Sentences with phrase «black forms»

Many feature black forms in a sea of strokes, and they're called portraits, strangely.
He saw the choice of black forms as a logical complement to his previous use of white.
His paintings, drawings and prints are characterized by a stark palette and simple, decisive forms, often featuring black forms against flat fields of color.
In the entirety of the small exhibition, black forms stand against white ground, with a couple of works that incorporate light or reflective elements.
Whilst this feature will not appeal to all, perhaps proving too jazzy or feminine for some, the break from the lifeless black form of the rest of the device is a welcome one and a move which helps, marginally, set the handset apart from a number of its similarly uneventful mid-range counterparts.
, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.
Alexander Calder's The Plow, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.
Although the artist was aware that the cultural significance of the Zen drawings in part relied on the words that were incorporated into them, he chose to see the elements of this «script» purely as black forms on a white ground, making drawings that reflected this.
Often, a chromatic hue — orange, green, blue — surrounds silhouetted black form.
The cool stillness of the oval shape is balanced by the thrust and energy of the more vibrant black form below it.
For me this section reminded me of many historical events where blacks formed their own communities to be «free» from discrimination and violence directed against them but were too often seen as a threat to the white world.
The exhibition features a signature work from each major phase of Stamm's oeuvre including the «Dodger» and «Zephyr» series, a «Tag» drawing, and polaroids of Stamm's abstract graffitti «Designators» - black forms from his paintings that he spray painted onto buildings in New York.
Post-war plastics (as in the shimmering, jewel - toned work of DeWain Valentine or Tony Smith's twisting, snakelike black forms) are a curatorial nightmare.
Meanwhile, «Accord I» (1962) reconciles the grouping of Guston's black forms while still offering richness and warmth, as faint hues of color peek through pewter grey grounds.
His intuitive approach to art - making is epitomized in the expressive black forms on white surfaces mentioned above, almost calligraphic in nature and akin to this Asian practice in their emphasis on gesture, both are forms of writing that transmit sense visually.
In the»80s, complaints in Münster resulted in the dismantling of Sol LeWitt's cinder block Black Form (Dedicated to the Missing Jews), which was considered too ominous.
The exhibition begins to demonstrate Gates» thoughtful handling of sometimes imagined African reliquary objects and other historic Black forms, referencing the power that can be honed from «poor» materials.
Untitled (remnant series) is more free - form, as abstracted cutout fragments in black form filigreed silhouettes in an all - over composition of black and tan.
This special exhibition offers prime examples of Sultan's style, characterized by stark, black forms amid vibrant fields of color.
Juxtaposition of Soft Black Forms, 1944 Oil on canvas 22 x 18 inches Collection of David Berezov Photograph by John Schweikert
The works generate a compelling relationship between the solid black forms within the prints and the viewer's bodily experience of them, and open up a dialogue with the dense, metal surfaces of the artist's sculptures within the Nasher Collection and beyond.»
As far as scanners go, the iX500's geometric black form looks pretty nice on a desk.
Black form fitting rayon crepe material with white embroidery on the front to look like a chain b...
It is generally agreed that Mars's colour is the result of a black form of iron called magnetite oxidising into the reddish - orange form called haematite.
The shades of red combined with green and black form a beautiful colour scheme (and a very apt one for the holiday season).
There are no slots or tabs; both the memory and battery are sealed in, and the only interruptions in its smooth, black form are the headphone jack, Power button, MicroUSB jack, and dual stereo speakers.
Alberto Burri used knives and various hand - made instruments to sculpt the surface of Cellotex board, thus creating textured black - on - black forms.
(One picture brings to mind Robert Longo's famous falling men from the 1980s, but the black form in the Breuer might just as well be negative space.)
In some of the most complex of these, such as an untitled work from 1953 known as «horizontal black painting,» a great variety of textures and shades of yellow, gray, and black form a dense, nearly chaotic pattern over a large surface.
The shape of the black form is also impossibly precise.
I'm fascinated by how similar the forms are when you break the paintings down into their components — particularly the black form as pictured above.
These softer strokes established a more atmospheric and recessive tone that was at once contradicted optically as the terracotta, sienna, ochre and gray tones served to push the black forms forward toward the picture's plane.»
A steamboat caught in a storm appears engulfed by the water and spray while a whale hunt lacks detail but is easily recognisable by the black form of the beast and the scarlet jets of blood.
The black forms in particular conjure Franz Kline, whose name figures in «Kline Rape,» the show's suggestive title.
The bottom line expansion is BLACK and describes a black form.
In calculated intervals, the black form interchanges with the colored background so that the background becomes black and the previously black form assumes a color.
The structures or the black forms in the paintings are kind of figured out when I start.
The black form in the bottom is painted in a choppy, painterly manner reminiscent of the active gestural expressionism of Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline, while the circle on top calls to mind the Color Field painting of Helen Frankenthaler or Mark Rothko.
A black form thrashes the surface into foam, then the line slackens and the water calms.
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