Sentences with phrase «explore pure painting»

Without the constraints of subject matter, abstraction has allowed me to explore pure painting.

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The artist has been exploring pure primary colors and dynamic composition in his Butterfly paintings for almost a decade.

His 2010 Tate Modern retrospective, Pure Beauty, highlighted these early text - and - image paintings as well as his influential 1980s photo - based works, which explore the cultural and artistic impact of mass media; a topic that reverberates to this day.

They show a mixed interest in exploring figuratively suggestive work and pure abstraction, layered in thick applications of paint.

Probably best known for her paintings of lines and grids using understated colors, Martin's work has been hailed as «pure abstraction, in which space, metaphysics, and internal emotional states are explored through painting, drawing and printmaking.»

While his work focuses on external aspects such as society and the others, or gazes internally as he explores the methodology of painting expression in reflecting his pure inner self and emotions, the exploration of these polarities allows the artist to reflect on multiple aspects of relating in contemporary socieities.

Instead, he combines his own pigments in an attempt to explore pure unadulterated light through color that can not be easily explained... Unlike Yves Klein, known for the idiosyncratic blue paint, or Frank Stella, whose early works are exclusively black, Knutsson investigates the entire color spectrum, focusing on one hue at a time.

Exploring the power of color to elicit emotion, Su sees it as her task to convey the exuberance she feels when working with the pure colors in her painting.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna then water - based acrylic paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open color.

Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.

Torr alternated between pure abstraction and more figurative subjects, using drawing and painting to explore especially the energies underlying the natural world.

Martin's work is recognized as pure abstraction, in which space, metaphysics and internal emotional states are explored through painting, drawing and printmaking.

From the 60s onwards, Gaitonde's canvases demonstrate his commitment to what he called «pure painting — painting which has detached itself from the world of objects to explore its endlessly exciting possibilities.»

Swedish American painter Knutsson has been exploring issues of color since the mid-1970's, in dense wax and oil on linen «monochrome» paintings that highlight one pure color per painting.