Sentences with phrase «elements of abstract art»

Even though his work is clearly figurative, it also incorporates various elements of abstract art.

Not exact matches

The skaters are judged on five program component scores: Skating skills, their ability to skate with ease; transitions, what the skater is doing between technical elements (basically, don't skate without a purpose); performance, which is the art of it; composition, which is how the skater tells the story of their performance on the surface; and interpretation, another abstract concept that can be best explained as the skater skating with their soul.

I use both natural and abstract elements as my departure point to create a collection of items that combines my interests in bold, graphic woodcut / relief art, the craft of sewing, and, in particular, nature, giving a nod to mid-Twentieth Century design too.

And like the stratification of art imposed by some in varying orders to describe the proximity of each to the inexpressibility of their souls (prose to dance to painting to poesy to music, for me), when film aspires to combine the more abstract elements of human expression in its mélange, the results, always mixed, at least have the potential to be grand.

These little guys all have their own element - specific advantages and disadvantages, so it's definitely worth it to toy around with making the perfect team of little abstract - art Pikmin.

These little guys all have their own element - specific advantages and disadvantages, so it's definitely worth it to toy around with making the perfect team of little abstract - art

But that was just one small element of his long career producing abstract paintings and print work for the likes of the ICI, the Arts Council, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Robert Fraser Gallery.

Gleaning elements from this abstract expressionist art movement, Waddell returned home to his native Montana and created works of nearly abstract backgrounds that suggest landscapes.

Most of the art is abstract but there are works with recognizable elements and figuration plus mural studies.

Are the Asian - American artists inspired by abstract expressionists, or are they drawn to the Asian elements of the style, in turn appropriated from Chinese, Japanese and other non-western art and culture, from calligraphy, Sung painting and Zen Buddhism, from John Cage and DT Suzuki, from the Gutai artists and Sung painting?

We typically associate Milton Avery «s style with fauvist seascapes, quiet domestic interior scenes where people with blue, red and green bodies dissolve into shapes and outlines, abstracted flat shapes that hold on to representational elements and beautiful color fields that will forever hold their importance in the history of art.

This exhibition focuses on the analysis of a set of works from the Berardo Collection in which the artists have made free and creative use of line, form and colour, elements which are intrinsically linked to our lives, to all that we see, touch and feel and can be considered the main building blocks of abstract art since the beginning of the 20th century.

She also studied lithography at the Art Students League of New York, and received private instruction from Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine, [3][10][13] who urged her to add abstract elements to her figurative work.

Laura Jane Scott's vividly abstract compositions embrace not only the two essential elements of Abstract Hard Edge Painting, colour and structure, but also principles of Conceptual Art.

Cally Shadbolt, a Fine Art student at Bucks New University uses sculpture and drawing to explore the possibilities of materials within abstract design, often combining two contrasting elements to create new objects.

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.

In his works, the emotional, abstract and symbolic elements of eastern culture are combined with his knowledge of western art and philosophy.

How Waddell gleaned elements from abstract expressionism is a leitmotif of his show at the Denver Art Museum, Abstract Angus.

But if you know where to look there are elements of the excitingly different yet 1950s - abstract - rooted, as well as statements on current popular culture that move Abstract Art out of the past and into the relevant and the now.

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.

Calligraphic elements and their emphasis on expressiveness and asymmetry have always been the most prevalent aspect of Asian art apparent in the work of abstract expressionists such as deKooning, Francis, Tobey and Kline.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

Here, the paintings and sculptural furniture, displayed in the form of abstracted period rooms, function as material with which to examine how elements of décor are used to contextualise particular artworks, and conversely, how fine art adds value to design.

Zach Harris creates modestly sized abstract paintings with ornately carved wooden frames that incorporate elements of medieval religious art, Buddhist mandalas, geometric abstraction, and psychedelic posters.

It seems to me, in Patrick's case, that the work is not taken quite far enough to do either — to fully fail or succeed — and that there is a hesitancy to leave behind some known territory of previous abstract art from the past — an aesthetic, if you will, in which the elements of his work will sit quite happily — and so allow those elements and colours (that Patrick so explicitly delights in) to really take over and go somewhere new.

Using jewellery as an art - form, she evolved new techniques which included controlled fusion with precious metals, to obtain fine textures, broken surfaces, and fluid lines...... Her overall concepts are a subtle blend of abstract form and Eastern splendour, with a distant echo of the flowing elements in Art Nouveau.&raqart - form, she evolved new techniques which included controlled fusion with precious metals, to obtain fine textures, broken surfaces, and fluid lines...... Her overall concepts are a subtle blend of abstract form and Eastern splendour, with a distant echo of the flowing elements in Art Nouveau.&raqArt Nouveau.»

Known for large, abstract, mixed - media paintings that often incorporate ephemera and discarded elements of urban life, the African - American artist received critical acclaim for his presentation, Tomorrow Is Another Day, in Venice, which will open at The Baltimore Museum of Art in September.

Perhaps there are abstract elements in German Expressionist art, which, if we could interact with them, could lead us toward a deeper understanding of the meaning of these works.

There was a time in abstract painting's past when the canons of American abstraction decreed flatness as the one defining element of painting: the point at which it was purely itself and not partaking of other arts such as sculpture.

Although abstract painting defined the international style of postwar art, Clemente was drawn to the rich visual culture that surrounded him, and he began intuitively combining figurative elements with abstract forms and symbols in his work.

Instead, some artists relied on the basic formal elements of art — for instance, line, shape, and color — to suggest abstract, universal concepts (love, war, music, spirit, energy).

His art is a blend of tradition with new abstract elements.

Twombly's signature style of abstract art is a blend of drawing and painting, which combines elements of calligraphy and graffiti as well as abstract expressionism, with references to Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance.

After her large - scale sculpture, sound and light installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2014), at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel, 2014) and currently at Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Israel, 2015), the last episode at Grimmuseum remains more abstract and fragmentary, dealing with the relatively domestic nature of the exhibition space, which allows Rodeh to shift from her monolithic large - scale works into more detailed object - based techniques and elements.

Figurative art work with abstract elements, depicting a woman in the foreground and The King of Bali in the background.

These friends and creative collaborators severed their relationship in 1924 due to van Doesburg's belief in the diagonal line as a valid element in abstract art, which conflicted with Mondrian's insistence on a reductive visual language consisting of only gridded horizontals and verticals.

Confronted by an art scene dominated by the Abstract Expressionists, and having no truck with abstract painting, he just kept doing what he'd always done: painting narrative and acerbically observant scenes of life keyed to the human figure, often his own, sometimes as an element of remarkably assured and phlegmatically grotesque allegory.

Art experts said golfpoorly's piece contains elements of the abstract expressionist mode Diebenkorn was working in 1952 as a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

On the Art of Building in Ten Books, inspired by classical texts and initiated during Wexler's 2005 fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, uses images to reduce the complexity of the built world into essential elements that are abstract and iconic.

The thick application of the paint created an element of objectivity Richter felt was missing in abstract art.

Hodler's experimentation with the abstract elements of color, line and expression created a vibrant new mode of Swiss art at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Simon's artistic practice is informed by an academic interest in theoretical ideas behind abstraction in art and explores the act of transformation of figurative elements in painting into abstract planes.

These recurring elements derive primarily from the artistic conventions of ancient Greece and Rome, which, while known primarily for figurative art, employed a set of repeated abstract forms as a common parlance.

To me abstract art is an abstract of all the basic qualities of good painting transferred unto the canvas without the crutches of realistic, symbolic, surrealist, or socially significant elements.»

Defined ife with texture, color and organic forms, Nnenna Okore's abstract sculptural works are infused with narrative elements that draw on the landscapes and environs of Nigeria, where she was raised, and Chicago, where she lives, works and is a professor of art.

While text an elucidate a work of art, it can also be abstracted and stripped of its semantic meaning, becoming a visual element in itself.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

He recognized the uplifting quality in mid-century art: «The abstract - expressionist movement, although negative in its rejection of all tradition and especially of the French art of the first half of the century, did reflect this positive element, the postwar euphoria, the sudden feeling of strength both physically and spiritually.»

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

While studying painting at Central Saint Martins and at the Chelsea School of Art in London, he developed his unique approach; in works evoking the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Doig drew attention to the act of applying paint to the canvas by combining abstracted elements with ordinary subject matter.