Sentences with phrase «familiar from»

Howard divides and organizes the figures and vistas in his drawings with the abstract geometric borders, familiar from his paintings, which often reduce their figures» surroundings to panes of coordinated color.

The flash symbol is instantly familiar from hazard warning signs, but such is the way that Dray subtly destabilises her lean iconography, one's mind wanders also to Ziggy Stardust and 1970s glam rock.

Familiar from her photographic works, there is a most poised control in the disposition of geometrical forms that is reminiscent of early 20th century Supremacist painting.

The balance comprises paintings and drawings which expand these motifs and weave in imagery familiar from his earlier work.

There are no surprises at the level of individual works; the Cornell boxes and collages typify the artist's later, sparer, post-1940s style, while almost all the Kilimniks (from 1989 to the present) are familiar from a flurry of solo shows around the world over the past decade.

Two paintings in the exhibition feature Buzz Lightyear and Woody, computer - animated stars of the 1995 film Toy Story, while two others include a helix logo made of colored pixels, a new icon of the kind now familiar from computer screens and handheld devices.

(Gerhard Richter in conversation with Nicolas Serota, Sprint 2011, quoted in M. Godfrey and N. Serota, eds., Gerhard Richter Panorama, London, 2011, p. 15) Abstraktes Bild, painted in 1977, belongs to a body of work by Gerhard Richter known as Soft Abstracts in which the artist explores the idea of a «blown - up», the enlarged, zoomed - in image that is familiar from examining a painting up close or inspecting the surface through a magnifying glass.

In this current show the subjects of the photographs are garden plants familiar from her childhood; what could be a sentimental exercise is here more akin to a delicate, psychological examination of origins.

Riley has spoken about her great love of nature (see Riley and Bryan Robertson, «Things to Enjoy», Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art, pp.83 - 97) and although the forms in Evoë 3 are not directly representational, they suggest shapes and rhythms familiar from the natural world.

Nnenna Okore, who studied under El Anatsui, the recipient of the 56th Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, creates organic and twisted structures that mimic the intricacies of the fabric, trees, bark, and topography familiar from her childhood in Nigeria.

Seth Price's loosely knotted ropes, strewn across sheets of foam printed with patterns familiar from checkbooks and other banking sources, could be too coy by half as cautionary tales of art - market bondage.

She renewed her acquaintance with a battery of critical discourse, familiar from her year at Bennington — treatises on feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and structuralism — and listened to all the old arguments about painting.

The first is the revealing pour, the one with which we're familiar from Jackson Pollock — paint as the manifestation of itself, the literal trail of evidence made by the action of colored liquid on a support.

We went initially to the Andre Emmerich Gallery and looked at paintings by Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, both were slightly familiar from an article Greenberg had written for «Art International» in 1961 and Louis had shown at the ICA in 1959 and at the Knoedler Gallery in 1963, but I had not seen very many.

Freiberg often isolates and elevates a central figure using dramatic atmosphere and perspectives familiar from the works of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

«Through the dissecting and re-arranging of mass produced information based material, such as newspapers, brochures, comics and packaging, the artists fragment our visual and cognitive understanding of images and text, and force us to reconsider the familiar from a completely new perspective.»

This position, familiar from classical Indian dance and sculpture, has been used historically to denote upward movement and a quest to reach out into the unknown.

Does that sound familiar from the present — agonizing over the past while drifting every which way and into the future?

The foregrounding of installation, film and performance, mixed with the presence of names familiar from western biennial circuits points to one thing: the class of curators who have become associated with biennials, and with criss - crossing the globe.

Using materials that felt familiar from use - scraps of fabric, wood, string, wire, pieces from children's games, printed labels and other discarded items - artist and Holocaust survivor Hannelore Baron (1926 - 1987) constructed intimately scaled works that offer glimpses into history, the human condition and the artist's past.

Over the past year, for four clear seasons, Juergen Teller returned to Nuremberg to photograph this site so familiar from his childhood and the childhood of his mother.

His women take poses familiar from centerfolds of the 1950s and 1960s, and like Perez has said about the buildings he paints, these women might have «aspirations beyond [themselves].»

Nikolai Kormashov's Paintings from the 1960s 18.10.2013 — 09.02.2014 4th floor, B - wing The exhibition focuses on the first decade of Nikolai Kormashov's (1929 — 2012) work, where we find a combination that seems impossible at first glance: the work motifs and industrial views familiar from the official art of the day combined with the sacred aesthetics of icon painting.

For Kiefer the ocean suggests a primal, amniotic, pre-linguistic space, something without beginning or end, where time and space take on cosmological and existential meanings familiar from quantum physics.

The tie to cubism is unmistakable, with each work pulsating between seamless cohesion and fracture, using forms familiar from modernist collage.

Notes from «The Last Post», familiar from Remembrance ceremonies and military funerals, are played on brass and woodwind instruments damaged in battles over the last 200 years.

That can strip them of their ambiguity, and indeed his sculptural style is clean, corporate, and perfectly familiar from Forrest Myers, Joel Shapiro, Mark di Suvero, and any number of others.

And Gedi Sibony has nearly filled Greene Naftali's ground - floor space with a large white cube turned inside out, using white - enameled metal panels familiar from kitchens.

Although striving to remove all references to anything familiar from his paintings, he believed that his art had a potential to affect the social change.

The few younger artists included were established names familiar from museum shows.

These works are familiar from art history texts because their large, concave faces; stylized features; inventively worked bronze and copper surfaces; and ineffably human geometries exerted a crucial influence on early French Modernism, starting with Picasso's «Demoiselles d'Avignon.»

The scene is a highly edited and compressed account of pictorial abstraction's evolution, familiar from university art history modules on the subject.

Mickalene Thomas» (b. 1971) monumental portraits and nudes of women recall the odalisques and muses familiar from a long line of European art history.

As in many of the Untitled Film Stills, here Sherman exploits a host of narrative tropes familiar from Hollywood movies to trigger the viewer's imagination.

The theme «Untold Stories» can and should be understood in the broadest sense — the works can examine the familiar from a new perspective or cover topics that have not received much attention up until now.

«Picasso Portraits» promises to be a blockbuster exhibition for the NPG, who along with curator Elizabeth Cowlingmore have managed to gather together more than 80 portraits by Picasso, some familiar from the lexicon of art history, and some previously unseen in Britain.

Most of the work in this exhibition belongs in the more ambiguous spaces between «isms» familiar from textbook art histories.

These sculptures — single, doubled or quadrupled frames of reinforced epoxy - resin casts, sometimes on the skinny stilted pedestals familiar from her earlier concrete pieces — deal with openness and closure, with transparency and translucency by revealing their inner, supporting structures, plain, steal - wire mesh or grids.

Instead of the sheetrock walls familiar from most fairs, Starr Space will be divided up by curtains.

The use of a bright, contrasting palette is familiar from Auerbach's previous work across a range of materials, including acrylics, etchings and C - type prints.

From the trees in the foreground that conceal characters, to the Iron Knuckle - like enemies that raise and lower their shields, and even the sounds that bosses make when they're injured, Elliot Quest never ceases to pull something familiar from Zelda II — and other Zelda titles for that matter — and take it in a new direction.

The video shows off an impressive number of gorgeous looking environments, some familiar from the films and others brand new.

Sure, the core idea is based off another title but it feels so very different yet so familiar from the moment you pick up the controller.

War in the North will feature «unseen lands, story elements, and characters from Middle - earth, as well as elements familiar from past feature films».

As the Exo Skeleton Suit makes its entry into Call of Duty, so does a varied range of abilities that can be applied to your online multiplayer experience such as Shields, Cloaking, Health Stimulation, Hovering and Speed Boosting which might already be familiar from the campaign gameplay.

In Hurk's Redemption players rescue Hurk, a face familiar from Far Cry 3's DLC, and receive The Impaler, an in - game harpoon gun.

The helmets are pretty neat though and some seem incredibly familiar from other games if you know what I mean.

These activities include some familiar from previous titles in the series, like ancient tombs, while some like animal dens feel like they'd fit right in with The Wild Hunt.

Our quartet of press sneaks was dropped into some scrubland that looked familiar from The Phantom Pain.

It definitely feels familiar from the get - go, but the slightest of alterations make it a joy to pick up and play.