Sentences with phrase «calligraphic marks»

In contrast to Pollock, who extended his gestures while defining paint as paint, Seliger expanded paint's allusive powers, while compressing his gestures into tiny abstract and calligraphic marks.

By the 1960s, he began producing some of his most famous works, collectively known as the Burst Paintings, the common motif of these works is a sun - like orb hovering above calligraphic marks.

When it comes to his interpretation of this approach, Tobey was known to place very light calligraphic marks and symbols on the top of a darker abstract background, creating a strong and dynamic contrast.

Conceived in a fleeting moment, Park's calligraphic marks reflect his interest in reaching a sense of «pure emptiness», an attempt that is made afresh with each new painting.

Near - abstract tree shapes also incorporate his calligraphic marks, with branches constructed from imaginary letters.

When working in this technique, Tobey would place white calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.

Shortly after leaving Shanghai, Tobey began painting little fields of white calligraphic marks on colored backgrounds.

The influence of calligraphy first became apparent in the tangled brushwork of his cityscapes of the 1930s, and Tobey went on to develop a unique style consisting of a web or network of calligraphic marks painted in white against a gray or coloured ground.

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.

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.

This bold work with its deep red calligraphic marks aided by a confident approach shows one side of Jinchi's studies of the visual and text and its content.

Fluid lines form ovoid shapes, more or less skull - like, that are joined by written words or calligraphic marks that suggest writing.

Covering a 4,000 - sq - foot site with burnt orange and powder blue impasto surfaces and calligraphic marks, Amistad America is the artist's most ambitious project yet and was inspired by the history and natural landscape of Texas, whose name in Spanish, Tejas, derives from the Native American Caddoan word for «friends».

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.

Another important innovation was Dan Christensen's use of a spray technique to great effect in loops and ribbons of bright color; sprayed in clear, calligraphic marks across his large - scale paintings.

The figures are simultaneously human and calligraphic markings standing in for the human.

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.

In the works in the show designated as Surface Body, he wrote, «I contemplate wall structures, cities and the State as being political borders, with opposing polarities, whereas Action Space employs a fast calligraphic mark, in juxtaposition with vast spaces of color significantly symbolizing personal freedom.»

You may not be able to walk the paths of this garden but, with Scott's layering of colors and strokes and calligraphic markings, you can go deeply into it visually.

In a body of work that began in the mid-2000s, his gestural, calligraphic mark - making was applied over a field of floating capital letters.

Tobey's mature work is characterized by what he referred to as «white writing,» delicate calligraphic markings overlaying and animating the surface.

Yolanda Sanchez incorporates expressionistic brushwork and calligraphic mark - making to create poetic, emotional works.

His unique calligraphic markings and his invention of white writing were very unexpected elements introduced to this specific movement in expressionism.

«Scrolls, Ladders, Books & Rings» is the title of this exhibition by Hazel Frankel, whose abstract works combine collage, painting and the calligraphic mark, often suggesting huge landscapes and cityscapes in the process of destruction.

Envious of their journalistic skills, she used the idea of writing to generate a new body of work in which she integrated calligraphic mark - making into the painting process.

Not exact matches

There's plenty for the naked eye to absorb: the delicate calligraphic detail of the bloody lash marks, set...

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.

Nearby is a gorgeous late Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1951 that is semi-figurative; a Franz Kline black and white calligraphic abstraction, Untitled from 1953; an architectural collage of rectangular shapes by Conrad Marca - Relli from 1965; and, from 1976, the Larry Rivers pop - historical Big B Signs Up, a lithograph of two hands clasping a quill pen created by Rivers to mark the U.S. Bicentennial and honor Benjamin Franklin's signing the Declaration of Independence.

Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

This compact show touched on the long arc of Mitchell's career, from her early, calligraphic slashes in the 1950s, when she was painting in a studio off St. Marks Place in New York and drinking with the AbEx boys, through her time in Paris in the»60s, and, until her death in 1992, in the French countryside at an estate with an overgrown garden and a

The earliest works exhibited, gouaches from 1956 and 1957, combine calligraphic elements on broad fields of color in ways which clearly relate to the work of Mark Tobey, who also showed at the Willard Gallery, and to Helen Frankenthaler.

Works by Patricia Treib and Melissa Meyer have a calligraphic quality, reminiscent of the writerly gestures of Louise Fishman or the pictograms of Jane Irish, though these comparative examples bear the marks of having been worked over many times.

There seemed to be something in the nature of the brush that aligned with his measured yet exuberant (and often calligraphic) mark - making.

Her «calligraphic» marks - symbols are very distinctive.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

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.

Elements of symbolism, reminiscent of Gustav Klimt, decorate the composition with abstract markings and calligraphic gestural brushwork.

The exhibition is completed with «Take off Your Hat», this work was created in the context of «Trio for 4 Hands» a series of long narrow strips of Japanese rice paper, pinned alongside each other, like film strips with calligraphic type ink markings on them.

I think of it too as how one comes to the final calligraphic brush mark by the repeated making of a from.

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.

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Mark Tobey, American painter whose individual experiments with abstract, calligraphic work influenced subsequent art trends, especially Abstract Expressionism.

He is most well known for his large paintings populated with scribbled marks, calligraphic or graffiti - like words, letters, numbers, and references to Classical culture.

Mark Tobey, (born December 11, 1890, Centerville, Wisconsin, U.S. — died April 24, 1976, Basel, Switzerland), American painter whose individual experiments with abstract, calligraphic work influenced subsequent art trends, especially Abstract Expressionism.

Her first solo exhibition, in 1971, at Galerie Claire Brambach in Basel, was organized by the American abstract painter Mark Tobey, whose own works incorporated calligraphic - like marks (and who, incidentally, had converted to the Baha'i faith in 1931).

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.

Through her painterly mark making, raw textured surface, large fields of color, and calligraphic details, Fitzgerald creates contemplative gestural abstractions with an emotional resonance.

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.

Other 20th century innovators of pen drawing include the American oriental artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) who was famous for his «white writing» style of calligraphic paintings; the German artist Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 - 51), noted for his hair - thin graphic seismograms; and Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), noted for her delicate hand - drawn minimalist grids.

This sixteen - foot - wide painting marks the first time the artist has combined calligraphic and monochromatic panels in the same painting.