Sentences with phrase «abstract paintings set»

Granwell's delicate interminglings of colorful cast - off bits of cardboard, leather, wood, wire, paint, and thread look like abstract paintings set loose from canvases.

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And from this results the modem desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction, for repeated notes of color, for setting color in motion.

Basketball - obsessed Indiana and its 1954 state champions from small - town Milan were the real - life inspiration for this stirring sports drama, set in an abstract terrain of painted court lines and clean - cut grass, a place where second chances can happen.

This period, and these female figure paintings, set the stage for Tworkov's transition into larger - format canvases in the early 1950s, when he loosened his line and painted mostly abstract compositions, relying on the figure.»

through May 25th Julie Langsam This exhibition features several recent paintings from Langsam's long - running series of banded montages that set nearly monochromatic, tightly rendered views of iconic modernist buildings on top of a band of gridded abstract motifs inspired by classic modernist paintings and beneath ominously lit skies that invoke Romantic landscape painting.

The paintings, with richly hued backgrounds, depict androgynous figures and abstracted and historically vague settings to blur the line between abstraction and figuration.

Inspired by Melanie Smith's diverse use of collected objects in her artworks, this session will combine collage and paint to create abstract prints of make - believe settings.

Throughout the paintings, the women are found in various Classical poses and setting that are abstracted version of Arcadian landscapes and mythological environments.

That exhibition thematized the relationship between Liu's paintings and his three - dimensional sculptural forms via explicit formal echoes: Black - and - white geometric paintings were adroitly paired with rectilinear pseudotopiary sculptures in which bands of foliage were interspersed with horizontal neon lights, while the oscillating static playing on stacked TV sets chimed with the abstract canvases as well.

She used these manufactured setting as still - lifes, transcribing them into larger scale oil painting of abstract space - scapes.

It does something else, too: it sets out a genealogy for the reinvention of abstract painting everywhere today.

At one point as I tried to get more information about a floor sculpture that resampled broken glass, and a set of blue paintings with some subtle white abstract elements on them, the gallery director couldn't even tell me about the work.

This exhibition features several recent paintings from Langsam's long - running series of banded montages that set nearly monochromatic, tightly rendered views of iconic modernist buildings on top of a band of gridded abstract motifs inspired by classic modernist paintings and beneath ominously lit skies that invoke Romantic landscape painting.

My combination of various collage materials, textures and acrylic paint produce abstract paintings suitable for both residential and commercial settings.

Their profound simplicity resonated in a city enthralled by abstract expressionism and action painting, and in October 1959 she secured her first solo show in at the Brata Gallery, barely a year after she had first set foot in the city.

On the one hand there were some eye - spinning amounts paid, not least the $ 43.8 m for a monumental deep - blue abstract painting — Onement VI by Barnett Newman — sold by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, setting a new record for the artist.

He worked in series, completing sets of abstract and figurative paintings that he often exhibited together in order to explore the assumptions connected with each mode of painting.

Rather, one gets the sense, from these paintings, that Heidkamp let his hand follow his imagination, rendering a lone figure who has lost his shadow, a brushy odalisque at rest on the shore, or a set of abstract marks that telegraph a bright pink sunset.

One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

So in relation to the topic of light in abstract painting, the stricture I feel would have to have something to do with avoiding the painting becoming tonal and therefore setting up the potential for reading an external light source in it.

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O'Hara, an art critic and curator as well as poet, helped set up The New American Painting, a 1958 touring exhibition that awed Europeans with abstract expressionism.

This will be an interesting chance to get a closer look at the process of a prolific abstract painter in a smaller, gallery setting, as the New Work show will be an assortment of gouache color studies, 2D drawings, and large - scale paintings.

Regarding approach, my paintings begin in a purely abstract, intuitive place with no set preconceived image or idea.

Bleckner draws on this historical numerology to help activate his abstract paintings, one more example of why he often sets his critics» hair on fire.

In short, Reed defined and refined a whole new set of possibilities for abstract painting that extend well beyond an endgame strategy.

Figuration seems to linger behind Goodnough's abstract forms, and his rejection of allover composition, which he equated with landscape painting, sets him apart from his abstractionist colleagues.

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.

Picking out the two lines of the joke in a deep blue, anonymous sans serif font, and setting it within a vast field of flatly painted cardinal red, Prince has created a work that resounds on abstract, conceptual and prosaic levels.

The cavernous feel of Casey Kaplan's space on 21st Street is a good setting for big, abstract painting.

Set inside a gilded floater frame, this abstract oil on canvas painting is signed lower right.

Phillips London Contemp Sale Pulls in $ 15 Million — The top lots were a 1982 untitled Basquiat for $ 2.5 million and a 1997 black - and - white pattern painting by Christopher Wool for $ 2.6 million, while artist records were set for Nate Lowman ($ 522,728 for a 2005 bullet - hole painting) and Ryan Sullivan ($ 141,438 for a 2011 abstract painting) in a sale presided over by Alexander Gilkes, filing in for the now - gone Simon de Pury.

In the oval Bedroom Painting # 21, you might think they are set against abstract elements, but that radical black centre is a curtain, overlapping a green blind, allowing a slither of landscape; and we see yellow flowers, a section of purple wall and a light switch.

In the flag paintings Johns set up an almost mocking two - step with his abstract elders.

And as the prices for Pollock and Rothko paintings keep setting new records, auction after auction, many collectors are now looking at other important abstract painters from that era who have, until now, been overlooked.

«Drift of Summer,» a 1965 white abstract grid painting by Agnes Martin sold to a telephone bidder for $ 1.4 million, more than double her previous auction record that was set in 1996.

These include a trio of Joseph Yoakum's transporting, abstract landscapes, Sister Gertrude Morgan's evangelical paintings, a set of William Dawson's wide - eyed, figural wood carvings, and an assemblage of a cat head by Ashby.

But after Mitchell died, the price of her paintings skyrocketed, with one abstract setting a new record for a work by a female artist.

Looking at the various physical qualities that set acrylic paint apart we can see there are many concrete and abstract reasons contemporary painters might use the medium in their work.

The auction record for an abstract work by Sean Scully was set in 2012, when his geometric oil painting, entitled Wall of Light, Stone, was sold at Christie's, in London, for # 601,250.

Her paintings are built up of light layers with oil paint to create a washed down effect, setting figures in both abstract and interior environments.

A painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Sultan is regarded for his ongoing large - scale painted still lifes featuring structural renderings of fruit, flowers, and other everyday objects, often abstracted and set against a rich, black background; but he is also noted for his significant industrial landscape series that began in the early 1980s entitled the Disaster Paintings, on which the artist worked for nearly a decade.

This time, that ranges from the Noland and a set of Andy Warhol «Dolly Partons» to paintings by rising Chinese abstract painter Wang Yan Cheng and Spanish painter and ceramist Miquel Barceló.

Mark Rothkoâ $ ™ s search to express profound emotion through painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

He also sets up a dialogue between painting and sculpture, with echoes of Robert Ryman's abstract works running throughout.

[12] Fragmento Brasil (1977 - 2005), a synchronized multi-projection piece without sound, is made up of paired sequences of 648 images [13] from three sources: details from Albert Eckhout's mid-17th-century paintings of Brazilian birds set in idealized landscapes of European provenance; the abstract drawings of Yãnomãmi people from Venezuela and Brazil, 1978 — 80; and in conjunction, black & white landscape photographs of the Rio Caroni, Rio Uraricoera and Rio Branco regions in Venezuela and Brazil taken by the artist on a five - month walk in 1977.

While this term is often associated with American painting, specifically Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, Declaring Space addresses this concept from an international viewpoint, blurring national labels for a set of spatial themes that were evoked in abstract art in the latter half of the twentieth century, where the boundaries of traditional pictorial space were crossed and a new realm of abstract theater was engaged.

The day after the Richter record was set at Sotheby's, a smaller, less - vibrant abstract painting made by the artist in 1990 couldn't find a taker at Christie's.

Kikuo Saito, known for his abstract, color - field paintings, Butoh - influenced set designs and wordless performance - plays, died on February 15, at age 76, in New York City, where he had lived for 50 years.

His work poses questions and sets out manifestos, exploring the legacy of surrealism, through bold abstract paintings and texts.