They include one of Barnett Newman's «zip» paintings, «Onement II,» with its vertical brick - red stripe slicing through a scarlet field; Mark Rothko's 1949 «Untitled,»
an arrangement of abstract forms that foreshadows his iconic imagery of the 1950s; and Clyfford Still's «Number 5,» a vivid yellow canvas with splashes of color that seem to leap off its surface.
Not exact matches
This is the first major exploration
of the works
of American
abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive
arrangement of color,
form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance
of her art.
Through
arrangements of (an amalgamation
of / a melding
of) anatomical elements,
abstract forms and inanimate objects, Teresa explores the relationship between these subjects and our emotional experience
of physical reality.
On the one hand, you have these really beautiful, minimalist,
abstract works (in the kind
of traditional sense
of thinking about Donald Judd, Anne Truitt, that kind
of concern for color and
form), and then you have your video works, or your use
of flowers, like the way a flower or an
arrangement of flowers can stand in for something.
The
arrangement renders the performing bodies and the
abstract forms strangely interrelated through a conduit
of social control and artistic sublimation.
The sacks were dropped on the floor in strategic
arrangements to
form abstract compositions
of color,
form, and scent.
Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures based on the Ancient Greek myth
of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions
of the 1950s in which
abstracted biomorphic
forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic
arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows
of Moons (1951).
In Calkins», «Arizona» the rock formation is approached head - on and becomes a beautiful
abstract arrangement of lines, striations,
forms and repetition.
«The exhibition will feature fifty graphic works from the last ten years, ranging from rhythmical
arrangements of faces and inanimate objects to lively explorations
of abstract forms.
These impressions
of the human
form, whether a cast
of an an orifice or a handprint, put the body in what the artist sees as both the real and
abstract spaces
of politics, which can be seen in her
arrangements as well as the works» titles.
Orthodox modernism's investment in the
arrangement of flat
abstract forms on a two - dimensional plane that prevailed in the 1950s is here subjected to merciless derision.
My perceptions about my subjects continually change,
abstract arrangement of forms make new connections, techniques emerge that can take me new places, I develop new tonal and color
arrangements that lead me to even greater challenges.
Created between 1979 and 1980, this series consisted
of arrangements of abstract geometric
forms coated with loose powdered pigments that spilled beyond the object itself and onto the floor or wall.
In his viscerally rendered charcoal drawings, Milan distills these
forms into near -
abstract arrangements, highlighting areas
of physical struggle, while leaving other passages sketched out or blank.
Martin considered music to be the purest
form of abstract art and in paintings such as Desert Flower, 1985 and Untitled No. 12, 1997 the carefully repeated
arrangements of various bands are themselves suggestive
of musical phrasing and evoke a contemplative mood.
These
abstract painters responded to the more «painterly» or gestural
forms of Abstract Expressionism by producing a type
of geometric
abstract art characterized by an economy
of expression, a neat surface devoid
of incident, a richness
of colour applied in clearly delineated areas, and a non-relational,
arrangement of forms across the whole canvas.
Josef's
arrangements of squares and rectangles and Anni's geometric patterns seem to share DNA with the
abstract forms of pre-Columbian pottery and textiles, and with the architectural designs captured again and again by Josef's camera.
This is seen in works such as Untitled (Burnt Wood)(1988), where rectangular sections
of various charred woods
form a monochromatic composition and Untitled (1989), which combines blocks
of burnt wood and salt on lead to
form a striking black and white
abstract arrangement.
Perhaps more than any others, these paintings exemplify the artist's ability to distil the essence
of a complex scene or composition into an
arrangement of near -
abstract forms.
Large planes
of color executed with a loose brush stroke create a structured tension that asserts the artist's underlying
abstract arrangement of form.
In 1970 he returned to color, continuing to use photographic portraits as a model but incorporating a new technique in which he constructed the image from a gridded
arrangement of individual color squares, each
of which is like an
abstract painting; viewed from afar, they
form a unified, highly realistic image.
But as slapdash as his work may appear, Cruzvillegas» pieces make serious nods to art history — to the bronzes
of Catalan sculptor Julio Gonzalez, who combined
forms both organic and
abstract, to the entropic cage
forms of British artist Anthony Caro, and to the
arrangements of wires, covered in hair, by U.S. artist David Hammons.
According to the artist, the «shadows» in the painting were conceived accidentally when he saw that scraps
of cut - out coloured paper had
formed a chance
arrangement of abstract patterns.