Sentences with phrase «abstract image fields»

Brushstrokes — whether in color or black ink — become abstract image fields in which foreground and background are in constant flux.

Zao Wou - Ki, who worked extensively in a variety of mediums, was known for his abstract image fields in which foreground and background are in constant flux.

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Her image discreetly decorates the wall of the film's focal character, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), a recently divorced, middle - aged abstract painter now playing the field.

Using the RED Epic, cinematographer Bradford Young employs a scope ratio format, very little depth of field, and (I'm pretty sure) a diopter to insure that large portions of the image are almost always out of focus, to the point that they register as near abstract soft swirls of color.

Gottlieb was the most symbolic of these so - called Color Field painters and he became also the less abstract because he wanted to communicate stories in images.

We don't produce pretty images, but we define fields of action for our projects, abstracted urban devices that interpret context and reality.

The experience inspired a series of drawings, watercolors, and paintings in which the image of a bull is sometimes indicated directly, other times by abstract vertices of dark brushstrokes set against a brightly colored field.

In his mixed - media paintings, Torey Thornton creates abstract, crudely rendered forms to explore the picture plane as both a spatial field and a medium for conjuring images and sensibilities.

Viviane Sassen's «Kinee,» (2011), an abstracted image of the beautiful Senegalese model, Kinee Diouf, in a field of sky blue, feels aspirational, showing how blue - blackness has ascertained a certain desirability in fashion and life.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

Over the course of his career Terry Winters has expanded the concerns of abstract art, beginning with botanically inspired images (cells, spores, seeds) and going on to explore biological processes, scientific and mathematical fields, and issues raised by the interaction of information technologies and the human mind, while maintaining a strong modernist sensibility that reveals itself in the symbolic languages of figures and lines he develops in his work Winters (born 1949) received a BFA from Pratt University, New York, in 1971.

Without the intimacy and flow of a book, the images have become abstracted and require distance to identify even the most familiar subject matter: agriculture, a scarecrow, a field, or portions of a building.

Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.

This dedication to mark making for its own sake and his ability to play with large monochrome colour fields atop denser and more intricate bold hues give birth to a mysterious image that creates space for us to wallow in, reminds us that there is more to the world than rational materialism, that there is room for the unknown, the inexplicable, the abstract and dynamic glory of colour and form.

He primarily uses an airbrush to create the abstract images, drawing compositional windows within a field of color to create the illusion of internal / external and artificial / natural spaces.

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.

From such a perspective, James's art can be seen as resisting the dominant narratives of abstract painting by repurposing the affective qualities of perception, and in so doing, her work allows for a new understanding of how identity functions within the field of image production.

A Fishtown native who's studio is in the Crane Arts Center, Browning obviously takes full advantage of the large work space to create massive paintings, this color field of speeding urban images, like you see out of the corner of your eye as you zoom down the Expressway, is abstract expressionist yet a kind of contemporary cubism with obtuse angles and cracked spacial warps.

As the years tumbled onward, Gerson experimented with almost every imaginable abstract and figurative approach to image making, including Geometric Abstraction, Color Field Painting, and Lyrical Abstraction.

Known internationally for his unique style of painting that owes allegiance to abstract expressionism and color field genres, his canvases live on the border between image and abstraction.

Today, computer users can zoom in on images so closely that they become pixelated and seem like abstract color fields of tiny squares.

Rather than articulate universal visual codes for collective mobilization, these works reduce the specific lives and experiences of those represented in the images to a pictorial field for the artist to play upon; the fetishized beauty of documented protest rendered even more beautiful, and even less capable of stimulating social change, by its sublimation through the commercially - viable language of abstract painting.