Sentences with phrase «abstract calligraphic»

For another artist who is noted for a similar abstract calligraphic style of painting, see: Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011).

In a similar vein, Dan Flavin's Sailing Across Gardiner's Bay Near Lionhead Beach (lithograph, 1982) uses abstract calligraphic impulses to picture the mast of a sailboat seemingly perched precariously atop the crest of a wave, conjuring a dramatic sense of frailty and motion through an effective use of negative space.

Not exact matches

Starting around 1947, a recurring theme was abstracted processions of sometimes calligraphic figures such as the ink on paper «Untitled (Procession)» (circa 1965).

His most recent works come in a variety of mediums, including a mix of calligraphic and abstract paintings, as well as landscape photography.

Lewis» work then moved into what Fine described as «a very calligraphic period, where the use of line in fairly abstract terms for me reflects his interest in music.»

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

Bud Hopkin's Untitled uses calligraphic elements reminiscent of Chinese kanchi (which are totally abstract to us, the non-Chinese readers, but what about the Chinese?)

Tobey is most notable for his creation of so - called «white writing» - an overlay of white or light - colored calligraphic symbols on an abstract field which is often itself composed of thousands of small and interwoven brush strokes.

Chang's earliest works were commissioned portraits, however, in the late 1950s, he stopped using brushes in favor of using his body to make abstract paintings that were at once gestural and calligraphic.

These new works include several of Osborne's abstracted, almost calligraphic, landscapes.

The artist's most recent abstract works on canvas and plywood feature gestural lines influenced by calligraphic writing.

In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).

During the late 1980s Brice Marden, who held a spiritual / emotional view of abstraction, began a more multi-colored and calligraphic form of abstract painting.

«I was trying to get that abstract, calligraphic line and all I needed was this section of bittersweet.

In identifying different qualities of abstraction, it helps to know that a calligraphic drive is evident in Valerie Mankoff's abstract work, which has a mannerist, stylized signature.

Calligraphic elements and their emphasis on expressiveness and asymmetry have always been the most prevalent aspect of Asian art apparent in the work of abstract expressionists such as deKooning, Francis, Tobey and Kline.

Elements of symbolism, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt, decorate the composition with abstract markings and calligraphic gestural brushwork.

Visually, the works included in this exhibition are densely calligraphic and generally abstract.

Originally curated in 1984 by Jeffrey Deitch (Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) at Leila Heller's former uptown gallery, Calligraffiti explored a myriad of possible connections shared between the seemingly disparate styles of select mid-century abstract, U.S. graffiti, and calligraphic artists from the Middle East and its diaspora.

Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist influences of abstract expressionism with traditional calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.

Weber framed her within the calligraphic circles of her own abstract sculpture that echo the spiral letter O of her OK pin.

Best known for monumental canvases that built on the foundations of action painting and abstract expressionism, his own fearless sense of color, vocabulary of fluid marks and calligraphic strokes became his signature.

Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letterbased work from gestural, abstract, calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.

Mark Tobey, American painter whose individual experiments with abstract, calligraphic work influenced subsequent art trends, especially Abstract Expressionism.

Mark Tobey, (born December 11, 1890, Centerville, Wisconsin, U.S. — died April 24, 1976, Basel, Switzerland), American painter whose individual experiments with abstract, calligraphic work influenced subsequent art trends, especially Abstract Expressionism.

Her first solo exhibition, in 1971, at Galerie Claire Brambach in Basel, was organized by the American abstract painter Mark Tobey, whose own works incorporated calligraphic - like marks (and who, incidentally, had converted to the Baha'i faith in 1931).

When working in this technique, Tobey would place white calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.

Although not calligraphic in a conventional sense, he draws the words in this series as much as writes them, in some cases surrounding them with intricately hatched textures to create a kind of abstract illuminated manuscript.

Concrete Alphabets is a group exhibition that brings together 6 contemporary artists working in the medium of analog painting, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of letter - based work from gestural, abstract, calligraphic, hieroglyphic, and more.

Rostarr has built a extensive oeuvre of abstract polymorphic paintings, totemic iconographic characters and mostly black and white calligraphic drawings.

Near - abstract tree shapes also incorporate his calligraphic marks, with branches constructed from imaginary letters.

Always trying to escape the limitations of medium, form and style, the artist's creations are quite unique pieces of mostly black and white calligraphic drawings and abstract sculptures.

He followed this up in 1975 with a new series of dense, richly coloured abstract paintings, and later, with a series of mostly white calligraphic - style compositions.

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

Abstract Expressionism also provoked avant - garde responses from several other artists including Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011), whose calligraphic scribbling is part - drawing, part - graffiti; and the Californian abstract sculptor Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933) noted for his large scale iron / steel sculptures.

Chu Teh - Chun: Nature Lives with Me @ Waddington Custot Chinese artist Chu Teh - Chun combines both Eastern and Western styles in his abstract landscape paintings, so we get calligraphic and Romantic elements blending seamlessly in his richly coloured imagined lands.

The exhibition represents a narration of some of Parlá's most significant life experiences embodied in expressive calligraphic abstractions, some kind of journal that recounts everything from his childhood memories to his extensive travels around the world told through his «method of conceptual and abstract storytelling» and that in many ways have shaped his art.

Marcus integrated a large number of the central developments of abstract painting into his work over the years, including large - scale calligraphic gestures and the employment of chance - elements, particularly drip - motifs.

Executed in a muted beige palette, the abstract painting features meandering processions of calligraphic figures.

When it comes to his interpretation of this approach, Tobey was known to place very light calligraphic marks and symbols on the top of a darker abstract background, creating a strong and dynamic contrast.

Strongly influenced by pop art, graffiti, and the calligraphic art, Fridriks» hyperkinetic abstract paintings are filled with swirls of vibrant color, address serious and rather worrying environmental and political issues such as genetic research, cloning, overconsumption and exhaustion of natural resources.

Katrin Fridriks has gained huge notoriety internationally with her unique style of abstract painting on canvas and paper, with her eclectic mix of colors that fuse the natural energies of her native Iceland — fire, water, earth and air — with contemporary pop art, graffiti and calligraphic references.

«Scrolls, Ladders, Books & Rings» is the title of this exhibition by Hazel Frankel, whose abstract works combine collage, painting and the calligraphic mark, often suggesting huge landscapes and cityscapes in the process of destruction.

Tworkov's figures range from minimal, loose and calligraphic to busy, fragmented and abstracted interpretions of the human form.

Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

The sense of landscape predominates in these dense, calligraphic canvases, and in 1954 Life magazine appropriately used the term «abstract landscape» in association with his work.

Merging an ink - and - wash, and calligraphic style with a western abstract aesthetic, Chinese artist Qin Feng re-interprets the age - old medium of ink painting infusing it with a new life and colour.

Others include the calligraphic painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) and the American tachist Sam Francis (1923 - 94), as well as the St Ives abstract artist Patrick Heron (1920 - 99).

In his more abstract «Speicher» works, Ross painstakingly covers canvases, aluminium and sheets of drawing paper with calligraphic networks of lines and pattern that develop organically in a repetitive and for Ross something of a meditative process.