Sentences with phrase «evanescent paintings»

Highly - disciplined and sharp - tongued, with a love of poetry and the outdoors, Mitchell rigorously confronted each canvas with increasing confidence and bravado, creating evanescent paintings that brim with luminous color.

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The result is at once a strikingly resonant contemporary and yet evanescent image, that through the collage of canvas also engages with the history of distorted form and the constructive brushstrokes of post-impressionist painting.

On one such occasion, talking with Caro in a Bennington campus garden, Olitski suddenly thought of a painting that would be as evanescent as sculpture was material.

It is a Vanitas painting, a common still - life type of the period, in which the flower, among the most lovely and evanescent gifts of nature, symbolizes human vanity.

The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early «metaphysical» works to his late evanescent still -LSB-...]

The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early «metaphysical» works to his late evanescent still lifes, culled mainly from Italian collections, including those formed with Morandi's help by his friends and by renowned scholars of his art.

These wavering, evanescent structures, with their intimations of the cosmos, echo with surprising directness paintings from the same period, when the all - over composition of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings inspired the development of a unified, undifferentiated image in the work of a number of artists.

One of the reasons I use frames in the way that I do - and I think it goes back to Romantic artists like Turner, who deliberately chose very sturdy, thick frames for some of his smallest, most evanescent pictures - has to do with my instinct that the more tenuous or fleeting the emotion you want to present the more its got to be protected from the world» (H. Hodgkin, quoted in M. Price, Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, p. 227) «I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances.

Calgary, CA (2015), An evanescent fix, VITRINE, London, UK (2015)-- Future Station: Alberta Biennial (2015), Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton CA Art (2015), The Painting Project, GALERIE DE L'UQAM, Montreal Quebec, Canada, (2013), Broadcast and Tape Modern No. 25, Tape Club Berlin, Germany, (2012).

His paintings are delicate balancing acts of painterly abstraction, combining structure and evanescent color to form surfaces of supple, luminous intensity.

Through painting, drawing and sculpture, Houshiary approaches the intangible and evanescent, articulating a metaphysical reality that lies beyond mere form and surface.

Let her evanescent canvases wash over you and you'll understand that this is an artist who has thought an awful lot about painting, imbuing her work with references to the history of the figure in the Western canon and enlivening her often - female protagonists with a riveting aura of self - awareness.

Resembling dancing ribbons or darting wavelengths, these cast stainless steel sculptures are coated in dense black and evanescent white paint respectively, creating a dialectical evocation of these vital senses.

A field of overlapping solid rectangles, layered with a tracery of open frames painted - drawn, really - in contrasting hues, it positions itself somewhere between the famous «Homage to the Square» paintings and prints of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) and the jostling, evanescent windows of a computer screen.

But this kind of realism which depends also a lot on illusionism, is, of course, evanescent, frail and difficult to establish» (see exhibition catalogue, Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings: 1973 - 84, London, British Council, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1984, p. 97).

But these were some of the finest paintings of his I've seen, elegant and gritty at once, their sumptuous yet evanescent color here and there coalescing into strangely hypnotic ocelli.