Sentences with phrase «dense iconic shapes»

Early in his career, during the decade he spent mostly living in Japan (c. 1958 — 68), Byars did in fact make paintings — or rather, large black ink drawings — featuring dense iconic shapes that assume a kind of sculptural weight.

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The mythic American landscape — long held to subtend the movement's biomorphic shapes and totemic figures floating or swirling in dense tonalities of iconic color fields — assumed an Alexandrian cast in the West.
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