Sentences with phrase «mondrian grid painting»
It began in 2016 as her contribution to a group exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, where it consisted of an architectural space resembling a three - dimensional Mondrian grid painting arrayed with various items.
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Additionally, Tyler's paintings are reminiscent of the work from past artists such as the simplified geometric grids of Piet Mondrian's later work, color field paintings of Mark Rothko and the early abstract expressionistic work by Philip Guston.
Russian Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich furthered this flatness by placing flat colorful shapes on pure white backgrounds in his works, and De Stijl painter Piet Mondrian painted flat grids in red, blue, yellow, white, and black.
Early Mondrian: Painting 1900 - 1905 (W1, to 23 Jan) looks at the work that came before the Dutch artist's conception of the De Stijl style's pared - down abstraction, and prior to the move to New York that facilitated his fascination with the grid as a form.
Mondrian's signature artistic innovation was his geometric, nonobjective painting, characterized by a white ground, a black grid, and red, yellow, and blue rectangular forms.
Piet Mondrian gave each of his grids an obsessive balance, and yet the balance constantly shifts from painting to painting.
It also recalls Arshile Gorky's «Child's Companions» (1945), Mondrian's balanced black and coloured subdivisions in the last grid paintings with a generosity of white galaxies, and Kandinsky and Joan Miro's ability to seemingly levitate flat forms.
The opportunity to see key early works such as The Red Mill (1911), alongside some of the acclaimed grid paintings with which Mondrian is particularly associated.
During this period Piet Mondrian's painting Composition No. 10, 1939 — 1942, characterized by primary colors, white ground and black grid lines clearly defined his radical but classical approach to the rectangle and abstract art in general.
The dense, small - scale paintings included in this exhibition mark a highly prolific period in Mondrian's engagement with figurative landscape painting — an early but deeply significant stage in the artist's methodical progression from naturalistic representation to complete grid - based abstraction.
My early grids, including paintings and collage, were inspired by four artists I admire: Paul Klee (Swiss German, 1979 - 1940), Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872 - 1944)-- we always remember Broadway Boogie Woogie, Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923 - 2015) and Gerhard Richter (German, born 1932).
He initially studied engineering, but then switched to painting, attracted by the grid - based abstract works of Piet Mondrian.
Some of the pieces are comprised entirely of the strata and become an absence of painting, like a Mondrian grid, stripped of all idealization, with open space instead of blocks of color.
In 1912, Mondrian began to create his «compositions,» paintings constituted by grids of horizontal and vertical black lines in three primary colors.
Famous modern abstract paintings include Wassily Kandinsky's «Composition VII» (1913), Joan Miro's «The Birth of the World» (1925), Jackson Pollock's «Number 1A, 1948» (1948), and Piet Mondrian's series of mostly white, black, red, blue, and yellow grids.
In the 1970s, Moses began working with diagonal, perpendicular lines, such as in The Red One (1976), creating grid - like paintings that recalled a more painterly Mondrian.
The show's most beautiful image is a form of continuity unto itself: a wall of Mondrian's New York studio, where paintings, shelves and tacked - up squares of color form an irregular grid of grays so subtly modulated they might as well be colored.
Well - known photographs of artists and artworks are the originals for Fischer's detailed graphite - on - paper copies; his recent show included dozens of variations on twentieth - century portraiture, including Cindy Sherman in an untitled film still; Piero Manzoni grinning and holding a can of Artist's Shit; Robert Gober nearly unrecognizable in a wedding gown; Piet Mondrian in his tidy smock calmly regarding a grid painting; and Jean - Michel Basquiat sitting on one of his crate constructions.
At a time when a new generation of abstract artists experiences the grids of Mondrian not as spiritual threshholds but as prison bars, the exhibition reminds us what was at stake when a handful of artists in different parts of Europe first painted without reference to the external world.
Although the incorporation of the grid has been seen before from Attic Vase painting to Mondrian's paintings, Gottlieb's Pictographs differ in the artist's arbitrary use of choice and imagery.
Smith's visual structure extends the legacy of Modernism yet also perverts, by degrees, the order in, say, Mondrian's grid paintings.
In the early 1970s, Noland introduced a grid structure into his paintings, reminiscent of Mondrian.
Cropped by the frames, reordered by the sashes, the images in her paintings form a Mondrian - like grid that may reflect, or look out upon, additional windows in view.
In his paintings of the late 1930s, Cavallon often employed a loose grid structure, which led critics to suggest an interest in Mondrian; yet Cavallon was more concerned with light and evocations of landscape than with the strict formal structure of the Dutch master.
Going back to Mondrian for a minute, the Broadway Boogie Woogie painting that stuck out in your head is laid out like a grid, referencing the city landscape.
On the other wall from Lasker's works hang those of Swiss - born Olivier Mosset, who practises an ironical and exhausted high modernism, painting flat and uninflected grids and cruciform shapes vaguely reminiscent of paintings by Mondrian or Malevich.