Sentences with phrase «formal elegance»

A neat and simple stripe design is ideal for giving formal elegance to a hallway staircase.

Aaron Kasmin creates images of great formal elegance: spare, hard - won, miniature in scale but full of quiet power.

That A Quiet Place is, beyond its loopy alien antics, emotionally stirring and executed with lean formal elegance has made it a hit with critics — many of whom have taken Krasinski's own cue in labelling it an «elevated horror» movie, an increasingly ubiquitous term intended to dignify genre films with noble artistic aspirations.

I see virtually no athleticism in the GV80, but there is at least a tiny bit of formal elegance in certain details and one big element of imaginative innovation.

Compared to Arte Povera or the more politicized version in «Transmissions» on its way to MoMA, they aspire neither to formal elegance on the one hand nor to violence on the other.

Chamberlain is best known for his metal sculptures constructed from discarded automobile - body parts and other modern metal detritus, where the industrial origin of materials is underscored by a cumulative formal elegance.

The transmission into formal elegance is complete, and there are a half dozen small paintings — only six or eight inches across and not much higher — that are alone worth a visit to this excellent show.»

His distinct formal elegance is observable in his sculptures from recovered trash, drawings made on airplane boarding passes, and color photographs.

Incorporating fabricated components with found and salvaged vernacular items, May's recent work effects formal elegance, discretion and resonant significance.

Dr Phil Shaw is a ground - breaking British digital - printmaker, who creates hyper - real images of great formal elegance and conceptual richness.

Under the Skin shares the formal elegance of Birth but is both more inventive and more restrained.

It's Gaspar Noe without the freaky - deaky audacity and grandiose concern for the human condition or, maybe more to the point, Lars Von Trier without the formal elegance.

By contaminating this formal elegance with motifs from vernacular culture, Curry echoes modernism's foundational appropriation of another strain of folk art — the so - called primitive arts of Africa.

The Brooklyn - based sculptor and installation artist Rachel Harrison is one of the few artists working today able to integrate the seismic 20th - century artistic innovations (think appropriation, readymades, and a general post-medium approach) into her work in a way that moves these gestures beyond winking conceptualism and into the realm of formal elegance.

Not quite legible, it draws attention to the formal elegance of letterform.

Tacita Dean emerged in the 1990s alongside artists like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, with work that stood out for its formal elegance and intellectual rigor.

Details abject or bathetic are composed with formal elegance.

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor.

The formal elegance of the photos and Kurland's eye for teasing romance and beauty out of her subjects gives rise to a sense of detached optimism, or as Kurland herself describes, a place «where beauty is found not because the world is beautiful but because it is beautifully described».

Through entropic compositions, Rodriguez achieves a formal elegance which conveys refined corporeal experience.

The formal elegance and merciless eye of the found birds series carry over into love in the ruins; sex over 50, Silas's solo show at Studio 10 in Bushwick, as well as the concurrent exhibition in the same building, To Selves, at Momenta Art, which features self - portraits by Silas and Joy Episalla.

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that confronted and challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender, and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor.

New works from younger artists also offer a formal elegance and subtlety in their exploration of form, materiality, and the shape of space.

Best known for her portraits of young girls in various stages of adolescence, van Meene's photographs are characterized by their exquisite use of light, formal elegance, and palpable psychological tension.

Their formal elegance and seeming intentionality is controverted by the experimental nature of the artist's making, the trial - and - error approach demanded by her mode of production.

It all depends on the level of formal elegance you would like to achieve.

A beautiful baby grand piano sits adjacent to the fireplace, while two white duck canvas sofas were chosen for seating to give a formal elegance with a natural wood finished coffee table allowing for farmhouse charm giving a feel of everyday lived in elegance.

Aged dark wood tables add an air of formal elegance.