Corales» work evokes
Constructivist painting by way of found paper collage, selecting his paper based on color and texture and eschewing materials with text and imagery.
In a way Dumas's vehicles reference polygon modalities of
Constructivist painting and the architectonic qualities of Minimalism.
They contrast or sometimes blend in, like a «where's Waldo» (where's Wally) effect, with carefully composed, stage - like settings that range from scenic landscapes to the imagined interior of
a constructivist painting.
He notes that the artist's off - kilter, hand - painted geometry — unlike the hard - edge look created by applying and peeling off tape — places him in «a tradition that goes back to early abstract painting by Mondrian and Malevich,» adding, «I see his ties with
Constructivist painting.»
Wager's series of
constructivist paintings and sculptures, Requiem for the Emblem of Power, commemorates the centenary of the end of the First World War.
Some historical examples of categorical risk will serve to clarify my term: the first cubist, futurist,
constructivist paintings; Duchamp's signed urinal or his bicycle wheel; Pollock's drip paintings; Yves Klein's jump, but also Allan Kaprow's Happenings and Joseph Beuys» lectures.
Elsewhere Costa has deployed coloured polythene bags (rubbish and recycling sacks from different London boroughs) to create geometrical wall pieces akin to
Constructivist paintings; while in a series of small - scale paintings, he combines the methods and motifs of embroidery, collage and cartoons Quoting artistic precursors in seemingly degraded materials or formats, Costa playfully interrogates the «real value» of works of art, addressing the question of how unspectacular or even desultory materials might transmute into an art object and vice versa.
Not exact matches
According to
constructivist theory (Vygotsky, 1978), by drawing, drafting, sculpting, constructing,
painting, and creating, students develop disciplinary thinking habits.
It's
painted in bright colors, but there is something worn, dated and Soviet
constructivist about the building.
1992 Theodore Roszak: The Drawings, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Theodore Roszak,
Constructivist Works, 1931 - 1947:
Paintings, Constructions, Drawings, Photograms, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY Theodore Roszak:
Constructivist Works, 1931 - 1944, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In 1953, he joined the Parisian
constructivist group Groupe Espace, which encouraged a synthetic relationship between art and architecture, leading Arcay to abandon easel
painting for mural
painting a few years later.
Originally trained in architecture, he began
painting in 1989 as a
Constructivist.
In 1921,
Constructivist artist Alexander Rodchenko exhibited three
paintings together, each a monochrome of one of the three primary colours.
Inspired by Malevich,
Constructivist artist and photographer Alexandr Rodchenko decided that he should
paint some of his own monochrome
paintings, but with a very different goal in mind.
In 1974, Harold Rosenberg, one of Saul Steinberg's earliest and most eloquent supporters, wrote that «Cubism... which in the canon of the American art historian is the nucleus of twentieth - century formal development in
painting, sculpture and drawing, is to Steinberg merely another detail in the pattern of modern mannerisms; in a landscape, he finds no difficulty in combining Cubist and
Constructivist elements with an imitation van Gogh «self - portrait.
Though her
paintings may at first glance evoke the
Constructivist or Cubist tendencies of the avant - garde of yesteryear, the newly minted art star Avery Singer's
paintings are in fact eminently contemporary, utilizing Photoshop and Google SketchUp to render figures in the current idiom of blocky avatars and clear gradients.
From the outset his art was based on space and a
constructivist organisation, which led to works of great formal rigour, where drawing,
painting and sculpture were integrated into a spatial dimension that was architectural in scope.
Nora Griffin draws on an array of diverse sources, including film theory,
constructivist art, the late works of Philip Guston and the unruly colored frame
paintings of Howard Hodgkin.
HV: Few people think of Still as a sculptor, but the two works in your show look surprisingly Modernist (perhaps even Expressionist or
Constructivist) and little like his
paintings of the same period.
At times, the sculptures draw the threads of peripheral narratives together with the
paintings, appearing as familiar, nearly generic stand - ins for
constructivist assemblage, reminiscent of El Lissitsky or Naum Gabo.
Beyond being a satisfying structure in its own right, the picture echoes Picasso's and Braque's invention of collage, the pileup of rectangles and grids in
Constructivist abstraction and the trompe - l'oeil lineage in 19th century American
painting.
[6] Between 1964 and 1966, Palermo produced a small series of
paintings on canvas in which he experimented with
constructivist principles of order.
Decadent, rhythmically complex and personal, the works engage with art historical references such as color field
painting, gestural abstraction and
constructivist collage.
Earlier this week, the gallery quietly opened «
Constructivist Dialogues in the Cuban Vanguard,» a group show that exhibits Sánchez's
paintings alongside work by two of her countrywomen, the late Amelia Peláez and the late Loló Soldevilla.
«The Russians, especially the
constructivists, wanted to lay to rest the notion of the set as an easel
painting read large,» explained Blake.
Looking at these triptychs, one might have thought for a moment of Aleksandr Rodchenko's iconoclastic Pure Red Color, Pure Yellow Color, Pure Blue Color of 1921, except that where the Russian
Constructivist's work was meant to boil down
painting to its primary colors, what the artist called its «logical conclusion,» Levine's wooden panels are invested in
painting's history: The color of each is derived from the digital averaging of the hues in one of Renoir's many zaftig yet jaundiced nudes.
Paintings by the early Australian modernist Roy De Maistre, for example, share a space with a series of pieces by the young Dutch artist Riet Wijnen, whose interest in «the impossibility» of pure abstraction has led her to create a fictional dialogue between Grace Crowley (also a pioneering early Australian modernist), and the British
constructivist Marlow Moss.
Berenice Arvani from São Paulo opted for a staging of historical
paintings and works on paper by João José Costa, one of the lesser - known members of Grupo Frente (1954 — 56) that paved the way for the
constructivist movement in Brazil.
«MKNZM (Mechanism)» is comprised of the artist's signature
constructivist, graffuturist aesthetic, the show includes collage on wood,
painting on canvas, and etched found clipboards.
Other works are still on schedule including a 1963 silkscreen
painting by Robert Rauschenberg, offered at $ 8.5 million, and Dan Flavin's neon sculpture named after Russian
constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin and valued at $ 2.5 million.
The resulting
Constructivist - inspired imagery is contrasted with the Los Angeles conceptualist's monochromatic
paintings that he makes by stretching green book cloth over aluminum panels.
In the 1930s and 1940s, he
painted constructivist landscapes and still lifes in distinct colors.
The blending of both
painted and sculpted vocabularies creates interest in her works, as it does in the wall sculptures by Sonia Gomes, which twist around in a kind of three - dimensional drawing akin to some of the early
Constructivist open - form sculptures.
In addition to a few seminal essays like Lewitt's «Paragraphs on Conceptual Art» (1967), would you say that 12 Dialogues with Frampton was one of the earliest attempts to deal with the loaded legacy of New York School
painting, the ramifications of Duchamp's work, and the revived interest in
Constructivist aesthetics?
Four exquisite
paintings by abstract American artist Robert Kelly will be exhibited alongside, establishing a dialogue between the Russian
Constructivist tradition and American contemporary art.
In both his three - dimensional reliefs and two - dimensional «flat
paintings,» he united the crisp, disciplined line of his
Constructivist heritage with the expressive brushwork that characterized Bay Area
painting at that time.
Every picture becomes grist for the painter's cubistic mill, acting as building blocks in a new
constructivist aesthetic, in which anything can be juxtaposed against anything else, and in which genealogical history dies in order to be reborn as pure production, as pure
painting.»
Kelly's rational and formal style of
painting is drawing on the Russian
Constructivist tradition, in particular Kazimir Malevich, as well as Piet Mondrian of the De Stijl movement, in addition to artists from abstract movements such as Jean Arp, Richard Diebenkorn and Ellsworth Kelly, among others; all are known for working skilfully with simple shapes and lines.
Situated neither within
Constructivist nor Minimalist movements, his pared - down vocabulary of lines and squares, refined colour palette and precise measurements nevertheless positioned Calderara closely with other minimalist painters at the time, including Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers, both of whom the artist admired greatly.Such singular geometric lyricism came to the fore in Calderara's seminal work
Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e Ret
Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract
painting, Quadrati e Ret
painting, Quadrati e Rettangoli.
I realized then that Reinhardt had come out of the European geometric tradition, and that the black
paintings to which his
constructivist trajectory had led were not manifestations of Dadaist nihilism or even Abstract Expressionist anxiety, but the logical conclusion of that purist tradition.
After the war, Peter Lanyon (1918 - 64) emerged from
constructivist roots to an engagement with Cornwall which sought to use abstract
painting as a method to capture his bodily experience of the landscape — in his words, «I
paint placeness».
As well as
paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova,
Constructivist pioneer Vladimir Stenberg and Kazimir Malevich, he also possesses over 700 works of Suprematist porcelain, 100 of them designed by Malevich.
The origins of Op Art go back to pre-war
painting theories, including the
constructivist ideas of the 1920s Bauhaus design school in Germany, which stressed the importance of the overall formal design, in creating a specific visual effect.
Artist: David LeCheminant Title: Passage Size: 29.5 W x 25H x 8D (inches) Medium: Carved,
Painted & Assembled Wood Colors: Black, Charcoal, Burnished Wood Tags: Modern Wood Sculpture / Black Wooden Art / Geometric
Constructivist Sculpture / Abstract Expressionism / Louise Nevelson Inspired Style / Genre: Modern Expressionism Subject: Abstract Detail: Free - standing dimensional wood sculpture with open wood baseRead more
The 30 - by -22-inch
painting might be a design for a
constructivist pool table featuring six triangular pockets and a central diamond - shaped bumper.
It is all here: from Kandinsky's first abstract
paintings to Tatlin's ghostly flying machines to Lyubov Popova's
constructivist textile designs.
In his recent
paintings Dolla has again departed from his generally abstract / conceptual practice to create a series of large - scale, boldly decorative allegorical canvases that pair process - oriented technique and a
Constructivist visual style.
Constructivist furniture and decor accessories, combined with suprematist artworks, wall
paintings, home decorations and floor decor items...