Sentences with phrase «calligraphic form of»

During the late 1980s Brice Marden, who held a spiritual / emotional view of abstraction, began a more multi-colored and calligraphic form of abstract painting.

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

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Many of Laurel's works are composed of extruded forms resembling three - dimensional line drawings or calligraphic brushstrokes.

Such duality was at the heart of his artistic practice, which employed representation and abstraction; geometric and organic forms; somber calligraphic markings and brilliant fields of color.

A calligraphic leafed vine, painted in varying forms and colors against different grounds, is a recurring motif in the new work, which continues Amenoff's thirty - year exploration of an intense, romantic, physical, and densely woven semi-abstract landscape vision based both on observation and personal interpretation of the natural world.

Often cited as the father of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates, Sharif began making art in the 1970s, but soon departed from his region's dominant art form of calligraphic abstraction and embraced the radical approaches of avant - garde movements such as Fluxism and British Constructivism.

The spidery calligraphic lines, the half - developed forms, the translucent washes of colours, all appear to capture something - a bird, a plough, a pattern on a dress; but the dissolving forms continually configure and unravel before our eyes.

«This rare painting... features Lewis's calligraphic brushwork in a series of sweeping vertical forms.

JMcK: My favourite of your paintings is Painting the Atlantic (2004), where the whole surface is treated with fine calligraphic marks, forming an arena for dialogue.

By the late 1940s, Lewis was represented by Willard Gallery in New York City and had developed his own personal calligraphic style consisting of fluid forms suggesting groups of figures in activity.

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.

Treib's calligraphic - like brushstrokes read like some mysterious language, other forms feel grounded in the vocabulary of early modernist abstractions.

Ma suggests a new urbanism by reducing form and function to simple calligraphic lines in the fragile light of neon.

Fluid, calligraphic and cartoon - like forms are superimposed on others that are suggestive of trees, stems...

With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.

From his first solo show at the Willard Gallery in 1949 to the mid-1950s, Lewis's reputation steadily grew, and he developed his own individual style consisting of calligraphic, fluid forms suggesting groups of figures engaged in kinetic activity.

Design Bridge crafted a distinctive bee icon for the brand, using grapes to form the body and two elegantly curled vine tendrils for the wings that have a calligraphic quality reminiscent of traditional wine typography.

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The heeches Tanavoli makes take the form of calligraphic abstractions of the word.

Considered the founder of Lyrical Abstraction — a movement distinct from geometric abstraction in the organic style of its forms — and the organizer of the «Abstraction Lyrique» exhibition held in Paris in 1947, Georges Mathieu is best known for his large - scale paintings featuring curving calligraphic lines.

Always trying to escape the limitations of medium, form and style, the artist's creations are quite unique pieces of mostly black and white calligraphic drawings and abstract sculptures.

On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.

El - Salahi, the Sudanese artist now based in Oxford, UK, renowned as «the father of African Modernism» — a key member of the 1960s Khartoum School in which calligraphic motion and Arabic language was broken down to give birth to new forms — is here showing black - and - white ink and paper works: the idea of the show is to delve into the genre of the «artist's book», picking up complexities of language and hybridity along the way.

He employs a variety of marks, ranging from small drips dispersed across the surface, to broad horizontal and diagonal lines that appear to reference calligraphic forms.

The resultant images are gestural, calligraphic forms whose textures and fractal - like patterns are reminiscent of the endlessly repeating structures in nature that exist on multiple scale levels from the sub-atomic to the universal; a reflection of the complex architecture of our universe.»

He organizes the forms by means of a slow and fluid calligraphic drawing which expands on the surface to prop...

Essentially, Jacobs learned the process of stone - rubbing, in which a calligraphic text is formed from the palimpsestic marks rubbed from a stone's surface.

In this way, by substituting a pouring method in place of the brush, Lee preserves but employs an innovative approach to the calligraphic form and spirit of line.

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.

Tworkov's figures range from minimal, loose and calligraphic to busy, fragmented and abstracted interpretions of the human form.

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.

These works are calligraphic, with traces of the figure; together they form a search for a distinctly American aesthetic.

From his first solo show at Willard in 1949 to the mid-1950s, Lewis's reputation steadily grew, and he developed his own individual style consisting of calligraphic, fluid forms suggesting groups of figures engaged in kinetic activity.

«This rare painting, previously in the collection of the artist's Estate, features Lewis's calligraphic brushwork in a series of sweeping vertical forms.

When I look at those C - Swing paintings, because of their extreme physicality and their precariousness of form, they seem to have more in common with Ronald Bladen's elemental and geometric structures, than they do with any sort of gestural paintings, even with the potential reference to Franz Kline's calligraphic gestures.