As Figure in a Landscape is reputed to have been made in the first months of 1945 before the exhibition, its handling may reflect a greater speed of conception than the long matured and carefully worked
composition of the triptych.
Not exact matches
Whether it's a landscape split into
triptych or a surprising break in an otherwise expected image pattern, these works take the concept
of travel photo into a world
of color,
composition, and icon.
This type
of composition in three parts, and the use
of gold - leaf decoration, recalls medieval and Renaissance
triptych altarpieces.
Davenport, who is driven by an enduring fascination with the materiality and process
of painting and printmaking, has made a series
of monumental
triptychs, his largest prints to date, inspired by the colour
compositions of historical paintings by Hans Holbein, Gustav Klimt, and Vincent van Gogh.
In 2016, in response to this fluidity, and to capture the evolution,
of Scrollbar
Composition (2000), at the Whitechapel gallery's exhibition The Electronic Superhighway, conservator Dragan Espenschied, the others at Rhizome and I decided to exhibit a
triptych, in which each panel used a different operating system to show the work — Windows 95, Mac OS X 10.6 (also known as the aqua interface) and Mac OS X 10.10.
His carefully staged visual
compositions share aesthetic affinities with Kader Attia's photographs
of the shores
of Algiers and Isaac Julien's
triptych video installations evocative
of colonial and postcolonial entanglements.
Encircling the chaotic
composition is the second piece, a
triptych of mechanized vessels producing an opaque tiding bath
of iron oxide submerging contemporary relics
of brand religion; to create a buildup
of rust residue on the once pristine objects.