Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
1999•48m•Released
Documentary
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it is on the other hand still considered an elitist or hermetic language by audiences intimidated by its lack of recognizable subject matter. Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative path for contemporary artists of all generations, many of whom embrace it as the most inclusive and fundamentally resonant of artistic languages. Filmed at the artists' studios, the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum during their exhibition, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century."
Director
Michael Blackwood
Writer
Sasha Newman
Studio
Michael Blackwood Productions
Cast
Helmut Federle
Himself
Günther Förg
Himself
Jonathan Lasker
Himself
Robert Mangold
Himself
Brice Marden
Himself
Gerhard Richter
Himself
Richard Serra
Himself
Philip Taaffe
Himself
Günter Umberg
Himself
Production
Company
Michael Blackwood Productions
Producer
Michael Blackwood
Recommended
8.3
Stop Making Sense
1984
7.2
180° South
2010
8.5
Everybody’s Everything
2019
7.8
Jodorowsky's Dune
2013
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
7.6
42 Up
1999
6.5
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010
7.2
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
6.8
Frida
2024
7.5
McQueen
2018
7
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
9.4
Nude
2017
7
Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds
2025
7.9
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
7.5
Crumb
1995
7.1
Stan Lee
2023
7.6
35 Up
1991
7.4
Love, Antosha
2019
6.9
Justin Bieber's Believe
2013
6.1
Room 237
2012
Similar Movies
4.3
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
1969
Bloodlines: The Art and Life of Vincent Castiglia
2018
7.2
The Lost Leonardo
2021
Gutierres
2015
A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's
1984
Empire of the Nude: The Victorian Nude
2001
10
Being and Becoming Chua Ek Kay
2012
Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman
2007
Antonio López: apuntes del natural
2019
7
Picturing the Presidents
2009
6
The Mona Lisa Myth
2014
7
Ich lebe in der Gegenwart - Versuch über Hans Richter
1973
6
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
2017
Albert Anker. Malstunden bei Raffael
2022
The Starry Hours
0
6.2
I, Claude Monet
2017
6
The Great Museum
2014
7
Leonardo Da Vinci The Tragic Pursuit of Perfection
1953
Rezonancia
1998
Las Muralistas: Our Walls, Our Stories
2022