Grotjahn's butterfly moniker is derived solely from
the formal qualities of the paintings; all the works displayed in this exhibition are variations on a theme, using compulsive repetition to experiment within a delineated set of conceptual rules.
For Fonda,
the formal qualities of painting — the emphasis on color, line, shape and texture — are equally as important as the conceptual elements being interpreted on the canvas.
From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative
formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.
Commenting on «
the formal qualities of the painting vs. the imagery,» she notes «I think those are really just separate things in my mind.
Although Athanasios Argianas's «Song Machine» works possess a similar minimalist aesthetic — unlike Stamkopoulos's sculptures, which tackle
the formal qualities of painting in three - dimensional space — Argianas's interest lies in the limit between material and immaterial structure i.e. information.
Martin is influenced by artists such as Paul Feeley, Yayoi Kusama, Alfred Jensen and others who are also concerned with
the formal qualities of painting.
They do harken to
the formal qualities of her paintings, but her ability to wrest relationships between layers, and to create new kinds of textures, is eye - opening.
While the other Abstract Expressionists were mining their own feelings, intuitions and subconscious emotions and using them to create works that were deeply personal and rife with hidden meaning, Kline made work that was about
the formal qualities of painting, such as paint, brush stroke, composition and color.
The basic premise of abstraction - incidentally, a key issue of aesthetics - is that
the formal qualities of a painting (or sculpture) are just as important (if not more so) than its representational qualities.
These formal qualities of her painting and drawing manifest Martin's specific spirituality.
But the increased color palette adds new dimensions to the work that draw attention away from the qualities of the marks and into a deeper examination of the other
formal qualities of the painting.
The formal qualities of paint application and color palette creates an interesting emotive relationship between the subject and the viewer.
Greenberg himself was a formalist: he believed that
the formal qualities of a painting (line, shape, colour) are primary (and self - sufficient for its appreciation), whereas its emotional, representational, ethical or social aspects are secondary, even redundant.
The basic premise behind abstract art is that
the formal qualities of a painting are just as important as its representational qualities.
Not exact matches
My background in
painting has allowed me to explore the material using techniques that derive more from the worlds
of drawing and
painting, engaging both traditional and innovative techniques in employing
formal qualities with density, texture and pattern.
Braman creates abstract geometric sculptures and
paintings in a distinctive color palette
of rich pinks, blues, and purples, in which she simultaneously foregrounds the
formal qualities of her materials while referring to her own personal narrative.
For the show, running May 1 through June 7, she assembled nearly 50 collages, drawings,
paintings, and photographs from the 1960s through the 1980s that reveal DeFeo's dogged ursuit
of specific
formal elements across media - say, the sculptural
qualities of wadded Kleenex, in one surprisingly affecting group
of photographs, photocopies, and
paintings.
«I am particularly interested in the metaphysical aspects
of painting; achieving that special
quality of formal unity which can instil an almost involuntary yet visually intelligent response from the viewer... for me, tying
painting into the realm
of the «visual» holds it somewhat apart from the image dominated world
of the merely «visible»
Appropriately enough, Moyer had first become interested in the
formal qualities of moving blankets — their off - kilter color combinations, the patterns
of their stitching — while assisting the artist Mika Tajima, who at the time had taken to displaying
paintings in the kind
of wooden storage racks typically found in a gallery's back room.
The artist's upcoming show at Michael Werner will be the
painting's gallery debut, where it will be shown alongside seven other works composed since 2008 and inspired by Jones's ongoing interest in the
formal qualities of his earlier commercial work.
Guided by their
formal qualities, notably a lattice
of beiges, mauves, and vermillion, Melee collages, crops, rotates, and mounts the images, often attaching this territory to segments
of track lighting or sculpted and
painted fiberglass curtains.
I love Willem de Kooning's «Women»
paintings for their
formal qualities; the fields
of slashing brush strokes and garish colours somehow corralled into dynamic compositions.
Asserting that abstraction «is always about something... what it is about is beyond confines
of language,» Sarah Braman creates abstract geometric sculptures and
paintings on pieced - together plywood panels, in which she simultaneously foregrounds the
formal qualities of her materials while referencing home, family life, and nature.
Figuration is consistently explored through each
of Tyler's
paintings, clearly referencing
formal qualities utilized art historical giants Phillip Guston and Willian De Kooning.
With a selection
of self - portraits, still - life
paintings, and abstract compositions, the exhibition highlights Mitchell's gradual transition between working with realistic representation to an increased passion for
painting's
formal qualities.
This exhibition investigates the intersection
of abstraction and animism as emphasized by certain
formal qualities — goopy, sticky, ooey - gooey or otherwise materially luscious surfaces in combination with aspects
of pattern and repetitions such as flutter, throbbing, palpitation, pulsating, orgiastic rhythms.The
paintings in «My Vicious Throbbing Heart: Animating Desire in Abstract
Painting,» consequently, operate in between coming into being and moving out
of form and are underscored by a sense
of aliveness.
Kembry's still life
paintings focus on the expressive and abstract
qualities of colour and
formal composition in both an historical and a contemporary context.
In the end, the word (s) in the word
paintings mean nothing outside
of their
formal quality and so become distracting if too prominent.
Their
formal and historical lessons lend themselves to discussions
of Reinhardt's abstract
paintings and collages
of the late 1930s with their generic, rule - bound
quality; the black
paintings, too, have rules, but in the 1930s the rules are public, generative, and shared.
From 1959 to 1961 he lived in New York on a Harkness Fellowship, producing
paintings that combined the
formal qualities of the work
of American abstract painters, with references to American commercial culture, with its lush seductive colours, exploitation
of magnification and soft - focus effects and, generally, its stimulation
of desire and fantasy.
Mayne was an early proponent
of photography as art and consciously printed with high contrast and favored tight graphic compositions to emphasize the
formal qualities in his work and have a dialogue with the
painting of the time.
Taking a digital image
of a landscape
painting by Thomas Gainsborough as his starting point, Ziegler manipulates the image on a computer, changing the polarity
of the colours and altering their saturation so that the
formal qualities are retained but the colour information is unrecognisably distorted.