What is the relationship
between ornamentation and abstraction?
Not exact matches
For some people, the most obvious difference
between Catholic and Protestant churches was in the
ornamentation.
Terry Gates, lecturer in NC State's Department of Biological Sciences and research adjunct at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, wondered if there was a correlation
between the development of cranial
ornamentation and rapid gains in size.
Her goal has been to offer a new space that shifts reality from a third - person to a first - person viewing perspective; to remove the space
between the artist and the still life while at the same time retaining and recalling the intellectual clarity, beauty, explosive dynamism, celebratory tone, and heightened attention to detail and
ornamentation reminiscent of the Baroque aesthetic that she loves.
A cross
between Western geometric abstraction and the geometric
ornamentation of Islamic art, it combines the visual impact of easel painting with the physical experience of design on an architectural scale.
Maksymowicz's exploration of the relationship
between the description of the grave of the mythical goddess Persephone and the real caryatid figures at the Erechtheion in Athens is as still as any sculpture, but its eccentric bounty of
ornamentation immediately suggests motion.
Her burnt clay sculptures depicting medieval busts reimagine the historical relationship
between craft, fine art and
ornamentation.
Perhaps most impressive is Hammons's ability to move
between succinct, socially - embedded performance, and complexly layered, gallery - focused art that negotiates a fine line
between baroque
ornamentation and potent symbolic gesture.
New works, on the other hand, move further away from this literary source to more freely explore the relationships
between bodies and objecthood, politics and
ornamentation, shame and desire, in a similarly lavish Victorian image - world.
Akunliyi's interest in textile and design brings to mind artists such as Mickalene Thomas and Yinka Shonibare, MBE, while the tension
between the foreground and background
ornamentation of her works evokes some of the better paintings of residency alumni Kehinde Wiley.
These mythologized reconfigurations respond to ongoing interests surrounding possibilities in narrative
between object,
ornamentation, sexual difference, desire, and the site of domestic dysfunction.
The cabinet and its
ornamentation resonate with the tensions
between the Werkstätte's progressive aesthetic, historicism and the opulent materials that they favored, eloquently questioning the evolving definition of modernity and the very future of design in Europe and beyond.»