What is Carborundum?
Carborundum is the trademark name for silicon carbide crystals used as an abrasive material in sandpaper, cutting tools and grinding wheels. Artists originally used the substance for grinding lithography stones, but collagraph prints use it to create texture and tone gradients.
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Georg Jiri Dokoupil
Goldblau, 2018
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Carborundum
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Antoni Clave
La Gloire Des Rols I, 1975
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Carborundum
EUR 1,130
Otto Piene
Zyklop Gelb, 1984
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EUR 2,400
Antoni Clave
Untitled, 1970
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Carborundum
EUR 1,130
Antoni Clave
El guant, 1971
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Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1988
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USD 21,000 - 30,000
Jasper Johns
Untitled, 1988
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Carborundum
USD 41,000 - 45,000
French abstract painting style that gained popularity between 1940-1950. It is often interpreted as a European equivalent of abstract expressionism. There are however, stylistic differences between the two art types. Tachisme was initially part of Art Informel which in favor of more intuitive expression, left geometric abstraction. Tachisme came as a reaction to artworks of Cubism. However, it is closely related to Informalism.
Descriptive term that characterizes abstract painting type that has a close relationship with Abstract Expressionism and has been in use from 1940s to date. Lyrical abstraction may also be used to describe two distinct but related trends in the aftermath of second world war modernist artwork(painting in specific). This art movement was born in Paris, France after war.
Chinese Contemporary art is characterized by a profusion of styles and experimental tendencies. Avant- garde exhibitions in the 1980s were closed by government officials, while 1990s political pop and cynical realism emerged. China’s One Child policy also inspired the individual as subject matter.
