Sentences with phrase «formal elements of composition»

How much of a story can be communicated through the formal elements of composition, texture, color, and form?

Instead, he unifies picture and text through his curious treatment of text as a formal element of the composition.

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With Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, New York Times Op - Ed editor David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, editor - in - chief at Hyperion, may well have done for e-mail correspondence what another celebrated pair, William Strunk and E.B. White, did for formal composition in The Elements of Style.

Touching on formal elements such as color theory and Op Art, we will explore the visual effects created within works of art including, but not limited to: pattern, repetition, design, composition, Gestalt psychology and all forms of optical razzle dazzle that will make the cones and rods in our eyes forget which way is up.

Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses of a fan shape: in early works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive of deeper spiritual meaning; in Taxes (1993), one of her later black and white paintings, the fan shape becomes a central formal element that unifies the composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan shapes create a complex formal variation which co-exists with other images.

The Formal analysis role is to locate all the elements of art's form and explain their arrangement — the work's composition.

In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.

De Stijl sought the eradication of non-essential formal elements as exemplified by Piet Mondrian in his well - known grid compositions in primary colors, black, and white.

His works consist of strong formal elements, such as color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale.

We will investigate the formal elements of painting such as composition, space, form, color temperature and intensity, while maintaining an appreciation for the immediacy of the medium.

Behnke writes: «For the event, Roach brought together six abstract / non-objective painters whose works offer a dramatic contrast to their ancient surroundings even as formal elements (grids, texture, color and composition) are often reflected in the environment of the crypt.

This work is from a series where I scan and and re-print images of high end advertising to paint on them, using the composition, color and other formal elements already present in the image as a means to arrive at abstraction.

Distilled into formal icons, these elements are the building blocks of the artist's precise compositions.

The elements that compose the stage set serve as a kind of parallel and three - dimensional explanation of Scheibitz's formal vocabulary, showing how the artist arranges and rearranges his compositions.

Ahmed simultaneously pays tribute to the formal, and dynamically challenges its expressive possibilities, using elements of traditional Ethiopian painting — bold outlines, geometric shapes and a selective earthy palette — to construct rhythmically appealing compositions.

Wright's paintings, whether abstract expressionistic or color field, have bold colors and compositions, gestural strokes and the essence of drawing — through his generous use of the formal elements of line and the color black.

An annual prize given to a student whose paintings «embody the formal elements of painting, composition and the principles of structural design».