Not exact matches
Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses
of a fan shape: in early works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive
of deeper spiritual meaning; in Taxes (1993), one
of her later black and white
paintings, the fan shape becomes a
central formal
element that unifies the composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan shapes create a complex formal variation which co-exists with other images.
MA: With the
painting Conjestina Achieng, I wanted to have
elements of the
painting that suggested that Conjestina, the
central figure
of the
painting, had been given the role
of village idiot by the local media (under the guise
of public interest, she was repeatedly filmed and interviewed in an institution and at home while going through episodes
of paranoid schizophrenia).
As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League
of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor
of the building's entrance to capture the footprints
of those entering and exiting.10 The creation
of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint
of elements from the real world is especially
central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State
of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution
of Rauschenberg's works
of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the
painted surface is no longer the analogue
of a visual experience
of nature but
of operational processes.»
The collection also includes
central works from her photographic series
of urban spaces, her poster
paintings and rubbish bins, as well as
elements from larger installations, which shows how Kagge concentrates on collecting across time, formats, media and thematic structures.
These
elements that interrupt the fluid qualities
of the
paintings are
central to the excess at work here.
Ligare reaches a poetic level
of perfection in his
paintings, which take inspiration from the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and artists and often feature
elements of Central California's coastal landscape.
Her
paintings regularly use the circle as a
central structural
element, repeated successively to create a sort
of vortex
of energy and color.
Commanding the studio is a
painting with a brilliant red
central element that seems to be pushing out
of the picture, or receding into it.
In the resulting
painting, Yet Another Fight for Remembrance, Kaphar repeats the
central compositional
element of Voiceless,
painting over the mouths
of three protestors who stand with their hands raised.
Some
of my
paintings, even if they carry figurative
elements, can sometimes be seen as abstract, because I try to dissolve the idea
of a
central subject.
The choice
of works is very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty, Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme
central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature
of Twombly's
paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists
paint land and sea through a filter
of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy
of Melancholy, where the theme
of loss and memorialisation are
central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage
of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power
of the
elements; The Vital Force which brings together works
of a sensual or erotic nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.
Central to the exhibition is a group
of gradient
paintings made exclusively with black and white acrylic exterior house
paint that has been blended and forced through sheets
of burlap laid face - down on a variety
of objects and surfaces (from plastic tiles and garbage bags to silkscreened enlargements
of Hagen's own high school drawings) that act as molds, effectively casting the
paint, or becoming embedded
elements in the surface
of the works themselves.
Marcus integrated a large number
of the
central developments
of abstract
painting into his work over the years, including large - scale calligraphic gestures and the employment
of chance -
elements, particularly drip - motifs.
Against backgrounds
painted in broad swaths
of acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented
elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds
of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the skin and floor
of the
central scene depicted.
While studying
painting at
Central Saint Martins and at the Chelsea School
of Art in London, he developed his unique approach; in works evoking the tradition
of romantic landscape
painting, Doig drew attention to the act
of applying
paint to the canvas by combining abstracted
elements with ordinary subject matter.
As a
central figure in the 1970s punk rock and hallucinogenic counter culture, Tomaselli began making visually dynamic and conceptually loaded collages, photomontages, and
paintings, eventually developing a reputation for his inclusion
of pharmaceuticals, cannabis leaves, and other mind - altering substances suspended in resin as
elements within collaged and
painted images.
While Bischoff is perhaps best known for his figurative
painting of the 1950s and 1960s, the
paintings in this exhibition show a commitment to gesture, color and form that are not only
central elements of his figurative works, but also in his later abstractions
of the 1970s and 1980s.
The monochromatic bands
of muted color that bound the
central field
of calligraphic imagery in Marden's latest
paintings and drawings are a distinctly new
element in his work.