Guston's subjects include large heads, hairy legs, clumsy shoes, and all manner of
architectural fragments such as walls, doors, and light bulbs reminiscent of 1920s comics, and they often come over as the precursors of «Bad Painting».
Not exact matches
From 1988 to 2005 a programme of restoration within the Museum was carried out under Peter Thornton and then Margaret Richardson with spaces
such as the Drawing Rooms, Picture Room, Study and Dressing Room, Picture Room Recess and others being put back to their original colour schemes and in most cases having their original sequences of objects reinstated; Soane's three courtyards were also restored with his pasticcio (a column of
architectural fragments) being reinstated in the Monument Court at the heart of the Museum.
Varied subjects,
such as figural
fragments, drapery, and
architectural relief appear on a typical single Baroque study sheet for the sake of economy and for the rehearsal of an image.
Since the early 1990s, Pedro Cabrita Reis has made masterful use of
architectural materials including cement, bricks, wood, steel, metal, beams and actual
fragments of architecture, which he juxtaposes with elements from the visual arts
such as enamels, pigment and neon light to create poetic, imagination - led works of great political value, capable of revealing memories associated with the context in which they are located and from where they come.
Alongside his pictorial explorations of light and shadow, color and construction, and the transparency of planes, Kuitca incorporates elements of past series
such as
fragmented maps,
architectural floor plans, and thorns.
Compositionally, the paintings range from compressed layers to airy patterns,
such as Nocturne with
Architectural Fragments (2014), with its layered structure of geometrical lines.