Sentences with phrase «best abstract sculpture»

The proof of the pudding is in the eating; ALL of today's best abstract sculpture and quite a lot of today's best abstract painting is being made by Brancaster artists.

I think the sculpture deserves to be much more widely seen, but proclaiming that a group of more or less unknown artists are making the best abstract sculpture in the world seems a funny way of going about doing that.

Not exact matches

No Norman Rockwell prints or velvet Elvises here: the gallery — whose average sale rings in at around $ 500 — features a mix of colorful abstracts and soothing landscapes as well as unique sculpture, pottery, and art glass.

Tons of paintings both oil, & acrylic, abstract, landscapes, sculptures in stone, cement, polymer clay, 3D canvas art, rock sculptures, fairies, fairy house lamps and stash jars, as well as handcrafted soaps, lotions, candles, bath salts to die for and it's all natural ingredients!!

Their invention would prove elemental to the Bauhaus in coming years, as well as inspiring the first modern abstract sculpture.

While Stella's assumptions regarding Minimalism as well as contemporary abstract sculpture \ are based on the relationship between a moving spectator and a stationary object, cinema posits a moving image in front of a stationary spectator, reversing the terms of the equation,

The site - specific immersive installation features two 170 foot murals and several abstract wooden sculptures intended to raise questions about the current economic, ecological, and civic state of the nation, as well as the individual's role in it.

That exhibition thematized the relationship between Liu's paintings and his three - dimensional sculptural forms via explicit formal echoes: Black - and - white geometric paintings were adroitly paired with rectilinear pseudotopiary sculptures in which bands of foliage were interspersed with horizontal neon lights, while the oscillating static playing on stacked TV sets chimed with the abstract canvases as well.

Gaining notice in the art world while still a student, she soon began building a wider following with abstract wire sculptures that expressed both the craftsmanship she had learned from Mexican basket makers as well as her ambition to extend line drawings into a third dimension.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra, (2/11/39 --RRB-, who is best known for his large - scale abstract steel sculptures, which emphasizes materiality and an engagement between the viewer, the site, and the work.

Peter Shelton's sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative forms along with anatomical as well as architectural motifs.

Hoyland was spurred on by the formal crispness and rich colour of Caro's abstract sculptures, as well as by Caro's ability to make it big while remaining in Mickey Mouse England.

Although she was initially schooled for design and abstract painting, the medium she is best known for even today is sculpture.

The painting is completely abstract and the sculpture is... well, I don't know what you'd call it.

Her work is strict, slick and abstract as well as emotionally involved, performative and overly literal; the intersection of form, structure and rhythm with the messy, perturbed and oddly sentimental is the underlying tone in her work, be it video, performance, sculpture, text or photography.

As for Alan's assertion that the short history of abstract sculpture is pioneered by painters — well, that's a big part of the problem.

This requirement for abstract sculpture, as well as its involvement with an all - over plastic spatiality and physicality, seems to be something very few artists or commentators who are not directly involved can understand at the moment.

With a collection ranging from abstract painting to politically charged sculpture, the gallery has been described by The Washington Post Express as «one of the best places to spend First Fridays».

Leonardo Drew is known for creating reflective abstract sculptural works that play upon the dystopic tension between order and chaos, recalling post-minimalist sculpture that alludes to America's industrial past, as well as the plight of African Americans throughout U.S. history.

The lines, planes, textures and colours he composes from the models recall Modern painting and sculpture, including Picasso's reliefs, as well as mid-20th century abstract painting.

It's best not to expect to find towering shiny abstract sculptures of burnished steel as they won't be found.

The same can be said for Nevelson, as her well - known sculptures from the 1950s - 80s «synthesize» minimal and regular objects / parts into larger, complex and abstract forms.

Inside, though, I found an early — and slightly gauche — digital video thudding away on the gallery's biggest wall, a huge, dressing screen - like sculpture created from a grid of metal bars, and, best of all, an ingenious series of abstract paintings created from bathroom tiles and coloured grouting.

10/11/2017 -11 / 2/2018 Peter Bremers: Looking Beyond the Mirror From a master of the kiln - casting technique in glass sculpture comes two distinct bodies of work in Peter Bremers» abstract style that express his exploration of human existence, from the perspective of the individual's perception of the world as well as an observation of our collective power as a group of individuals.

John Chamberlain, the American artist best - known for his abstract sculptures made from auto parts and crushed steel, has died at the age of 84.

Scattered around were a number of wall and floor pieces — the well - known automobile parts crammed and jammed into muscular, abstract conglomerates, lacquered metal shards, a big twisted urethane foam work from 1966, and a room filled with the newer collapsed galvanized zinc sculptures made from

Thus, the sculptures of Chul - Hyun Ahn infinitely reflect highly streamlined forms, as in the series Visual Echo; explore architectural spaces, as in the series Tunnel and Well; and integrate abstract drawings, such as in the series Mirror Drawing.

Swiss artist Ivan Liovik Ebel (b. 1983) creates abstract paintings as well as photographs, sculptures, and performances.

A wonderful photograph of local housewife, Mrs Elsie Hemmingway peering at an abstract sculpture titled Seated Woman is captioned with her remark: «Well, you can't get away from it... it's clever.»

In other words, the contrast between natural light and fabricated light, as well as the narrative differences between an abstract sculpture and a photograph of that sculpture, distance the space between seeing a work and deriving meaning from it.

Here the focus is on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.

Chakaia Booker is best known for the material and process that characterize the majority of her work: cut - up automobile tires that are reassembled on wooden or steel armatures to create abstract sculptures.

Lee Bontecou is an American artist best known for her abstract wall works that feature reliefs, hanging sculptures and miniatures.

The inaugural opening at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, a 113,000 square - foot gallery, located in Los Angeles, is an important, monumental, museum - size exhibition of one hundred abstract sculptures created by thirty - four well - known contemporary women artists during the last seventy years.

Through her sculpture - making process, Jodi adds, she's «discovering rhythms and patterns that are nature - based as well as abstract.»

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

Chris Succo is best known for his abstract painting but works in a wide range of media, including sculpture and photography.

Evocative of the Modernist sculptures of David Smith or Alexander Calder as well as Henri Matisse's boldly - colored abstract collages, these more abstract works combine Wood's interest in direct experience with his fascination with the many forms and genres found throughout art history.

That puts Koons in good company, as other prized Minskoff holdings include Jackson Pollock's Wounded Animal (1943), a group of Willem de Kooning figurative and abstract works, and 19 pieces by Pablo Picasso, including his bronze sculpture La guenon et son petit (1951).

Her sculptures are technological renditions of nature, evoking phenomena such as tornadoes and cellular, neuron - like structures, as well as abstract representations of digital networks.

One of the most successful postmodernist artists of his generation, he is best known for his site - specific abstract sculpture, like Cloud Gate (2004, Stainless steel, Millennium Park, Chicago) and Marsyas (2002, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern).

October 25 - 16 Trunk Show: Virginia Raku Clay 11 a.m. — 4 p.m. Inspired by many contemporary artists such as Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, and Klimt as well as African, Asian, and Islamic art forms, Tanya Tyree incises her raku - fired clay sculptures, vessels, decorative objects, wall art, and jewelry with abstract drawings that reveal their own mystery, sweet spirit, and mood.

Richard Hunt best known for his abstract metal sculptures and public artwork.

Her driftwood assemblage sculptures, mostly small sized totemic abstract figures sometimes wall mounted, are probably better known than her paintings.

In the ensuing years Serra's huge, curved, torqued, space - enclosing, and space - defining steel sculptures, best experienced not by simply looking at them, but by wandering through and around them, have become extremely popular and are widely thought to be among the most significant abstract sculptures of the late 20th and early 21st cent.

He is known for figurative and minimalist sculpture, as well as abstract painting.

``... as strong an example of achieved abstraction in sculpture as one is likely to find» is as close as damn it to calling it a masterpiece, and certainly implies it's one of Caro's best, and better than most other peoples abstract sculpture.

This book is available from the gallery during the exhibition, as well as Sam Cornish's, Stockwell Depot 1969 - 79 (Ridinghouse) catalogue that also features Gouk within the context of developments in abstract painting and sculpture at this time.

He is best known for his colorful, whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles, kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents, which embraced chance in their aesthetic.