We will investigate the
formal elements of painting such as composition, space, form, color temperature and intensity, while maintaining an appreciation for the immediacy of the medium.
Here, drawing, applying color and realizing this all in a single frame — in other words, the
essential elements of painting — are developed free of any restrictions.
A beginning course in painting that explores the relationships between the
pictorial elements of painting and discovers the technical advantages of the acrylic medium.
The current programme is centered around succinct solo exhibitions, recently this has included artists that have
elements of painting within their main practice.
I use the
basic elements of painting to try to discover new ways of seeing, or to clarify and elaborate a visual response to seeing the world.
Reinhardt, in turn, takes the rectangle as the basic
element of painting in order to condense the chroma, or the apparent saturation of the colors, to the utmost.
Utilizing a range of invented and hybrid processes that underscore the mutability between surface and image, the featured works
incorporate elements of painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography into novel material states that embody rather than depict images.
By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional
elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.
With Nelson's work, there has long been a preoccupation with the basic
material elements of painting: canvas, stretcher, and paint, which comes out of a Minimalist idea of specificity.
Unlike van Gogh, who in the Nineteenth Century could not yet imagine a wholly abstract art, Mitchell mobilized her artistic will to liberate the
constituent elements of painting — line and color, composition and gesture — from their servitude to the fleeting appearances of the material world.
The dominant chords of the show utilize acoustic absorber panels - the fabric - covered rectangles used in recording studios to reduce ambient noise - as
elements of painted canvases.
Brooklyn - based collage artist Clark Goolsby explores information overload with «a process which uses almost no found materials, creating all of the collage - based
elements of his paintings from scratch.
Much of Cy Twombly's more abstract art was based on language and the process of writing, and he would often write narratives that lurked just beneath the
surface elements of his paintings.
In 1954, a decade before his Venice triumph, he began to make a new kind of art that combined
traditional elements of painting and sculpture, together with collage and printing.
In this exhibition it is demonstrated how photography interacts
with elements of painting while contemporizing the «noblest subjects» of art.
Taken together, the totems and monochromes self - reflexively distill the
constitutive elements of painting — canvas, stretcher, paint — even as they insist on their relationship to the everyday, on their grounding in the world.
Stephan Groß drafted the fictional logo of the so - called System vorbestimmten Zeiten MTM — for universities — while a painting of a clock frozen at precisely four minutes past eight ironically exaggerated the
naturalistic elements of painting, simultaneously reminding visitors that each moment of perception is always already about to dissolve into another.
Murray's most recent paintings, in which individual curvilinear canvas panels slide behind or in front of each other, are not only balanced between abstractions and representation, but
contain elements of both painting and sculpture.
It is true that she lays out the
discrete elements of painting so that you are aware of each separately - surface, colour, form, composition - but only to unite them with real verve, imagination and spirit.
Her wall pieces perform a similar union of painting and sculpture — the
central element of the painted canvas is a plinth that juts out from the belly of the composition to support two unglazed vases, comically crude and overscaled, as if to present an ultimate form.
Stephan uses the
humble elements of painting — the stretched canvas, the brushstroke, color, the illusion of three - dimensional space — in straightforward ways, no painting tricks.
This quality of the paint adds an emotional resonance to the
natural elements of the paintings, particularly the fires blazing on felled trees that recur across this group of work.
Bucher allowed the material to harden and then peeled it off, producing translucent skins that
held elements of paint, rust, dirt, and the minute details and markings of these historically loaded domestic environments.
Gary Simmons: Fight Night @ Metro Pictures Oct. 30 — Dec. 23, 2014 Recognized for his signature «erasure» technique in which he smudges and
obscures elements of his paintings and drawings, New York - based Gary Simmons is presenting a series of boxing images including a large - scale installation of 180 posters advertising historic boxing matches.
From experimentation, accidents, and even repairing the fragile,
sculptural elements of his paintings, Hollingsworth has recently come across a new technique in which he paints directly onto the plastic wrap of store - bought canvases.
Three big hexagons separate into red, yellow, and blue — the
foundational elements of painting's color theory but nothing to do with the elements of a camera lens that actually shape the effect.
A large format letter «A,» or perhaps an artist's easel, mingles with the compositional
elements of paintings here materialized in three dimensions.
This is perhaps been one of the most
profound elements of his paintings, the beauty they create as objects that are made not to bear similarity to anything in nature, but to explore our perception of space and the world around us.
She hopes to «get content and the formal
elements of the painting locked in an equal and eternal battle,» amounting to what I would tentatively deem a feminist formalism.