Sentences with phrase «abstracts everyday forms»

The show addresses how artists departed from abstract expressionism with in - depth concentrations of works by Ellsworth Kelly, whose Tablet series documents how he abstracts everyday forms to create the shapes found in his paintings; Cy Twombly, whose strangely elegant paintings are sometimes built up with scribbles and scrawls, other times scratched out with a screwdriver dragged across a painted surface; and the twin pillars of neo-Dada, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Not exact matches

Here the student demonstrates the ability to identify the main idea, generalize new material, translate verbal content into a visual form, transform abstract concepts into everyday terms, or make predictions.

Le Grice abstracts from nature and architecture «the patterns which form part of our everyday world» making paintings in acrylic or mixed media, that are quite modest in size.

Nonetheless, De Keyser is fast becoming recognised as one of the 20th century's foremost proponents of a complex, unique form of abstract figuration inspired as much by everyday reality as by serious aesthetic concerns.

While drawing on the language of 20th century abstraction, White's pattern paintings temper that language's impulse towards epic, auratic significance, and emphasize, rather, the endless adjustments that are made when abstract forms encounter the world of the everyday.

Playing with context and form, everyday mattresses become abstract and weighty sculptures.

The expressions of everyday life and vibrantly abstracted forms presented in Pattern Scheme evoke qualities of time, balance, repetition, focus, and design that emerge from the unique styles, subjects, and stories of each artist, connected through their varying use of pattern.

The work combines the abstract and the everyday in order to redefine them — to sever context and meaning, elevating form, color and material.

Puryear's evocative, dreamlike explorations in abstract forms retain vestigial elements of utility from everyday objects found in the world.

His sculptures — geometric wall objects, façade - like reliefs, objects and sculptures created from abstract stereometric bodies which take the form of cubes, angles, columns, pedestals, podiums, movable walls and shelving — are made of cheap no - frills materials such as particle board, cardboard, linen, molton, Styrofoam, synthetic resin, emulsion paint, fluorescent tubes and other everyday building materials.

Emily Musgrave's work addresses the formal qualities of abstract sculpture by using forms influenced by the subtle details of everyday construction materials.

Johns seems to allude to these forms in the modern cutlery around the frame, whose realism abruptly connects this very abstract painting to the contemporary everyday world.

The featured paintings depict abstracted forms of Brazil's everyday life: carnival, folk art and motifs from baroque to pop, all choreographed into an exuberant visual rhythm.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

Others are invented forms, such as Richard Artschwager's abstract Formica relief, which alludes to the scale and material of everyday furniture but is decidedly non-utilitarian.

Aiming to reassess abstract art's critical role as aesthetic idiom, perceptual process, and research form, this project considers how abstraction's constant re-makings keep it crucial, a strategy to think contemporary culture and to incite ongoing critical dialogues with everyday reality.

She is known for creating large - scale sculptural installations which take everyday materials as the starting point and for works that combine abstract forms with references to society.

They connect abstract forms and everyday objects, creating as a whole a harmonious chaos.

Ellsworth Kelly, one of America's great 20th - century abstract artists, who in the years after World War II shaped a distinctive style of American painting by combining the solid shapes and brilliant colors of European abstraction with forms distilled from everyday life, died on Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y..

Although influenced by the still life work of French artists Chardin (1689 - 1779) and Cezanne (1839 - 1906), and the Italian painter Morandi (1890 - 1964), Kembry draws on abstract / representational forms common to our everyday life.

For the past twenty years, Tim Hawkinson has been part of a larger movement in art concerned with transforming everyday materials into radically new forms, both abstract and representational.

Whether referring to the history of art, abstract forms, or simply to everyday life, the works of these eleven artists show us that serious art also has its lighter side.