Sentences with phrase «drawings called poems»

As Twombly told the critic David Sylvester, «the Mediterranean is always just white, white, white»: in the 24 drawings called Poems to the Sea the colour blue barely appears, and yet the cursory lines and spots create a sea of the mind's eye — hours of contemplation transformed into a few cryptic marks.

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In a series called «Poems of the Desert,» she drew shapes and selected colors from the landscape around her.

But as happens with most painters working within this style, an emphasis is inevitably drawn to feeling (the poet and MoMA curator Frank O'Hara, writing at the same time when the major painters of the time were working, has a poem called «In Memory of my Feelings»).

One of them, a 1959 group of 24 drawings by Twombly called «Poems by the Sea,» sold for $ 21.7 million, surging past the estimate range of $ 6 million to $ 8 million.

Jargon 2 was called The Dancer and consisted of a poem by Joel Oppenheimer and a drawing by Robert Rauschenberg.

He moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls «sculptural poems».

The central majestic triptych, First Person Shooter, draws upon a plethora of references ranging from Dulce et Decorum Est, a poem by Wilfred Owen (1893 — 1918) a veteran of the World War I who denounced the glorification of war and exposed the true horror of it, to the popular video - game franchise Call of Duty.

The work is a series of drawings, paintings and text Kelley called an «epic poem» inspired by a visit to the Los Angeles Zoo's Monkey House.