These paintings represent a cohesive body of work by Haessle in which he explores
the formal elements of color and line to create non-objective, gestural abstractions.
Vincent Falsetta, a faculty member at UNT since 1977, plans to develop paintings incorporating the concepts and
formal elements of his color studies.
«The Bay» is another example of one of her monumental paintings, again based on her love of landscape, that conveys a sense of luminosity and spontaneity, while also emphasizing
the formal elements of color and shape.
Formal elements of color and design are introduced at age appropriate levels.
Narrative is unobtrusive;
the formal elements of color, scale and space, fine drawing and unfinicky matte surfaces are a big part of the magic.
Not exact matches
Touching on
formal elements such as
color theory and Op Art, we will explore the visual effects created within works
of art including, but not limited to: pattern, repetition, design, composition, Gestalt psychology and all forms
of optical razzle dazzle that will make the cones and rods in our eyes forget which way is up.
More than other
formal elements in the visual arts — such as
color, line, or shape — scale directs attention towards the capacity
of the artwork to respond to a specific location and call into play the role
of the viewer.
The masterful process
of formal elements separates this artist from the other contemporary still life painters, placing Fish closer to the Impressionist's use
of broken
color with the aim
of building forms.
Furthermore, although his paintings are emphatically abstract (in fact, he believes in the historic inevitability
of abstraction), they are not about the relationships
of formal elements such as
color, shape and line.
Formal elements, such as
color, had to be purged
of representational allusions.
In his artwork,
formal elements such as
color, texture and the materiality
of his medium are employed as a semiotic system that can be read only through feeling.
For Fonda, the
formal qualities
of painting — the emphasis on
color, line, shape and texture — are equally as important as the conceptual
elements being interpreted on the canvas.
In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear
formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged
elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited
color palette — including the red, green, and black
of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series
of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.
The curatorial strategy thus sets up two boundaries for the work in the show: the
colors blue and black as
formal elements on the one side, and associations with the
colors black and blue — including race, bruising as a metaphor, and the specific kind
of suffering resulting from racism and racial inequality — on the other.
When one
of my students writes «Monet played with
color» or «Rembrandt played with light,» my impulse is to correct them, insisting that artists» deployment
of formal elements and manipulation
of their medium are more deliberate and thought - based than...
De Stijl sought the eradication
of non-essential
formal elements as exemplified by Piet Mondrian in his well - known grid compositions in primary
colors, black, and white.
His works consist
of strong
formal elements, such as
color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale.
How much
of a story can be communicated through the
formal elements of composition, texture,
color, and form?
In interacting with the work over a significant period
of time, we felt that that the most compelling way to structure the exhibition was to expose the common threads that run throughout this material:
formal constructs such as grids / fields, verticality, pictorial imagery, and repetitive sequences; content such as
color as subject,
element as subject, interest in early American history (particularly that
of Massachusetts), discourse about other artists and art; and relationships to the history
of poetry.
«Rothko himself was known to repudiate interpretations
of his art that isolate
formal elements such as
color or space, denying, on separate occasions, that he was primarily concerned with either
of these.
We will investigate the
formal elements of painting such as composition, space, form,
color temperature and intensity, while maintaining an appreciation for the immediacy
of the medium.
Subtle introductions
of color ground the
formal elements.
Behnke writes: «For the event, Roach brought together six abstract / non-objective painters whose works offer a dramatic contrast to their ancient surroundings even as
formal elements (grids, texture,
color and composition) are often reflected in the environment
of the crypt.
This work is from a series where I scan and and re-print images
of high end advertising to paint on them, using the composition,
color and other
formal elements already present in the image as a means to arrive at abstraction.
Of this new approach, she says, «I had to be really in tune with the materials — how paint was going to react with the canvas, how
formal elements such as
color and form were going to behave as more paint was added.»
Robert Mangold translates the most basic
of formal elements — shape, line, and
color — into paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity
of form expresses complex ideas.
Henrique Faria Fine Art is pleased to present Imagining Spaces: Constructions in
Color and Text, a group exhibition focused on the formal and thematic elements of color and text in Latin American art of the last sixty y
Color and Text, a group exhibition focused on the
formal and thematic
elements of color and text in Latin American art of the last sixty y
color and text in Latin American art
of the last sixty years.
Vital Curiosity focuses on the ways each
of these artists — who represent a diversity
of generations,
formal approaches, and experiences — seize upon
color as a dynamic, and often ineffable,
element in their abstraction.
Vibrating with hues, textures, and emotions, Humphrey's paintings demonstrated a consistent commitment to
color, space, and structure —
elements he used to move abstraction beyond
formal considerations to that
of the human experience.
Instead, some artists relied on the basic
formal elements of art — for instance, line, shape, and
color — to suggest abstract, universal concepts (love, war, music, spirit, energy).
Jason Peters» geometric sculpture, constructed from common industrial materials, playfully explores reflection and illusion, as well as the
formal elements of line and
color.
Childs»
formal interests were line and space, light and
color, and the dialogue
of contrasting
elements.
With classical restraint, Robert Mangold translates the most basic
of formal elements — shape, line, and
color — into paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity
of form expresses complex ideas.
With classical restraint, Mangold translates the most basic
of formal elements — shape, line, and
color — into paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity
of form expresses complex ideas.
Artist Robert Mangold, from his country studio in upstate New York, translates the most basic
of formal elements — shape, line, and
color — into paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity
of form expresses complex ideas.
Wright's paintings, whether abstract expressionistic or
color field, have bold
colors and compositions, gestural strokes and the essence
of drawing — through his generous use
of the
formal elements of line and the
color black.
The «Overlays» also represented a fertile moment
of formal experimentation as Semmel began exploring
coloring and transparencies, compositional
elements that she would continue to refine into her present day work.
In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental
formal elements of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas
of color; flat, two - dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape
of the canvas itself.
Both practitioners
of «deep observation»
of their surroundings, these artists employ similar artistic techniques as they explore the
formal and abstract
elements of color, shape, and light
of still life objects and landscapes.
Lundeberg's attention to
formal elements such as balance and
color connect her to a previous generation
of abstract artists, including Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Josef Albers.
A sculptural chandelier makes this scene feel a bit more
formal while cream -
color chair cushions add an
element of comfort to metal chairs.