A Retrospective View Of Abstraction, With A Spice Of The Occult
By Emelie Harrison.
Between the middle of the nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century the world experienced drastic change. Darwin’s theory of evolution was published in 1859 and shook the foundations of the Christian church. The establishment of new scientific and philosophical thought transpired in the Western world….
The Descent Into Abstraction Is Easy.
By Petra Bogle
No image is truly abstract. No such image has or ever will exist. There are degrees of abstraction, ranging from what has some representational form, and discernable meaning to the closest to true abstraction, where the elements of an image convey nothing but their own innate visual qualities, and the meaning discernable only through subsidiary material….
Looking At Frances Hodgkins
By Mirabelle Field.
Frances Hodgkins is widely considered to be one of the most important and well known New Zealand-born expatriate artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hodgkins travelled to England in 1901, in search of a fresh modernist perspective for her art and to gain insight into the cultural roots that Europe held for her…
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