1950»S Fantastic gold gilt organic modern
abstract leaf shape articulating faux pearl and aurora borealis Swarovski crystal bead earrings by, Kramer.
Not exact matches
Always to be counted on for pushing the perimeters of her intensely optical
abstract paintings, this show finds Ferris, now 41, experimenting, rethinking, slowing down, mixing marble dust into her oil paint, laying down stenciled polygonal
shapes, wiping out areas of canvas,
leaving severe spray - painted black lines as structure.
McMahon explores an
abstract language informed by the natural forms and structures that populate the landscape and the history and experiences that
shaped that particular place — from the surrounding fields and undulating hills and ravines to the hidden treasures
left behind by the original landowner who made sculptures and land art.
The review described his technique as watercolour, gouache, ink and gold
leaf pressed down with sealing wax and Strauss, later to be head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's, said the combination of
shapes and colours represented «the best of
abstract traditions».
Mr. Kelly searched for simple outlines that would generate
abstract paintings and sculpture yet retain echoes of things, from
leaf shapes to remnants of architecture, that he had seen in the everyday world, and which he sometimes recorded in photographs.
For forty years Len Bellinger's work has been committed to the exploration of
abstract / non-representational painting and the ambiguous space inherent in the concept of «abstraction,» from early icon -
shaped minimalist panels trimmed with gold
leaf as a P.S. 1 studio resident in the late» 70's to thickly manipulated paintings rich with byzantine color and an underlying architectonic -LSB-...]
As soon as I
left Yale I started experimenting with more referential
shapes, and with putting imagistic elements into paintings that were still pretty
abstract.
An
abstracted hillside rises at
left, while clouds of mist that blanket the center of the landscape, rising in ghostly
shapes that bubble up from an insubstantial source, will soon dissipate in the early morning warmth.
The group show features the
abstracted bird
shapes of Boleta (pictured above right), Fefe (who creates «typographical monsters» from letters cut out of street posters, pictured here), Highraff's mix of illustration, comics and organic forms, Kboco who paints totemic aboriginal forms, Onesto (pictured above
left), Speto, Titi Freak, and Zezão who paints in sewers as well as on the streets.
A number of key works, such as the sculpture I Was Thinking of You and the two series of drawings An Icelandic Saga and The Story of Bern, are combined with less familiar works ranging from an early
abstract painting, over a series of collages with Japanese paper and gold
leaf, to a self - portrait in the
shape of a polaroid, and a cooking diary from 1969.
Personally I don't understand how these paintings could be considered purely
abstract (in the sense of non-figurative), when
shapes of flowers and clover
leaves are clearly seen.