Sentences with phrase «formal vocabulary»

Using the familiar formal vocabulary of advertising and cinema, her imagery mirrors the inconsistencies within the American cultural experience.

And though they all share the same formal vocabulary, the palettes of the paintings are diverse, reflecting the different atmospheric conditions each depicts.

Barbara Takenaga: New Paintings October 13 — November 12, 2011 Barbara Takenaga's exhibition of recent work pushes her established formal vocabulary in surprising directions.

One of the most significant artists to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Felix Gonzalez - Torres» (1957 — 96) reduced formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor and evocative use of everyday materials resonates with meaning that is at once specific and mutable, rigorous and generous, poetic and political.

Along with this new technique, Albers adopted a new formal vocabulary of vertical and horizontal bands arranged in parallel rows, sometimes alternating, sometimes weaving one over the other.

«Ms. Park effortlessly reconciled painting and drawing, deriving a lively formal vocabulary from clusters of loops and spheres.

The black - and - white palette of most of the pieces lends an austerity to the exhibition, giving Becker a narrow formal vocabulary with which to explore the theoretical boundaries and potential surprises of Allen's rich premise.

Engaging a limited formal vocabulary based on figure and landscape, Baselitz explores the broad expressive potential of representational imagery in Akt und Flasche (Nude and Bottle), one of the major diptychs from the late 70s, and the grand four - part work Birnbaum I (Pear Tree I) of 1978.

For MoMA's first contemporary painting survey in recent memory, curator Laura Hoptman pulled together work by 17 artists, most of whom work with various abstract formal vocabularies ranging from the expressionistic to the starkly minimal.

Peters» unique formal vocabulary uses a combination of Arabesque lines, organic shapes and washes of graphite and color.

Showing a selection of Wurtz's works from the first two decades of his artistic practice, the exhibition aims to highlight the formation of Wurtz's idiosyncratic formal vocabulary during the 1970s and 1980s.

Presenting a selection of Wurtz's works from the first two decades of his artistic practice, the exhibition aims to highlight the formation of Wurtz's idiosyncratic formal vocabulary during the 1970s and 1980s.

Surveying forty years of Puryear's career, taking in large - scale works in wood and metal to rarely seen prints, Parasol unit reveals his dedication to natural materials and exposes his highly personal, curvy formal vocabulary, somewhere between abstraction and figuration.

Certain artists left the geometric formal vocabulary generally favored by Op artists, pursuing gestural abstraction and material - based explorations.

The exhibition presents 23 large - scale canvases and 17 works on paper, outlining the development of each painter's formal vocabulary while suggesting deep connections between and among the works of all three which stretches back to the early 1970s, according to the museum.

Consistent with his established formal vocabulary, which acts to disrupt the painted subject visually and symbolically, Baselitz portrays himself upside down.

His oeuvre synthesizes Surrealism and the sensuous color and painterliness of the School of Paris with his own highly personal formal vocabulary.

Merging the aesthetics of commercial art with conceptual concerns, the artist probes American identity, culture, and heritage through a deceptively simple formal vocabulary.

Rather than adhering to a single formal vocabulary, she uses cubes, grids, curlicues, and organic forms to forge affective relationships between her present moment and sculpture - making idioms of her historical precursors.

Approximately 5,000 years old, the Korean ceramic tradition has produced an expansive body of stoneware that is renowned for its technical virtuosity and imaginative formal vocabulary — a formidable artistic legacy with which present - day Korean ceramists must grapple.

Selected by Laskey and art dealer Steven Lieber, the Lozano sheets on view show how a similar formal vocabulary can appear to serve dramatically different temperaments.

Using an abstract and minimal formal vocabulary, both artists present contemplative works of art that manifest and inherent dual nature.

The late 1930s were a painful period of assimilation and discovery, through which Gorky found his complex formal vocabulary that serves as a crucial link from European Surrealism to the burgeoning Abstract Expressionism of the following decades.

Consisting of multiple laser - cut and painted layers, they juxtapose a spare formal vocabulary, consisting of colorful lines and stains, with patterns derived from appropriated images of cells and viruses.

The restless energy with which Moses has borrowed from pre-existing formal vocabularies and adapted their morphologies to make them his own, attest to the mutable nature of his vision.

Rashid Johnson is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on race and class while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions.

His installations, which combine furniture, designed wall segments, or complete rooms with «artworks» proper (his own or those of historical figures or contemporaries), insist on the inseparability (the shared formal vocabulary and shared contexts) of art, design, and their display.

The untitled sculpture recalls Wekua's earlier mannequin figures and continues their subtle formal vocabulary.

As it turns out, the all - women concept has generated a mesmerizing exhibition where the varied formal vocabularies play off each other quite well, and the myriad of works retain a kind of visual unity because of a consistency of organic form throughout.

The Jewish Museum is now staging Louise Nevelson's first US survey since 1967, an exhibition both long overdue and somehow of the moment, given the swarm of young artists quoting her distinct formal vocabulary.

Political, Minimal surveys works of art from the past 40 years that use a strongly reduced, geometrical formal vocabulary, but which nonethless manage to retain slim narrative clues, through a repertoire of shapes such as circles, pyramids, balls and cubes.

Each artist would ultimately reinvent himself yet again at the end of his life: Malevich returning to a representational mode, and Kandinsky's formal vocabulary altering to feature a softer palette and biomorphic forms.

Early on, Donald Judd tried to describe its impact in his rigorously formal vocabulary but could not help deviating to words like «ferocious» and «terror.»

Florian Pumhösl's central engagement with the historical formal vocabulary of modernism and its specific thematic issues is typical of his work.

Brimming with energy, Hours epitomizes the unrelentingly creative fervor with which Joan Mitchell embraced radiant color and a looser formal vocabulary in her late oeuvre between 1985 and 1992.

In addition to the intentionally restricted red, blue, and yellow palette — relieved by black, white, and a grey mixed from the other pigments — Redstone's formal vocabulary encompasses rectilinear shapes and grids aligned exclusively along 45 and 90 degree axes.

Like Marca - Relli, Pepi found ways to marry the muscular gesture of the New York style with the palette and formal vocabulary of Italy.

Arne Schreiber: On entering Galerie koal the viewer is immediately struck by the precise installation, reduced formal vocabulary and sheer presence...

Unorthodox construction, diverse pairings and alternative materials blurred the conventional distinction between aesthetic and utilitarian forms, opening the floodgates for limitless appropriation and giving rise to a dynamic new formal vocabulary.

Enduros, the second part of the show, constitutes a retrospective of Knoebel's work from 1968 to 2005, covering the entire spectrum of the artist's abstract formal vocabulary.

The clay works (all 2014), with their openings and bulges, create a unique formal vocabulary.

In his prints, Shapiro often uses the same formal vocabulary to suggest a human presence, but generally is more concerned with the creation of spatial relationships.

This sense of dynamism was explored to great effect in the artist's earliest black - and - white paintings, which established the basis of her enduring formal vocabulary.

Surveying forty years of Puryear's career, taking in large - scale works in wood and metal to rarely seen prints, Parasol unit reveal his dedication to natural materials and expose his highly personal, curvy formal vocabulary, somewhere between abstraction and figuration.

For Phillips, the challenge of communicating organic, real - world subject matter through a limited, geometric formal vocabulary is endlessly intriguing.

Featuring 23 large - scale canvases and 17 works on paper, the exhibition outlines the development of each painter's formal vocabulary while suggesting deep connections between and among the works of all three.

Moira Dryer's first solo museum exhibition, this installment of the New Work series showcases the New York — based artist's formal vocabulary with flair and wit.