Sentences with phrase «abstract flat works»

Her abstract flat works often reference the temporal nature of the sculptural items she uses and the interaction between the two mediums.

Not exact matches

The objectness of the shaped paintings from this period makes them always more than the working out of abstracted, biomorphic or geometric forms on a flat surface, since the form of the support itself is a biomorphic or geometric abstraction.

Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with flat planes of color.

Her celebrated work operates on several dichotomies that have become central to her practice: hard / soft, male / female, flat / three - dimensional, Western / non-Western, stable / fluid, figurative / abstract, powerful / delicate, brutal / beautiful, violence / harmony.

Among the second group of abstract paintings at Firestone are works such as «Thunderbird» (1970), where a geometric cluster of blue lines, each about the width of standard masking tape, floats on a vibrant, flat red field.

Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the «flatter» surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the «target» paintings of Jasper Johns.

But each of the artists» works are also about the misjudgment of a real environment — a real chair made out of special rope (Campana); a box made of terracotta and glaze (Cherubini); a lamp made out of found metal (Coolquitt); an abstract painting titled after a transsexual (Ferris); and collage, deceptively flat - looking, made from among other things, feather and beads (Alvarez).

In his early works, Ilya Bolotowsky formed abstract images on the flat picture plane by combining biomorphic and geometric elements inspired by both Miró and the Russian Constructivist Kasimir Malevich.

The digital process enabled a wide variety of approaches that include abstract and documentary photography, scanning of flat - work made expressly for the project, digital compositing and image manipulation, as well as the use of vector - based software and hand - coded algorithms.

These experiences of embodiment are more customary to the experience of abstract sculpture, which is less likely to provoke the uneasy search for representational meaning that flat abstract works do.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

A term originating in the late 1950s for abstract paintings characterized by sharply defined geometric areas of flat colors conveying little or no depth, such as works by Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Barnett Newman.

From there, his almost flat, almost abstract works, with their contrasting planes of colour and reminiscences of doorways and cheerful bunting, provided Brazilian artists with a bridge between the bright, figurative paintings of Brazilian modernists such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s Neo-Concrete movement and Grupo Ruptura.

Within an oeuvre that has sought to redefine the nature of flat art through a variety of media, these abstract works are complex in their materiality, caught somewhere between painting and printing whilst simultaneously confronting the viewer as ornamental, almost architectural constructs.

These works follow on from Pollock's abstract action paintings which saw the artist drip brightly coloured paint onto canvases laid flat on the studio floor, and are far lesser known yet just as intriguing as these early, pioneering works.

His early work features broad, calm rectangles in the manner of the American Color Field painters, but Hoyland's distinctive contribution has been to break with the modernist insistence on a flat surface and to put perspective back into abstract painting: his mature work is characterised by depth and texture, in which strange objects float in the foreground or middle distance, against an often mysterious background, in a way that is oddly reminiscent of Miro.

They also weren't the first geometric abstract works, or the first flat surface paintings.

Given that the McNay's post-World War II collections already include paintings by abstract expressionists Joan Mitchell and William de Kooning, kinetic hangings by Alexander Calder, and sculpture by Donald Judd, the new acquisitions try to complement these prestigious works, but sometimes fall flat when compared to the dynamic aesthetic and timelessness of this stable.

gestural surfaces of abstract expressionist works and towards flatter surfaces and a more minimal color palette, Stella's paintings reflected his statement of the time that a picture was «a flat surface with paint on it — nothing more.»

Fitzgerald, an abstract painter who embraces material and form in her composition, makes work that is simultaneously flat and three - dimensional.

Moving beyond the membrane - as - enclosure, Balema's most gestural and abstract works are flat, twisty sheets of foam, some coated with brightly coloured latex, affixed to walls and ceilings by thin steel rods.

So the work is white, flat, lozenged, painted, rendered, printed, textual, assembled, and collaged — a naked abstract painting in low relief.

These works shown by David Benrimon Fine Art successfully combine a number of painterly styles, including abstract expressionist drips and flat fields of color, with recognizable narrative outlines of fish and fowl.

known mostly as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.

Jeff Kellar known mostly as a minimalist painter who creates subtle, flat abstract work that explores space, light and the relationships between illusion and materiality.

Her work, hence, has evolved into something less reified or objectual and more abstract in order to explore the tension between the flat surface and the perspectival illusion.

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.

The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of marks on a flat surface.

Creative companies may think they're giving a nod to their unique working culture or «flat hierarchy» by providing employees with abstract titles — like «Chief Happiness Officer,» and in some cases no job title at all.