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Black Abstractionism is a term that refers to a modern arts movement that celebrates Black artists of African-American and African ancestry, whether as direct descendants of Africa or of a combined mixed-race heritage, who create work that is not representational, presenting the viewer with abstract expression, imagery, and ideas.
The work depicts a monumental perfect black circle floating on a flat white background. It is, along with his Black Square of 1915, one of his most well known early works in this field, depicting pure geometrical figures in primary colours. [1] [2] The motif of a black circle was displayed in December 1915 at the '0.10' [3] Exhibition in St ...
Norman Lewis was the only African-American artist among the first generation of abstract expressionists, but his work was overlooked by both White and African-American art dealers and gallery owners. [10] In his last 20 years, Lewis created and developed his very own unique blending of abstraction and figuration.
His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far [9] and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; [10] Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take ...
Christine Ay Tjoe (born 27 September 1973) is an abstract expressionist painter from Bandung, Indonesia.Ay Tjoe's artwork style is mostly abstract, expressing human emotions and flawed figurative objects by using colors from primarily muted to bright hues.
The 1915 Black Square was the turning point in his career and defined the aesthetic he was to follow for the remainder of his career; his other significant paintings include variants such as White on White (1918), Black Circle (c. 1924), and Black Cross (c. 1920–23). Malevich painted three other versions; in 1923, 1929, and between the late ...
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank, but returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth.
Untitled Film Still #23 by Cindy Sherman, 1977–1980. Untitled Film Stills is a series of black and white photographs by American visual artist Cindy Sherman predominantly made between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition.