Incorporating the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms, alternating between historical narratives and fictional landscapes, Julie Mehretu's beautifully layered paintings and drawings
combine abstract forms with the familiar, pairing the Roman Coliseum with floor plans from international airports, Le Corbusier's unbuilt megacity with blueprints from Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, and dashing it all together with a color field full of abstract geometry.
She is known for creating large - scale sculptural installations which take everyday materials as the starting point and for works that
combine abstract forms with references to society.
I do engage directly with the legacies of these movements, but I pursue an aesthetic that
combines abstract form with social and political critique.»
Not exact matches
The device from which this fatigue is obviated takes the
form of the preservation of the fundamental
abstract structure of the cycle,
combined with the variation of the concrete details of succeeding cycles.
Influenced by feminism, quilt design, and non-Western as well as Western art, Ms. Valdez
combines paint, fabric, and embroidery on canvas to yield
abstract forms with undeniable relation to the human body.
Artist Hong Hong
combines two traditional
forms of papermaking — Tibetan and Japanese — to create large - scale
abstract paper sculptures.
An
abstract artist working in ceramics, Joyce Robins (b. 1944)
combines paint and glaze, and treats the surfaces of her works to generate varying textures, sequences, and
forms.
By melding these diverse and humble sources with polyester resin as a binding agent, Mallary sought to reconcile structure, gesture and content, in ways not unlike his
abstract expressionist forebearer Franz Kline, whose paintings
combined energetic brush work with architectonic
forms originally inspired by his surroundings.
Technically light, classical charcoal drawings
combine with loose and unfinished
abstract forms creating a great sense of movement.
The expressionistic,
abstract gestures that motivate many paintings take new
form in works such as Norman Bluhm's drawing that
combines the physical properties of ink and gouache to show the drips, stains, and flow of
abstract - expressionist gesture.
Her
abstract compositions
combine elements of both urban skylines and organic
forms found in...
It is first explored in two dimensions, by the
abstract geometry
combined together to
form vivid compositions on the surface of each work.
Focusing on line, color,
form and structure, J.T. Kirkland
combines wood and paint into uniquely warm and
abstract paintings in the minimalist vein.
In his early works, Ilya Bolotowsky
formed abstract images on the flat picture plane by
combining biomorphic and geometric elements inspired by both Miró and the Russian Constructivist Kasimir Malevich.
Mack's
abstract paintings of 1957 — 58, which
combine blurred paint with a grid - like
form, prefiguring Gerhard Richter, lead seamlessly into the reflected light of his aluminium constructions.
Inscape — the Inner Nature of Things contrasts twelve artists» diverse approaches to expressing emotion through abstraction, ranging from basic
forms combined with loose, expressive lines in paintings by Louisa Chase, Mary Heilmann, and Perle Fine; to pure
abstract gesture that governs the work of Friedel Dzubas, John Ferren, Hans Hofmann, Raymond Parker, and Esteban Vicente.
The result is a kind of three - dimensional collage that
combines and layers the images of the expressive sculptures with sleekly
abstract metal
forms.
Faiz continues this tradition with her large - scale oil painting «Divider» (2015), by
combining post-painterly abstraction with Albert Oehlen's version of
abstract art, an aversion away from recognisable
forms.
At present time I am moving into a broad color field
abstract expression with symbolist
forms combined with drawings.
The work
combines the
abstract and the everyday in order to redefine them — to sever context and meaning, elevating
form, color and material.
Egan, a MFA candidate at the University of North Texas, paints in large dynamic passages of rich color, whereas Sherman
combines aggressive
abstract and cartoonish
forms to create chaotic, yet deliberate, compositions.
Jennifer Mehigan (b. 1988), currently working in Ireland, uses traditional and digital methods of drawing, painting and sculpture to create «cybersensual» works: material pieces that
combine vivid arrays of colour and
abstract forms with a pronounced digital character.
Produced in collaboration with The Store and The Vinyl Factory, Celia Hempton created a theatre set - like environment
combining abstract landscapes and bodies that considered the River Thames as a historical and metaphorical object — one that is ever changing and amorphous in
form and gender.
He
combines «iconic urban calligraphy with a contemporary
form of
abstract expressionism» said his gallery.
The contorted shapes vaguely recall Anthony Caro's bolted and welded
forms, John Chamberlain's crushed sculptures, Mark di Suvero's
abstract expressionist configurations, and Louise Nevelson's accumulated assemblages, just as they can be seen to incorporate the collagist aesthetic of the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s, who
combined disparate art historical styles and techniques.
Medical illustrations and cross sections of limbs
combined with animal and
abstract forms mimic the border between the interior and exterior, and dissect the past as a reflection of the present.
Often
combining two or more
abstract forms into one piece to create a three - dimensional composite wall relief, the surface of the canvas is painted using industrial materials such as oil - based enamel and spray paint.
Artists
combine abstract approaches, appropriate the crossword
form in a grid of art and politics, and respond to grim climate change predictions.
Evocative of the Modernist sculptures of David Smith or Alexander Calder as well as Henri Matisse's boldly - colored
abstract collages, these more
abstract works
combine Wood's interest in direct experience with his fascination with the many
forms and genres found throughout art history.
Like enlarged versions of his paintings within paintings, the more
abstract works in New Plants
combine Wood's interest in painting from direct experience with his fascination with the many
forms and genres found throughout art history, deepening and extending his investigation of the language of painting.
The majority of her work on view were intimate series of
abstract works that
combine color, line and
form to create surreal landscapes.
Lynda Schlosberg creates intricately detailed paintings that
combine abstract expressive techniques overlaid by layers of intertwining pattern and color, characterizing a relationship between
form and formlessness.
Curated by gallery artist Clark Goolsby, Mysterious Muck focuses on artists whose work
combines seemingly unrelated imagery, materials, environments (virtual or physical), and
abstract forms to illuminate the loss of context in the internet - age.
Castor Gallery's first official exhibition will open January 15th, with a two person show by Heath West, whose algorithmic paintings
combine digitally - inspired patterns with
abstract traditions; and Elizabeth Winnel, whose self - portraits take the
form of sumptuous, juicy lips.
Though his paintings often conformed to the 1980s call for a return to the figure and representational art, he often
combined the figure with
abstract forms and this juxtaposition typically resulted in a mode of painting that was at once accessible and unfamiliar.
The American artist David Salle (born 1952)
combined the human figure with
abstract forms in many of his works, presenting disturbing meditations on our modern existence.
Fraleigh's environments couple the seen with the unseen: swirling
abstract spaces
combine with bold voids of color; thick pours of paint or lustrous metallic leafing obscure fleshy
forms; turned heads and cropped faces reject the viewer's gaze.
In Mullican's large wall pieces, grids of letters, numbers, and childlike pictures are
combined with
abstract forms to create a fictive cosmology.
Her works are bold and
abstract, featuring
forms which
combine to create images reminiscent of the Surrealists.
Many young artists (using a plurality of mediums and materials) have adopted Rauschenberg's
combine strategies to fuse such concerns to
abstract form.
The acrylic and graphite works
combine abstract pattern elements with realist imagery such as botanical
forms and architectural structures.
It is by far the largest painting series the artist has embarked upon, in which she
combines figurative and
abstract forms.
Van de Velde expands this experience of traditional projected image by taking advantage of recent technological advances in both hardware and software to
combine light, non-pictorial visuals, color and
abstract geometric
forms into three - dimensional environments.»
In Girl Dreaming of Pony the artist has used dynamic mark - making to create a layered, surreal image
combining recognisable symbolic
forms with
abstract shapes.
The artists
combine form and anti-
form to bring about the unexpected, developing new modes of portraiture and
abstract art.
Although
abstract painting defined the international style of postwar art, Clemente was drawn to the rich visual culture that surrounded him, and he began intuitively
combining figurative elements with
abstract forms and symbols in his work.
These vignettes are
abstracted, and
combined with other clear and reflective plastic,
form a teetering conglomerate that is like a graveyard full of obsolete technology.
Ellsworth Kelly, one of America's great 20th - century
abstract artists, who in the years after World War II shaped a distinctive style of American painting by
combining the solid shapes and brilliant colors of European abstraction with
forms distilled from everyday life, died on Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y..
A: What is it about
combining the mediums of painting and digital photography that excites you, and why do you think they work so well together when
forming abstract images and concepts?
This is seen in works such as Untitled (Burnt Wood)(1988), where rectangular sections of various charred woods
form a monochromatic composition and Untitled (1989), which
combines blocks of burnt wood and salt on lead to
form a striking black and white
abstract arrangement.