Sentences with phrase «in poetic compositions»

At Kouros, a group of rarely seen canvases and watercolors from 1947 - 48 deals with organic, floral and undersea forms, in poetic compositions of luminous color.

In poetic compositions of vibrant color and organic form, Suzanne LaFleur evokes the serene atmosphere of summer retreat in her newest work now on display at Lawrence Fine Art through August 18.

Not exact matches

Like the other great American songwriters his poetic songs about politics, love and life are steeped in biblical imagery and spiritual themes that weave beautifully through guitars, string sections and banjos in brilliantly earthy compositions.

It would have been more poetic to choose the Tower of Pisa for his thought experiment: Galileo, in his own legendary experiments there — truly legendary, because he probably never actually did them — had shown that objects of different mass and composition are equivalent in that they undergo the same gravitational acceleration.

In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded him a special citation for «his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.»

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After juxtaposing images blown up from auction catalogues and printed in black and white on large format paper, Reed applies colorful formal shapes to the composition creating a dialogue that is dynamic as well as poetic.

For over 40 years, B. Wurtz has been transforming throwaway objects found in daily life — shoelaces, plastic bags, food containers, buttons, socks, hangers — into elegant, poetic compositions.

As Perriand's biographer Jacques Barsac explains, «the Free - Forms themselves demonstrated a poetic functionalism on the human scale in which each form was rigorously tailored to its use and its production method, while retaining a freedom of composition.»

Her poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked by lines into labyrinthine compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.

The exhibition presented a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum's collection that incorporate poetic inscriptions in their composition or have direct relationships to America's rich poetic traditions.

Wellington's compositions are rendered in a mythic and poetic vernacular and his worlds and images are loaded with layers of painted metaphor.

His compositions were admired for their decorative and poetic qualities among critics and collectors interested in a «sane» modern art.

Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286

Scanning the table of contents is like flipping through a course catalog: do you want to take Naomi Campbell's «Working Large in Watercolor,» James McElhinney's «Journal Painting and Composition,» Sharon Sprung's «Figure Painting from Life in Oil,» or Ellen Eagle's «Poetic Realism in Pastel»?

Reducing the plane to thick brushstrokes, arranged in tessellated brick red blocks, Sean Scully's Grey Red is a minimal and poetic composition from his allegorical practice.

The verdant green and cerulean blue along the bottom are complemented by the earthly tones of ruby and peach that dominate the central composition and conjure a spring sunrise, altogether resulting in a poetic and dynamic exploration of how color and form can expose the unlimited space between imagination and memory.

Employing a process in which erosion and layering simultaneously conceal and reveal his subjects, Stewen's rich compositions conflate abstraction and figuration, anonymity and biography, chance and intuition — inherent material and conceptual contradictions which bely the work's rich poetic and psychologically - charged effects on its viewer.

Although trained in philosophy, her abstract compositions contain a more poetic quality, their rhythm and warmth unbound from the rigors of formal thought and located more in sensory experience.

The exhibition presents a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum's collection that incorporate poetic inscriptions in their composition or have direct relationships to America's rich poetic traditions.

While the exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery is hardy the Dodd retrospective we needed, it does have the great virtue of giving us a concentrated account of one of the artist's most inspired inventions: the complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light to be seen in and around the windows and doorways of old Maine houses.