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.
Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.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.
Not exact matches
BMW Modern Line serves the cause
of progressive elegance
through the use
of matt aluminium for the design
elements mentioned above and a body - coloured
paint finish for the cross rib in the centre air intake.
Its facilities offer a tour
through the Peruvian history — with its colonial carvings,
paintings from the Cusco Art School, as well as modern
elements with unique touches
of the Andes.
Magical Huaraz program is a complete tour which contains
elements of the region's main cultural and natural circuits, starting with the delightful city
of Huaraz, journeying along the Callejón de Huaylas, visiting Chavín de Huántar, contemplating the snow - capped Mount Pastoruri and lagoons, crossing the White Cordillera,
through the Tunnel
of Cahuish, going on a hike on the glacier, observing the famous Phuyas de Raymondi which are naturally gaseous water pools, ancient
paintings on rocks, and we'll have a chance to enjoy beautiful landscapes and thermal baths, appreciate local handicraft and taste the exquisite regional gastronomy.
This first - person adventure game draws inspiration from the Myst series and has players traversing
through six
painted portals that represent the \» core
elements of life \» while a malevolent being is fast on your trail, constantly hunting you.
«A significant
element of my work is representing time and place
through a merging
of sculpture,
painting, and photography; this idea was catalyzed in part by my trips to Marfa over the past several years,» says the artist.
A new
element that provided the path to freedom
through lyricism and rebellion and led advanced
painting away from the restrictive dogma
of the art
of the early sixties.
The act
of looking
through one
element to another, or the blocking
of one impenetrable layer by another has become a hallmark
of his
paintings.
MA: With the
painting Conjestina Achieng, I wanted to have
elements of the
painting that suggested that Conjestina, the central figure
of the
painting, had been given the role
of village idiot by the local media (under the guise
of public interest, she was repeatedly filmed and interviewed in an institution and at home while going
through episodes
of paranoid schizophrenia).
For the show, running May 1
through June 7, she assembled nearly 50 collages, drawings,
paintings, and photographs from the 1960s
through the 1980s that reveal DeFeo's dogged ursuit
of specific formal
elements across media - say, the sculptural qualities
of wadded Kleenex, in one surprisingly affecting group
of photographs, photocopies, and
paintings.
Although sometimes considered as photorealistic and associated with the New realism, her work is only a reproduction
of the world she sees
through the
elements of painting, not photography.
Tom French focuses on the reflection
of the conscious and subconscious mind
through his use
of charcoal enhanced with acrylic, ink and spray
paint elements.
Of her work, Taylor says, «Through mixed media painting and drawing, I experiment with the pictorial function of words by deconstructing textual elements alongside organic forms found in natur
Of her work, Taylor says, «
Through mixed media
painting and drawing, I experiment with the pictorial function
of words by deconstructing textual elements alongside organic forms found in natur
of words by deconstructing textual
elements alongside organic forms found in nature.
This concatenation
of elements runs right
through Ofili's work, and his use
of materials: the elephant dung - balls and words spelled out in coloured map - pins, the collaged photos and layers
of resin, the glitter and stars and glow - in - the - dark
paints, all
of which evidence a cargo
of metaphoric as well as physical allusions.
Through imagery that combines
painting with woodcut, drawing, silkscreen and intaglio methods, she builds series
of works in which different symbolic
elements encounter and interact with one another in altered, fictionalized landscapes.
In all his works here we see the back and forth between what the eye gleans from this world
of light, shadow, color, form, people, trees, skies, water and all the
elements of objective reality, and what the artist asserts
of his feelings, as revealed by gestures, color and movements
of paint through actions that depict the artist's inner world.
More recently, his work has addressed social and political controversies
through large - scale narrative
paintings that combine
elements of the Japanese woodblock print with inspiration from Renaissance church art.
Mr. Burban encourages individuality
of expression
through an exact analysis
of the
elements used to draw or
paint the figure in compositional structure and pictorial space.
His
paintings, stemming from this dual interest in the forces
of nature and abstraction, have strong gestural and textural qualities, intricate layering (with the strongest
elements of each layer coming
through into the final work), and an evocative sense
of color and light that aim to distill something essential from the natural world.
As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League
of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor
of the building's entrance to capture the footprints
of those entering and exiting.10 The creation
of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint
of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State
of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution
of Rauschenberg's works
of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift,
through which «the
painted surface is no longer the analogue
of a visual experience
of nature but
of operational processes.»
Through intuitive layering
of castoff furniture, oil and acrylic
paint, and collaged
elements including CDs, water bottles, iridescent LED lights, car parts, and plastic bags, Fowler meticulously constructs hybrid tableaux infused with a sense
of raw urgency.
His powerful epic narrative is the result
of elevation and transformation
of the medium
of drawing into the
painting through the use
of traditional methods
of processing light and dark as the primary
elements.
Since then, she has continued to base her
paintings on pastels made from direct observation, while frequently enlivening compositions
through heightened color, repetition
of certain
elements, and manipulation
of light, scale, and perspective.
While
painted in a traditional style reminiscent
of Rembrandt and Titian, Kuo's works deviate from this history
through his choice
of imagery, combining signifiers
of American culture with
elements appropriated from film and photography.
This allows the
paint to pool, dry, and crack in an unpredictable way that plays with the random
element of chance
through which he sought to discover forms that are unperceivable, but that compose, and make possible, the beauty in the natural world.
The theme
of embankment as barrier against the
elements also runs
through Howie Sneider's burlap sacks, topped by pink playthings — but then Barnett Newman described sculpture as what you bump into when you step back from a
painting years ago.
In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling
through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged
elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black
of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series
of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.
Through repetitive patterns, mark making, and textural floral
elements, her
paintings depict personal narratives that focus on feelings
of identity, vulnerability, and loss.
Through intuitive layering
of castoff furniture, oil and acrylic
paint, and collaged
elements including CDs, water bottles, iridescent LED lights, car parts,... Read More
During the late 1960s
through the 1970s, Celmins completely abandoned traditional
painting in order to dedicate herself to graphite pencil, creating highly detailed photorealistic drawings based on photographs
of natural
elements.
«Los Angeles» is the latest
of the artist's exhibitions to address notions
of place
through painting, as well as the use
of sculptural
elements ---- in this case neon lighting ---- to expand
painting's formal reach.
Most
of the recent
paintings are on raw wood or linen, representing the earth's
elements, that frequently are left to show
through as a
painting element.
Each
element seeks to explore, promote and question the relevance
of painting and the hand - made work
of art in the digital age
through loans, exhibitions, talks and publications.
Legs are the subject matter
of choice
of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history
of painting through a mixture
of figurative and geometric
elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning
of the visual forms depicted in her work.
The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal
elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence
of painting.
Their practice consists
of artwork that examines the nature
of the object via the use
of shadows and the recording
of bodily actions and static objects
through video,
paint, sculptural
elements and charcoal media.
In this oil
painting lesson, he'll walk you
through the
elements of a majestic black panther stalking its prey.
I went
through my own history
of painting and wrote down on small wooden cards 300 separate
elements or ingredients, which were different features found in my own past work.
Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color
through staining; Thompson's humorous oil
painting, The Golden Ass, features a more traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage
elements in his 2016 brown abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge abstraction and figuration in a collaged face made up
of many different harlequin features.
The exhibition, on view
through March 3rd, is comprised primarily
of works on paper incorporating silkscreened,
painted, and drawn
elements, continuing the artist's decades - long exploration
of the ideological underpinnings
of the term «Drawing» itself.
So Albers was also considering variations
of kinetics in
painting, especially
through the use
of color, and, just like a writer experiences when she writes (as Elaine de Kooning articulately explains), was moving
through «a long series
of rejections — an arduous and complicated exercise
of the
element of choice.»
In these most recent
paintings, I have intentionally
painted elements of that obscuring atmosphere, exploring realism
through the edge
of abstract expressionism.
In A spicy migraine grease Taylor presents a new series
of large and small - scale
paintings and drawings that,
through both philosophical enquiry and material investigation, are concerned with the several invented symbolic
elements of the artists own studio (as well as its historical and geographical location in Angel, North London) and his increased interest in the mechanics
of consciousness and hypnagogic dreaming.
Recent
Paintings by Wini Brewer will feature new works by the Los Angeles based artist whose vibrant works infuse abstract and representational
elements through a unique process
of layering colorful acrylics against black and white graphics.
Some
of my newest
paintings are landscapes, interiors, and still lifes, in which I emphasize the expressionist and symbolic intensity
of these compositions
through the use
of vivid colors, strong linear
elements, and layered painterly textures.
Chagoya's codices, which are read from right to left, subvert familiar historical narratives by generating invented histories
through a cross-pollination
of drawn and
painted images and collaged
elements.
One
of the ideas at the centre
of Turner and the
Elements, which has been curated by Ines Richter - Musso and Ortrud Westheider, is that
of Turner as an artist who was acutely aware
of the traditions
of landscape
painting, but who renewed and reinvigorated this tradition, in part
through the way he absorbed new discoveries in the natural sciences into his art.
Each piece starts with sets
of elements made
through meditative
painting - focused on aspects
of color, pattern and mark making on paper.
Through mechanics and technology men got irritated and lost the understanding
of the visual,
of the secret,
of the materiality; society is no longer open to the
elements of painting.