Sentences with phrase «forms on a flat plane»

My own works for the series began as simple forms on a flat plane.

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Nobody has figured out how they can be worked by such a tiny brain, using six different kinds of silk, and reckoning angles and three dimensional forms so accurately from a point of view on a flat plane.

(Beal didn't actually align himself with Hard Edge movement, Mr. Adams told the Observer, but in addition to the paintings he completed in those years, he studied flat planes and toyed with spacial illusions exhaustively in a multi-year, diaristic sketchbook titled The Form Book, also on view in the gallery.)

In his early works, Ilya Bolotowsky formed abstract images on the flat picture plane by combining biomorphic and geometric elements inspired by both Miró and the Russian Constructivist Kasimir Malevich.

Bolotowsky was evidently also inspired by Picasso's Studio of 1927 — 28 (on view at the Museum of Modern Art from 1935 onward), with its heavy black outlines and its geometric forms lying flat within the picture plane.

In the next room — a low - ceilinged former workshop — Barlow gathered pipes, planks and flattened cardboard boxes, taping them together to form a ceiling - scratching bundle, clad on one side with a mosaic of irregularly sized, painted rectangles of plywood joined into a flat sheet to form a canvas - insinuating plane (untitled: stashhoarding).

For example, in a painting on paper from c. 1946 - 1949 inscribed and gifted to Anni Albers, Asawa uses subtle modifications in color and form to create a sense of depth and motion within the otherwise flat picture plane.

Orthodox modernism's investment in the arrangement of flat abstract forms on a two - dimensional plane that prevailed in the 1950s is here subjected to merciless derision.

Sultan writes that the works on view, «drawn from the museum's extensive collections, [are] a fascinating survey showing the enduring interest in cubism's way of... taking apart of the visual world and reassembling it in flat planes, a new understanding of form.»

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Bright primaries and pastels on flat surfaces intentionally fragment his tall slender forms into free - floating planes accented by the sharp unpainted aluminum edges of each part.

«Lit,» Oil and Acrylic on 2 Panels, 48 x 61 Inches Susan Sharp is an outstanding abstract painter of biomorphic and linear forms, flat planes, vivid color and highly glossy surfac...

elementary form and color on the stage (demonstration): blue line rising slowly — red flat traversing — yellow plane approaching rapidly from background.

Cantate Domino is based on two diamond shapes formed in depth by flat planes so that they are open front and back.