Sentences with phrase «explorations of abstract forms»

«The exhibition will feature fifty graphic works from the last ten years, ranging from rhythmical arrangements of faces and inanimate objects to lively explorations of abstract forms.

Not exact matches

The expression of art — the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms — is unique to human beings.

This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art.

Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending on the density of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs of Stoner Spots underscore the politics of leisure through the exploration of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «abstract» paintings replicate multiple generations of photocopying through the prism of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.

The exhibition's underlying mission is a compelling one: to inspire a close inspection and fresh discussion of two seemingly disparate topics — contemporary abstract painting by a New Orleans - based artist and Edo - period Japanese landscapes — using visual and conceptual links to form an effective springboard for joint exploration.

This exhibition features five artists whose recurring, yet widely divergent, use of circular shapes, dots, droplets and spots are technical and aesthetic tools used for the exploration into objects, places, popular culture, abstract forms and the self.

Waclaw Wantuch is one of the most recognisable Polish female nude photographers, known primarily for its exploration of geometric and abstract forms of feminine shapes, which he emphasized with studio lights and high contrast.

These monumental works represent the artist's continued exploration of expressive forms and structure abstracted from nature.

Piet Mondrian's abstract works were not only radical in their explorations of form and colour, but also in the unique relationship they had with the space around them.

Known for his striking palette and bold exploration of form, Poliakoff was a leading figure in the post-war abstract movement in Europe.

Puryear's evocative, dreamlike explorations in abstract forms retain vestigial elements of utility from everyday objects found in the world.

The Irish - American painter has been reinterpreting abstract art since the 1960s, not as a purely formal exploration of color, form, planes, structure, body and light, but as a medium whose means of expression is tied to external and internal moods, literary influences and physical experiences.

In recent years, however, abstract form and process have become vehicles for more personal, less strident explorations of the provisional, the contingent and the casual.

Through the exploration of abstract and minimalist language, Aanestad investigates form, spatiality and materiality.

Scully's exploration of surface texture and abstract forms in these works evokes a range of emotional and narrative themes.

With presentation by Gilles Fuchs, Harrois brought her abstract, figural and color - based explorations of survival and subtraction to Premier Regard of Paris, France in the form of a solo show during June 2014.

In his exploration of the abstract image he focuses on images and forms found in daily life objects, in this case packaging materials or shopping bags, which can offer a universe of a pictorial language inherent to Modern Art.

He painted biomorphic forms, detritus, symbols, and abstract explorations of color.

Just as Whitney breaks down the grid central to his paintings, his drawings break the rules of abstract thinking and move beyond color studies and formal exercises to an integrated exploration of image and text, form and content, color and line.

The avant - garde artists from Soviet Russia along with architects and designers from Netherlands and Germany as well as from the other European countries, gathered in newly formed Bauhaus school in Germany, with their exploration in visual and plastic arts, significantly contributed to the rise of abstract painting in the first decades of the 20th century.

(in obituary published Oct. 7: Walter Darby Bannard; usually called by his middle name; b. Sept. 23, 1934, New Haven; d. Sunday [Oct. 2, 2016], Miami, aged 82; Color Field painter whose elegant, severe abstract paintings of the late 1950s and early»60s were the springboard for a lifetime's exploration of color, form, and the physicality of paint)

Known for her expressionistic, visceral explorations of the natural landscape, Mitchell abstracted tree - forms throughout her career, from the richly - hued, interlacing branches of Hemlock, 1956 (Collection Whitney Museum of American Art) to the thick, rectangular - trunked grove in Trees, 1990 - 91.

The posters are the beginning of an exploration of the possibilities that exist for the monument after the material dissolution of sculpture, where monuments began to less resemble riders on horseback and shift more to abstract geometric forms (as in Mya Lin's memorial for the Vietnam Veterans in Washington DC) or temporal experiences that give voice to alternative narratives.

Karla Black's artistic practice is primarily driven by an exploration into the abstract qualities of materials and form, which she prioritises over language as a way of understanding our place in the world.

Whether creating bold abstract paintings, sculptural mixed media compositions or meticulously formed handmade paper works, Jaramillo has forged a unique voice, experimenting with material and process to pursue her ongoing explorations of human perception of reality.

Inspired by his fascination with the materiality of the photographic surface and the occurrence of abstract forms in daily life, at the dawn of the millennium he began a full exploration into the abstract potential of photography, with a number of non-representational series that lyrically transcend the divide between painting and photography.

His vibrant abstract explorations using paper, ink and tape produce works that evoke a profoundly modern interplay of form, light, color and space.

Her work, which is imbued with a highly personal character, is innovative exploration of form, subject matter and space, in which abstract and figurative elements combine to offer impressions of both microscopic and macroscopic universes.