Sentences with phrase «essential elements of painting»

Buren's reductive approach through the use of signature stripes of fixed width with alternating bands of white and colour as the foundation of his work enabled him to explore the essential elements of painting and sculpture in relation to the ideological context, which produces their meaning.

Not exact matches

Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses of a fan shape: in early works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive of deeper spiritual meaning; in Taxes (1993), one of her later black and white paintings, the fan shape becomes a central formal element that unifies the composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan shapes create a complex formal variation which co-exists with other images.

Going a step farther to make the case for the gesture as the most critical element, Abstract Expressionist artists recognized that you could make a gesture without paint but there would be no evidence of it, so gesture and paint were inextricably linked as the essential unit of painting, with the brush playing the key role.

In fine art, the paint itself was considered the critical, essential element, and the trend in seeing paint in this way began in the brush strokes of the Impressionists, was codified by Cezanne, and was rendered most clearly by W.J.M. Turner in his brushiest millennial masterpieces.

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.

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.

The materiality of each piece is an essential element of the artist's practice, which becomes evident upon inspection of her painting's multifaceted surfaces.

To me that period of her work was on the same level as Agnes Martin; the elements of painting were reduced down to a few essentials so that the artist could convey the most delicate of feelings in the most economical way possible.

Historically, abstraction had reduced painting to its essential elements, colour and shape, but for Richter it is the accumulation of myriad layers of paint and the contingency of the squeegee that imports such power to his work.

Because Kline sketched and painted this photograph so many times, he acquired such a familiarity with it that he could apparently sketch it blindfolded in less than thirty seconds.39 This skill necessarily involved what Kline had described in 1956 as the process that had led to his breakthrough to abstraction: «breaking down the structure into essential elements».40 In the photograph, the posture of Nijinsky in absolute terms and relative to the frame has a striking structure of a kind that persists in Kline's abstract work, in which there is a tension between the composition internal to the painting and the limits of the canvas.

Charged with an underlying sense of relational aesthetics, they strip painting down to its essential qualities of light, color and space, allowing the viewer's act of looking to combine and elevate these elements.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

But while his description introduces an essential shift by insisting on the process of creation as an important element to be taken into account when viewing a painting, it is not precise enough.

[2] In a 2012 New York Times review, critic Roberta Smith wrote «Mira Schor's small, sharp, quirky paintings have been thorns in the side of the medium for more than three decades now» and «Ms. Schor hardly tells the whole story of creative labor, but she lays out its essential elements: the isolation, reading, thinking and percolation that enable a Voice to emerge.

His complex work encourages the viewer to reflect on the physical qualities of paint, reproduction and to be aware of painting procedures and the essential elements of the medium: form, line and colour.

Irene Grau's analysis of her experience of moving through and over the particular landscape of Seixo Branco, documented in photographs, is refined and reduced to the essential compositional elements of both the land and her minimally painted compositions.

Danny Simmons, a high profile Brooklyn - based artist, shares the essential elements of his creative practice — writing, painting, collecting and, most of all, philanthropy.

Distilled to essential elements of line, color, and space, her hard - edged paintings from this period effect a coherence of composition that borders on the sublime.

For Dickinson a word, the basic element of her medium, when concentrated on has such power that it can shine, and for you the basic elements of a painting — the support, the surface, the color, line, the edges — have always been so carefully considered and so evident that your decisions and intentions are essential to the making and viewing of your work.