In my work I use
the complexity of abstract forms and tangible elements as a response to the undeniable beauty of colour.
Not exact matches
Sharply juxtaposing
abstract interludes with scenes
of love and intense desire, the paintings layer textures and color
forms in ways that appear almost collage - like in their spatial
complexity.
They were so fresh and inventive, yet from their
complexity and the assurance
of the vocabulary — loose geometry, gridlike formations, unnamable shapes, and squiggly lines — I knew at once that this was the work
of a confident and mature artist, even though it fit into the context
of what many younger painters were engaged in at the time, when
abstract painting had returned to issues
of eccentric composition and irregular
forms realized through diverse approaches
of painting styles.
All Rothko's mature works are
abstract paintings yet - unlike such contemporaries in the New York School as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, as well as even more kindred spirits like Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman - Rothko had no particular interest in the
complexities of abstraction like texture, colour or
form.
Liu Wei's work often utilizes industrial materials and
forms in an
abstract manner to offer insights into the
complexity of the human condition.
Schütte makes familiar
forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment
of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into
abstract or mutant
forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability
of the individual against the cruelty and
complexity of the vast world.
However, the code is indecipherable, becoming an unknown poem
of abstract patterns and concrete geometric
forms, which presents the
complexities of a universal translation and understanding.
These paintings do not belong to the category
of abstract painting that moves far from society and strives for pure sensation but rather stand as circumstantial recordings
of information, drawing together the
complexity of social information and the purity
of abstract painting and perhaps ultimately reducing different social, environmental, and individual actions into colors and shapes that represent different
forms of information.
Researchers refer to these
forms of interruption as «task
complexity» and «task concern,» and both are highly relevant for lawyers, who are required to speak about difficult and
abstract concepts in a stressful, and often very public, setting.