Sentences with phrase «calligraphic lines of»

Vertical, gestural composition in ink and acrylic paint with large areas of turquoise and ochre and spontaneous calligraphic lines of red, indigo and bright yellow.

This range may be seen in the works on view in the jewel boxes: the twisted, sharp muscularity of «Plume»; flat, densely calligraphic lines of «Brittle Stars»; airy, arabesque patterning of «Floresco»; and the rhythmic mandala of «Lotus.»

Fay Ku creates works on paper that combine the bold negative space and calligraphic lines of traditional Asian art with an American emphasis on the figure.

Photographed in black and white, the female models» bodies and clothing have synergy with the graphic backdrops constructing the scenes: a curve of the waistline in the foreground of one woman merges into the calligraphic line of the background.

The nervous calligraphic line of Mark Tobey, a gallery mate of Lewis's, seems to have affected some, including the impressive «Metropolitan Crowd» mentioned above.

Not exact matches

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

The tool also provided exceptional variations in paint layering and effects, from smooth, transparent blocks of color to saturated, calligraphic drizzles of line.

You have this kind of brushy mark, and then you have this very calligraphic line, and then you can work tonally, where all the colors are close together.

In 1970, his dealer Xavier Fourcade took de Kooning to Japan, where they stayed near Mount Fuji and explored not only the area around it but also Japanese drawing in ink, in particular the calligraphic marks that he rephrased in an attempt to extend his mastery of line and tone.

YFJ: I think that when you explore with calligraphic line, it is freer, there are more possibilities and many more ways of putting time and space together than in photography.

Direct drawing, calligraphic use of line, the effects of brushed, splattered, stained, squeegeed, poured, and splashed paint superficially resemble the effects seen in Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting.

Lewis» work then moved into what Fine described as «a very calligraphic period, where the use of line in fairly abstract terms for me reflects his interest in music.»

My style looks completely different, but the nature of putting down lines pretty much is the same; mine just don't come out looking calligraphic, like Pollock's or Kline's.»

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.

In terms of how I work, when I paint in the figure — I call [the calligraphic lines] a figure — it's like this [he waves his hands in the air].

For example, if I take a lyrical text from Persian tradition, I put it in a straight line of a grid instead of preserving its calligraphic nature.

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.

In Black Hole Universe Blom's lines were fuzzy and thick; here they are calligraphic, rhythmic, and full of movement like that of an Asian tiger painting.

Kline may have disparaged comparisons of his work to calligraphy, but the drawings work precisely because they are calligraphic: here his line has vigor, activating the pictorial ground.

The faces emerge from a gaseous swirl of almost calligraphic lines, the heads melded together as the young man looks forward to the future and the bearded elder looks back to the past with occluded eyes.

His work is also often described as full of little images, or «little people» — his calligraphic line, which fluidly creates the subjects of crowds or jazz quartets.

Norman Lewis, who evolved into his language of Abstract Expressionism, which was a calligraphic language, a language of line, was particularly interested in jazz.

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

«The Patriots» gaze earnestly into the camera, hands on hearts, adorned with exquisite calligraphic renderings of Persian poetry, lines from Iranian prison memoirs, verses from the Shahnameh.

«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.»

«I was trying to get that abstract, calligraphic line and all I needed was this section of bittersweet.

In Onibaba I and Onibaba II images of brightly colored Noh masks emerge from a network of bold, black calligraphic lines derived from Japanese perforated screens and lanterns.

Her gestural brushstrokes seem at once violent and poetic, capturing the energy and gesture of her signature calligraphic line caught and held in a quiet equilibrium.

There is a kind of calligraphic dance in her line quality.

In Chrystie 21, for example, a moderately heavy palette knife of white adds just an impasto without the trowel load that made ski slopes in a Hofmann, and a delicate line under a patch of yellow at the upper left hand corner has a wonderful calligraphic snap to it.

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.

Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses calligraphic black and white marks against the white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.

In the paintings, the curving lines and swirling, circular shapes of the octopus's body have been reflected, doubled, and superimposed on top of one another, resulting in dense, calligraphic designs.

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.

In his mid-1950s Berkeley ink drawings, Diebenkorn's calligraphic lines softened and shifted toward a sense of figuration.

I also thought of Hans Hofmann as I admired the mobility of Jaffe's red and gold rectangles and the calligraphic confidence of gridded black lines in the work on paper Untitled # 35, and even of Gerhard Richter's scraping across color on the right side of Untitled # 13.

Inseparable from the surface characteristics of the pieces is the presence of calligraphic line which appears in varying degrees in all her work.

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.

In his work from the late 1950s and early 1960s, he fused a formalist vocabulary of simple shapes and colors in the tradition of Mondrian or Klee with textiles and prints covered with sinuous lines recalling the calligraphic strokes of the Arabic alphabet or the repeated patterns adorning carpets and fabrics.

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.

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.

A later painting in the exhibit titled «To Charles Ives» (above), its calligraphic snaky lines eliciting homage or reference to Brice Marden, is an experimentation with laying rope on paint, pulling it off and scraping some areas to reveal layers of color beneath.

Named for a type of Greek stage, Proscenium will animate the darkened space of Theater Gallery with saturated color, glowing light, and calligraphic line.

This «complex play» echoes the effect of what Weiss describes as the «evasive dimensionality» of the sinuous lines layered in the center of the new works, thus establishing a dual figure - ground relationship in Marden's calligraphic drawings and paintings.