Sentences with phrase «referencing organic shapes»

Referencing organic shapes, his oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and paper expertly utilize the single gesture to represent an entire form, delicately balancing soft effusions of colour against the frenetic energy of the mark.

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Enigmatic and organic, the drawings are delicately realised in graphite and ink: Osiris is shown sitting on a watery black throne; a blindfolded figure with multiple top hats takes spectral shape against a network of fine lines in a reference to the late performance artist James Lee Byars and his trademark costume.
Each artist in this exhibition demonstrates a knowledge of painting history from Apfelbaum's references to Robert Motherwell with appropriation of color fields and signifiers, to Sparks use of continually morphing organic shapes that call to the likes of Arshile Gorky.
Investigated both for its formal beauty and reference to the excess of waste in our culture, it takes the shape of makeshift shelter structures - tents, blankets, awnings, and organic forms - garish botany, mini-mountains.
Cubist paintings such as Pablo Picasso's Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 3 (1912) use geometric shapes as playful and haunting references to the organic shapes of the human body.
Henry Takemoto's (b. 1930) early works, often large, rugged, fired clay forms, were overlaid with patterns and organic shapes referencing traditional Asian ornamentation.
Its organic shape and warm honey color reference nature and serve as counterpoints to all the straight lines in the space.
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