Sentences with phrase «defining quality of paintings»

This positional dislocation is a defining quality of paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, James Brooks and others.

Not exact matches

These rounded, individuated gestures, defined by the width of her tools, the stretch of her arms and the fluidity of her paint, lend an open quality to the new paintings.

Defined by temporal qualities of light, times of the day and the changing of the seasons, these paintings responded and related to the unique context of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens.

Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each painting that make it look so realistic and abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every painting (piece) and every small detail in the painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.

Both qualities are evident in Knight's Heritage, an important transitional piece in which Truitt still employed a brushy texture to define the paint surface and actual grooves to mark the three divisions (elements she abandoned in her later, smoother work) but began to break out of the somber tones of her earliest work and embrace glowing color.

Possessing the qualities in abundance, Untitled VII is one of de Kooning's final triumphs — a painting that's both rapturous and lean, defined by calligraphic lines that curve and wend their way through the canvas, revealing the renewed strength of de Kooning's line and his restrained yet glorious use of color.

In contrast to the graphic, cartoon - like quality of Essenhigh's early works, the illusory depth of these paintings infuses the figures with a plausibility, yet the works remain true to the sweeping strokes and amorphous forms that have defined Essenhigh's visual vocabulary.

Whether in drawing or painting, Mr. De Niro's art was defined by an arresting physical confidence and a quality of natural talent that was widely acknowledged, even by critics who felt that his efforts could sometimes have an unfinished or impatient quality.

From 5 November the Museum will present paintings, watercolours and drawings by the prominent Irish artist William McKeown, whose monochrome works defined by their highly - finished surfaces explore the delicate qualities of nature.

Moving through the galleries, there is Mark Rothko's Light Cloud, Dark Cloud, 1957; Philip Guston's The Light, 1964; the essential light / dark dichotomy in Callum Innes's Exposed Painting Mars Black, 2002; the red flashing light in Robert Rauschenberg's Whistle Stop (Spread), 1977; Dan Flavin's Diagonal of May 25, 1963, 1963; Robert Irwin's use of light to create the shadows that define Untitled, 1968; the projected light that makes visible Bill Viola's The Greeting, 1995; the reflective quality of the Plexiglas in Donald Judd's stacked piece Untitled, 1967; and the stars in Vija Celmins's Night Sky # 17, 2000 — 01.

The term is meant to help articulate qualities of some painting, not as a way to narrow or define our practices.

Lacking the didacticism of her nineteenth century predecessor, Crow instead employs the haunting and dramatic qualities of monochromatic under - painting to ambiguously allude to the energy, as in Lindbergh for President (2011), and, conversely, emptiness, as in Dust Storm, Perrytown, Texas (2011), which define such shifts.

The destruction of traditional perspectival space in the picture plane has defined everything from cubism through Ellsworth Kelly and Andy Warhol all the way up to Takashi Murakami at the turn of the millennium, making «flat» one of the prime qualities sought in good, honest painting.

There is, in van Velde's work, a quality of indecision and incompleteness, of being improvised rather than planned, of being left in a transitional stage, in other words, of Provisionalism — as defined by Raphaël Rubinstein in his now famed article from 2009 — which makes it relevant to today's state of affairs in abstract painting as well as to the young painters loosely grouped under the name of New Casualists.

Central to the success of his work, therefore, is a tension between strictly ordered, «objective» zones of powerful colour and a looser, more subjective «edge»: each of the vital boundary lines of each defined, resonant stripe or square in a Scully painting has a distinct quality — and these variations create a plurality of painterly incident and accident within an apparently systematic arrangement.

Clark's early paintings that were influenced by Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich reveal her interest in the defining qualities of geometry's shapes and delineated spaces.

I appreciated the author's reviews of the recent West Coast abstraction shows, and his attempt to define / describe what constitutes quality in an abstract painting.