The mottled, gray - and - white, Styrofoam bricks seem almost made of stone, and it is possible to momentarily believe we are instead before the face of a mountain watching water cascade from
its craggy surface.
The diversity found between
the craggy surface of Madame Noblet (1897) and the smooth sealant - coated working plaster of Ecce Puer (Behold the Child)(1906) is even more apparent in the multiple wax - and - plaster versions of Child in the Sun (1891 — 92) and Jewish Boy (1893) on display.
When this happens, the regions meet along
a craggy surface called a «domain wall,» which is one type of topological defect.
A subset, the old - fashioned doughnut, always has a cracked,
craggy surface, and in the most classic versions the sides splay out like the petals of a flower.
But the untitled canvases in his debut exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, with
their craggy surfaces and doubled, phantasmatic figures, also evince a more idiosyncratic approach.
Not exact matches
When the dough is combined (the dough will be
craggy but should stick together) turn it out onto a floured
surface.
You can use more water when shaping, if the loaf seems a bit too
craggy on the
surface.
The lobe is an oddity compared with the rest of Pluto's
craggy, crater - pocked, multibillion - year - old
surface, covered in bright ice that is relatively fresh and crater - free.
When Cassini dropped the European Space Agency's Huygens probe onto the
surface of Titan in 2005, scientists were surprised to discover an Earthlike world with
craggy mountains, broad plains, eroded coastlines, and familiar - looking weather patterns.
But this assumes a high degree of friction between the lower atmosphere and a
craggy, rocky
surface and efficient high - altitude air flow.
Visibility is almost non-existent and the
surface is at times beautifully smooth, only to degenerate into bucking,
craggy sections where the tarmac appears to have been poured straight over thick tree - roots or whatever rocks and debris stood in the way.
In still another set of repetitions, the outlines of cardboard tubes again acquire her
craggy, translucent
surfaces.
Rather than fixating on the familar — the
surfaces and the transitions that form the human face — Stoops carves away at representation, searching for the
craggy unfamiliar contours that, much like Eric Lee Bowman, trigger the psyche.
In the first work here — «Untitled # 17» from 1958 — the textured white oil paint recalls abstract Guston, while a faint line of blue fissuring down the
surface is reminiscent of Clyfford Still's
craggy abstractions.
Similarly, watch what happens as your eye moves off the floor from the British Land Art pioneer's Ring of Flint (1996), which is exactly what it sounds like, to the
craggy relief
surfaces of German painter Anselm Kiefer's heavily shellacked Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom (2000), which depicts Mao Zedong in a field of narcotic poppies.
His suggestively
craggy ceramic vessels, completed with live flowers, evoke sensual primeval landscape, while their heavily worked metallic
surfaces simultaneously evoke the Futurist sculptures of Umberto Boccioni.
Cosmic swathes of color and densely textured and varied abstracted imagery prove reminiscent of gaseous atmospheres and
craggy, vaguely terrestrial, planetary-esque
surfaces.
Bored Astronauts on the Moon (2011) sees the pair wandering aimlessly about on the
surface of the moon, and in Unrealistic Mountaineers (2012) they appear at a loss on a
craggy snow - capped summit.