Sentences with phrase «flat planes of»

Due to the design of the base, the rear of the opposite painting is seen behind the person, where flat planes of colored paint produce a loosely articulated second figure.

Aware of predecessors such as Karl Benjamin, and John McLaughlin, and their interest in landscape and the environment, the artist moves hard edge towards a more Pop language; flat planes of intense color merging and moving against another, shifting stratas of atmosphere and light echo the intersections of urban culture and nature.

The flat planes of colour and thin glazes of paint speak to the influence of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden upon the artist's work.

The resulting paintings are distinguished by shifts between flat planes of colour and an illusory depth.

After some 30 years painting thick black lines and flat planes of color («I called it Cloisonism, which was a 19th century practice which Van Gogh was involved with for a time») the artist considered himself stuck.

In Martinez» works, flat planes of pastels collide in deftly constructed clusters of detailed angles jutting out, encompassing different spectrums of the color wheel.

The often - compared - to Alex Katz successfully captures atmosphere in his figure works with simple lines and flat planes of colour, and Peyton comes close to this at times.

The Unbearable Flatness of Being, her Working Artist Project solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, compresses issues of environmentalism, terror and tranquility into flat planes of cartoonish hyperreality.

Essentially, the figures are composed of the flat planes of synthetic cubism, with secondary planes linking them to one another and to their surrounding space.

Many of Cain's strokes, drips, and flat planes of paint recall movements past — largely male - dominated genres — while her specific colors, pleasurable and redolent of popular culture, music, fashion, and perceived grounds of femininity, invoke an artist navigating her lived world.

In contrast to my work on canvas, I originally called the paintings on wood panel «billboard paintings», due to their catchy and iconic imagery and the use of flat planes of colour that is reminiscent of the style often used on billboards.

Influenced equally by the pointillism of Seurat, the dynamism of the Futurists, and the abstractions of Pollock, her work from the»60s onwards consisted of flat planes of simple, repeated shapes (first in black and white, later with colour) assembled in often dizzying configurations.

Johns's work during this era, in which he sometimes juxtaposed sculptural elements with the flat planes of painting or painted directly on sculptures, were described by critic Leo Steinberg as radically new.

And then a longing for the return of curves and for work with larger areas of colour brought paintings where flat planes of colour appear to weave in space in compositions of lyrical and exuberant rhythms.

DeFeo often applied paint to canvas in thick layers, while Lawrence and Davis created flat planes of vivid color.

In Kurt Steger's series, Urban Structures, the flat planes of the plywood that are built up to hold the scribed contour of the boulder together create crystalline geometric forms, wh...

In the Argentinian - born artist's mind, he was cutting into the cosmos, bringing another dimension to the flat planes of painting.

In the late 1950s, Stella was one of the first painters to reign the dynamism of Abstract Expressionism into angular compositions and flat planes of color.

Neither the flat planes of older art, the simple columns and pyramids of Masaccio's followers in Florence, or the silky gradations of the Northern Renaissance will do.

One of the artist's most famous paintings, Large Reclining Nude, displays the daring scale, simplified forms, and bold, flat planes of colour with which the artist treated the female form in the 1930s.

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

His use of flat planes of color arranged in rows that relate to one another horizontally, vertically and diagonally suggests the synesthetic blending of the senses — «hearing» color, «seeing» sound — and evokes the painterly experiments of the synchromists from a century ago.

Hume favors bold shapes, flat planes of color, high gloss paint, and reflective surfaces.

Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with flat planes of color.

Her hooded and slightly melancholy hazel eyes, the flat planes of her face, her straight, baby - fine hair and the extraordinary definition of the muscles of her arms and legs fit no known mold.

Its process - the life of technology - is operating merely on the flat plane of what works and it asserts its total authority over the individual; it asks for its price.

In order to «climb a high mountain» and see «all the kingdoms of the earth,» and in order for the resurrected Christ to «ascend in the clouds» where believers will join him, heaven has to be «up there» above a flat plane of the earth.

Diamonds show the positions of the red aurora tangentially mapped to the flat plane of the 60 by 80 field - of - view, plotted every 100 km in east - west direction and every 10 km in vertical direction.

But what most distinguishes this planet is the broad and flat plane of seven rings that orbit it.

But what most distinguishes this planet is a broad and flat plane of seven rings that surrounds it.

The flat plane of the field, with its painted boundaries can be seen as a metaphor for the canvas — and in this way the painting becomes self - reflexive and the act of painting itself the true subject of the work, thus demonstrating a clear tension between the image and its reference point.

A subtlety and depth resides in the flat plane of his paintings, which transfixes the onlooker.

My work is figuration that flirts with abstraction; I've reduced the figures down to a flat plane of color, but they still register as a face or a hand.

The corner not only defies the flat plane of most painting and photography, but also reduces the workable space of a sculptural object from 360 degrees to just 90 degrees.

«Before he moved into three dimensions, he had to use up the flat plane of painting so that he could deal with space itself.»

One can also trace a lineage between the jet - age Googie architecture of the freeway and Smith's unstretching of his canvas, disrupting the flat plane of the painting into sculpture signage.

Jefferson, curiously, went in another direction, exploring flatter planes of color.

For the first time Kuitca abandons the flat plane of the map and represents the illusion of three dimensions.

The mural, a flat plane of bright discs and angled lines painted on the side of a women's prison, is titled «Venus» and was designed in 1970 by Knox Martin, an artist who had been associated with the New York School of painters.

The subjects allow the artist to explore the relationship between deep space and the flat plane of the picture's surface.

The flat plane of the wall on which the mirrored relief hangs seems to splinter and dissolve.

By exploring the relationship between the flat plane of a canvas and the basics elements of artwork and sculpture — color, shape and composition — Frank Stella created his Black Paintings.

With the revolving door of exhibitions in more and more venues, commercial and scholarly alike, thousands of artists appear on a relatively flat plane of aesthetics.

To restore a flat plane of black or white or red is an exceedingly tedious task, requiring an obsession that seems to verge on insanity.

Not exact matches

Nobody has figured out how they can be worked by such a tiny brain, using six different kinds of silk, and reckoning angles and three dimensional forms so accurately from a point of view on a flat plane.

At the top or bottom of the flat plane you will feel either a hard ball, most likely your baby's head or a softer curve that is likely to be your baby's bottom.

Many modern maps solve this problem by using so - called Mercator projections, which turn the lines of latitude parallel to the equator and the lines of longitude that converge at the Earth's poles into a tidy grid of perpendicular lines on a flat plane.

The research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation and reported October 11th in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, involved building a computer model to simulate the interaction between the two facets of a folded sheet, including how easily and how far the folds would bend and how much the flat planes would deform during movement.

Lying flat on my stomach, I peered through the hatch on the bottom of the plane as seals, penguins and icebergs zoomed in and out of view.

All of the planets orbit in a flat plane with respect to the Sun, roughly within a couple degrees of each other.