Sentences with phrase «compositions of major artists»

In Joanne Greenbaum's energized yet controlled abstract paintings, vivid colors and contorted forms float against white backgrounds — they have drawn comparisons to the compositions of major artists such as Elizabeth Murray and Donald Judd.

Not exact matches

Stepping aside from performance as a medium and the performative act of production, best characterised by Mota's studio - based compositions, her recent exhibition at the gallery, marks a major shift in the practice of the artist, materialising a new form of sculptural animism and a new agency, while shifting the instrumentalization of the performative into a series of coincidental and strictly conceptual acts.

Yet, at barely 9 x 8 inches, this simple cotton - thread composition exemplifies the genius of the seventy - seven - year - old fiber artist, whose first major career retrospective opened at the ICA Philadelphia this past spring.

Wiley is part of an important new group of highly visible artists of African descent such as Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Yinka Shonibare and Barkley Hendricks who have introduced people of color into major classical compositions.

Resembling a sensual, otherworldly flower sprinkling drips of color in the infinite space, the work amalgamates the effects of some major formative experiences in Francis's career: the time the artist spent in Tokyo and his interest in Japanese calligraphy, his fascination with compositions resembling aerial views as a one - time pilot and his studies of botany as a Berkeley student.

This richly illustrated survey spans the artist's prolific career from the early Flag and Target paintings — which were central to establishing his reputation as a major young artist in the mid 1950s, and have since become icons of twentieth century art — to the compelling compositions of the recent «Catenary» series - works that testify to Johns's continuing artistic ambition at the start of the twenty first century.

The paintings by de Kooning also represent two iconic bodies of his late work, including four major examples of abstract landscape paintings from the 1970s, in which the artist's vibrating strokes of bright blues and flesh pinks evoke the sea, sand, and coastal light of East Hampton, and a group of paintings from the 1980s where he transforms his richly impasto canvases of the previous decade into luminous compositions in which ribbons of color ripple and curve across pale, ethereal backdrops.