Sentences with phrase «field painting into»

The work I'm doing now is me backing out of pure abstraction and color field painting into something more figurative.

Not exact matches

He knows that the introduction of a certain shade of blue into the background of his painting can transform the visual field for us from its ordinary tonality.
In college I studied painting and after college I went into the early childcare field while also further exploring textiles.
Brooklyn Paper article on Borough President Adams allocating $ 1 million to convert a painted field at Harold Ickes Playground in Red Hook into a skate park and BMX trail.
Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.
Volcanos, geysers, boiling mud pits, petrified lava fields, peculiar rock formations, splashes of paint on martian landscapes — the sights were truly amazing, but less enjoyable when broken down into standardized drills: Drive, step out, take a picture, drive.
In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.
Whether you choose to take part in activities such as whitewater rafting, painting and carving, yoga or mountain biking or just relax around the villa and wander into the padi fields and woods for a stroll, it is impossible not to slow right down to the Balinese pace of life here where tranquil bliss surrounds you.
And while we're gazing down the snowy lane, see how the pattern of distant fields and hedges have been very simply treated as a few streaks and dabs of blue / grey paint, thus pushing those features back into their proper place in the background.
Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color Field painting, moved into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
This attention to compositional structure is what separated him from his AbEx colleagues... Opper somehow transcended the mythology of the AbEx period and almost clandestinely slipped into the more formalist designs of color field painting, while holding to a visual language that was both his own and an echo of Bonnard.»
Among a new generation of abstract painters who emerged combining color field painting with expressionism, the older generation also began infusing new elements of complex space and surface into their works.
These artists are acting like industrious junior postmodernist worker bees, trying to crawl into the body of and imitate the good old days of abstraction, deploying visual signals of Suprematism, color - field painting, minimalism, post-minimalism, Italian Arte Povera, Japanese Mono - ha, process art, modified action painting, all gesturing toward guys like Polke, Richter, Warhol, Wool, Prince, Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Wade Guyton, Rudolf Stingel, Sergej Jensen, and Michael Krebber.
Important among them was the propensity to get very physical with paint and to take into new terrain the pours and drips of Jackson Pollock and the staining technique of Color Field painting.
As the American upholder of Matisse's colouristic doctrine, Milton Avery developed the French artist's decorative colour surfaces into subtly toned colour zones, thus breaking the ground for the Colour Field painting of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, both of whom were friends of his.
There's no evidence of facture; the paint, you think, has soaked seamlessly into the linen support; these must be riffs on Color Field Painting, sans the bright colors, late iterations of stripe paintings in the mode of Kenneth Noland and Gene Davis.
Serving as an overdue affirmation of Hoyland's significance within the field of abstraction, they provide fascinating new insights into the artist's practice, and through it, the object of painting itself.
His recent Mojave Desert paintings done on site in Joshua Tree National Park, California are a highlight of the exhibition; large, lyrical compositions of cliffs and boulders that all but dissolve into fields writhing and swelling with lambent reds and oranges.
Color field, curiously enough or perhaps not, became a viable way of painting at exactly the time that acrylic paint, the new plastic paint, came into being.
His large color - field canvases, made entirely with spray paint, contain hallucinogenic and elusive visions, hinting at images, which never quite come into focus.
The dye will saturate, run, and dry over the course of the exhibition — eventually turning the white felt from pale blue to almost black — transforming the material into a colossal color field painting, a rolling mountain landscape, or even the hump of a whale.
Another interesting comparison to be drawn is between the Dan Christensen painting of 1968 Serpens, and the 1969 painting of mine Eternal Circle, both paintings exhibit an expansive and high spirited use of drawing in color across huge fields sprayed into the surface by Christensen and poured thick on top of the surface in my case.
Her work — which she describes as «futurist abstract paintings in three dimensions» — playfully transforms conventional signifiers of femininity into genderless, abstract color fields.
Five paintings structured after works by Kandinsky and Malevich — McElheny's Crystalline Prism Painting I, II, III, IV, and VI — feature press - molded and polished glass prisms inset into a field of black, matte oil paint brushstrokes, visible behind or through a surface made of a sheet of «museum glass».
See, in Denim Dress, how the tranquil American iconography of girl - sprawled - out - in - field jumps the frame when you realise the girl is a boy; and in Junction 2015, how the mythic forms and long shadows of the American west are worked into surreal compositions that speak as poignantly of human longing as has any sculpture or painting.
Critic Helen Sumpter suggests in her recent essay on Gabb: «It's almost as if Gabb had taken something of the cool colour field paintings of Barnet Newman and turned them into something like the gestural action paintings of Jackson Pollock... These extraordinary artworks could also be seen as somewhat flighty but if they've become sculpture, paintings should at least stay fixed in their final form, shouldn't they?
In the black pourings Pollock was sometimes letting the paint bleed into bare canvas — and this was a precursor to Colour Field painters, such as Helen Frankenthaler Hon RA.
Revisiting an idea he first employed in his late - seventies project «128 Photographs of a Painting», he divided the work's surface into two vertical sections, then halved those halves, and so on, he had each work printed to his desired scale, so that we might contemplate what have become remarkable horizontal, rhythmic fields of fine lines, oscillating with vibrations of color, the largest of which stretches over ten meters, as seen on the gallery's first floor.
There I thought to put it in the gallery, enlarge it into a field and call it a painting.
According to Sara Reisman ``... Wojciech Gilewicz» practices is about expanding the scope of painting specifically and art art generally into the realm of daily life, usually public and sometimes private... Gilewicz... questions the very nature of art, dismantling it from the rarified, official spaces of culture to a much wider field that leads to the discovery that life itself as art.»
The artist's approach to painting includes utilizing the most intimate material residues of life — textiles, texts, and traces of objects — all transformed into active fields of energy, empathy and history.
Painted four months after his arrival in Arles, Wheat Field displays some of the key lessons that Van Gogh learned in Paris — the bright palette of the Impressionists and the individual touch of the Neo-Impressionists — which by then had developed further into his highly personal, signature style with its distinctive brushwork and singing colour.
But dealer George Adams was moved by the crisp lines and jarring angles of the artist's brief foray into Hard Edge, a style associated with Color Field painting and Op Art.
Scher's larger works (and groupings of multiple works) provide fields where some of these elements convene, where countless drawings — which often get loose into otherwise abstract paintings — are funny conundrums that outlast their own laugh lines.
Color - field paintings fall into the category of art often derided with statements such as «My six - year - old could do that.»
Ten Americans sheds new light on important figures in American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painting who adapted aspects of Klee's art and ideology into their own artistic development.
More paint was added and eventually the creases from the folds were translated into lines and patterns that move throughout the fields of color that ebb and flow throughout the massive canvas sheet.
Her new paintings — groupings of hammerhead sharks, fronds, cell phones, toucans, plantains — bring something of Basquiat's mind - boggling border - to - border busyness, combined with Bernhardt's spray - painted, psychedelic phosphorescent fields that transform into fossil beds of modern life.
These paintings emit a gravitational field that pulls in associations and assembles them into a new kind of symmetry, a forbidden symmetry of seeing from multiple perspectives at once.
David Novros painted just as abstraction and Minimalism were converging into color - field painting, and he pursued its rigor with a vengeance.
In his installations, he has created silver Celotex walls that invite museum - goers to become vandals, and transformed shag carpets into grand echoes of Color Field paintings.
Though primarily functioning as Warhol's investigations of the history of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting, they remain as integrated into popular culture as never before.
You then came to New York in 1954, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was hitting its late peak and beginning to transition into Color Field painting, Pollock was gone, and de Kooning was leaving for the Springs.
In sculpture, video and photographic prints, Rana transforms snapshots of shop signs in Lahore into abstracted cityscapes or renders reproductions of Old Master paintings as digital fields of colour.
What resulted remained true to painting's basic materials while turning its traditionally flat surface into a field of topographical undulations that, interacting with light, appear to change a great deal as the viewer moves around them.
Thicker stripes run diagonally, merging into still broader fields of paint.
It took guts to select a field of art such as landscape painting and persist into a venture around which so much else bustles with attitudes of antagonism towards the very art one cherishes.
The next paintings in this show explain much of what that field became and how personal he chose to go into the 70s.
While Newman's work reeled viewers into a color field, Swavely's paintings resist close inspection, for as one approaches, the brushstrokes that once felt voluminous fall flat, having been washed away by turpentine - soaked rags scrubbed across canvas heavy with oil.
I love Willem de Kooning's «Women» paintings for their formal qualities; the fields of slashing brush strokes and garish colours somehow corralled into dynamic compositions.
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