Sentences with phrase «calligraphic paintings»

With the contemporary works, Marden has returned to monochrome painting, diverging from the calligraphic paintings that have dominated the past three decades.

Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) Noted for his calligraphic paintings, influenced by Oriental cultures.

More broadly, Krasner's calligraphic paintings revealed the artist's exploration of symbols and sign systems; she explained, «I thought of [my unconscious messages] as a kind of crazy writing of my own, sent by me to I don't know who, which I can't read, and I'm not so anxious to read.»

The six - year period in which he executed these works coincided with enormous changes in his more publicly - exhibited paintings: in 1981, before he began working on marble, Marden's paintings were principally geometric monochromes; 1987, the date of his last painting on marble, marks the first public exhibition of his calligraphic paintings.

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.

Formally, the fifteen paintings in the 526 gallery evoke Marden's 1980s - era series of paint and graphite works on marble that are seen as transitional between his early monochromes and his later calligraphic paintings.

There's a great wall of Lucio Fontanas, all 1962 works from his Spacial Concept: Waiting series, and a terrific pairing of spare, calligraphic paintings by Jean Dupuy and Judit Reigl — all in close proximity to Anthony Caro's lyrical sculpture Orangerie (1969), a recent acquisition.

Those very words echo upstairs, too, in some uncharacteristically calligraphic paintings by Morris Louis, the great color - field painter.

Yanyan Huang's elegant, calligraphic paintings draw from the raw beauty nature and they sit alongside the vibrant, urban colors with dynamic gestural movements of Emily Joelle Lambert.

Her big calligraphic paintings remind us of a neater mix of Tatiana Berg and Michael Berryhill.

In the late eighties his calligraphic paintings inspired by Chinese Landscape Painting widened his range even more.

And now I can use those things in the calligraphic paintings.»

The greatest demand in Marden's market is for the six calligraphic paintings that make up his «Cold Mountain» series (1988 — 91).

A calligraphic painting by Twombly hangs next to a monochrome by Rauschenberg, making it harder to dismiss Twombly's experimentation or Rauschenberg's casual gesture.

A key influence was the avant - garde American artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), whose all - over calligraphic painting style anticipated that of Pollock.

Not exact matches

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.

His harmonious paintings combine a heightened color sensibility with calligraphic strokes, and occasionally stenciled letters, alluding to his varied artistic influences.

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

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.

His most recent works come in a variety of mediums, including a mix of calligraphic and abstract paintings, as well as landscape photography.

However, when Zao became established in Europe, he began creating fascinating paintings, such as Landscape (1951), which reworked traditional Chinese calligraphic techniques with reference to Paul Klee.

While Qin employs traditional Chinese materials in his work — brush, ink and paper — and paints in a calligraphic manner, his works are created with a physical vigour and scale evocative of Western Abstract Expressionist painters (it is interesting to note that many Abstract Expressionists were deeply interested in Eastern philosophy).

Jirō bows to tradition, too, as with a calligraphic black painting broken by a white impasto circle.

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.

The «gesture» in the show's title is shorthand for the term Action Painting, coined by Rosenberg to describe the calligraphic brushstrokes — and, by extension, the existential angst — of AbEx's embryonic phase in the early 1940s.

Simultaneously there were surfacy, colorful abstractions, latter - decade paintings feature enamel paint — he was too poor for anything else — with black and white calligraphic forms.

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.

Karen Wilkin explains, «The most apparently self - referential cluster of strokes on his recent calligraphic gesture paintings often have their origins in shorthand references to the characters in Saito's haunting performances, transformed and made independent by their new context.»

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.

Her fascination with language comes through in a large, light - filled calligraphic work from 1965 titled Kufic, as well as in the tightly painted, untitled schematic grid of 1949 that stacks hieroglyphics in meticulous boxes.

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.

The mature paintings are atmospheric, architectural, calligraphic, totemic, gestural, immediate.

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

It includes 12 paintings — calligraphic and monochrome, with multiple panels and single panels — and 43 drawings, all illustrated in full color.

The bequest paintings are in Twombly's distinctive swirling calligraphic style.

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].

Highlighting Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad's most striking artworks, from 1970s to today, this exhibition showcased three phases in Ahmad's artistic career, from early oil paintings to mixed media calligraphic pieces, to his latest contemporary pieces derived from the medium he creates.

Done in a hastily calligraphic style, the drawings have a verve to them that the paintings can only intimate.

First creating large - scale pieces like Mason and his peers, Takemoto decorated his surfaces with painted or incised calligraphic patterns influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting as well as Picasso's ceramic designs and traditional Asian ceramics, as in his 1959 work First Kumu, a bulbous stoneware vase adorned with swirling motifs.

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

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.

Visitors shouldn't rush through the latter for the former, as Smith's work is indebted to the calligraphic traditions of the East, and after walking through rooms full of painted tiles, fabric designs, and miniature paintings the connections between the two will be obvious.

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.

Chang's earliest works were commissioned portraits, however, in the late 1950s, he stopped using brushes in favor of using his body to make abstract paintings that were at once gestural and calligraphic.

Trends included the abandonment of figurative designs and of painting on glass in favour of a mix of biomorphic and rigorously geometric abstraction and the calligraphic non-functional use of leads.

In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).

That has it's own rewards though, because Treib's handling of paint is so calligraphic and fluid photography doesn't do it justice — you want to see these up - close and personal.

Correspondingly, a calligraphic gesture threads its way over the surface of each painting, which is composed of two or three flat, canoe - shaped panels that nest or stack.

Following a number of shows in recent years, Khan is now «in the studio playing with a lot of different aspects of the work»: his first white on white paintings, which will be exhibited at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, in late 2015, and calligraphic black paintings inspired by his longstanding admiration of Cy Twombly.