energy, Simi captivates in its methodical formalist rigidity.
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Although I got the impression the primary goal was formalist, notably to explore chiaroscuro with special exposure photographs and custom printing.
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I am sure you're familiar with the formalist argument that art comes out of art, and remains untouched by everyday life.
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A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.
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It's not regressive, but neither does it throw out the entire canon of formalist painting with a skeptical dismissal of authenticity.
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And he has done it by following the rules, working within the historic terms defined by intellectual rigor and formalist accomplishment.
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My dad studied with William Bailey at Yale grad school in the 1970s' so he looked at everything through a formalist lens.
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The retrospective, curated by the independent curator and cultural theorist, Nancy Adajania, is structured around the formalist grid as an organizational device.
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This inclusion of a caption without a photograph also illustrates the way in which Sharif softens the severity of hard-edged formalist techniques.
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Every track is a three-minute formalist construct that captures a mood rather than a three-minute romanticist statement that expresses an emotion.
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There's a sense of professional formalist craft all over the album enabled by Prince's reclusive studio habits and his increased willingness to dance.
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In a recent video interview with MUBI Notebook, he characteristically rambles on about being a formalist and having no feelings when making movies.
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The group banded to form the Neo-concrete movement, which broke with the formalist abstractions of the Concrete art that came before them.
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The images of "Uncommon Places" have the same impartiality as "American Surfaces," but the earlier series' offhandedness has given way to formalist exactitude.
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An old formalist chronicle of the era thus gives way to the torrid poetic intensities of the nineteenth-century European fin de siècle.
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The turtles' shells are painted every which way, as are the areas around them giving new life to the old formalist figure-ground duality.
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Catnip for mystery buffs — there are wonky forensic details about bullet counts and autopsies — the film also shows off Park's gifts as a formalist.
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It's also strikingly generalized for a debut, ranging wide to cover all her bases, yet simultaneously aiming to occupy hip-hop's conservative formalist center.
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It is all very Virginia Woolf, and a little bit E.M. Forster too; in places, The Garden Party feels like an old-fashioned formalist experiment.
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Composition is incredibly important to Mapplethorpe; he was an obsessive formalist who framed his subjects — whether people or sexually suggestive flowers — into rigidly ordered spaces.
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But after 9/11, as he was emerging from a concentrated phase of formalist experimentation, he began to confront the rise of absolutism more directly.
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While Cannon is not making zombie formalist paintings per se, they still feel like a sentence randomly missing a subject, a noun or a verb.
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In 1960, a show of her work at the Kordegarda Gallery in Warsaw was not allowed to open after a cultural official deemed it formalist.
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The latest edition features works by Reggie Wilson, known for his vivid blending of African diasporic and postmodern dance, and the adventurous formalist Joanna Kotze.
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He is an almost dictatorial creator firmly in command of a vocabulary — a formalist trained to design industrial products, who happened into fashion somewhat inadvertently.
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Exuberance for these new materials and manners of expression was almost immediately witnessed in Chinese art-making, but this excitement was often a formalist appreciation.
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The photograph contains all of Mr. Olaf's signature technical elements: painterly lighting, formalist composition, styling that we associate with fashion photography — that seductive, perfectionistic polish.
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But where Johns is more invested in formalism, Gocker fuses formalist concerns with an interrogation of a large cultural phenomenon, like Big Tech's quest for immortality.
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Combining a zero sum approach to painting with Situationist-style tactics, BMPT turned formalist reduction into a political statement, which is why it remains relevant today.
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David McDonald, one of the few formalist artists in residence, crafts spindly sculptures made from fragmented pieces of wood, sand, and polyurethane grafted onto bamboo spines.
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The installation emphasizes an anti-formalist position, in which the works are placed democratically next to one another, and directly on the floor without a base.
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Ada Kaleh (220) by Helena Wittman Through a "warmly rendered feat of formalist filmmaking," Wittman explores the imagined futures of a group of anonymous young adults.
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She is a formalist who wears the writing process—and her influences—on her sleeve, which means she is, in a major way, a throwback artist.
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Notwithstanding its incipient landscape suggestion, the painting channels both John Chamberlain's crushed and reconstituted automobile parts and Conrad Marca-Relli's austere formalist patchwork — quite a feat.
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" Whereas conceptual photographer Les Krims's recipe for his "formalist stew" presents you with just two sentences: "It has 28 ingredients and takes 83 days to prepare.
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TU: While I was teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, I was exposed to several influential and politically important professors who followed strict formalist theories.
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For Mosset, the only way to advance in painting was to regress to a pre-monochrome mode, a contradiction with the formalist ideal of continuous, linear progress.
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For the categorically minded, Satterlee's canvases are an unbroken string of contradictions: abstract and representational; painterly and linear; graphic and colorist; biomorphic and geometric; formalist and Pop.
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Yet, instead of hiding such associations in pure abstraction or clutter (which a zombie formalist might do), her paintings use design to give the formal elements cohesion.
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But, by rejecting expression, interiority and the vulnerabilities that accompany them, in favor of a formalist rhetorical abstraction, didn't Stella throw the baby out with the bathwater?
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" In a review of a concert at the Merce Cunningham Studio in 22009, Anna Kisselgoff of The Times described Mr. de Groat as "very much a formalist.
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At the Queens Museum, Ronny Quevedo's site-specific installation, no hay medio tiempo/ there is no halftime, is an ingenious and touching artistic exploration of Huizinga's formalist thesis.
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But what at first seems a simple formalist schematic reveals itself to be a subtle meditation on crowds, class, manners, and the way populations experience order and time.
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The genre is arriving at its Dalí phase, when all the old frameworks — formalist lyricism, soul music DNA, mainstream pop ambition — are melting into something only half-recognizable.
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For not only was Knott steadily prolific for half a century, so too was he a restless experimenter, shapeshifting from surrealist to Oulipean to anti-poet to formalist.
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But even this "formalist" view may be tempered by the "legal realist" idea that the law may be defined as a prediction of what the courts will do.
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These magpie fabrications are the least compelling for me because it feels like the pieces yield the urgency that impelled their creation to the seduction of formalist matters.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1967, the angel of ambiguity rescued Al Held from the burly heaviness of his body and the formalist ideology of his thinking.
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Before our eyes, Guillot's instincts seem to be transformed from an aesthetic outlier's to those of an old-school formalist, while Gold's beguilingly retinal maneuvers yield uncannily somatic results.
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A formalist experiment that soon devolves into a mannerist indulgence, the movie almost incidentally involves a gang of snarly, sweaty men loafing about in a studiously rundown Mediterranean compound.
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With its emphasis on communal living, the Ciudad Abierta became a testing ground for a kind of utopian architecture, one based on observation and improvisation rather than formalist order.
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This exhibition lays out her three-decade career, during which Aguilar has explored the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality through photographs that blend documentary, conceptual, and formalist threads.
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In Ms. Minter's best-known works, images are rendered in extreme close-up, embedded in lush surfaces that border on abstract and establish a winking, parodistic relationship with formalist painting.
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I thought Ashford made a wonderful connection between the two — by using the expressionism of this deeply painful moment juxtaposed with formalist painting — to address how they inform each other.
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For all these makers there is a poise in using this most formal of formalist aesthetics to slip in a set of politics under the cover of a bulletproof abstraction.
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Hyman sketches an anti-formalist, alternative history of modernism from his perspective as a painter, arguing for the value of modernist figuration and the importance of narrative for painting today.
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Being a classicist and formalist when it comes to cocktails and drinks—and just a really old-school guy in general—I thought tea-infused cocktails were trendy and a novelty.
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In the nineteen-fifties, when most of the serious art being done was abstract, Katz outraged scores of artists and formalist critics by inventing new ways to paint the human figure.
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They are the closest Stella ever came to the moving image and at the same time, though disguised as formalist explorations, to any kind of acknowledgment, however faint, of human mortality.
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Examples of his early and funkier hand-made efforts are presented as formalist masterpieces with plenty of surrounding space, ostensibly to focus attention on sculptural qualities that are uneven at best.
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If we think of what Anthony Caro, Serra, or Carl Andre were doing in the mid-1970s, it is clear that Hunt was never interested in pursuing a reductive or formalist approach.
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Uruguayan-born, Brooklyn-based choreographer luciana achugar will activate the lobby with FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM, a dance performance for four women which plays between formalist movement and a celebration of the instinctual and carnal.
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The glass becomes a sarcastic evocation of the cherished "picture plane" of formalist abstraction, while the watery drips refer to the painting process of an artist whose technique is all but invisible.
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Their elaborate sign systems and surreal scenes are a delight to parse, and add some dimension and depth to the sexy fun and formalist filler at this year's NADA New York fair.
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Ms. Gill's geometrically rigorous work is often described (including by her) as formalist or abstract, but in "Brand New Sidewalk," an hourlong triptych, she took her crystalline minimalism in a new direction.
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Its glossy surface expresses the formalist concerns of the Finish Fetish movement, but, as I soon realized, these new works by Fishman are more than formal objects: they are metaphysics made physical.
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He is a weird formalist, a somewhat unmoored logician, whose pieces seem to be the result of long, elaborate trains of thought, picking up steam as they pull into stations of absurdity.
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In his photo from 1987, "Protesters in Motijheel Break Section 44 on Dhaka Siege Day," he presents a formalist view of an urban street, a wide and long expanse framed by buildings.
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When they finally agreed, van Hove enlisted the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker — a rigorous formalist who directs Rosas, a celebrated dance company, but had never made movement for musical theater.
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The hooky beats and Blocboy's rapping suggest functionalism — formalist product designed to excel within previously established pop styles — and Simi is indeed an upbeat party tape, a marvelous soundtrack for social festivities.
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Justice Gorsuch is a formalist who is committed to the interpretive tools of originalism, which looks to the meaning of the Constitution when it was adopted, and textualism, which focuses on statutory wording.
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These are just a few of the moments that imprint on my mind while watching this kaleidoscopic, multifaceted, formalist depiction of living in the South, in Hale County, Alabama, as an African-American.
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Holden's lyrics on Home were one searing cry for help after another, the ones here are influenced by Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry and take on a more formalist, poetic tone, impressionistic and abstract.
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He has found a way to make a New York rap sound that's modern, not preoccupied with the formalist bullies of the 1990s (the L.O.X., DMX) that still define the city to so many.
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Still's statements may have been strictly formalist, but Mark chose to believe that it would have been impossible to make them at the time without understanding the totality of what they would have conveyed.
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Two small, illuminating exhibitions of work by Helen Frankenthaler at the Clark Art Institute, one of paintings and the other of woodcuts, together suggest nature lurks throughout the imagery of this ostensibly unyielding formalist.
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JS: Although you don't call yourself a formalist, you've talked about intense, upsetting imagery being on a formal level as well as an emotional level — like the sandbag sacks covering the heads of Iraqi detainees.
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This method of dealing with material fact shorn of any auxiliary symbolic/poetic association, set his path towards the worst of all possible worlds: formalist reductionist solipsism without a hint of poetic or political metaphor.
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The painted pieces of wood, which function as wildly improbable-looking frames, and their color-based relationship with the adjoined photographs, suggest that these works are more expressly formalist than anything else in the show.
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Perhaps this is the point — Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock can be closely associated with Rothko only if we accept Clement Greenberg's formalist analysis, which Crow denies, regarding the flatness of the picture plane.
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As a result, her paintings seem to invite viewers to consider them from a formalist perspective and to tease out whatever meanings they might be able to discern from their compositions, colors, and ambiguous subjects alone.
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He created paintings, drawings, murals, sculptures, installations, and public art that straddled representation and abstraction, architecture and ornament, formalist strategies and pictorial narrative, and churned styles, iconographies, and histories into an indelible web of postmodern critique.
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A former military brat with a sweet, steady voice and a songwriter's alert emotional intelligence, she's a formalist but not inflexible — unbroken even when her songs run bleak or bittersweet, which is most of the time.
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When Allen Tate voted to deny him tenure at the University of Minnesota, he was probably punishing Wright for his association with the anti-formalist Bly as much as for his drunken appearances at student parties.
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In each one, Schapiro interferes with, interrupts, and disrupts the formalist structure by collaging and spray-painting decorative elements, typical of what would become her femmage or pattern and decoration works of the 24s and early '220s.
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There are occasional intrusions of other ideas, like the agonized rock on "Over Now," and when far more formalist artists like Nicki Minaj or G-Eazy arrive, they sound like teachers trying to enforce order in detention.
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Many writers from South Africa and other postcolonial countries have written about the local or regional importance of modernism well into the 20th century, after artists in the west had condemned it as a formalist dead end.
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This sequence follows a process-oriented strategy, but the odd illusionism of the light beams pivots the group away from a strictly formalist reading: the pictures are inherently abstract yet heavily suggest a connection to tactile reality.
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In the MoMA catalog, the curator James Johnson Sweeney mounted a formalist defense of the crest and works like it — one that still haunts our understanding of African ritual objects when we encounter them in art museums.
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Showing signs of the observational generosity and formalist structures he would employ in much of his later works, these early films are tremendously assured, rigorous starts for the then 20-something, self-described "poor as church rats" filmmaker.
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Opper somehow transcended the mythology of the AbEx period and almost clandestinely slipped into the more formalist designs of color field painting, while holding to a visual language that was both his own and an echo of Bonnard.
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Made between the late fifties and mid-sixties, during the rise of the Hippie subculture and the growing use of mind-altering drugs, Mullican's paintings reject the formalist and materialist art being made and celebrated at the time.
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The curators mean me to notice formalist similarities: such as the untitled painting by Günther Förg (1993) that has alternating squares pigmented black, white, and gray that is not subtly hung next to a N'Zabi mask from Gabon(ca.
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And to the men who've long written the textbooks, curated the museum shows, and collected the artworks, being a formalist who's also a woman who takes off her clothes to make art with her body is just not possible.
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" Leslie Fiedler, in his 1969 essay on postmodernism, cheerfully characterized the age as "anti-rational" and "blatantly romantic," while John Barth, a self-described "postmodern romantic formalist," wrote an essay relating postmodernism to the figure of the Romantic "arabesque.
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But I soon realized that this was a formalist response (thinking, perhaps, of Jackie Winsor's burnt wood sculptures of the 1970s); the point was not the element of fire as an aesthetic agent, but the action's potential for annihilation.
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As we know, the argument between "Specific Objects" (Judd) and space, infinite space, and the fourth dimension (di Suvero and the Park Place painters) was won by those who sided with actual objects and the formalist insistence on flatness.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Even the most abstract, formalist art has been politicized in the era of President Trump, but how can artists and citizens avoid indulging the sudden trendiness of political art while remaining politically engaged?
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Both albums aim for the graceful, mechanical efficiency of pop-formalist exercises, for the thrill of mastering a received set of gestures, and both albums dissipate solemn piano, soothing strings, chiming acoustic riffs, and resounding electronic bells into a diaphanous mesh.
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This is the art form that gave us Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, the sprawling epics of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets, the formalist heartbreak of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, on and on and on.
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For the viewer, it is "theatrical" and "in his way," as the formalist critic Michael Fried put it, in an amazing essay from 1967, " Art and Objecthood ," in which his bull's-eye attacks on the movement constituted an unintended appreciation.
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So when it was announced that a new Broadway production would open in February, staged by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, it came as a surprise that the revival would feature choreography by the avant-garde formalist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
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These artists' alliance with the powerful and polarizing formalist critic Clement Greenberg greatly helped them early on, but hindered them in later years when Greenberg's reputation and influence were on the wane, and painting, especially formally-oriented abstraction was looked upon as retrograde.
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While listening I realize that the strategy he's employing — using an obstinately formalist language of almost geometric abstraction, while signaling to his audience that the maker is black, that is, ethnically and politically black — is something I had seen other artists do.
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Roussel, today, is recognized as an unsung hero to several major avant-garde movements of the 20th century – Surrealism, Dada, and, particularly, French formalist literary camps like Oulipo and noveau roman, which rejected the confines of social realism in favor of more imaginative wanderings.
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When: Opens Saturday, December 10, 6pm Where: WUHO Gallery (3063 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles) Art from the middle of the 20th century is generally considered the high point of formalist abstraction, however this narrative excludes the numerous artists who were exploring new figurative directions.
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Was she a stronger artist when she worked in the male universal, objective, modernist, formalist vein — which, say what you will about it, provides art with armor, whereas the feminist mode strips away that armor and leaves the work more contingent upon interpretation and aesthetically more vulnerable?
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Clement Greenberg, the high priest of New York painting, wrote a monograph on Miró in 1948 and, fastidiously ignoring the artist's frolicsome penchant for symbols of birds and stars and sex organs, associated him with a formalist ideology of anti-figurative, spatially flattened, color-intensive abstraction.
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Establishing no clear stylistic or aesthetic position, Schwabsky seems more interested in philosophically examining what painting is and can become through an observer's encounter, citing the reductive formalist definition Maurice Denis offered in 1890, of pigment applied to (usually) flat planes by whatever means conceptually necessary.
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Where Gropius had attempted to move the school toward a closer union with German industry, with the aim of making products for a general market, as well as adopting a broadly formalist approach to architecture, Meyer, though also working with industry, was more explicitly political in his aims.
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If I bring Justin to a Beth Gill piece" — Ms. Gill is a respected downtown formalist — "it's because I think that work is going to be really valuable for him to see; and because I admire his work, I want him to have information that's going to help him grow.
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In terms of formulating a creative epistemology, Schöffer's interactive-oriented formalist output can be considered in terms of a combination of the vibrant dynamics found in Yves Klein's fête of the virtual void and the mechanical dynamism originally initiated by the Cubo-Futurists' idea of automation and robotics, ala Fernand Léger.
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Approaching Mouton's artwork from a purely formalist perspective would do it an injustice, while dwelling on the visual affinities between her work and that of the New York School artists seems redundant: from Helen Frankenthaler's soak-stain method to the sweeping gestures of Robert Motherwell, the art historical relationship is palpable.
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Album Review The internal hand-wringing over hip-hop's generation gap — which pits old against young, dyed-in-the-wool formalist traditionalist against melodic experimenter, New York against Atlanta — overlooks a very plain fact: For most of the last two decades, hip-hop's primary topical concerns haven't changed all that much.
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Bonnefoi's alternative to the quagmire of dead-end formalist narratives, on the one hand, and to the escape into a sculptural context on the other, has been thoroughly ignored in the discussion of the future of abstract painting on this side of the Atlantic (and not just because of the language barrier).
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And then there was Patricia Satterlee's solo show at the Martin Art Gallery of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a rare opportunity to see the work of a painter's painter whose canvases are an unbroken string of contradictions: abstract and representational; painterly and linear; graphic and colorist; biomorphic and geometric; formalist and Pop.
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That last statement would seem, for anyone familiar with the artist's work, surprising to say the least, since Sandback (1943–2003) could be considered, and not without reason, as the purest and most unsparingly geometric member of a rigorously formalist generation, a cohort that included Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, and Sol LeWitt.
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Perhaps the most surprising work of this trio and the one that looks the most disconcertingly new — as if painted by a young zombie formalist feminist artist — is "Voyage," in which appliquéd bits of textile melt into the surface while other textile patterns appear as silhouettes, not literally collaged on but, rather, spray-painted.
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Since many of the two or three dozen formalist jewels in Petty's catalog have saturated mall speakers and bar jukeboxes for decades, I won't parse the discography in detail except to say that Greatest Hits (1993) is indeed a terrific investment, and that if you haven't heard the magnificent "Learning to Fly" lately, fix that!
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Jackson, who was born in Houston, Texas in 1980, has an aesthetic far more magpie and effulgent than Shiferaw's, but the most salient aspects of the work for me is its use of an abstract, formalist vocabulary where geometric objects and images consistently appear (along with a good deal of experimentation with materials and textures).
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There's a sly, sexy, downtempo feel to the album with distinct cognates in organic neosoul and digital trip-hop, except that Rihanna's sonics are cleaner; musically, in the grain of the keyboards, these songs make explicit the vague melancholy she always conveys vocally, declining the pro forma cheer that usually accompanies expert formalist craft.
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Consequently, viewers who know little or nothing about her background and interests, or about her work's themes and preoccupations, may find themselves taking a necessarily formalist approach to apprehending her art — that is, they may find themselves having to look closely at each work's form, composition, color, and style for clues to its intentions, moods, and meanings.
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I also deeply appreciate the range of artists: from Elaine Reichek, who in 1972 began doing sewing work that refracted the formalist concerns of the aesthetic associated with color-field artists through a feminist spying glass, to Sanford Biggers, who was born only two years before Reichek started making art and is now an assistant professor at Columbia.
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If Graw was entirely sincere about her love of painting (which she is not: her true feeling, she eventually confesses, is "love-hate"), she might have skipped the formalist questions and spent more time investigating sex, love and gender in the history of the genre, where political content merges with form and materiality in complimentary communion.
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In his one well-documented person-to-person encounter with Stalin, the phone call through which the dictator sought to coerce the composer's presence in New York, Shostakovich leveraged the world fame that made him indispensable to secure a lifting of the ban on his own and his colleagues' works that followed the "formalist" denunciations the previous year.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NAGOYA, Japan — There is a way to experience the bold, exuberant, psychologically intense work of the Japanese artist Issei Nishimura, not as a formalist trying to make sense of its unflappably expressionistic compositions, but rather from the standpoint of a music lover, tuning into, and surrendering to, their oddball rhythms.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's refreshing to be reminded that New York's Museum of Modern Art wasn't always the formalist monolith that its pluralist detractors have made it out to be, and that its current expansion, which dedicates a healthy portion of floorspace to performance, is less a reinvention and more a return to its roots.
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Mr. Peck draws on a wealth of found and original visual material, including appalling excerpts from the F.B.I.'s files on Baldwin; Mr. Peck's decision to use a lot of color images of the civil rights movement, rather than the more familiar black and white, is a particularly impressive formalist stroke because it closes the distance between past and present.
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Schapiro's hard-edge abstractions from this period are mature, confident works with great graphic impact, and it must be emphasized that the later works for which she's best known, where paint is replaced by or interacts with collaged textiles, are still highly geometric in their underlying structure; it is the inclusion of textile, with its gendered connotations, that marks them as a break from her formalist past.
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In this engaging and finely illustrated study, which began as a series of A.W. Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art, the art historian Craig Clunas veers from a formalist view of Chinese painting to look at how paintings were viewed — by solitary aristocratic scholars, by merchants plugged into global trade networks, by new Nationalist and Communist governments, and by western curators and collectors.
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Chloë has indicated some in the above, and I agree with her that the painter paid insufficient attention to the primacy of her work's content over her own practiced, formalist approach, and that Hannah Black failed to recognize that her call to destroy the work was far too self-serving, opposing what she structures as a weak and apologist position against one that is tyrannical and vindictive.
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This album's deadpan tops Carly Rae Jepsen's just as Jepsen's Emotion topped Taylor Swift's 1989, but they all belong in the same file: idealized pop stripped down to the bare formalist bones, marked by a blankness whose achievement says plenty when we expect pop singers to put their emotions on display, a blankness whose mood moves the music ever closer to pure, exemplary abstraction.
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Roy DeCarava: the sound I saw and Roy DeCarava: Light Break at David Zwirner September 5—October 1773, 2019 Light Break, and the sound i saw were two exhibitions of the photography of Roy De Carava that ran concurrently at David Zwirner and allowed the viewer to see the many kinds of photographer he was: urban documentarian, street photographer, meticulous formalist, celebrity photojournalist, chronicler of the jazz age.
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At a rare gallery showing of Reed's work in Miami in 2011 at the Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, friends from Reed's hometown delighted in titles such as "Sigh Less Green" (in reference to Silas Green from New Orleans, an African American owned and run variety show that toured southern states) and "Green Gager," which spoke directly to Reed's childhood neighbors who knew of the greengage plum trees in their hometown.
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Claims for a broad inclusion into "Chinese art" are subverted by similarities to Western painters; any homage to a Western style is undercut by allegorical readings and historical context; a formalist approach is undercut by Western and Chinese precedents; any declaration that "what you see is what you see," to quote Frank Stella, is undermined by the human eye, which can't, of course, see the sculptural impasto of these works simultaneously from different angles.
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It's a no-brainer to suggest that the handmade sensibility of Eva Hesse, Jacqueline Winsor, Jackie Ferrara, Anne Truitt, and Jo Baer, to name a few, would add an essential layer of historical context to the generation of artists collected by the museum, but it would also document, via the postminimalism of Hesse, Winsor, and Ferrara, the infusion of real-world concerns that shook up formalist orthodoxies as the end of the 1970s approached.
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Maybe she'll swallow a word, maybe she'll strain a note, most often the Auto-Tune itself will sputter and curdle, dropping into her voicebox all sorts of digital vibrations and rhotics the human voice would have trouble producing alone, and the result is a startlingly aching and lyrical vocal portrait of flawlessness frayed at the edges, formalist craft starting to break down, a distancing strategy starting to fail, a singer starting to question her self-alienated self-mastery.
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The contemporary context infusing the show, which is installed in the same building as the MFA studios of Hunter College, seems to fast-forward a purposefully problematic painting like Mike Bidlo's mock-Pollock, "Study in Beige, Green, Red & Black" (1983), away from its original intentions and pause it in the context of today's concerns, making it less of a formalist conceit and more of a thumb in the market's eye, especially in light of the Knoedler scandals and other recent high-profile forgeries.
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If Stella's ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first (his titles reference such a wide range of fields that they endow his undertaking with a universal flavor), the paintings' often overbearing size and physicality — somehow the smaller versions are not as convincing as the larger works (size matters!) — with each ranking as a formalist "tour de force" in its own right, also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground (vestigial remains of his wrestling days in high school?).
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Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.
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