Sentences with phrase «architectonic abstractions»

In the early 1960s, Bishop developed the vocabulary of color and form that would characterize his paintings on canvas for over twenty years: a reduced but rich palette, the employment of subtle architectonic abstractions, and a consistently large, square format that reinforces the viewer's sense of scale and space.

Similarly, pioneering Mexican Modernist Gunther Gerzso's 1964 architectonic abstraction Blue Square sprang out of the artist's exposure to Pre-Columbian visual culture in Latin America, coupled with Western artistic movements, such as Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism.

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Susan Daniel - McElroy - Art Now Cornwall Tate St Ives 2007 The pristine surfaces of these architectonic paintings bear the hallmarks of American post - Abstraction and conceptual practice as they nod in the direction of Barnett Newman and >> >>

Andrade is widely known for her contributions to the field of Op Art, but unlike the retinal interventions of her contemporaries Victor Vasarely or Bridget Riley, Andrade's meditative, geometric abstractions developed towards explorations of pattern networks, spatial abstractions of architectonic volumes, and landscapes.

The angular forms of the figure in this drawing recall his portrait paintings, and the vertical, architectonic marks also reference his cityscapes and nonrepresentational abstractions.

Spanning her nearly five - decade engagement with abstraction, light and architectonic form, this publication situates Kasten's practice within current conversations around sculpture and photography.

This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: «Ideas Generation», where artists use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; «Systems, Architectonics and Abstraction», in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the image; «Expressions of Anatomy», where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; «Graphic Narratives / Surreal Legacies», featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and «Historia», which examines how drawing has been used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.

Hung side by side, a lively conversation develops between photography and painting, realism and abstraction, and together they make us more aware of architectonic forms that surround us but that we rarely give our full attention.

The catalogue notes of the work, shown below, that «The passages of dripping paint, which run counter to the painting's vertical format, embolden the architectonic composition, creating the dynamic tension of opposites that is the hallmark of Kline's abstractions.»

Allowing contemporary artists to revisit the museum's history and filter it through their own perspectives, this intermingling of historical and contemporary art emphasized the Albright - Knox's ongoing support of artists working in abstraction in all of its varied forms, from emotive and highly gestural expressions to cool and crisp architectonic explorations of design and structure.

Like all of Berthot's work, these two paintings reconcile the ostensibly incompatible precipitateness of Abstract Expressionism with the architectonics of Hard - Edge Abstraction.

For forty years Len Bellinger's work has been committed to the exploration of abstract / non-representational painting and the ambiguous space inherent in the concept of «abstraction,» from early icon - shaped minimalist panels trimmed with gold leaf as a P.S. 1 studio resident in the late» 70's to thickly manipulated paintings rich with byzantine color and an underlying architectonic -LSB-...]

Who, looking at Bluhm's slashing gestural abstractions of the late 1950s — the work that first brought him attention — would be able to foresee the paintings he created in the 1980s and 1990s: architectonic, intensely symmetrical compositions that owe as much to the art and architecture of Medieval and Renaissance Europe as to the Abstract Expressionist milieu in which Bluhm's style was initially forged.