Sentences with phrase «calligraphic canvases»

The sense of landscape predominates in these dense, calligraphic canvases, and in 1954 Life magazine appropriately used the term «abstract landscape» in association with his work.

With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, these calligraphic canvases are inspired by Chinese stone carvings dating back to AD 800.

«Exaltations» features works from the «The Lost Exhibition,» calligraphic canvases that Sadequain made in Paris in the late - 1960s and left behind when he departed France with the intention to return, but never did.

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Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 — 2011) had her first solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1951, an exhibition that synthesized the most radical aspects of works by Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, with ambitious canvases of textured surfaces, pale color, and calligraphic drawing.

Part of a series of 102 silkscreened canvas panels conceived as one painting with multiple components, in this piece there are elements that call to mind Franz Kline's investigations into calligraphic compulsions.

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

Possessing the qualities in abundance, Untitled VII is one of de Kooning's final triumphs — a painting that's both rapturous and lean, defined by calligraphic lines that curve and wend their way through the canvas, revealing the renewed strength of de Kooning's line and his restrained yet glorious use of color.

This one, another oil, titled «Three Sopranos at the Beach,» marries highly energetic strokes and splashes of color on three separate but joined canvases with vibrant black calligraphic strokes that sing across all three.

And we see the artist's vision of civilization expanding as he inflects the surface of the canvas with the calligraphic marks of his Tea House series, a reflection of his long - standing interest in Asian art.

The artist's most recent abstract works on canvas and plywood feature gestural lines influenced by calligraphic writing.

An array of vivid colors weaves across the canvas while calligraphic forms of dark brown divide the repetitive composition.

«His late work consists of calligraphic, predominantly white canvases that demonstrate the artist's ultimate synthesis of figuration and abstraction, of painting and drawing, of color and line.»

This important exhibition will feature more than twenty paintings from various periods of his forty year career: rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 1990s, and rhythmic calligraphic swirls from his last decade.

The show presents over 30 paintings spanning 40 years including rare «early spray» paintings from the late 1960s, saturated stained canvases from the 1970s, dizzying spray ovals from the 1980s, pulsating orbs from the 1990s, and rhythmic calligraphic swirls from his last decade.

Then with the brush, midair on the ladder, she shoots from the hip, flicking calligraphic arcs of golden spatter onto the canvas, over the dense, metallic tendrils.»

Best known for monumental canvases that built on the foundations of action painting and abstract expressionism, his own fearless sense of color, vocabulary of fluid marks and calligraphic strokes became his signature.

Correspondingly, a calligraphic gesture threads its way over the... read more... «Mattera looks at shaped canvas: Pousette - Dart and Gorchov»

In his quest to transcend the idea of easel painting, the pictorial space is enlarged across expanded canvas fields, on which calligraphic signs reach maximum intensity through minimum resources, reflecting the artist's attempt to reach a square one of painting through simplicity and emptiness.

Dancy often works on a large - scale, filling her canvases with expansive nudes rendered in a vibrant array of colors and with calligraphic, sweeping, sinuous lines.

Katrin Fridriks has gained huge notoriety internationally with her unique style of abstract painting on canvas and paper, with her eclectic mix of colors that fuse the natural energies of her native Iceland — fire, water, earth and air — with contemporary pop art, graffiti and calligraphic references.

He soon regarded such aesthetic freedom with suspicion, however, and began to paint more premeditated pieces, such as Number 9: In Praise of Gertrude Stein (1950), in which calligraphic and typographic shapes form a floating, but controlled, network over the entire surface of the canvas.

He often utilizes torn strips of painted canvas and paper, which are collaged side by side and are further worked with calligraphic strokes.

Dzubas did not create his next major series until 1960, when he began working on large canvases in a black and white calligraphic style.

The diversity of the 1980s can be seen in Dan Christensen's Tuscarora (1980), which belongs to the vibrant and poetic paintings in which the artist furthered his use of experimental methods to include staining on unstretched canvases and calligraphic «drawing» using sticks, brushes, and turkey basters, Friedel Dzubas's Barrier (1983), demonstrating the lyrical and contemplative style of this artist who studied with Paul Klee, and Stanley Boxer's Speckledchant (1988), a work in mixed media that evokes baroque opulence in the way that explosive forms seem compressed within the confines of the canvas.

He has painted dynamic, gestural canvases; monochromatic, minimalist works; grids; calligraphic images; patterned or striped paintings, and he has experimented with collage.

In his canvases, biomorphic bursts and calligraphic trailings, like blossoms and vines, crawl lightheartedly over geometric patches of warm color to evoke a spirited but civilized garden world.

In his more abstract «Speicher» works, Ross painstakingly covers canvases, aluminium and sheets of drawing paper with calligraphic networks of lines and pattern that develop organically in a repetitive and for Ross something of a meditative process.