Sentences with phrase «collection of abstract forms»

The flat map lifts and hovers in front of you as a collection of abstract forms, a delicate play of mark making attuned to meditations on place.

Lorraine Carol is unveiling the work she's completed in the past six months, a collection of abstract forms on canvas and paper.

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A long debate has existed in psychology whether concepts, such as a dog, are represented in the mind as a collection of specific dogs that people have encountered or whether individuals can abstract the key characteristics across specific examples to form a generalized idea, or prototype, of a dog.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

These selected works from MMoCA's permanent collection demonstrate the array of poetic meanings that have been ascribed to abstract forms, including a concern for the effect of abstract shape on our perceptions; a wish to map conceptual structures; and attempts to make visible the invisible world of nature's underlying patterns and forces.

Frost has sold to many of the most prestigious museums in the country, and has worked closely over the years with countless private individuals in forming significant collections of abstract prints, drawings and paintings.

Heavily influenced by biology, this original collection uses abstract ideas of sculpture, traditional forms of jewelry and the human body to create pieces intended to function as separate organisms living with their human hosts.

The distortion of their surface questions the consistency of recollection, whilst the truncated forms mimic the ability of the mind's eye to abstract physical and visceral experience into a collection of stilled and disembodied images.

While most of the work in the exhibition has been recently created and acquired, additional paintings culled from LACMA's collection illustrate how artists have reanimated techniques and forms using other sources that are appropriated from popular culture, photography, and collage, essentially creating a new variation of abstract painting.

At this time, Seliger was the youngest artist exhibiting with members of the abstract expressionist movement, and he was only twenty years old when the Museum of Modern Art acquired his painting Natural History: Form within Rock (1946) for their permanent collection.

The collection had the distinction of being the first exhibition of abstract painting to be assembled in Canada, by Canadian artists, on a national scale and devoted exclusively to this art form.