What I wanted to do was to make a painting with that kind of energy, scale, and
allover composition, but using images.
Memory Ware Flat # 24 combines the chaotic,
allover composition of an Abstract Expressionist painting with banal, easily recognizable objects.
New interference - pattern works disguise themselves as monochromes and forgo the spinal element that characterized previous paintings, instead favoring
an allover composition.
While his vehicles have been popular subjects, the series actually originated with simpler sculptures of streets — asphalt spheres (a form with no beginning or end and the three dimensional equivalent of
an allover composition) painted with yellow and white lines: an embodiment of movement and the continuous fluid interconnection of paved roads.
There is another aspect of Newsom's metaphorical rave: the veneer of Matissean color in consort with the formalist strategy of
allover composition, once used in defense of «action painting» in the fifties, as a structural scaffolding to hold his entourage of spiteful feathery ghouls in place.
Ellsworth Kelly's soaring White Curve (2010) echoes the buoyant mark - making in James Brooks's Mardon (1973) and the minimalism of Kelly's object, hovering between painting and sculpture, is heightened by the dispersed narrative of Brooks's
allover composition.
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.
Katz sought to achieve a fast, physically active painting inspired by the dance - like action of Jackson Pollock, whose
allover compositions were a revelation.
The results are jazzed,
allover compositions that resemble Jackson Pollock's dripped lines, pared down and forced through a screen of Op Art.
The gathering reveals an ambitious, sometimes awkward painter devoted to working in the open air who felt compelled to respond to Jackson Pollock and the radical
allover compositions of his abstract drip paintings.
In his best works of the 1990s, Baribeau favors
allover compositions filled with feverish layers of graffiti - like scrawls, collage elements and patches of unmodulated color, the surface overlain with spare networks of rough - hewn black lines.
i Her lively multifigural paintings, with their naive
allover compositions and droll anecdote, reflected a contemporary artistic trend toward accessible images of ordinary people and daily life.
In Bradford's case, his painting process offers satisfying, intensely additive and subtractive visual tropes, with battered Terry Winters-esque surfaces and proliferating
allover compositions.
Not exact matches
Vintage hand - knotted Turkish rug with distressed
composition featuring
allover diamond pattern and Art Deco style with a neutral color palette.
Perhaps most significantly, Schapiro's
compositions are not
allover abstractions, and that not alloverness — the fact that each presents a figure on a ground — is the one element that could be interpreted as a subtle critique of the Greenbergian imperative to deemphasize figure and privilege the totality and immediacy of ground.
In still another work, Asawa uses a «BMC» stamp from the school's laundry facility to create an
allover, undulating
composition.
It was a novel optical effect that Poons created by combining the lessons of Jackson Pollock's pulsating
allover fields with Mondrian's soulful «Boogie Woogie» geometric
compositions.
His
compositions include Braque - inspired, semi-representational scenes; abstract,
allover patterns; color fields; hard - edged geometric shapes; and, recently, what he calls his «crackle paintings,» whose cracked and layered surfaces resemble tree bark or parched ground.
There, she unveiled early pieces from her ongoing «Infinity Net» series:
allover abstract
compositions built from small white circles that are repeated in dense repetition.
They influenced a specific formal component of Abstract Expressionism, the «
allover»
composition, which disperses pictorial incident evenly across the picture surface.
A central cluster of vegetation in the diptych, Untitled, is continuous across the pair of panels, literary staging a confrontation between the interior space established in the
composition and the exterior one imposed by its edge; Beaded Curtain (Red Apples) identifies in its title the dual function played by an
allover crimson chevron design as fruit on an arboreal range and the scrim through which the greenery is glimpsed.
In addition to the increase in scale, this period was also characterized by a further commitment to «
allover»
compositions, an emphasis on gesturality and an engagement with the individual psyche.