Sentences with phrase «german urban artist»

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Beyond his local and often urban focus, the California - born artist's tight pictorial arrangements, lyrical use of colour and smart incorporations of text reveal a deep awareness of art history, stirring up references from Goya to Matisse, German Expressionism to Jean - Michel Basquiat.

Another German artist, Clemens von Wedemeyer, even manages to restage Laurel and Hardy as a parable of commercial sales and urban desecration.

One of the greatest photographers of the postmodern age, the German camera artist Andreas Gursky specializes in large - format panoramic urban landscape and architectural compositions, often digitally manipulated, featuring apartment blocks, skyscrapers, sports grounds, streets, squares, and the like.

German street artist (check out the Widewalls list of 10 German street and urban artists) 1010 (take a look at the 1010 Print Release: Abyss 49) has become well known for his eye catching «portal» designs that play on the eye and the mind, creating optical illusions on a grand scale (read the Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings article about one of the masters of creating optical art, Bridget Riley or check the work of Levalet in this Levalet: Bagages article that uses optical illusions in a different way) that turn the sides of flat buildings into an abyss that one could simply walk into as the layers of colour and carefully constructed shadows vanish into a dark centre that hypnotically draw you in (explore the mind blowing optical illusions of Julie Oppermann in this The Intense Afterimage article).