An array of vivid colors weaves across the canvas while
calligraphic forms of dark brown divide the repetitive composition.
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.
Not exact matches
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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CALLIGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) Noted for his White Writing, a form of calligraphic gesturalism; t
CALLIGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) Noted for his White Writing, a
form of calligraphic gesturalism; t
calligraphic gesturalism; tachisme art.
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.