Sentences with phrase «abstract shapes and colours»

And in relation to the abstraction theme, it seemed obvious that the images could be abstracted by simply zooming in on them until their origins became unrecognisable and they appeared as abstract shapes and colours.

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Genetic diversity can be an abstract concept, but when folks see and taste tomatoes, peppers, beans and melons in every size, shape and colour, they understand.

Focusing on enjoyable shapes, images and other mathematical and abstract patterns to colour, this book is suitable for girls and boys and very powerful when combined with our relaxation music, which is also available from the TES.

The templates and worksheets aim to encourage the exploration of colour themes, geometric shape, abstract pattern, mark making, doodling and graphic design, whilst also providing Fall themed decorations for the classroom or home.

The designs are modern and imaginative, and created to encourage exploration of colour, pattern and abstract shape.

Adult colouring books are all the rage, proponents claiming bringing colour to intricate abstract shapes helps reduce stress - at least until you realise you've got pen on your shirt and ground oil pastels into the sofa.

The French fine art photographer has a love of architectural details and abstract angles, picking out the interesting colours, patterns and shapes of his home country's buildings and infrastructure.

The abstract shapes, which are reminiscent of suns, moons and overlapping landscapes, are painted in bright, primary colours.

And perhaps an abstract artist is more likely to achieve that ambition than a figurative one, because colours and shapes are a shared international languaAnd perhaps an abstract artist is more likely to achieve that ambition than a figurative one, because colours and shapes are a shared international languaand shapes are a shared international language?

In his Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Penetrables, made during the early - 60s, he strove to liberate the abstract coloured shapes from the wall and from adherence to a particular form by making them part of the viewer's environment.

These «details» are matched with a black and white Hollywood film still that Baldessari has illuminated and illustrated with pops of primary coloured shapes and figures, mirroring and creating a strong visual link with the almost abstract and strongly coloured compositions of the Miró works below.

A respected train writer, Remi has also played a significant part in the development of «abstract graffiti», a term that seems far too clinical to describe the accomplishments of his work, which has always been about the interplay of colour and shape.

Often crumpled in an industrial crusher and spray - painted in bright colours before being welded together into their final shape, his abstract sculptures are now being placed within the gallery and gardens of Inverleith House, the outdoor location drawing out an unexpected organic quality in the artist's heavy metal works.

Less vividly coloured, these works nonetheless share a formal lineage in their use of straight lines and abstract, free - floating, shapes.

These provide instant, ready - made abstract compositions; their geometric shapes and rainbow palette again aesthetically reference the 60s in the form of Bridget Riley «s colourful Op Art canvases or, more recently, Gerhard Richter's painstakingly uniform «colour swatch» paintings.

In the upstairs galleries, Gunilla Klingberg's gorgeous abstract animation mesmerises the eye with its kaleidoscopic shapes and zooming colours, but the words «Spar» and «Aldi» flash up throughout so that one has the sense of a heavy subtext.

Her subject matter is restricted to a simple vocabulary of colours and abstract shapes.

Figures within these pictures are abstracted into flat - coloured shapes; crowded scenes appear simplistic and innocent in nature until a violent narrative appears.

In fact, two new things did — the cheery, cheesy literalism of pop art and the austerity of the minimalists, slipping their abstract shapes, patterns and colours into the art gallery with the least possible personal inflection.

Though he never signed or dated any of his works, the exceptionally bright and contrasting colours and the vibrancy of his forms — vaguely evoking flowers, birds, objects and human beings, but more often dissolving into abstract shapes — unquestionably became a signature of sorts.

When she isn't orchestrating content for her various audiences, Jaime is a talented, self - taught artist who loves to explore shape and colour, using layering as a guide, to create the most beautiful abstract paintings — inspired by her study of Japanese language, electronic music, sci - fi and architecture.

Focusing on conceptual illustration, his work is dominated by an abundance of abstract and anonymous characters, each in his unique style of round shapes with a minimal colour palette.

The geometric shapes and primary colours of the «play blocks» refer simultaneously to the abstract modernism of the 1910s and 1920s, such as the art movement De Stijl of Piet Mondriaan and Theo Van Doesburg.

For undoubtedly there are abstract tropes too: colour shapes, suggested geometry, gesture and the performative — offering visual - spatial readings, formality and expression, clarity and mystification.

And yet, by suspending each object on a white backdrop, and introducing abstract shapes and blocks of colour, Reynolds makes a more minimalist, contemporary statemeAnd yet, by suspending each object on a white backdrop, and introducing abstract shapes and blocks of colour, Reynolds makes a more minimalist, contemporary statemeand introducing abstract shapes and blocks of colour, Reynolds makes a more minimalist, contemporary statemeand blocks of colour, Reynolds makes a more minimalist, contemporary statement.

Within rigid parameters — unvarying materials and size — she conjures a progression of shapes and colours, building layer upon layer of seemingly spontaneous geometry until the work reaches its culmination: an abstract arrangement in perfect tension.

Often abstract and monumental in presence, Wilding's works play with our preconceptions of how substances seem, producing non-figurative forms with unexpected textures, shapes and colours.

Consequently, she presents canvases of bold, abstract colours of various shapes and sizes.

Working intuitively, the artist translates both the fixed and mutable qualities of a singular object or grouping before her — shape and form, texture, colour, shadows and highlights, the play of light across a surface — into abstract compositions that evoke a specific atmosphere.

Her experience of an immense range of Russian art, from icons to suprematism, consolidated characteristics that had been apparent in her art for many years: brilliance of colour, especially in her pastels and watercolours, and a frequent use of abstract shapes and strokes.

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».

Egged on by critics like Clement Greenberg (1909 - 94), abstract expressionists concentrated on purely formal criteria (line, shape, colour and the two - dimensional picture plane) while ignoring (or at least trying to ignore) representational and emotional content.

Within this facial framework I am abstracting and composing relationships of colours and shapes to generate illusionistic spaces suggesting further associations.»

One of the most distinct styles of geometric abstract painting to emerge from the modernist era, was the Op - Art movement (an abbreviation of «optical art») whose hallmark was the engagement of the eye, by means of complex, often monochromatic, geometric patterns, to cause it to see colours and shapes that were not actually there.

The use of colour and shape to move the spectator was paramount in the development of abstract art.

Art works by Buckley, Holme and Hudson act as interchange stations between painting and sculpture, with multiple references to real and abstract space and ruminations on formal properties such as transparency, opacity, colour, shape and line.

Always taking as his starting point familiar images from contemporary culture, stylistically Thomas Scheibitz works in the abstract tradition, using vibrant colours, geometric forms, fragmented type and deconstructed shapes.

They cut into the shape structure more to become shapes in their own right, For me they are an affirmation of non objective colour painting that looks toward a new pictorial language and one which connects abstract painting to it's history.

In his abstract self - portraits, gold - coloured insulation foam, curved and looped into symmetrical shapes based on mathematical graphs and charts, is combined with objects or motifs that suggest body parts and functions: a polythene bag holding liquid which looks like urine, a conch shell secreted in the inner space of a vulva - shaped cavity, and so on.

His style was highly original; his landscape painting employs clearly defined areas of colour structured by abstract patterns and shapes.

From painters who fill their canvases with colours, shapes and abstract forms, to artists who attack their art with vigorous brush strokes and expressive colours; abstract expressionism is now welcomed in the gallery environment and regularly produced in the art world, but how does it connect to street art and graffiti?

Like his plates, McLean's tiles incorporate painted abstract and figurative shapes and lines using a restricted palette of seven colours.

Quinn's abstract work evolved to satisfy his need for a parallel art form, in which he could escape the constraints of size and format dictated by the PCB's, and more fully explore the possibilities of colour and shape.

Gradually such direct references were minimised in favour of the largely self - contained abstract qualities of shape, support, colour and surface.

Following a visit to the studio of Piet Mondrian in 1930, where he was impressed with the environment - as - installation, Calder created abstract, three - dimensional, kinetic forms and suspended vividly coloured shapes in front of panels or within frames hung on the wall.

In the 1980s, Mosset produced two - coloured abstract paintings and since the 1990s, Mosset has been producing «shaped canvases.»

Reflecting influences of Pop and Minimalist art, Apfelbaum uses geometric and organic shapes to create abstract patterns in a saturated spectrum of exuberant colour.

Analogies between painting and music had long been common; many thinkers had attempted to codify the supposed expressiveness of colours, lines, and shapes; and more than one fairly ancient sketch might compete for the honour of being called the first abstract picture.

After his black and white abstract paintings, Stella produced a series of Aluminum Paintings (1960) and Copper Paintings (1960 - 61), before moving into «shaped canvases» with bright hard - edge colour, such as his Irregular Polygon (1965 - 67) and Protractor (1967 - 71) series.

Thus abstract painting is all about form, and to interpret it we need to examine its formal qualities - including, shapes, colours, textures, and their mutual relationships.