Sentences with phrase «black calligraphic lines»

In Onibaba I and Onibaba II images of brightly colored Noh masks emerge from a network of bold, black calligraphic lines derived from Japanese perforated screens and lanterns.

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Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

Photographed in black and white, the female models» bodies and clothing have synergy with the graphic backdrops constructing the scenes: a curve of the waistline in the foreground of one woman merges into the calligraphic line of the background.

In Black Hole Universe Blom's lines were fuzzy and thick; here they are calligraphic, rhythmic, and full of movement like that of an Asian tiger painting.

Brice Marden's calligraphic lines and even Frank Stella's black paintings, can be said to approach Pollock through these late works.»

Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses calligraphic black and white marks against the white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.

I also thought of Hans Hofmann as I admired the mobility of Jaffe's red and gold rectangles and the calligraphic confidence of gridded black lines in the work on paper Untitled # 35, and even of Gerhard Richter's scraping across color on the right side of Untitled # 13.