Sentences with phrase «abstract her work becomes»

He made witty and original use of it and created a distinctive American style, for however abstract his works became he always claimed that every image he used had its source in observed reality: «I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American Scene.»

It's easy to get lost in the colour and the more abstract her work becomes, the stronger it is.

Not exact matches

As a work that begins as speculative fiction, the film becomes surprisingly abstract in its third act.

The Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, made considerable waves two years ago with an Oscar - winning adaptation, but it is the more abstract, thematically refined original work «A Serious Man» that became the duo's best film in 13 years.

When students are working to devise a computer adventure game, all of a sudden abstract mathematical functions become immediately relevant.

As the child becomes increasingly able to work on an abstract level, reading, writing and math become tools for learning about the world.

Two years later, he abandoned sculpting completely, feeling his work had become too abstract, and found a job writing copy for a London advertising agency.

Consider the most visible trend in recent years of Zombie Formalism, a kind of reductive, easily produced abstract painting, sold quickly to collectors queued up on waiting lists and hungry for innocuous, decorative works in a signature style, so much so that the name of the artist himself becomes the brand.

By the mid-1940s, Seliger had become the youngest artist exhibiting with the abstract expressionists, although his place in the movement is sometimes overlooked in part because of the scale of his work.

Jason Rhoades» point of departure for this sculpture is the dynamic between the literalness of a store - bought, «real» object and its potential to become, within the context of the work of art, a vehicle to illustrate abstract and / or theoretical concepts.

His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged paintings that acted as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract nature of the technological world we now live in - as prisons or cells.

Toward the end of his career, Still's art started to become even more abstract — objects lost their shape entirely, as seen in this 1976 work titled «PH - 1023.»

He attended Columbia University, the American Artists School, and the National Academy of Design, after which, from 1936 — 40, he became one of the few abstract painters to work for the easel division of the WPA Federal Art Project.

A lot of my work has become more abstract, more vague, and that's because the memory is blurry.»

The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.

With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.

In the work of Rodney Graham, sound — be it the abstract noise of a 1950s Italian projector, as in his latest work, Rheinmetall / Victoria, or a song presented within a film, as in How I Became a Ramblin» Man — is more than an integral part of the work.

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

During the 1980s, Kudo's art changed direction, becoming more reflective, and the visceral gave way to more abstract and contemplative works.

In these works is a world rich in symbolism: metals are personified (Iron as Mars, God of War and Silver as Hecate, Goddess of the Moon); circles can signify shields, mandalas, clocks, compasses, sundials, and the earth; letters and points in abstract constellations are determined by the Golden Section and Jarry's own notions of mathematical formulas; and the body becomes a world of proportions, formulas, and erotic riddles.

In these recent works the tiles have become simple, unadorned, abstract and minimalist.

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.

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.

The ballet tests basic tenants of the genre — roles that are traditionally gender specific become abstracted, ruthless movements manipulate and redirect classical pointe work — while deconstructing pivotal, but cliché moments from historical ballets against a backdrop of Western swagger.

While the Skin Set series is already a distillation of a history of content, also included in the show is a newer body of work; Pope.L's cut - out panels are a further evolution that take lists of some thousand plus titles from that series and materialize them, becoming their own concentrated and further abstracted source of language and poetry.

My interest in the physical, tactile qualities of painting has been there from the beginning, and became more and more prominent, even in my abstract works.

Yet the work has only now become so fully a matter of color and so fully abstract.

Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte will bring together eight historical works by the Brazilian modernist Cícero Dias (b. 1907, d. 2003), which represent the height of his abstract creations and were produced following his move to Paris, where he became associated with other prominent artists at the time including Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.

'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»

In 1952, the artist moved to New York City, and quickly became interested in the work of abstract expressionist painters.

As the initial trio gradually shared then delegated the direction of the space to new members — most recently to Caroline Soyez - Petithomme, who codirected the space with Jill Gasparina from 2008, before becoming the sole director in 2013 — the aesthetic choices have slightly shifted from an emphasis on site - specific, installation - based works to more formalist works, with an inclination towards abstract painting and digital art.

Then the works become more abstract and biomorphic.

In the 1980s his work became less figurative, and his vibrant colour palette and intense brushstrokes laid the groundwork for the completely abstracted works that followed.

From a small town in west Tennessee, Philip Perkins became an abstract painter widely acknowledged for his work.

The market for Lucio Fontana, the prolific Argentine artist who spent the most important part of his career in Italy, peaked last year during the October Italian sales when 26 works were offered and 21 sold for a combined total of # 36.6 m. With a large body of work — the slashes — that is both easily recognizable and was created in a seemingly endless variation of color and slashes, Fontana looked to be riding a wave of interest in Italian abstract artists to become a market - driving figure, a bellwether of the global Contemporary art market.

One of things that's interesting about having a survey show is that it attempts to clarify some things in the work, and the relationship between these works is something that only became clear in the show, but we didn't do it in a pedagogic way — we didn't say, «Here's step one where it looks like a figure, here's step two where it looks abstract - y, and here's step three where it is purely abstract.»

In 2009 she became fully dedicated to painting, expressing herself in abstract work.

Ryman was intrigued by the abstract expressionist works of Rothko, de Kooning, Still and Pollock and became curious about the act of painting and began experimenting in 1955.

Later he became particularly known for bold abstracts in a cubist - influenced idiom, tending eventually toward abstract expressionism, the style in which he worked from about the 1950s until his death.

While my work has become more abstract, I still feel that strong connection to all things real.

He began his career as a painter, drawing on the work of the abstract Expressionists, but as time went on he became increasingly dissatisfied with painting, a medium that he came to believe was a thing of the past.

If the works were purely abstract they would be about, perhaps, how to «draw with color» and after viewing the series of similar faces they do become almost abstracted; however, the lure of the face with its hypnotic, spiraling irises always persists, challenging our emotional responses:

These so - called «Cailloux» are an extraordinary testimony to his vision, for starting from figuration he unwittingly created abstract works and became a pioneer of Abstraction.

She filters the heroic style of Michelangelo through her feminist and lesbian subject matter, yet in recent years her work has become more abstract and less overtly narrative, encompassing psychological ambiguity and looser painterly forms.

By the late 1940s his paintings and works on paper were consistently abstract and, in a development shared with members of the PLASTICIEN group, became more geometrically structured beginning in the 1950s.

They merely present an abstract excerpt instead — one that only becomes whole via photographs documenting the evolution of his work.

Attracted to vibrant colors in tonal and spatial harmony, his abstract images evoke figures and suggest objects which become traceable motifs across a distinctive body of work.

Rectangles of unglazed porcelain upended and attached to the wall become blank scrolls, perfectly new, waiting for words in the Buddhist works of Liu Janhua; and quite possibly invoking the memory of all the white abstract paintings seen in an earlier gallery.

Around the year of 1928, he began painting still lifes and human figures, but it wasn't long before he was dabbling in more abstract works as he was becoming increasingly more influenced by the likes of the aforementioned Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró [2].