Sentences with phrase «abstract compositions by»

A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.

Contemporary artists like Shinique Smith or Yinka Shonibare who use bundled discarded garments or African textiles respectively also relate, as do recent «it is what it is» explorations of simple and symmetrical abstract compositions by Josh Smith or Joe Bradley.

This exhibit features abstract compositions by the California - raised, Bavaria - based artist.

There are moments of great figuration, but also fabulous abstract compositions by artists who are dealing with both of those issues at the same time.»

«Across the Tisch collection there are moments of great figuration, but also fabulous abstract compositions by artists who are dealing with figuration and abstraction at the same time»

[1] A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.

He also recently began to make abstract compositions by manipulating the effects of light on photo - sensitive paper.

Most of the photographs Quaytman has selected are by unknown photographers, except an abstract composition by Jay DeFeo made by manipulating photographic chemicals on light - sensitive paper.

Not exact matches

Like the work of Wassily Kandinsky or certain pieces by Gerhard Richter, Pepperell's paintings, which sometimes take the composition of older masterpieces (see images here and here), are not entirely abstract but neither can they be readily interpreted like a representational painting.

Deeply informed by the theory and practice of mid-twentieth-century abstraction, post-minimalism, and process art, Leonardo Drew's formally abstract but emotionally charged compositions reflect his labor - intensive manipulation and composition of materials.

Through color alone — applied to suspended rectangles within abstract compositions — Rothko's work evokes strong emotions ranging from exuberance and awe to despair and anxiety, suggested by the hovering and indeterminate nature of his forms.»

The Berkeley series, produced between 1953 and 1956, is marked by radiant color, strong compositions and gestural brushwork that maintain a sense of landscape through their abstract composition.

He is renowned for his invention of wire sculpture — coined by critics as «drawings in space» — and the mobile, a kinetic sculpture of suspended abstract elements whose actual movement creates ever - changing compositions.

In her canvases of the late 1950s onwards, American artist Helen Frankenthaler translated landscape into abstract compositions characterised by flooding colour and increasingly large scale.

Tseng has spent a great deal of time studying works by abstract painters, exploring in depth both their compositions and their «mark - making.»

When one first encounters the prints by composer and artist John Cage, the lines, circles, and doodles that intermittently dot the pages could be described as simply abstract compositions.

His abstract canvases employed rigid geometric compositions in order to emphasize the optical effects set off by his chosen color palettes.

Using a palette of the same four colors, Cranston reworks an abstract painting by one of the key figures in Modernism, Swiss / French artist, architect and designer Charles - Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) in six variations, identical in form and composition but in different color combinations.

But, though these abstract compositions are not conventional landscapes, his sense of shape and light is influenced by the three places he knows best: Ireland, his birthplace in 1945 and the homeland of his parents; north London, where he grew up and went to art school; and New York, where today he mainly lives and works, now a US citizen.

This selection of early paintings documents a conceptual shift in the artist's work as the landscape imagery offered by earlier paintings begins to incorporate and is consumed by the symbol - laden abstract compositions that would become a recurring theme throughout his career.

Becky Yazdan's small paintings have become incrementally more abstract over the four years or so since I first saw her work, but they remain anchored by precise composition, balanced line, and subtle choice of color.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

Sandra Blow RA created «thrilling harmonies» with bold colours and abstract compositions inspired by the Kent countryside and trips to Rome and St Ives.

When viewed as a whole, these bold areas of light and color coalesce into an organic, abstract composition that is inspired by the view of the Palisades from Wave Hill.

With more than 30 major paintings, the exhibition follows Aho on his artistic journey from dramatic images of the New England landscape to energetic, freely brushed abstract compositions inspired by his responses to nature.

Art in America: Robert Baribeau 1980 - NOW, Reviewed by David Ebony This recent show of Robert Baribeau's colorful, richly textured abstract compositions at first appeared as an amalgam of postwar painting styles.

Her layered compositions consist of silhouetted figures and body parts (produced either by tracing the prone bodies of friends or by using the anatomical rubber stamps utilized by physicians and dentists), stencils of tools and machine cogs, and proliferating dots and abstract designs, all deployed to allusive and pictorially complex effect.

Indeed her works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.

But by tying these swishes, daubs and splotches to spilled juice and wasabi sauce, what would otherwise be abstract compositions are suddenly snatched away from the world of formalism and the unconscious and given direct, overt meanings.

By painting artistic interpretations of images used in an official systematic code, Mizù has created artworks that are concretely representational, in that they can be read and thus retain their original coded meaning, yet are also whimsically abstract geometric compositions.

These seemingly abstract markings are layered to recreate compositions by 18th century artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

In this abstract quadriptych composition by Harry S. Mintz, the artist demonstrates vigorous decisiveness within an essentially equivocal expressive language, painting.

This second display starts with an ink and pencil drawing Erotic Composition (1967 - 70), by Lebanese artist Huguette Caland which is a study for the abstract, sensual paintings of the body that she created later on in her career.

It is first explored in two dimensions, by the abstract geometry combined together to form vivid compositions on the surface of each work.

Along with his friends de Kooning and John D. Graham, Gorky created biomorphically shaped and abstracted figurative compositions that by the 1940s evolved into totally abstract paintings.

Today, photographers are still interested in creating abstract compositions, this time aided by refined camera technology and software programs.

The candies are interwoven into almost abstract jungles in Kurt's monumental compositions, and she maintains a deep earthy palette dominated by blacks, browns and reds — a moodier alternative to her contemporaries similarly dealing with food like Wayne Thiebaud or Claes Oldenburg.

A believer in numerology, astrology, and faith healing, Pelton's abstract compositions propelled her into an esoteric world epitomized by the Transcendental Painting Group (1938 - 1942), a short - lived group that promoted abstract, non-objective art.

The process by which Nelson comes to a two - sided work involves a delving into material with the faith that an image or desirable abstract composition will surface.

In his abstract paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, expressionistic color and brushwork intersect with patterns, shapes, and pictographic forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design.

Rauschenberg moved on to make his most perfectly abstract works since the white paintings more than 20 years before: the «Jammers,» bannerlike geometrical compositions — often supported by rattan poles — that used gorgeously dyed monochromatic silks and other fabrics he'd found while visiting India.

Amplifying the poetics of the everyday, the marginal and the overlooked, Fyfe increasingly repurposes found materials — a child's kite, a discarded sign, or an abandoned banner — into his near - abstract compositions that are informed as much by serendipity as they are by any kind of high - minded formalism.

Hayuk is known for her massively scaled abstract murals characterized by intricate patterns, symmetrical compositions and super bright colors.

By assembling fragments of different broken plates, Smith discovers accidental «readymade» compositions to work within; the geometric patterns on the plates also function as vehicles for him to explore formal compositional ideas more regularly discussed in purely abstract works.

Including an original composition by guitarist Marisa Anderson and incorporating constrained writing and abstract cartoons that decompose frame by frame, the work refuses a single mode, method, or explanatory thesis.

Abstraction hides the complexity of an object by means of composition while with abstract painting the main goal is to be non-representational.

The red - and - black compositions are the approximate shape and material of a standard street sign, but feature abstract visual language intended to delight and inspire passers by.

In the following few years, she regularly showed internationally and began to pick up prizes, such as a top award, the 1963 Corcoran Biennial, selected by a jury including Conrad Marca - Relli, whose own patchwork abstract canvas compositions might recall aspects of Bontecou's sculptures.

Topographical points of reference shift in and out of focus in Bradford's abstract compositions, characterized by ruptures, fractures and incisions that echo the social disruption that followed when interstate highways ripped through communities like Bradford's own in south central Los Angeles.

Suzanne McClelland's expressive abstract compositions are inspired by the relationship between numerical measurements and the body.