Sentences with phrase «as collage elements»

At the gallery's basement, the viewer comes across three bodies of work: black photographic paper (coin studies), museum barriers standing in vertical position (distance keepers) and wall painting (model), that act as collage elements and manage in a quite unexpected and paradoxical way to serve as a whole new system of reference.
Some of his most well - known works consider passing time, utilizing dried paint «skins» from the tops of paint cans or paint trays as collage elements or subjects on canvas.
The show focuses on the 1960s, when Pavia began working in marble, treating blocks of stone as collage elements to create various colors and textures culminating in «scatter sculptures.»
After writing about the objects and characters they have identified in the artwork, families will draw their own images and use them as collage elements to create a collaborative, remixed version of Shaw's installation.
For much the same interplay between two and three dimensions, Lightner makes full use of Mylar's lightness, as a collage element.
In Rauschenberg's hands, the newspaper acts as a parallel to painting in some ways and as a collage element in others.

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As she blogs about elegance & ease she wanted to create a collage that incorporates both those elements.
The cumulative elements in the film also come across as a quilt, or collage of film tropes.
Ever since I started to study for my degree in art, at a local Art Collage, I am more open to talk and relate art with social issues such as culture element and happening in my country....
Elaborate processes were involved as he extended his painted surfaces outwards, collaging various elements and using high and low tech in a very personal way to produce the work.
The sources offer no direct links to the works except in a compositional sense, and are essentially treated as elements in a collage.
In contrast to works that incorporate found everyday objects, such as the «Combine» paintings of Robert Rauschenberg or the Dada collages of Kurt Schwitters, Almquist's experimental paintings extend his picture plane into three dimensions with constructed elements of disjointed, dream - like imagery.
Mar has created an installation incorporating many of the elements & themes recognized as part of his self - standing three - dimensional collage figures.
Drawing upon a rich legacy of conceptual and minimal artists experimenting with the sublime properties of space and light, Hodges plays with light, reflection, and perception...... Hodges» approach to capturing experience through such diverse media as collage, light, and reflection makes sense considering the variety of elements that form experience.»
In the 1950s neo-avant-garde artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created assemblages that brought collage techniques into three dimensions — laying the groundwork for much contemporary sculpture — as well as works on paper that incorporated found elements drawn from the mass media and everyday life.
[4] In the late 1970s, she embarked on a series of collage works, Eleven Ways to Use the Words to See (1976 - 1977), «this time using the medium to reflect directly upon her past,» [5] by cutting up old drawings that she used as compositional elements in new paintings, in ways similar to what she had done in the 1950s.
This concatenation of elements runs right through Ofili's work, and his use of materials: the elephant dung - balls and words spelled out in coloured map - pins, the collaged photos and layers of resin, the glitter and stars and glow - in - the - dark paints, all of which evidence a cargo of metaphoric as well as physical allusions.
Her collages are constructed using fragments from fashion and travel magazines, pornography, African art books, automotive schematics, and images drawn from science fiction as well as hand - drawn or painted elements which create a variety of new formations of the body.
For Tawney, mailing the postcards became an essential part of the collage - making process because the postmark functioned as an important collage element, «it was a concrete, when - and - where record of a journey successfully made.»
Unfixed inside the cassettes loose leaf, so to speak, the material is subject to the same provisionality and indeterminacy known to characterize the sculpture, and as such, functions as unstable elements of what could almost be considered living collages.
Azoulay, inspired by both their form and content, photographed the frames and used them as dominant elements in her collages.
Created as a synthesis of painting, drawing and collage, the works fuse formal concerns with the representational image, which can be seen in Phillips» inclusion of photographs of exterior spaces and architectural elements.
The term «cut and paste» though known today as the most common denominator in the plethora of graphic tools available in software like Photoshop, was originally and literally the act of manually cutting and pasting photos and other elements in collages and photomontages.
Emma Cousin's painting «Hybrid» is a brilliantly complicated start to the show, as its strong and varied yet complementary palette presents a collage - style composition with elements and angles from identifiable objects and characters.
The two artists struggled together to resolve medium - specific issues such as the warping that stemmed from the accumulated weight of glue and collage elements on the front of a single sheet of paper or paperboard.
Both working in collage at the time, Bearden and Grossman worked together to resolve issues such as the warping that stemmed from the accumulated weight of glue and collage elements on the front of a single sheet of paper or paperboard.
The wondrous Egg Arch and Pearl Portal (2018) combines elements of all three categories of her practice, in an elaborately rephotographed collage, printed on cut aluminum, that stands as a queenly Rosicrucian-esque apparition promising physical and energetic transportation to another, more feminine dimension.
I combine these elements, using collage and assemblage techniques, often integrating encaustic into the work as either a paint or an adhesive.
His singular techniques — extensive layering of color and collaged elements as well as lacquered surfaces that have been buffed to a dreamlike sheen — make each painting, no matter its size, instantly identifiable as his own.
The flatness of the spaces in his paintings and collages emphasizes what might be called the lateral relations between the picture's elements, and he makes these as complex as any depth effect might be.
His collage and video works are hallucinations of sorts, incorporating shamanistic elements such as feathers, beads, and porcupine quills onto more traditional paper works such as gouache and ink.
But as he painstakingly arranges these things and others into thick resin that coats his hybrid collage - paintings, he dematerializes them as well, revealing their potential to become elements of mind and pattern, like the inner - eye of whirligigs captured in his recent Millenium Phosphene Bloom.»
Scuffs and tears bandaged with collage elements typify Tran's works on paper, but their most surprising moments take the form of apertures in which tiny ceramic vessels sit, as if on windowsills.
This leads visitors back to a large charcoal drawing, «Untitled No. 18» from 1958, where you can see him sketching out vague shapes; then to several of his collages placed around the room; and finally to his paintings, which suddenly register as paintings sprung from collages, with their juxtaposed elements functioning, as Ms. de Kooning puts it, like «action caught at an impasse» to create «an art of interruption.»
The brilliance of Untitled [black painting with portal form] is that one can simultaneously appreciate the artist's complex handling of paint across an array of uneven surfaces while acknowledging the ways that the artwork, in its use of newspaper as a formal and almost sculptural element, bridges painting, collage, and assemblage.
In 1953, Rauschenberg embarked on the «red paintings,» in which collaged elements acting as discrete images rather than merely textural interest took on their own life and importance within the painting structure.
Though he does not disclose the details of the context or narrative of his work, Krisanamis has described his method as spontaneous, which he parallels to musical improvisation — weaving together color, line, and collaged elements in a rhythmic manner to form his compositions.
For their show opening this month at Madrid's Reina Sophia, the couple are debuting a new high - concept piece with sound and visual elements presented as an experiential collage.
These collaged elements — along with images of pillows and a detail from a Baroque relief — are sealed within a clear Plexiglas casing that acts as a support for the surprising array of three - dimensional objects suspended from the work's surface, ranging from tin cans and a spent tube of paint to assorted empty plastic tubes and salvaged wooden chair rungs.
Their built - up layers of paint and collage elements make them the most time - consuming works Bradley produces, as does the sculptural, three - dimensional way in which they are painted: on the floor, tacked to the wall, and on the back of the canvas, picking up studio detritus along the way.
First made in the early - 1960s, Kusama's soft sculptures adorned with phallic - like protuberances anticipate the work of Claes Oldenburg, while her use of wallpaper and collages incorporating elements such as airmail stickers would have a profound influence on Andy Warhol.
In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.
In treating painting as a hybrid, open practice that combines elements of painting, sculpture, collage, and installation art, the artists in Stretching Painting extend a distinguished historical trajectory associated with minimal and post-minimal art, while expanding our sense of what painting can be.
I'd never used rice paper before except occasionally as an element in a collage.
There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominently as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern - day context, as well as the break - up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture.
Loosely based on vintage men's fashion magazine covers, the artist's most recent work depicts male «cover stars» surrounded by a choreographed array of artefacts, accessories and architectural elements that point to the idea of identity and meaning as being collage - like in their construction and dispersal.
In the mid-1970s, in paintings such as Untitled (1976), Twombly began to evoke landscape through colour (favouring brown, green and light blue), written inscriptions and collage elements.
Colors and forms take on a lucid concreteness that pushes toward the three - dimensional, while collaged elements such as images and fabric become assimilated as building blocks in the work's architecture.
This was followed by further collage - like works such as the photoscreenprint Watermark, 1973, a remarkable clash of visual elements that epitomized a move towards an adoption of popular culture as a subject matter.
Murphy describes her collages as the «tenuous meeting points between architectural and abstract elements
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