Sentences with phrase «as calligraphic»

Nothing is overtly Kline - like in the pale blue and green washes of «Letter From Franz Kline,» except for a delicately brushed black that might be read as a calligraphic whisper.

A 1960 review by Michel Strauss in the art magazine The Burlington — of an exhibition of Cervelli's work at London's Savage Gallery — described the artwork as calligraphic transpositions of ancient propitiatory rites as presented by the peasants of the Abruzzi region.

Not exact matches

As the above video clearly shows, the man is on point when it comes to calligraphy, and has millions following his daily calligraphic updates on Instagram and Facebook.

In that guide, I outline the benefits of Oldstyle fonts, as they retain calligraphic traits of their typographic origins that make them look beautiful as well as read easily on the page.

As guests pass through a wide façade reminiscent of the city's Imperial Palaces and into the skylit central atrium, they are immediately struck by the dramatic calligraphic art entitled Landscape of Desires by Qin Feng.

Part of a series of 102 silkscreened canvas panels conceived as one painting with multiple components, in this piece there are elements that call to mind Franz Kline's investigations into calligraphic compulsions.

Starting around 1947, a recurring theme was abstracted processions of sometimes calligraphic figures such as the ink on paper «Untitled (Procession)» (circa 1965).

His most recent works come in a variety of mediums, including a mix of calligraphic and abstract paintings, as well as landscape photography.

However, when Zao became established in Europe, he began creating fascinating paintings, such as Landscape (1951), which reworked traditional Chinese calligraphic techniques with reference to Paul Klee.

Jirō bows to tradition, too, as with a calligraphic black painting broken by a white impasto circle.

Lewis» work then moved into what Fine described as «a very calligraphic period, where the use of line in fairly abstract terms for me reflects his interest in music.»

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

Her fascination with language comes through in a large, light - filled calligraphic work from 1965 titled Kufic, as well as in the tightly painted, untitled schematic grid of 1949 that stacks hieroglyphics in meticulous boxes.

Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

Often cited as the father of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates, Sharif began making art in the 1970s, but soon departed from his region's dominant art form of calligraphic abstraction and embraced the radical approaches of avant - garde movements such as Fluxism and British Constructivism.

Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.

Get lost in the rich pop, cinematic, and calligraphic references in the digital prints of Rosaire Appel at Schema Projects, trying to decipher as you go.

A solo exhibition that is at once immersive and intricate, On the Wall: Nadia Haji Omar simultaneously alludes to the uniquely complex cultural histories of Sigiriya as a built and natural environment replete with overlapping religious narratives, artistic styles, and the calligraphic traditions of the Sinhalese and Tamil languages, among others.

First creating large - scale pieces like Mason and his peers, Takemoto decorated his surfaces with painted or incised calligraphic patterns influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting as well as Picasso's ceramic designs and traditional Asian ceramics, as in his 1959 work First Kumu, a bulbous stoneware vase adorned with swirling motifs.

In the works in the show designated as Surface Body, he wrote, «I contemplate wall structures, cities and the State as being political borders, with opposing polarities, whereas Action Space employs a fast calligraphic mark, in juxtaposition with vast spaces of color significantly symbolizing personal freedom.»

Visitors shouldn't rush through the latter for the former, as Smith's work is indebted to the calligraphic traditions of the East, and after walking through rooms full of painted tiles, fabric designs, and miniature paintings the connections between the two will be obvious.

And we see the artist's vision of civilization expanding as he inflects the surface of the canvas with the calligraphic marks of his Tea House series, a reflection of his long - standing interest in Asian art.

The faces emerge from a gaseous swirl of almost calligraphic lines, the heads melded together as the young man looks forward to the future and the bearded elder looks back to the past with occluded eyes.

One can see the jumps as a lack of disjunction, with each calligraphic trace and color in its cell running up against and slightly into others.

His work is also often described as full of little images, or «little people» — his calligraphic line, which fluidly creates the subjects of crowds or jazz quartets.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

The exhibition itself, meanwhile, features a number of works that, it seemed to me, were designed as site - specific installations, offering a dynamic and fascinating melding of textural and calligraphic impulses.

Enter relative unknowns such as Judith Godwin and Deborah Remington, whose Epic (1959) and Eleusian (1951), respectively, take a less strident approach to the broad, calligraphic strokes so favored by Kline by supporting them with wedges of plum, dusky gold, or tomato red.

Calligraphic elements and their emphasis on expressiveness and asymmetry have always been the most prevalent aspect of Asian art apparent in the work of abstract expressionists such as deKooning, Francis, Tobey and Kline.

It fills in gaps in the museum's holdings, such as paintings by Georg Baselitz, a German neo-expressionist artist who specializes in tense, angst - filled canvasses and Cy Twombly, who is known for his calligraphic, graffitilike works.

Groundbreaking for its day, particularly as a woman ceramicist, Choy's work aesthetically merged the formalist influences of abstract expressionism with traditional calligraphic brushwork of Asian potters.

This 1972 sculpture might be seen as mocking other artists» calligraphic explorations as trivial — or not.

I think of it too as how one comes to the final calligraphic brush mark by the repeated making of a from.

The gallery describes Gimblett's paintings as «glossy, calligraphic abstractions in high - keyed hues, many of which feature large expanses of gold, silver, and aluminum leaf.

Her work was also unique in terms of her commitment (in varying degrees) to maintaining some figuration — usually patterns from nature and sometimes calligraphic elements such as Hebrew letters — and a cerebral sense of control, in contrast to the less - controlled automatism being practiced by her contemporaries.

In RESIST, text is used as a repeated element rising from the floor to the ceiling intertwined in an elaborate white calligraphic motif.

Although not calligraphic in a conventional sense, he draws the words in this series as much as writes them, in some cases surrounding them with intricately hatched textures to create a kind of abstract illuminated manuscript.

On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.

El - Salahi, the Sudanese artist now based in Oxford, UK, renowned as «the father of African Modernism» — a key member of the 1960s Khartoum School in which calligraphic motion and Arabic language was broken down to give birth to new forms — is here showing black - and - white ink and paper works: the idea of the show is to delve into the genre of the «artist's book», picking up complexities of language and hybridity along the way.

Formally, the fifteen paintings in the 526 gallery evoke Marden's 1980s - era series of paint and graphite works on marble that are seen as transitional between his early monochromes and his later calligraphic paintings.

Tobey's mature work is characterized by what he referred to as «white writing,» delicate calligraphic markings overlaying and animating the surface.

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

Ming painting maintained the traditions of the earlier Southern Song painting academy, as well as those of the Yuan Dynasty: the Zhe School of painters (Zhejiang) pursued the descriptive, style of Song ink and wash painting, while the Wu School (Suzhou) school practised the more intense and expressive calligraphic idiom of Yuan scholar - painters.

Constructed Communication is a combination of talk and technique where Kenji communicates as much through the serifs and calligraphic flourishes of his letters as through the words his letters spell.

A «documentarian of city life», as he usually defines himself, Parlá recreates with paint the colors and textures of the city and the places he has visited making use of a multilayered calligraphic style inserting personal tales into his work.

I also thought of Hans Hofmann as I admired the mobility of Jaffe's red and gold rectangles and the calligraphic confidence of gridded black lines in the work on paper Untitled # 35, and even of Gerhard Richter's scraping across color on the right side of Untitled # 13.

She also acknowledges the importance to her work of earlier artists who used calligraphic elements, such as Paul Klee and Mark Tobey.

When he was painting them he never isolated the blue works as a single series — the Stable exhibition was the first time that he highlighted them — but rather always produced them alongside other paintings; whether the various types of works involving calligraphic, gestural, or blocked marks in the 1940s, or the red and black paintings he was also making in the early 1950s.

Late works, like the two diptychs titled Trees, 1990 - 91, are composed of broad, downward strokes and loose, calligraphic knots of jarring color against a white, light - filled ground, conveying a sense of Mitchell's personal struggle as she approached the last year of her life.

Strongly influenced by pop art, graffiti, and the calligraphic art, Fridriks» hyperkinetic abstract paintings are filled with swirls of vibrant color, address serious and rather worrying environmental and political issues such as genetic research, cloning, overconsumption and exhaustion of natural resources.