In his early career, during the late 1960s and early 70s, Robert Irwin followed in the footsteps of the abstract expressionists. He started as a painter, but quickly adopted objects and materials that would allow him to explore, with greater breadth, notions of perception and the effects of light and
Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 to a cloth merchant in the neighborhood of Les Halles, Paris. When Poiret was a teenager he took some of his sketches to Madame Cheruit, a dressmaker, who purchased a dozen from him. He continued to sell his sketches until he was hired by Jacques Doucet in 189
Much of abstract or conceptual art is considered as residing somewhere between two extremes -- either incredibly esoteric, or simplistic and childlike. It also often has a strong link to nature and the body, and the sense of immediacy to recreate the sensations thereof. Though monochromatic canvases