Abstraction

Combines an interview with Frank Stella with archival footage of Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollack, and Barnett Newman to provide an overview of abstraction in art. Delves into the roots and "meanings" of Western abstraction in landscape painting in an underlying "essence" of reality that exists beyond appearance. Includes scenes filmed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston.

More in Painter's World Series

  1. The Artist and the Nude 1985
  2. The Training of Painters 1987
  3. Abstraction 1988
  4. Painting and the Public: Patronage, Museums and the Art Market 1988
  5. Portraits 1988
  6. The Arrested Movement 1988

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record