Sentences with phrase «between painterly elements»

Often the surface is shared up with a blade or stylus, invoking a series of mannered provocations between painterly elements.

Playing on the tension between painterly elements and raw materials, Ruby's work is a transformative expression of philosophical enquiry.

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Using shallow depth of field, her compelling photographs play with the contrast between small areas of sharp focus and a painterly blurring of the other compositional elements.

Between them, the works study the major abstract Modern movements on the 20th century, geometric abstraction, painterly gesture and the elements of human imperfection which can find expression in artwork.

The continuous interest in intense relations between pictorial elements, the very perception of a painterly surface, color and forms, suggest the artist's desire to explore different layers of meanings and emotions.

As such, the new show displays photographic, painterly and sculptural elements, which continue to document the battle between nature and artificial developments,, questioning the way modernist architecture attempts to situate itself within the landscape.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

Also incorporating performance, «BLISS (REALITY CHECK)» (2017) by Donna Huanca (b. 1980) is an elaborate installation comprised of a tableaux vivant of props, painterly elements and actors, designed to suspend the viewer between the role of a passive onlooker and an active performer.