Sentences with phrase «formal invention»

There are no violent surprises, and little in the way of formal invention.

It just seems like we're given sort of a snapshot of his mind at work, working through formal invention on a small, intimate scale.

«Any kind of formal invention in the work of black artists was seen as, if not second rate, then something done the second time around,» says Odita, noting that Clark laid claim to making the first shaped painting — before Frank Stella — and that the king - making art critic Clement Greenberg regularly visited Bowling's studio but never took the opportunity to write one word in support of his work.

From deconstruction to reconstruction, creation and re-dissolution, for the artists included in this exhibition, the square and its permutations have served as a frame for formal invention.

However, I should explain that my prediction is led less by any conviction that the milquetoast Academy voters will get the thrilling formal invention and conversational artistry of «The Class» — and believe me, if they do, you'll hear my cheers from across the Atlantic — than by an instinctive suspicion that they will not get the avant - garde visual stylings and bleak anti-narrative of presumed frontrunner «Waltz With Bashir.»

Formal invention abounds, especially in the Bingo cards (some of which were hand - labeled «Beano» by Seal Point's long - ago gamblers as a way of sidestepping a state law against playing Bingo for money), where loosely applied smears, blots, speckles and truncated grids vie for space with the voluminous white outcropping found in «White Reach # 2» and other works.

Hannah Wilke's artwork, like her life, frames a heroic story about formal invention and social activism, personal loyalties and individual freedom, and, above all, breathtaking risk.

Shown here in conjunction with Picasso's own work, the echo chamber of 20th Century art is offered a fantastic opportunity for another level of feedback, as countless artists pay homage to both the artist's fearless formal invention and the path he paved for them to explore their own respective painterly gestures.

In Joe Fyfe's work, the inherent characteristics of any given material are presented foremost and combined with a sense of highly nuanced formal invention.

Crocheting, a skill she learned from her mother, not only forefronts the feminist underpinnings of her work but also provides a hands - on, referential counterweight to the soaring abstract formal invention on display.

The paintings provide a mirror of the world of destruction and creation we are all a part of; as formal inventions they evidence the short distinctions between the physical and the abstract world of phenomena — the difference, being merely language and concept.

The exhibitions will examine the broad scope of formal invention that the artist achieved within a defined idiom.

Ever - shifting landscapes and overtly camp acting counter the changing physical contents of each viewing space, implementing vague auto - biographical references dispersed throughout each video, while also blending in references to teen slasher flicks, high school romantic - comedies, and the like, although loyalty to one genre or plotline rarely seems to limit the duo's linguistic scope and formal inventions in narrative, character and setting.

Even if Jackie lacks the formal invention of Larraín's Chilean work (especially the stunning Neruda, which also opens this December), there's much pleasure to be derived from a film that, like the famously soignée first lady herself, has every detail of taste and style firmly in place.

If Picasso's «late period» is commonly associated with an art rich in formal invention, in the case of Giorgio de Chirico it is a period of revisiting earlier motifs, such as the representation of the sun on an easel.

«The act of painting is not a duplication of experience, but the extension experience on the plane of formal invention.»

There was no formal invention in the work.

Nora Jane Slade's slightly derelict installation, «Spangled,» proved that formal invention and sensitivity are not incompatible with wistful abjection.

At its very best moments, which are regrettably rare, Documenta 14 abounds with such surprising juxtapositions — it splices together sharp politics, formal invention, and sui generis private worlds.

The only son of the Surrealist painter, Max Ernst, Jimmy Ernst united abstraction and representation and formal invention and mythic imagery, creating dynamic surfaces filled with geometric armatures often evoking medieval stained glass.

These equivalent commitments to formal invention and social activism anchor Bradford's contribution to culture at large, embodying his belief that contemporary artists can reinvent the world we share.

Louise Bourgeois's concepts and formal inventions, such as her engagement with psychoanalysis and feminism, and her use of environmental installation and theatrical formats, have since become key positions in contemporary art.

Joan's virtuoso emotional intensity led to a lifetime of formal invention.

Believing that contemporary artists can change and reinvent the world they live in, his formal invention and social activism present a great contribution to culture in general.

In the studio beauty, erosion, inversion and prehistory inform my image making as I engage questions of painterly language and formal invention.

Emerging in the sixties and seventies, in the wake of Minimalist and Conceptual art, Shapiro developed an iconography that drew upon private memory, but which sought out formal invention.

While assimilating and transforming the formal inventions of modern art, Torres - García stayed true to an understanding of time as a collision of different periods rather than a linear progression — a distinction that is particularly relevant to contemporary art.

They encompass not just such old inspirations as landscape, formal invention, decoration, and illustration, but also a range of media from Mylar to color photography.

Thus painting becomes a conduit — a way to make contact beyond the closed frame of their formal invention.