Photographic details of facades, cornices, windows, and other architectural elements are printed on vinyl and affixed to
geometric armatures of bronze, steel, and brass, as well as concrete and wood.
The figures are supported, suspended and penetrated by simple wooden
geometric armatures recalling Sol LeWitt's open cubes; and the frames, which snake around and through the figures, act as plinths, retort stands and prosthetic limbs.
The only son of the Surrealist painter, Max Ernst, Jimmy Ernst united abstraction and representation and formal invention and mythic imagery, creating dynamic surfaces filled with
geometric armatures often evoking medieval stained glass.
His composition emphasizes the scene's
geometric armature — the line of rectangular windows, the horizontal stretch of sky and elongated morning shadows — while at the same time minimizing architectural ornament and the legibility of the store window signs.
Not exact matches
Asked about her use of geometry, Blannin comments: «The
geometric forms are generated from drawings that always start with a grid, which provides the
armature for the main structure.
From the explicit use of
geometric and mathematical rules to restrict the influence of the artist's voice in catholic iconography, to JMW Turner's bits of architecture providing an
armature for an ethereal expression of light and air, to Gerhard Richter's squeegee obscuring his hand - painted marks.