Sentences with phrase «abstract forms and colors»

Despite using purist notions of abstract form and color that date back to 1950s art critic Clement Greenberg's domineering brand of New York School formalism, Lawson fashions nothing short of a vicious attack on photography's «objective eye» via these modestly sized canvases.

Throughout his career, artist Robert Mangold has married drawing and painting in a personal investigation of pure abstract form and color.

Recently, Ashford has turned to painting, pairing images sourced from the news with abstract forms and color that the artist proposes as a reservoir for individual and shared emotions that function as instruments for political resistance and reform.

It was a fusion of abstract forms and color creating a sense of movement and traces of that mode of expression can also be found in some of the prints here.

For example, Theo Van Doesburg's «Compositie VII: de drie Gratiën (Composition VII: The Three Graces)» (1917) presents a dynamic interplay of abstract form and color that — via its title — references a trio of female dancers.

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From space, Earth is a magnificent sight, splashed with vivid colors, patterns, textures, and abstract forms.

Upstream Color is a symphony, concerned with linking music and sound with editing — the very stuff that makes up the cinema — in an abstract form that rewards both your head and your heart.

Acheiving a surface that resembles flaking plaster walls, with rich pure pigment color, Gross crops and reverses quotidian images to reveal abstract shapes and forms that are at once familiar and foreign.

In recent years Tuttle has busied himself with overlapping plywood panels and with bits of Foamcore that burst with bulbous abstract forms painted in rich, sensuous colors.

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 precedents of modern abstract art are investigated through works by the followers of Hindu Tantric art (17th century) and the Theosophists (19th century) who used forms - color as sources for meditating and the immaterial transmission of thought.

John Hoyland (b. 1934, Sheffiled, United Kingdom; d. 2011) was one of Britain's leading abstract painters, renowned for his bold use of color and inventive forms.

In some works, ribbon - like compositions appear to twist and fold, alternating between abstract forms, bursts of color, or floral motifs.

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art.

[/ pq] Pink Winged Victory (1960) features a balancing act of lumpy, intensely colored plaster shapes that reinterpret the Classical motif as an abstract (and, from one angle, unmistakably vaginal) form.

Sharply juxtaposing abstract interludes with scenes of love and intense desire, the paintings layer textures and color forms in ways that appear almost collage - like in their spatial complexity.

An abstract form is an isolated form with a certain size, shape, color, texture and edges that has no meaning other than its own qualities of size, shape, etc..

Piero Dorazio (Rome, June 29, 1927 - Perugia, May 17, 2005) was an Italian painter, whose work was related to Color field, Lyrical Abstraction and other forms of abstract art.

From 1963 to 1970, while living in Spain and South America, Semmel explored the potential of form, color, and composition in an abstract expressionist idiom.

As with other abstract movements, these painters emphasized color and how the work corresponds with their own inner emotions over shape or form.

form, color, illumination celebrates the uniqueness of Frecon's painting and articulates how her work distinguishes itself within the history of abstract painting.

Avery retained color as the primary vehicle of feeling and expression, but achieved a greater degree of abstraction by increasing the parity between recognizable forms and abstract shapes.»

Challenging and re-inventing ideas about pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusColor Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illuscolor and blurred silhouettes to create striking abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.

Form and creativity convene throughout the exhibition with beauty, color and shapes coming together to initiate abstracted visual experiences.

This ambitious coffee volume — rife with full - color images of the Norman Lewis's paintings, which are balanced with rigorous scholarship in the form of essays and extensive new research — accompanies «Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis,» the first major museum retrospective of the abstract painter.

Utilizing vivid colors and simple geometric forms, the artist produces abstract compositions with oil on canvas.

Learn about graffiti art, painting, airbrushing, cartoons, comics, color, and abstract forms.

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.

The presentation offers fresh insight into the importance of line in her work — from preliminary sketches and drawings, to the fluid, seemingly effortless outlines that define regions of her canvas and divide her compositions into dynamic zones of color, be it the curve of a flower petal, the horizon of a landscape, or the contour of an abstract form.

Von Bruenchenhein's abstract explosions of vibrant color evoke the forms of strange plants or fantasy creatures and architectural structures.

Through his play with surface texture, forms and color, Mizù has adopted the representational system of maritime flags and created an abstract body of work that is both visually and mentally stimulating.

On the one hand, you have these really beautiful, minimalist, abstract works (in the kind of traditional sense of thinking about Donald Judd, Anne Truitt, that kind of concern for color and form), and then you have your video works, or your use of flowers, like the way a flower or an arrangement of flowers can stand in for something.

Positioned against luminous and darkly shadowed backgrounds, each phrase is spelled out more or less legibly in vividly colored letters of different sizes on scrolling ribbons, embedded in flurries of abstract gestures and in other forms.

Halkin's most recent paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph - like shapes and mottled fields of muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.

Voluptuous color and luxurious interpenetrations of sensuous forms conspired to make messy, elegant, often witty abstract pictures.

Taylor's work is bold and bright, often utilizing neon colors and mixing abstract patterns with notes of realism and the human form filtered through the style of the illustrator and comic artist.

Hofmann encouraged Krasner to jettison the naturalist tendencies acquired in her earlier schooling, and she underwent a radical change of style, rapidly developing an abstract vocabulary and producing cubist - inspired compositions that featured bold geometric forms outlined in black and filled with bright colors.

She is good at capturing interesting forms, colors and light in her abstract landscape paintings.

Striking for their hot, vivid, deep colors, pierced and jagged forms, and pulsating energy, these wax - resist paintings on paper, done at the height of abstract expressionism's ascendancy, captivated Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner and inspired Jean Dubuffet to write his only monographic study on Ossorio.

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).

Artists returned to emotional content conveyed through instinctual mark - making, subjective color, and distorted forms, as found in early twentieth century Expressionist movements, such as Fauvism, Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, and in abstract forms in mid-twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism.

Gilliam (born 1933) is a color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.

Truitt's work explores the subtleties of light and color through abstract two - and three - dimensional forms and the artist's desire to make light «visible for its own sake.»

This fluidity is emulated in his work through shifting colors and form in his abstract paintings.

The large scale works blend formal concerns such as surface, color and abstracted space, with what the press release states as, ``... investigations into the connections between sexual fetish of the female figure, and forms of nature.»

Since the beginning of his career, Ellsworth Kelly's emphasis on pure form and color and his impulse to suppress gesture in favor of creating spatial unity have played a pivotal role in the development of abstract art in America.

He believed that «working without history is a kind of visual starvation» and that the Midwest Paint Group «included a sense of the abstract construction of the forms and colors and their rhythm in light and space.»

Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, FL; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) creates vast abstracted landscapes of minimal color and form that attempt to capture how we experience our surroundings, and how we define our environments in relation to identity and citizenship.

The Light and Sea series, inspired by the extraordinary light of sea, sky and water on the East End of Long Island, consists of abstract visual meditations on the interplay of air, light and water, the shifting of colors and shapes from form to formlessness.

This transition towards abstract forms and shapes is best illustrated in Kandinsky's Study for Composition # 8, 1909, a turning point in the artist's vision, where recognizable forms — people, church towers, cupolas and hills co-exist with abstract shapes and pure fields of color.