Not exact matches
This
form of instruction moves students from concrete manipulatives to
pictorial representations of those manipulatives, and finally to
abstract concepts.
What the critic, Stephen Westfall, meant was that although my
forms are
abstract, my paintings give viewers suggestions to help them perceive
pictorial images in my paintings.
Challenging and re-inventing ideas about
pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking
abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
[34] Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling
abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when
abstract painters returned to various
forms of painterly,
pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.
Fleeting references intertwine to
form both microscopic and macroscopic
abstract pictorial landscapes.
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.
By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures as Composición IV (Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of
abstract forms, layered Cubist
pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.
Among America's leading
abstract artists, Dan Christensen was devoted over the course of forty years to exploring the limits, range, and possibilities of paint and
pictorial form.
But in this the only difference between
abstract forms and
pictorial forms is that we share the meanings that are ascribed to the component signifiers of pictures.
In his exploration of the
abstract image he focuses on images and
forms found in daily life objects, in this case packaging materials or shopping bags, which can offer a universe of a
pictorial language inherent to Modern Art.
The earliest «dithyrambic» pictures were
pictorial inventions of sculptural
forms in planar space that lie somewhere between
abstract and representational imagery:
forms evocative of architecture or figuration, though not always overtly so.
Comprised of unprimed layers of linen stretched across wooden frames, Kahn assembles complex wall - mounted works in which the gaps between the individual panels
form abstract or
pictorial compositions.
We can now see his earlier pieces in a new way; if each brush stroke is both
abstract (in
form and idea) and representational (of a stroke, of «painting»), could there be a space of «
pictorial abstraction» in which the duality can persist?
Kahn is also interested in the idea of an undefined
abstract space: an idea that he feels has emerged through the tension of architectural and
pictorial space, and the emergence of a new
form of space created in the advent of digital technology.
Thornton is interested in the perception of
pictorial space, and his paintings are typically colourful and ambiguously suggestive of both
abstract form and recognisable figuration.
Ziegler's process subjects the images to a process of digital and physical obliteration, in which representational
pictorial information gives way to new
abstract forms.
If the
pictorial lyricism of
abstract expressionism continues to dominate the Los Angeles art scene, numerous artists have also decided to tread the path of a
form of minimalism in which light is an inseparable part of their practice.
Challenging and reinventing ideas about
pictorial space, the paintings on view relate to Color Field painting and Op Art, and reflect Fangor's distinctive use of saturated color and blurred silhouettes to create striking
abstract forms and mesmerizing optical illusions.
Beyond their
pictorial candor and stark naturalism, what makes these paintings so appealing to the contemporary eye is the way their boldly delineated
forms create an
abstract structure built from powerful interlocking shapes.