Sentences with phrase «formal values of painting»

Elrod advances an argument that is committed to the formal values of painting while inserting an unsettling psychological undertow to his imagery.

Not exact matches

In the same way that Albers's paintings teach us that opposites of value and hue interact and intensify through close proximity, here the formal geometries of art and architecture amplify their counterparts in a display that would make any Bauhausian proud.

To me, it would have meant that — this is pre this new rage in buying and selling paintings — that, I think, that the formal values, like light, space, color, all those things that a painting is made up of, as well as the Jacob going up the ladder or Venus on the half shell or something (chuckles) would be what interested the painter.

The high achievement of his paintings lies in the nature of their seeming simplicity, a simplicity which belies their complexity and which arrives at clarifying painting's formal values of line, form, and color.

Like the so - called Bay Area Figuration of Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, Sheehan's pictures discover abstract formal values in views painted from observation.

The Studio School was an interesting augmentation because it was a direct transmission of the values of Hans Hoffman and a kind of perceptual painting underwritten by formal abstraction, as it rolled up through Cezanne, Cubism and the Studio School's version of Abstract Expressionism.

Just as the relationships of pitch and duration can express emotion in music, the formal relationships of hue, value, shape, and placement can collect to create meaning in abstract painting.