Not exact matches
But where Hong relentlessly deconstructs his narratives, laying bare their artifices and exposing the lonely needs that drive us to invent them, Bogdanovich the
classicist is content to faithfully recreate the
form of the old (his zooms are subtle and patient, not Hong's wild, drunken lurches), with nothing but a sly wink to the audience to remind us of the precariousness of our ideals.
Hats off to Lexus chief designer Tadao Mori, who concocted this collection of shocking - to -
classicists, nontraditional
forms and features in such a way as to make the composition agreeable to many.
The abstract
classicists painted
forms that are, in Langsner's words, «finite, flat, rimmed by a hard clean edge... not intended to evoke in the spectator any recollections of specific shapes he may have encountered in some other connection.
With all the Abstract
Classicist paintings, the balanced geometric
forms appear spare and refined, enriched by vivid colors of oil paint.
For thirty - five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to
classicist ideals: Truth, Beauty, Balance,
Form.
Taking and reinventing
classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular
forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.
The 18th century witnessed wonderful human
forms created by William Hogarth, (see also English Figurative Painting) and the academic
classicist J.A.D. Ingres - see his Valpincon Bather (1808).