Both practitioners of «deep observation» of their surroundings, these artists employ similar artistic techniques as they explore the formal and
abstract elements of color, shape, and light of still life objects and landscapes.
Hodler's experimentation with
the abstract elements of color, line and expression created a vibrant new mode of Swiss art at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Not exact matches
That is why the most famous fashion houses and brands have demonstrated many plaid coat designs and the variety
of patterns is huge — they can be small and large, in different
colors or dark
colors, with strict lines or
abstract elements.
Sultan writes: «used the
elements of cartooning ---- bold
colors, simple shapes, black outlines ---- to create vivid and inventive
abstract paintings.
Among a new generation
of abstract painters who emerged combining
color field painting with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new
elements of complex space and surface into their works.
Like the best
abstract painters, Guérin's Corbett vs. Dempsey solo show, bunker, can be enjoyed purely off
of its aesthetic
elements; the soft, unassuming
color palette, which is inviting but never distracts from the real arresting
element, the glorious mastery
of shape, the seamless and unsettling - uncanny, maybe, is best?
Using
elements of color, text, and
abstract symbolism the artists created iconic representations
of the people and issues that defined the time.
We typically associate Milton Avery «s style with fauvist seascapes, quiet domestic interior scenes where people with blue, red and green bodies dissolve into shapes and outlines,
abstracted flat shapes that hold on to representational
elements and beautiful
color fields that will forever hold their importance in the history
of art.
The current show at Artspace in New Haven, CT, highlights seven painters whose
abstract work focuses on
elements of color, shape, and surface.
The final wall is devoted to pieces from Ippolito's «Regatta Series» (1984 - 89) in which the watery
color planes suggest
abstract but recognizable
elements like pennants, sails and boats, and black wave forms blend into blue ground in «Land's End» (1986), with the full blast
of wind on sails being felt in the horizontal diptych «Windward» (1987).
Furthermore, although his paintings are emphatically
abstract (in fact, he believes in the historic inevitability
of abstraction), they are not about the relationships
of formal
elements such as
color, shape and line.
Unlike van Gogh, who in the Nineteenth Century could not yet imagine a wholly
abstract art, Mitchell mobilized her artistic will to liberate the constituent
elements of painting — line and
color, composition and gesture — from their servitude to the fleeting appearances
of the material world.
Painter and printmaker Jennifer Bartlett is known for her experimentations into
color and pattern, and her propensity for combining
elements of abstract minimalism and representational painting.
Her paintings, often
of reduced,
abstracted compositions in drenching
colors, involve the interplay
of elements.
Behnke writes: «For the event, Roach brought together six
abstract / non-objective painters whose works offer a dramatic contrast to their ancient surroundings even as formal
elements (grids, texture,
color and composition) are often reflected in the environment
of the crypt.
Realized by
Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this unique painted work layers color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composi
Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this unique painted work layers
color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composi
color, movement, and other
abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and
colors as well as
elements of a harmonious composition.
Comfortably filling the spacious, irregular proportions
of the center's main gallery, the installation is composed
of three distinct
elements: freestanding
abstract sculptures;
color photographs
of the artist's hands (palms out and partially covered in paint); and black - and - white videos appropriated from vintage films
of competitive stone lifters (which is where the pun comes in).
Imbued with a sense
of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature figurative
elements, such as bug - eyed humans and eclectic headgear with gestural,
abstract blocks
of color.
Utilizing
abstract geometries that rival those
of M.C. Escher, as well as representational
elements like waves, trees, and garlands
of flowers, which she stylizes to the point
of uncanny hyperreality, Steinkamp through her immersive environments dematerializes galleries» architecture into undulating fields
of color.
In this striking print, Hume has
abstracted elements from portraiture, reducing the representational quality
of the image to a simple arrangement
of line,
color and subtraction.
Instead, some artists relied on the basic formal
elements of art — for instance, line, shape, and
color — to suggest
abstract, universal concepts (love, war, music, spirit, energy).
In Europe, he mastered a type
of watercolor where he achieved an
abstract ambience, almost a pure abstraction with
color that ranges from transparency to translucency, accompanied by strong opacities, and linear
elements, always with a sense
of freedom, which became one
of his trademarks.
A honeycomb
of color, numbers, and symbols, the
elements alternate between light and dark, with each square bearing an
abstract marker.
It should also be noted that Bradley has been taking his experimentation a step further than combing Minimalistic and
abstract elements — he has been known to assemble uncomplicated figures from a couple
of canvases with simplistic depictions similar to
color field paintings.
His later paintings are virtually all non-representational, reflecting his interest in
abstract design
elements, as well as geometric shapes that are visually «complicated» by various pairings
of colors.
Realized by
Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this lithograph with intaglio and relief layers color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composi
Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this lithograph with intaglio and relief layers
color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composi
color, movement, and other
abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and
colors as well as
elements of a harmonious composition.
Realized by
Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this relief monoprint layers color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composi
Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this relief monoprint layers
color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composi
color, movement, and other
abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and
colors as well as
elements of a harmonious composition.
Different systems and layerings
of visual
elements —
color, mark, shape, division — yield crystalline structures, linear networks, and other
abstract dialects.
Wright's paintings, whether
abstract expressionistic or
color field, have bold
colors and compositions, gestural strokes and the essence
of drawing — through his generous use
of the formal
elements of line and the
color black.
Defined ife with texture,
color and organic forms, Nnenna Okore's
abstract sculptural works are infused with narrative
elements that draw on the landscapes and environs
of Nigeria, where she was raised, and Chicago, where she lives, works and is a professor
of art.
Departing from
elements of landscapes like Berlin's construction sites or micro - and macroscopic pictures as a raw material, she rearranges those forms, structures,
colors and fields in an image making process which arrives at
abstract compositions
of ambiguity and multiple meaning.
Caro and Olitski's achievements in surface,
color and form through unusual, industrial
elements enabled them to emerge as successors
of the first generation
of the New York School, and, in turn, inspire later generations
of abstract artists.
Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic
abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode
of the art
of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the
abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative
elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets
of color.
In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal
elements of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas
of color; flat, two - dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape
of the canvas itself.
Upon first glance, the majority
of Tomic's oeuvre appears altogether
abstract; however, in many
of her works, the artist adroitly conceals figurative
elements within an all - over composition brimming with
color and texture.
Since the beginning
of his career in the mid - «60s, Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) has combined the classic
elements of composition — shape, line, and
color — to create
abstract works
of architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines on subtly modulated planes
of color.
Lundeberg's attention to formal
elements such as balance and
color connect her to a previous generation
of abstract artists, including Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Josef Albers.
The work is in many ways characteristic
of what one might describe as Snyder's signature style — it is large in scale and brightly
colored, its composition is guided by a grid - like structure, and it contains both
abstract and narrative
elements.
I feel like the addition
of figurative and naturalistic
elements in the
abstract forms and fields
of color ground the paintings in a way.
Her work is
abstract but draws
elements from many places: her love
of the
colors and geological forms
of the southwest, repetition, pattern, and an attraction to human - made structures for containment such as fences and stone walls.
Her work is
abstract but draws
elements from many places: her love
of the
colors and geological forms
of the southwest, repetition, pattern, and an attraction to human - made structures for containment such as fences and stone walls.