Sentences with phrase «cubist structure»

It is evident in a painting such as Auxerre that Hofmann has formulated a new kind of painterly expression, one in which he incorporates the Cubist structure of overlapping planes in order to indicate depth and surface, as well as adapting the Fauvist daring use of color and tonal contrasts to evoke a sense of pure and unbridled joy.

His obsession with Cézanne wasn't about learning a style or how to make a proto - cubist structure.

With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.

The unstable expanses implied by these physical differences, reinforced by rich chromatic relationships ranging from abrupt to nuanced, remind us that Frankenthaler frequently described herself as «a spacemaker» and always insisted that the most fundamental aspect of her work was the understanding of Cubist structure instilled in her by her earliest teachers, who included Paul Feeley, at Bennington, and an Australian Cubist, Wallace Harrison.

While working on several murals for the Federal Art Project, Davis tried to find alternatives to traditional Cubist structure.

The 1956 - 57 oil «Ode to Thelonious» (as in jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk) applies Cubist structure to nothing but vaporous, colored space.

Abstract Expressionism was the hybrid fruit of Gorky's synthetic efforts, as Irving Sandler wrote, to «fuse Synthetic Cubist structure with Surrealist atmosphere and biomorphism.»

Rail: When I look at the reproduction of the painting «Four Children,» the feeling for the simplicity of form, which suggests the potential for monumentality, and the way you invent the diagonal and horizontal lines around the figures, function like cubist structure.

Not exact matches

They still rely on a flattened cubist spatial structure but on a much larger scale and with light flooding the canvases and brush marks recalling American art of the heroic post-war days; recalling, in fact, his own heroic days, for despite an increasingly sure technique, these later works are quieter, blander even, than the assertive and clamorous combines of his early maturity.

Influenced by the works and writings of Wassily Kandinsky (1866 — 1944), Knaths became interested in music and believed that there were correspondences between musical intervals and spatial proportions, a theory that suited his cubist pictorial structure.

When Abstract Expressionists imposed a Cubist grid, they gained in formal structure.

Picabia's statement can be allied to the new building with its hyper modern, cubist - like geometrical structure.

The irony is that McNeil arrived at a style of his own by rejecting the Cubist scaffolding that provided structure to so many modernist paintings of the first half of the 20th century.

The gift of 79 excellent Cubist paintings, drawings and sculptures received from Leonard A. Lauder last year, was certainly an opportunity to ponder over the improved structure that would present the existing collection more effectively and lure more donated works of art from collectors and donors.

He was strongly influenced by the singular structures and figurative canvases of cubist painters such as Picasso and Cezanne.

He confronts the viewer with cubist face structures, opaque masks of shapes that at first glance nothing to do with the genre with «Face — Off» have to do the portrait.

At heart there seems to be a kinship with Bonnard's or Braque's sense for visual structuring, but where the Post-Impressionist and Cubist were deeply involved in the intersection of capturing light and composition, Caivano seems more involved in a journey of creating pictures and working in the space between abstraction and representation.

He was impressed by the strong structure of Cubist painting, but declared that it lacked life when compared to Futurist art.

His work of the early 1940s reveals Renaissance structure and order being fused with Cubist simplification.

Under the influence of the Cubist painter Albert Gleizes (1881 - 1953), during a painting trip to Bermuda with Hartley, Demuth introduced the first signs of architectonic structure into his compositions - inspired also, no doubt, by his previous Parisian studies of Cezanne.

At Bennington College, Vermont, she was infused with the spirit of cubism, and it was cubist space and structure that shaped her work even in her most apparently casual arrangements of colour.