Sentences with phrase «figural forms»

Her paintings are usually dominated by symmetrical linear patterns fashioned with bright acrylic colors except when figural forms emerge, which have the effect of decentralizing the composition.

Her elegant Kufic, 1965 — consisting of skeins of yellow gestures on a yellow ground from which figural forms seem to emerge — looked like a predecessor to Amy Sillman's queering of Ab - Ex, especially Sillman's Fatso (2009).

His modular paintings (first shown in the exhibition Kurgan Waves, at the Canada gallery, New York, in 2006) are composed of single - color canvases installed to create geometric, often overtly figural forms, such as the long - legged, slicker - and - galoshes - wearing The Fisherman's Friend from 2005, one of the earliest works in the exhibition.

And as Basquiat sped towards international acclaim, the skull took its place among a number of figural forms — crowned kings and athletic champions, to name but two — through which the artist channelled his new identity.

Number 7 represents a shift in Pollock's style: rather than dripping, the artist used turkey basters to apply black paint in both abstract and figural forms.

Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.

Pensato is less interested in the cartoons and comics these figures emerge from than the way these characters are drawn, and her depictions expand and exaggerate the most basic marks of figural form: here, the eyes of Felix the Cat loom large, disembodied and delineated in thick, brushy strokes.

The new figural form is ruptured and deteriorating.

Not exact matches

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

These critiques came in multiple forms, including an approach to art that favored figural representation embedded in a politics of struggle and an assertion of identities misrepresented by or excluded from American culture.

Towards the end of the 1940s, motivated by an exhibition of Arshile Gorky's paintings, Marca - Relli abandoned figural representation for thickly painted abstract forms.

She translates garments into metal and plastic, enlarging the scale and simplifying form to create pieces that read as both figural and architectural.

A jumble of vaguely figural shapes to the right of the plough seems to be guiding it as it unearths or gives birth to an embryonic hybrid organism whose only definable form is a four - petaled flower.

Figural inventors like Gibson and Hagaman find unique purposes within the materiality of their small to life - size forms.

These artists, as pictorial cartographers in their own right, have utilized the human form in their compositions as metaphorical representations; «figural» signifiers of the continent, highlighting the innate interconnectivity between man, visual culture and evolvements in the urban sphere.

Upon approach, however, figural qualities begin to disappear and overall form seems to dissolve into pure surface.

Better known today for tall, blocky, figural bronzes, Shapiro was only doing what most sculptors do: exploring the effect of form on space.

An iterative figural borrowing from one composition to the next emphasizes the body as a form of drawing, cueing the «graphic» in choreography.

With abstract forms drawn from the female body, Tracy Thomason explores material and figural transformation through collage, drawing, and painting.

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.

His compositions, often figural in form, portray notions of bureaucracy and the constraints within the political, social and economic urban sphere.

Is it an unlikely exercise in form, its fluid, undulating lines and figural positioning making for a perfectly balanced composition?

Referencing political and social awareness in this age of police violence and Black Lives Matter, works by the artists «traverse the psychic and spiritual landscape of Black erasure through narrative - figural styles; often negotiating high and low forms of image making.»

Whether through figural works that draw one into frame - encapsulated universes, or harnessing multimedia propositions that imprison robust tactility and light and space, the artists draw attention to the discrete life worlds of captured forms.

Monumental, abstract, and figural, his cast bronzes imply human and animal form through smoothly twisting organic curves and rectilinear joints.

While entirely abstract in their structure, the works» soft irregularity in shape create a figural illusion of curvaceous anatomical forms.

A beautiful neoclassical style three - bulb lamp in urn form variegated marble with figural and neoclassical bronze mounts on footed square marble base.

Curvaceous steel shaft of «cut - away» scrolls, resulting in a figural looped form on a resin base.