Sentences with phrase «abstract pictorial elements»

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This results in a diagrammatic structure in which different perspective axes, with the added vectors of distance and proximity, are applied to the equation of landscape and laboratory, representing both pictorial and abstract elements as contemporaneous and equivalent.»

An early 20th - century school of painting and sculpture in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements largely by use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones.

The dominant pictorial element is the Union Jack, itself an internationally familiar, abstract, geometric pattern and a socially and politically charged symbol whose significance spans the cultural spectrum from contemporary fashion to aggressive national pride.

His early landscapes, portraits and still lifes were characteristic for their dark palette, but soon his style became distinguished from pictorial elements and by 1950 he considered himself as an abstract painter.

The crackling, pentimenti, and blushed varnishes that Purdy has created on the surface of the paintings may be seen to be formal elements in the pictorial language, referring to the role of surface and mark in twentieth - century abstract painting.

Although he borrowed elements from a number of abstract art movements, he developed his own pictorial language.

In her catalogue essay, Poddar provided partial explanation for suggestive pictorial elements in Gaitonde's abstractions by citing a specialist in South Asian art, critic Richard Bartholomew, who maintained that traditional Indian miniatures were not purely figurative, but were composed of literary and abstract elements.4 Gaitonde then might have been alluding to our necessity to «see» something in the picture, even when there is nothing objective or graphic there because, intuitively, we attempt to make sense out of unfamiliar patterns trying to connect them with what we already know.