Sentences with phrase «formal vocabulary from»

Bronze iterations of his marble works allow Atchugarry to explore this formal vocabulary from new perspectives.

Not exact matches

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.

Lines, Grids, Stains, Words thru October 22, 2007 Lines, Grids, Stains, Words presents drawings from the 1960s to the present that conflate the simple and seemingly impersonal formal and compositional vocabularies of Minimal art with references to the physical and the bodily.

Originally a painter, Scanavino's work has been moving increasingly towards installation and sculpture that overlays a formal painting vocabulary onto site - specific works created from familiar materials that reference social spaces and institutional spaces.

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.

For Commonwealth and Council, Porras - Kim studies the formal vocabulary of objects found in Jalisco and offers parallels from our contemporary visual lexicon.

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.

The English sculptor Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) brought about a renewed interest in direct carving and enriched the formal vocabulary of the medium by his continuous examination of figurative motifs and abstract shapes derived from natural phenomena.

A consistent source of formal and iconographic inspiration to academically trained, historically engaged artists throughout the twentieth century (from Paul Klee to Max Ernst to Julian Schnabel), talented autodidacts like Czech artist Anna Zemánková (1908 — 86) have too often been discussed using a pseudo-critical vocabulary (such as «compulsive visionaries,» coined by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992) that reads more like a diagnosis than an appraisal.

With an emphasis on the formal vocabulary of abstraction, Schoultz exposes the ways in which meaning is manipulated and perception skewed as the locus for civic debate has shifted from the town plaza to the isolated, anonymous realm of cyberspace.

The exhibition brings together fifty drawings (in which the utopian and the everyday are united in humorous — and often unsettling — shapes) and three large sculptures, whose formal vocabulary borrows freely from»50s

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.

Never mind that Noland's signature paintings feature shapes that are distinctly hard - edged, or that Morris's work is very different from Frankenthaler's in its formal vocabulary: contemporary critics committed the unpardonable sin of treating Helen Frankenthaler as a woman painter.

«Bronze in the XXth Century: Casting Modernity,» at Mnuchin Gallery, presented a kind of alternative history, reminding us that while Picasso and González's exploration of open construction in iron and steel, in the late 1920s, gave sculptors a new formal vocabulary, innovative artists from the 1880s on — including some who later embraced the constructed method — continued to be fascinated by the age - old tradition of casting in bronze.

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.