Sentences with phrase «compositions of abstract forms»

Novros» composition of abstract forms and intervals has both a sensuality and deeply personal quality that goes far beyond any associations one might have for hard - edged, geometric abstraction.

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Through color alone — applied to suspended rectangles within abstract compositions — Rothko's work evokes strong emotions ranging from exuberance and awe to despair and anxiety, suggested by the hovering and indeterminate nature of his forms.»

In some works, ribbon - like compositions appear to twist and fold, alternating between abstract forms, bursts of color, or floral motifs.

Although these gridded and stacked compositions of linear forms initially appear abstract, their titles (usually People or Person) point to their figurative content.

From 1963 to 1970, while living in Spain and South America, Semmel explored the potential of form, color, and composition in an abstract expressionist idiom.

As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.

Using a palette of the same four colors, Cranston reworks an abstract painting by one of the key figures in Modernism, Swiss / French artist, architect and designer Charles - Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) in six variations, identical in form and composition but in different color combinations.

The presentation offers fresh insight into the importance of line in her work — from preliminary sketches and drawings, to the fluid, seemingly effortless outlines that define regions of her canvas and divide her compositions into dynamic zones of color, be it the curve of a flower petal, the horizon of a landscape, or the contour of an abstract form.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

Placed against a neutral backdrop with their labels inscribed below, Wylie's hard - won forms play on the language of ancient art as well as modernism and the abstract compositions of painters like Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt, who attempted to divorce image - making from even the most fundamental visual associations.

Hofmann encouraged Krasner to jettison the naturalist tendencies acquired in her earlier schooling, and she underwent a radical change of style, rapidly developing an abstract vocabulary and producing cubist - inspired compositions that featured bold geometric forms outlined in black and filled with bright colors.

Her abstract compositions combine elements of both urban skylines and organic forms found in...

Deeply rooted in a fascination with how visual abstract codes represent a means of abbreviated, if not universal, communication, Carter's free - form compositions are simultaneously non-objective and referential.

It is first explored in two dimensions, by the abstract geometry combined together to form vivid compositions on the surface of each work.

This transition towards abstract forms and shapes is best illustrated in Kandinsky's Study for Composition # 8, 1909, a turning point in the artist's vision, where recognizable forms — people, church towers, cupolas and hills co-exist with abstract shapes and pure fields of color.

The sacks were dropped on the floor in strategic arrangements to form abstract compositions of color, form, and scent.

The result was a body of abstract compositions of dynamic lines, shifting shapes, and mobile forms.

In doing so, I always aim to capture a sense of depth and form using abstract elements such as colour, colour relationships, texture, mark - making and composition.

Like Sun Ra, who destabilized an origin myth to create the possibility of new potential, Better Dimension investigates the potential of abstract form approached through a composition of destabilized figurative elements.

Feeley's abstract works with their bright colors, simple repetitive forms and symmetrical compositions occupy an important place in the history of twentieth - century American art.

In his abstract paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, expressionistic color and brushwork intersect with patterns, shapes, and pictographic forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design.

From a distance this piece is an abstract composition of grays and blacks against a white background, but closer inspection reveals multiple series of images (some depicting the same subjects as in the upstairs gallery) each printed in the form of a postage stamp from an undeclared country.

It reappears in the abstract form of a large rectangle that frames some new compositions, «both surrounding the picture and drawing you in the picture,» in the artists» own words.

While the dense hang downstairs is successful — the individual historical works hold their own against neighbours, the clutter lending the show itself a certain abstract quality in which form and colour between compositions seem to overlap — this device of overfilling the space falls apart upstairs.

Highlights from this include his piece Spiderman (2015), in which the artist takes on the persona of a trans woman for a raunchy, politicized standup routine, and his signature large - scale abstract compositions, which he forms by layering paper and paint before sanding them down to reveal previously - obscured layers of color.

Note: The auction record for a painting is nearly 1 800 000 USD (in 2011) The auction record for a lithograph is nearly 8 000 USD (in 2009) By the late 1950s Vieira da Silva was internationally known for her dense and complex compositions, influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne and the fragmented forms, spatial ambiguities, and restricted palette of cubism and abstract art.

The productive tensions between an abstract expressionist engagement with surface, paint, and gesture and a more decisive shift into the ambiguous terrain between painting, collage, and assemblage find their fullest expression in Untitled [black painting with portal form], specifically in the way the composition is structured around (and then decisively proceeds from) a tonal, monochromatic center: a flat, inky, double - truck sheet of newspaper.

Figuration seems to linger behind Goodnough's abstract forms, and his rejection of allover composition, which he equated with landscape painting, sets him apart from his abstractionist colleagues.

These provide instant, ready - made abstract compositions; their geometric shapes and rainbow palette again aesthetically reference the 60s in the form of Bridget Riley «s colourful Op Art canvases or, more recently, Gerhard Richter's painstakingly uniform «colour swatch» paintings.

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.

The result, a series of abstract compositions that look like clusters of oddly shaped cellular forms — «images of primal slime», one critic said, illumined by «a sunlit mescaline glow» — was completed in 2009.

Similarly in a rare figurative composition by Johnson from 1946, watercolor shapes and colors overlap and coalesce to form an abstracted portrait of Asawa, later given to her.

Wylie uses visual rhymes — Lolita's vibrant halo of hair is mirrored in the circular floodlights that punctuate the composition at varying points, depicted using the same unnatural shade of yellow — as well as the transformation of the form of the house as a means of both reinforcing and abstracting the work's relationship to an initial reality.

In his final years, Wesselmann returned to the female form in the «Sunset Nudes» series, where the compositions, abstract imagery, and sanguine moods recall the odalisques of Henri Matisse.

Kay Hartung's «Bio Patterns 5» is an abstract composition of geometric forms colliding and overlapping.

His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries.

In his solo show, Giehl will also exhibit bold abstract paintings that present balanced compositions of rhythmic forms.

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.

Making extensive use of materials and utensils in her artistic practice, she works on gessoed panels, incising simple engraved patterns repeated at regular intervals, which form abstract and minimal compositions, but at the same time have a sensual dimension.

By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures as Composición IV (Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.

Here the interview with Max Frintrop (1982, Oberhausen, Germany), who analyzes the spatial properties of color and form building abstract compositions through heavy brushstrokes.

Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes — from the vegetal to the abstract — which he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast, their exploitation of decorative strategies, and their economy of means.

His abstract compositions — always borderline states, duality, contrast - enhancing of core elements, return to the origins of the form, conflict and harmony, Yang and Yin.

In the late 1940s, Motherwell embraced the tenets associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement: the canvas as an arena in which the artist engages spontaneously and passionately in the physical and mental action of painting; the composition, often monumental in size, charged with feeling; the abstract forms suggesting deep, open - ended meanings.

By the late 1950s she was internationally known for her dense and complex compositions, influenced by the art of Paul Cézanne and the fragmented forms, spatial ambiguities, and restricted palette of cubism and abstract art.

With Tree line two slopes Davos from below, the pine trees struggle to remain on the surface after having been covered by the white mantle of a violent avalanche, yields a series of abstract compositions charged with movement, where we see the pines on the hillside, and the channels the avalanches formed in between them.

The exhibition is comprised of portraits and abstract compositions that further Souders» interest in fragmented narratives, the inchoate versus the fully formed, and the uncontrollable nature of time.

These large - scale compositions draw attention to the abstract properties of each depicted form, the interlocking positive and negative shapes evoking the technique of collage in areas of sharp delineation, bold color, and softly rendered detail.

The city became fodder for his grand compositions as his commitment to abstract form encompassed his deep sympathies for the found abstractions of urban life.

Working intuitively, the artist translates both the fixed and mutable qualities of a singular object or grouping before her — shape and form, texture, colour, shadows and highlights, the play of light across a surface — into abstract compositions that evoke a specific atmosphere.