Sentences with phrase «deceptively simple drawings»

Clearly derived from the observation of nature, the sometimes deceptively simple drawings demonstrate Kelly's mastery of line and his continual fascination with abstract form, positive and negative space, and color.

His methods and materials range from deceptively simple drawings on paper of squares, lines, and dots, sometimes in light pastel colors; to collage and assemblage work with folds and cuts; to artist's books that are like works of sculpture.

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The «Persepolis» books are drawn in a deceptively simple, stark style, all in black - and - white: They're captivating and elegant in their austerity, like Japanese woodcuts.

The subject matter of his sculptures and paintings is deceptively simple: most works depict one seemingly innocuous subject (often pastel - hued children and animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines) with little or no background.

His installation works utilise a range of media including lenses and light, large scale mirrors, drawing and video to explore the deceptively simple fact of our presence in and perception of the world.

Ostensibly, his deceptively simple works (drawings, paintings and animations — reflecting choices of medium, which are solidly within the mainstream tradition of the Japanese graphic story - telling tradition of Manga) is predicated around self - portraits of his alter ego, «Bunny», and his adventures in the contemporary world, surrounded by a host of other reappearing symbolic characters.

In 1975 Birch moved to New York and began to develop the characteristic style for which he is most known; a breaking down of formal training to create deceptively simple flat narrative surfaces that draw as much from «primitive» and folk styles as from the Western canon.

The figures are deceptively simple like a child's drawing.

The deceptively simple methods used to produce the «Range Drawings» result in highly articulated surfaces which reward attention while attempting to deny information.

His idiosyncratic drawing style is deceptively simple and has the magical, faux naïve quality of Paul Klee.

Working primarily through a technique of «wash drawing» in black India ink, he used deceptively simple gestures that were simultaneously controlled and spontaneous, in the manner of Chinese monochrome painting.

The plant drawings are, for the most part, deceptively simple line drawings made in graphite or ink.

These four contemporary artists represent radically different approaches to drawing today, from Kelly's pure and deceptively simple line drawings to Baselitz's painterly and expressive style.