Sentences with phrase «diagrammatic lines»

Fences, gates, and grills operate simultaneously as objects circumscribing the countryside and geometric patterns charting the canvas surface, and a number of paintings contain diagrammatic lines evoking a viewfinder, grid, or in the case of Central, a vanishing point.

Multiple readings can be inferred depending on the artist's presentation within a particular context: the disc can appear as a watermill, a comma, or a buzz - saw blade; the cone as a whirlpool, an arrow, or the top of a skyscraper; an Adirondack chair, upended and suspended in space, takes on the form of a constellation through a superimposed pattern of diagrammatic lines.

As art critic Natilie Hareen wrote in Art Forum about Monzon's work, «Seemingly all the formal painting devices from the last fifty years have been brought to bear in Monzon's canvases: the gestural brushstroke; the grid as found compositional device; the chance - determined stain; and the diagrammatic line.»

The exhibition traces the development of Sillman's work over the past 25 years — from her early use of cartoon figures and a vivacious palette, through to her exploration of the diagrammatic line, the history of Abstract Expressionism, and a growing concern with the bodily and the erotic dimensions of paint.

Having established that it was still possible to create an Abstract Expressionist painting in the 21st century, Sillman began to complicate her own project through the introduction of the diagrammatic line into her paintings.

Not exact matches

The sense of graphic, almost diagrammatic execution in these works is certainly traceable in the Face Paintings, in which the dense topography of intersecting lines creates a destabilized sense of depth, playing with the viewer's perception of three - dimensionality.

Bruce Nauman's recent exhibition at Sperone Westwater was introduced by Untitled (Study for Slow Angle Walk [Beckett Walk]-RRB-, 1968 - 69, a small, diagrammatic pencil drawing in which lines and arcs of various densities are interspersed with arrows, circles,...

Bruce Nauman's recent exhibition at Sperone Westwater was introduced by Untitled (Study for Slow Angle Walk [Beckett Walk]-RRB-, 1968 - 69, a small, diagrammatic pencil drawing in which lines and arcs of various densities are interspersed with arrows, circles, and x's.

Human relationships take on shapes that are at once strange and strangely familiar, while near - diagrammatic modes of depiction coexist with the airy diffusion of colour, line and form.

Early drawings from the 1970s are diagrammatic patterns of blue or black lines on white ground connecting corners of walls with door jambs and the odd fire - alarm unit.

Although its lasting legacy is the «carbon - copy» addressee line in emails, Vaughn still utilizes it for diagrammatic and notemaking purposes in her studio practice.

Here, the zig - zagging hatching and the flashes of color, as well as the diagrammatic dotted line in the centre, all combine to give a sense of pulsing, dance - like rhythm and energy to the picture.