#modern abstraction

[miamaimania]

"My Vintage Car Series" (2023) by [Artist] at Giant Robot LA ⬣ Vintage silhouettes fractured into precise geometric planes.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Woven Histories

Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Production by Brad Ireland and Christina Wiginton, Editing by Magda Nakassis,

National Gallery of Art, Washington copublished by The University of Chicago Press, 2023, 284 pages, ISBN 978-0-226-82729-2

euro 65,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Exhibition dates : Los Angeles County Museum Art 2023, Washington Nat.Gall.Art 2024, Ottawa Nat.Gall.Canada 2024,New York MoMA 2025

Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles.   Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts.   Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue to shape this discourse. Including essays by distinguished art historians as well as reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious project traces the intertwined histories of textiles and abstraction as vehicles through which artists probe urgent issues of our time.

24/12/23

[clearpills]

the shape of me

[fandomsandfeminism]

When people look at abstract art and go "uh I could make that"

Fuck, I wish you would!

I wish you would let this inspire you. I wish that seeing a piece of abstract art would move you to self expression.

I wish you would go to the craft store, buy a cheap canvas and some cheap paint and let yourself play with color and form just to see if you can.

I wish that there were more amateur painters, trying their hand at geometric abstraction and color field painting. That would be so fucking cool.

"I could make that" should be a joyous revelation, not a snarky dismissal.

You could make that? Holy shit. please. Please make that.

Jack Bush

Kenneth Noland

Piet Mondrain

Pat Lipsky

Joan Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler

Kikuo Saito

Marilyn Kirsch

Mark Rothko

Adolph Gottlieb

[elixir]

Moonrise Phyllis Shafer — 2015 oil on canvas

[1five1two]

'Mermod'. Yuri Zapancic. 2020.

[rosieandthemoon]

by Terra Keck

[disease]

"SERIES 'DOVE': XIV" HILMA AF KLINT // 1915 [oil on canvas | 154 × 128.5 cm.]

[abstracteddistractions]

Anni Albers, "Tapestry," 1948,

Linen and cotton,

Dimensions16 1/2 x 18 3/4" (41.9 x 47.6 cm),

© 2025 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Courtesy: MoMa

[dailyrothko]

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968

Acrylic on paper mounted on masonite 99.5 × 65.5 cm.

Colección Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo

© 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

I could not find this in the archives, and given tumblr, the idea that a search might not be perfect would not be surprising. However if we've got it it's definitely not this picture of it. So I'm glad to have it as it is even though it is not a super huge scan, it has its charms.

[surrealistart]

Phantoms (1928) Yves Tanguy, oil on canvas

[miamaimania]

"Point of Tranquility" (1960) by Morris Louis – Fluid washes of color create a harmonious abstract composition, embodying the essence of the Color Field movement.

[anasabdin]

Light data [ 1bit / 2 colors ]

[doschaco]

Composition (1923)

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895 - 1946)

[elixir]

A rhododendron garden near Lake Como Henrik Gamst Jespersen — Pre 1936 Oil on Canvas

[jacobhubertusart]

Untitled, mixed media. November 2024. By Jacob Hubertus. Instagram | Tumblr