Sentences with phrase «formal simplicity»

This section traces the growing understanding of folk art's formal simplicity as implicitly modern.

Vivid colours are coupled with formal simplicity in the recent artworks exhibited by Mathew Tom in the RA Schools studios.

Core to Carmen Herrera's painting is a drive for formal simplicity and a striking sense of colour: «My quest», she says, «is for the simplest of pictorial resolutions» (2012).

Edwards creates sculptures by welding metal objects such as tools, knives, hooks, and machine parts, to construct objects distinguished by formal simplicity and powerful materiality.

Her geometric abstract work features formal simplicity and striking sense of color through crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes.

Enclosure was one of Barbara Hepworth's favoured themes, and in Sphere with Inner Form it is condensed to considerable formal simplicity.

At the heart of Herrera's work is a striking formal simplicity and attention to colour.

Porter also made tightly composed bird photographs (involving a process that Auerbach documented) whose formal simplicity echoes Erin Shirreff's photographic reinterpretations of Tony Smith sculptures.

Ever laconic, the rings» formal simplicity produces an effect of beguiling mystery as one attempts to divine their import.

Penn developed that artistic vision over the next sixty years, shooting more than 150 covers for Vogue between 1943 and 2004 (a selection of which will be on view), creating celebrated portraits of leading cultural figures such as Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, and Miles Davis, and producing groundbreaking fashion editorials noted for their natural lighting and formal simplicity.

Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum's works combine states of emotion and longing with the formal simplicity of Minimalism, creating powerful evocations of displacement, denial, and otherness.

Notwithstanding their radical diversity, these works share a formal simplicity, a suppressed tension that amplify the space of the other, that is of the spectators.

This master of terse lines and contrasting chromatic planes finds the core of her painting within the formal simplicity and a striking sense of color.

The silkscreen process, which lends itself to large areas of flat, sharply defined colour, was ideal for the formal simplicity of Caulfield's compositions.

A painter and printmaker by trade, Marden's work hovers between emotional intensity and formal simplicity.

The formal simplicity of Ruota is echoed in Croce (Cross)(1965 - 2001), a work that closely engages with the location in which it is installed.

The paintings mark her first use of bright color and the emergence of her characteristically playful style: a mix of formal simplicity and geometric abstraction with personally expressive surface textures.

The formal simplicity of contracted subject matter — horizontal stripes of blue and white separated by visible pencil markings — calms the viewer.

Bringing together the painterly quality of Abstract Expressionism with the intellectual rigours of Minimalism, Marden achieved a balance between emotional intensity and formal simplicity.

Recalling the formal simplicity of Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, Achrome seeks through a process of simplification and purification to «abolish the symbolic, psychological and expressive intent of art» (G. Celant, «Manzoni and his Times», Piero Manzoni: A Retrospective, exh.

His curious assemblages mimic the aesthetics of modernist sculpture in their formal simplicity yet also function as spatial barriers and substitutions for natural phenomena occurring elsewhere.

Together with the works of fellow Minimalists Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella, the formal simplicity of Judd's sculpture reinvented the terms of an artwork and its construction, freeing it from the age - old representational tradition.