Not exact matches
Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses
of a fan shape: in early works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive
of deeper spiritual meaning; in Taxes (1993), one
of her later black and white paintings, the fan shape
becomes a central formal
element that unifies the
composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan shapes create a complex formal variation which co-exists with other images.
Especially in Pettibon's later work, where the text tends to be longer, the text part
becomes an equal graphic
element in the
composition, thus creating a sense
of urgency on behalf
of the viewer, to produce meaning out
of contradictory
elements.
Richter
became inspired by the American composer, John Cage, who employed
elements of chance in his
compositions.
This exploration is one
of the key
elements in the work
of many very established painters, such as Robert Ryman, where for him not just the paint application comes into play but his choice
of methods for attaching the painting to the wall or the actual date and signature on the work
become a pivotal piece
of the
composition.
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.
Within these assemblages however the order is clarified as the viewer
becomes aware
of how each
element combines to create and generate an audio
composition.
When these conceptual artists presented text within the context
of an artwork, they were forcing their audiences to
become a part
of the artwork by imploring them to read the
composition, almost like a script that adds an
element of the theatrical.
Color now carried independent content, along with basic geometric forms, which
became free from all iconographic reference and are meaningfully valid as
elements of the pictorial
composition.
The viewer and his immediate surroundings are momentarily reflected on the lacquered stainless steel,
becoming an integral
element of the
composition itself and defying preconceived notions
of artwork as an inanimate object.
As expressed in the press release, in Rough's paintings visual
elements become a chromatic system
of pure forms, where colours, lines and shapes are modulated as visual «chords» in a musical
composition, resulting in a dynamic and precise structure, where nothing is arbitrary and everything is in the right place.
But polymerization has
become a principle
of composition, with the invention
of flexible and artificial alloys
of heterogeneous
elements — as can be seen in the videos
of Laura Prouvost, Ian Cheng, Rachel Rose or Camille Henrot, the installations
of Mika Rottenberg, Nathaniel Mellors and Charles Avery, the paintings
of Roberto Cabot or Tala Madani.
From the 1960s on a much freer approach to format
became evident in some
of the work
of artists such as Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly and the shape
of the canvas
became an important
element in the
composition of the work.
When my livelihood depended on the massively saturated art market, the «sale»
became an overwhelming
element in the
composition of the piece and counterproductive to the integrity
of what I should have been doing.