Sentences with phrase «bulbous forms»

The bulbous forms of the last large sculptures, made at the end of his life, are sanded to a smooth perfection and then lacquered in iridescent colors that augment their seductive power.

Included are examples of his works from the later 1960s through the early 1990s, including his «slate» sculptures, his «geometric» period of the 1970s, and the large, bulbous forms with perforations from the late 1980s.

The ping - pong balls are obviously bodily, bulbous forms; the tape is detritus.

The juxtaposition between the lush organic shape and its shiny, steel materiality here creates a psychedelic impression, but ultimately the bulbous forms emerge as celebratory and animated, absorbing viewers and their surroundings in their own image.

With nary a straight line in sight save for the edges of the canvas, the work's three bulbous forms resemble curved cones, or some kind of cross between a breast and a penis.

I don't think you'd be far wrong to see it as simultaneously a riff on op art (a term coined by Time magazine the same year as Greenberg's Post Painterly show), a metaphor for the fluidity of U.S. race relations and a sort of tidying up of what Brummel calls «the thick, frayed brushstrokes» of Franz Kline and the bulbous forms of Robert Motherwell, both of whom worked largely in black and white.

I did not recognize it when I saw its bulbous form at the local market, and curious to experiment with something new, I bought a few kohlrabies.

These include why the maps always have the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea at the top, even though it is not north; why the Mediterranean is pictured as a bulbous form with shores that mirror one another; why the sea's islands are lined up on the central axis of the map; and more.

Heavy Water (2015) uses lighting to transform a flat pool of water into a bulbous form, while Knife, Sole, Feather, Scrubbers (2015) playfully substitutes a photographer's color chart with vibrant scrub sponges.

That blue, bulbous form sitting on that yellow, undulating line is unmistakable, but also obscure, mysterious as Eros always is.

It's repeating bulbous form and gold - colored finish combine to create a memorable candle holder unlike any other.

Not exact matches

Previously, researchers had found nearby pillow lavas, bulbous lava flows that form under water.

At the very bottom of the tree there was also a peculiar mechanism at play — as the tree's diameter expanded the woody strands rolled out from the side of the trunk at the base of the tree, forming the characteristic flat base and bulbous shape synonymous with the cladoxylopsids.

Black cohosh is an herbaceous perennial that forms long leaves of up to three feet (1 m) in length and possesses a thick rhizome, or bulbous root, that can reach 24 inches (60 cm) deep.

When the sides are «pinned down», it takes the form of a bulbous duffle, sorta like a cross between a Speedy and a Boston.

But with its somewhat bulbous overall shape and gaping front air intakes, the Project One doesn't seem to have struck the balance of form and function of, say, a P1 or Ford GT.

In recent years Tuttle has busied himself with overlapping plywood panels and with bits of Foamcore that burst with bulbous abstract forms painted in rich, sensuous colors.

Murray's 1999 painting Landing is emblematic of her work: an explosion in blue, black, pink, and yellow, bulbous and sharp forms burst outwards.

For example, the bulbous, amoebic form in Ting - a-Ling is echoed in the painting Mouse Cup, 1981 - 82; the five - stemmed plant or hand in the drawing Wave appears again in Leg, 1984; and the guitar in Untitled (# 9) forms the basis of The Force of Circumstance (for Simone de Beauvoir), 1986.

This technique manifests a range of forms: Bulbous cartoon shapes resemble the Futurism of Roberto Matta, while violent strokes of fleshy color recall Willem de Kooning.

Bulbous anthropomorphic forms and caricatured lines amplify the seriocomic nature of my work as well.

The series entitled Hanging & Weighting (2010) presents bulbous plaster sculptures that, although abstract, refer to organic forms or suggest a figure.

According to Bess's theories, the bulbous section of the urethra could, if sufficiently dilated, receive another penis in what would be the ultimate, eternally rejuvenating form of sexual intercourse.

The yoke, when intact, retains a perfect bulbous, geometric oval, whereas the fried egg white always takes on an arbitrary form.

She began to make her best - known sculptures: delicate hanging wire matrices that resemble organic forms like bodies, bulbous tree trunks, and dripping fluids.

In his early experiments, Matsutani impregnated the canvas surface with bulbous elements, using his own breath to create swollen and ruptured forms that evoke flesh and wounds.

Carroll Dunham is known for his paintings of cartoonish, humanoid forms such as penis - nosed men, bulbous shapes reminiscent of sexual or digestive organs, and direct, humorous compositions of exposed vaginas.

These include Dunham's elegantly eccentric Horizontal Bands (1982 — 1983), the cool formal title giving no hint as to the jam - up of witty, bulbous, bulb - and - root forms; Joan Snyder's rapturous lyric pastoral Beanfield With Music (1984), with its luxuriantly orchestrated cacophony of greens; and Bill Jensen's The Tempest (1980 — 1981), a floating enigma like an astral starfish with a sci - fi snout, at once melancholy and oracular.

Rachel Harrison's visceral sausage - laden cart entitled © 2004 Hasbro Inc. (2015) and Arlene Shechet's bulbous clay forms in Above and Beyond (2015) seem to expand from inside themselves, moving from form to formlessness, erasing their familiar elements in their own articulation.

Scott's works — bulbous, hanging forms, like internal organs or musical instruments, tightly bound in coloured threads — seem unwilling to be described as sculpture.

Similarly, the bulbous, sketchy and irregular forms that she paints are just familiar enough to be reminiscent yet — as with her colour palette — elusive enough to dodge literal decoding.

Bulbous organic forms of clay, glazed in dark shades of slate, pale blues, and glistening sand, vie for the eye's attention... Shechet's abstract forms, reminiscent of sitting Buddhas, clouds and molecules gone mad... speak of an ease and familiarity with her medium.

Victorian brass standard oil lamp (converted to electric) of ecclesiastical form with bulbous column with Acantus leaves, Pyramid base, scroll legs and lion paw feet - The lampshade -LRB-...