Murray's most recent paintings, in which individual curvilinear canvas panels slide behind or in front of each other, are not only balanced between abstractions and representation, but
contain elements of both painting and sculpture.
Not exact matches
However, before the 1970s, many
paints contained elements of lead (a metal which can be poisonous if it enters the body).
The anode featured in this latest study is made up
of a blend
of elements — including manganese, carbon and nitrogen — that is chemically similar to the formula
of the iron -
containing paint pigment known as Prussian blue.
The scientists found tiny carbonate deposits that
contained traces
of the
elements uranium and thorium on the cave
paintings.
Magical Huaraz program is a complete tour which
contains elements of the region's main cultural and natural circuits, starting with the delightful city
of Huaraz, journeying along the Callejón de Huaylas, visiting Chavín de Huántar, contemplating the snow - capped Mount Pastoruri and lagoons, crossing the White Cordillera, through the Tunnel
of Cahuish, going on a hike on the glacier, observing the famous Phuyas de Raymondi which are naturally gaseous water pools, ancient
paintings on rocks, and we'll have a chance to enjoy beautiful landscapes and thermal baths, appreciate local handicraft and taste the exquisite regional gastronomy.
It should be noted that while the overall effect
of Murray's work is one
of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational
elements and references in her
paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and
contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.
It's waters
contain new
elements in his latest series
of 12
paintings, debuting on Friday at the Honolulu Museum
of Art's Contempo #ArtShop, curated by Giant Robot.
His recent
paintings and prints
contain elements of a figurative, cartoon, Surrealist, and Pop heritage combined with an equal interest in painterly abstraction.
The
paintings almost become objects in the vain
of Abstract Expressionism, the works are less about the hand and human presence and more about happenstance while also
containing elements that are in fact purposeful.
Throughout the creation
of these
paintings he maintained several constants: each
painting was executed on a 6 × 8 inch panel, his palette remained consistent, each
painting contains realistic, identifiable
elements of the scene, and the artist
painted from the same location.
His
paintings contain a mash - up
of historical and cultural references, combining
elements of 18th and 19th century colonial portraiture and folk art with visual signifiers
of contemporary urban culture, including jewelry and body art associated with present - day gangsters and hipsters.
Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips
of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven
painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave
containing various unexpected
elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental
painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes
of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale
painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.
His methods
contain notable convergences with abstract
painting, and increasingly abstract
elements are evident within the tree
paintings that have been a consistent focus
of his practice in recent years.
The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres
of figurative or abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the other limiting binaries
of interpretation to be both volatile and conservative, soulful and austere,
containing elements that appeal to both sides in these
paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»
A discarded section
of an older
painting may end up in a new one, sometimes acting as a window - like
element in a wall (If and Yellow Light
contain such corner sections with stripes oriented differently from those
of the main body
of the
painting).
These are approximate descriptions — Kent's
paintings seem to
contain elements of each, peopled with lugubrious apparitions
of animal body parts, most commonly horses.
Holyhead's freely brushed, intensely coloured
paintings contain a set
of elements — such as blocks, ovals and rectangles — that act as pins, wedges, slots, slits and focal points.
This is the basis
of my
painting practice, it is a place where I create temporality, construct
elements that
contain time and form personal histories.
The way cultural
elements and themes can become intermingled or amalgamated has been with us throughout human history: just think
of the some
of the other
elements in Husain's
paintings, like the centaur — a being that
contains elements inherited from myth and reality.
The
paintings combine imagery sourced from the internet with archival material from old books and magazines in order to visualise a world in which nothing is stable or certain, echoing the tectonic cracks appearing in the old world order.A number
of new works
contain abstract
elements, richly coloured striations, which are derived from found images
of cracked plasma screens.
While having contributed to the Concretist and Neoconcretist movements that stormed the Brazilian avant - garde, she was never associated with a single movement but her work
contained elements of Lettrism, Color Field
painting and early conceptual art.
Over the four past decades, the vast majority
of Gorchov's
paintings contains identical
elements — two biomorphic shapes against a monochromatic background on saddle - like stretchers, at once concave and convex — with variations running from nuanced inflections to stark contrasts.
For the purposes
of this publication, drawings are works on paper that do not
contain a collage
element and that are executed exclusively in one or more dry mediums (such as graphite, charcoal, or crayon), and / or in fluid mediums other than
paint (such as ink, watercolor, or gouache, which is an opaque form
of watercolor).
A
painting that does spring to mind when thinking
of that sort
of downward space is Patrick Jones» «Flat Screen» from three years ago, a
painting that appears to
contain some rather figurative structural
elements.
Built up in fragments and rendered in a variety
of loose and controlled applications
of oil
paint, each
painting contains elements of representation and abstraction and resembles both topographical maps and gestural abstractions.