Sentences with word «biomorphic»

The word "biomorphic" refers to shapes, patterns, or designs that are similar to living organisms or natural forms found in nature. Full definition
painting like abstract pieces, stitched from yarn, of biomorphic forms in grays and browns.
At first glance, Emil Michael Klein's series seemed of a piece: a kind of allover (anti--RRB- painting featuring decorous lattices of biomorphic shapes in a retro palette of Day - Glo orange, yellow, and red; color fields connected by an artery - like network of pale lineation.
She experimented for some time with paintings of biomorphic forms and landscapes, and even sculpture, before hitting her stride.
These silkscreens share a sensibility with the sculptures of Bayne Peterson, who combines biomorphic abstraction with layers of hard - edged geometric patterning.
Aaron Curry is known for biomorphic sculptures in the hot, artificial colours of cartoons or sportswear, where references to modernist giants such as Miró and Picasso collide with the virtual worlds of computer games and movies.
To lure us into that zone, Burckhardt fills his paintings with biomorphic shapes that border on caricature, faintly and sometimes strongly evoking the iconography of Pacific Northwest Native American tribes, the Tlingit in particular.
Through works that can be touched, inhaled, bathed in, played with and which enfold the visitor in biomorphic forms built of translucent fabrics, Neto defends an experiential art that combines physical experience with an intellectually rigorous examination of our environment.
Besides a few self - portraits and watercolour landscapes, her work included biomorphic paintings in soft colours.
This blue tendril - like water fountain combines cartoon - like features with abstract biomorphic shapes that evoke living forms like plants and bodies.
During the 1940s and 1950s, biomorphic works by Arp and others (including Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore) were labelled Organic Abstraction.
His body of work pivots from bright palettes and energetic curves to meditative monochromatic blocks, from biomorphic imagery through mixed media sculpture and color field studies.
Her work has two distinct manifestations: drawings inspired by biomorphic forms painstakingly rendered in a series of vertical lines; and, sculptural portraits commissioned by friends and private patrons constructed mostly of papier mâché also with exacting detail.
Neill's paintings too have an aqueous biomorphic quality.
Titled by date, Lobdell's linear quasi-notational markings suggest petroglyphs and pictographs ---- more excavation than topography, as well as biomorphic shapes drawn on or scratched into the paint, linking painting practice with prehistoric creative impulses.
This immaculate exhibition featured Martin's early and little - known works, tracing her development from biomorphic abstraction to the minimal grid and striped canvases she's become famous for.
The range of textures — slick, matte, flat, chunky — cause the background to step out from the pictorial field into actual space, while the color slicks pool into biomorphic forms.
It's a pasty, chalky, composition of biomorphic figures that twist and bend all but in angish as they are squeezed into the small, 21 - 1/2 - x-18-inch frame.
Cy was developing rather nicely when he was interrupted during the year of 1953 and was drafted into the army — he served as a cryptographer at Camp Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.. On weekend leaves, Twombly was spending most of the time in his hotel room, producing biomorphic drawings which he claimed set the artistic direction everything would take from then on.
Created with a dry palette of graphite, gouache, and conté crayon on paper, the works feature biomorphic forms drawn from the worlds of physics, science fiction, anatomy, and horticulture.
His vaguely biomorphic shapes evoke totemic presences, as if they were examples of a tribal formalism anchored to a dark future.
There are some wonderful moments in these displays: engrossing works on paper galore; a quintet of wire sculptures by Lippold; the muscular wood and rope sculpture, «Totem for All Religions,» by Frederick Kiesler; and a 1943 rug of biomorphic design by the painter John Ferren.
And he explored a multitude of approaches to composition, including biomorphic representation in a series of works called Blue Balls, which feature prominent blue orbs inspired by his battle with renal disease.
Yang's abstract biomorphic sculptural forms explore the mysterious nature of form and space - juxtaposing «certainty, and deliberate intent with chance...» Her pragmatic nature as a lawyer has enhanced her creative process.
The category of biomorphic art is large and diverse, drawing connections between nature - inspired objects across time periods and geographies.
Processing the themes of myth, prophecy, archaic ritual and the unconscious mind, his work was based on biomorphic style stimulated by the Surrealistic imagery of the famous artist who immigrated to the United States because of the war, as Max Ernst, Joan Miro, and Salvador Dali.
If Artschwager stood outside his time, even compared to the more biomorphic version of Post-Minimalism in Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, or Lee Bontecou, he was not only looking forward.
Sanskara, a recent free - standing sculpture assertively hijacks rational geometry, hustling it into a gangling world reminiscent of Louise Bourgeois and earlier biomorphic surrealism.
The human face reoccurs as subject in «Caricatures» (since 2002), works in which biomorphic sculptural objects become caricature - like forms literally brought to life by videos of eyes and mouths that take over the unnatural proportions of the sculptural object.
These drawings use biomorphic abstraction and bright blocks of crayoned colour to evoke a factious merging of body and landscape, infused with an uneasy but compelling erotic charge.
Ali also creates portraits, as well as more abstract biomorphic images.
The show will be presented in a broad chronology, tracing Martin's early biomorphic abstractions from the 1950s through to the austere, geometric square - format canvases she is best known for, and ending with the artist's final work: a small, simple, ink - on - paper drawing of a succulent in a pot.
Born something of an art - world insider (she's stepdaughter of Irving Penn and daughter of model Lisa Fonssagrives, dubbed by Vogue «the first supermodel») her jewelry sells at the Gagosian shop and her vividly colored biomorphic sculpture through Firestone.
The catalog for her solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, titled «UH-OH,» sculpted some of the texts about the artist into biomorphic blobs and sharp geometric forms.
By combining biomorphic shapes with intricate details, she plays with the blurry lines that divide the natural world from the more abstract and surreal one.
Composed of carved biomorphic forms, sometimes painted in bright, monochromatic colors, and connected with steel wires, the majority of the Constellations are wall sculptures, with occasional standing or suspended works.
For this project, the artist will suspend an enormous biomorphic white form high above the floor in P.S. 1's Duplex gallery.
include elements of Abstract Expressionist mark - making, hearts, illustrative fawns, and biomorphic line drawing suggestive of internal organs.
Louise Bourgeois, French - born sculptor known for her monumental abstract and often biomorphic works that deal with the relationships of men and women.
Beginning his career in the 1920s as a figurative artist, he ultimately devised a complex biomorphic surrealist style that placed him by the early 1940s in the vanguard of Abstract Expressionism.
He encountered the work of both Miró and Mondrian in 1933, and by 1936 introduced a Mondrianesque grid pattern as the framework for playful biomorphic forms and rectangular planes of unmodulated color.
These, and more than sixty works on paper, treat pebbles, trees, sheep, birds, Moore's own hands, and nude figures, demonstrating the sheer breadth of biomorphic subjects that find tenuous harmonies in visionary monumental sculpture.
Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) French avant - garde artist, Dada artist and Surrealist, noted for sensuous biomorphic pieces Torso (1932) White Marble, Georges Pompidou Centre
Beginning in 1941 he began painting «pictographs» which incorporated biomorphic abstractions inspired by archetypal imagery drawn from the subconscious.
These works thus explore biomorphic form through both a strategic and practical interface between programme and material.
Early paintings reflect his interest in Cubism, biomorphic Surrealism, Jungian and Freudian theories of the unconscious, and African and Native American art.
One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.
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