Sentences with phrase «geometric shapes and forms»

While there, Ruthenbeck very quickly developed an aesthetic style and a set of concerns that, although influenced in part by Beuys and the interest among many of the Kunstakademie in Arte Povera and Minimalism, were also distinct from them in a rigorous commitment to exploring geometric shapes and forms.
Often taking the form of drawings, these works illustrate games, procedures, and rules of repetition developed by the artist, which are carried out on paper and result in geometric shapes and forms.

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«I explored various typographic and layout possibilities in the texts and these led to the individual geometric shapes that form the eleven different labels».
Eurythmy combines movement, music, rhyme, story, and geometric shapes into an art form that develops one's concentration and capacity for aesthetic appreciation.
It's made in Italy from a heavyweight pleated - knit with streamlined panels forming the V - shaped front and back and geometric waist panel, before falling to a flouncy mini-length skirt.
Geometric shape creates visual interest in the form of the motifs, and formal interest at the zigzagged hem with the fringe comprised of purple, and white yarns.
He definitely did not play it safe with his designs — his hallmarks were avant - garde forms and geometric shapes.
Draw out the surrealism fantasy stick figure composition made up of geometric shapes and then each child will begin to start shading their form.
All 4 sheets need to be cut up and then the learners can put them back together to form a geometric shape.
When seen from the air, the lines form precise geometric shapes that number in the hundreds, as well as 70 figures, which include a monkey, whale, hummingbird, shark, spiders, and plants.
Minimalism is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle
The structure itself is representative of the elements innately associated with Modern architecture - simple, clean lines, basic geometric forms, and rectangular shapes.
These works are noted for their dynamic forms where flat shapes were being pushed or contained against moving borders and other geometric constructions.
I love how straight lines and geometric forms dissolve into more undefined shapes.
Picasso and Braque, in France, invented Cubism, where organic forms were broken down into a series of geometric shapes.
Designed by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, the 150,000 - square - foot building has a distinct glass facade comprising numerous hexagonal panels, a recurring geometric motif that shaped the theme of «Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color,» curated by Margo Crutchfield.
Anyway, this show gets a listing because we like geometric abstraction, simplified shapes and forms, and architecturally influenced work, and that's what these guys do.
The works from 1967 to 1971 feature acrylic on mylar and canvas and feature both subtle and more obvious female symbols — Keyhole and Side OX feature distinct hole shapes, while the disjointed geometric forms in Horizontal Woman No. 2 may only reveal a woman to viewers upon a close look.
Clean, simple geometric shapes were emerging across the art forms including fine art, commercial and industrial design and architecture.
His work depicts light and color through a variety of modes, be it free - floating forms, squiggles, and diamonds against textured backgrounds, or geometric and biomorphic shapes.
Waclaw Wantuch is one of the most recognisable Polish female nude photographers, known primarily for its exploration of geometric and abstract forms of feminine shapes, which he emphasized with studio lights and high contrast.
The paper itself forms a palpable negative space, which Kelly says is as important in his work as his reductivist organic and geometric shapes.
Quaytman's turn to geometric abstraction in the mid-1980s heralded a new direction in his painting, although his systematic investigation of form, materials, color, shape, and movement remained.
She began to make use of single stains and blots of solid color against white backgrounds, often in the form of geometric shapes.
Titled the «Wooster» series for the location of this revelation, these geometric forms with hard edges furthered the artist's exploration of shaped canvases, formalist elements of the line, and literal as well as depicted shapes.
With Rappaport's discerning use of simplified geometric shapes and refined color palates, the compositions reflect elements of the human form, landscape, and architecture.
The influence of modern masters such as Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian can be seen in works from the 1980s, such as Matisse (1989), a white and dark blue shaped canvas with a geometric motif, and Little Mondrian (1985) and Sliding Square: Green and Gold (1975), which are made up of rectilinear forms.
Turning from the text, the forms that were previously mere lines unfolded into a range of yellow, red, and pink tessellations that were unexpectedly dynamic and distinct for works made solely from basic geometric shapes (triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids) and a tripartite color scheme.
Since the advent of Abstract Expressionism followed by Post-painterly Abstraction in the mid-twentieth century, painters and other artists have been liberated to explore large - scale abstraction through expressive gestures, geometric forms, biomorphic shapes, minimal palettes, or new materials.
Parker's paintings utilizing this method of stacked, clearly colored lozenges and floating forms are straightforward and basically geometric in shape.
Both artists experimented with single colored canvases and geometric patterns, but while Kelly's shaped canvases were often irregular, Youngerman sought to explore a radical symmetry of form.
Inspired by the basic building blocks of the geometric world, Augustine Kofie has formed a retro - futuristic aesthetic which transplants these shapes and angles into a soulful, organic, yet highly mathematical form of abstraction.
These provide instant, ready - made abstract compositions; their geometric shapes and rainbow palette again aesthetically reference the 60s in the form of Bridget Riley «s colourful Op Art canvases or, more recently, Gerhard Richter's painstakingly uniform «colour swatch» paintings.
The home, in particular, is an ongoing theme for Chun, whose third exhibition at Poem 88 delivers her familiar world of primary colors and basic shapes in a variety of media, fluctuating between recognizable imagery and geometric form.
Augustine Kofie Inspired by the basic building blocks of the geometric world, Augustine Kofie has formed a retro - futuristic aesthetic which transplants these shapes and angles into a soulful, organic, yet highly mathematical form of abstraction.
Also at Newcomb are Jamaican artist Ebony G Patterson and her dazzling, vividly coloured, metamorphic, mixed media floral works on paper that suggest beaded textiles, nonagenarian Monir Farmanfarmaian, whose faceted, mirrored sculptures shape modernist geometric forms out of Persian designs, melding her Iranian heritage with that of her adopted city, New York and Andrea Fraser, with her tall mound of discarded costumes collected from Rio's Carnevale, remnants of their wearers» dreams.
Contino's early works are hard - edged geometric paintings (including shaped canvases) composed of thick lines and contrasting solid colors that divide the canvas and form intricate shapes.
Composed of grids, lines, and geometric shapes, the structures form a volumetric drawing within the space of the gallery, referencing cheap commercial constructions as well as the serial patterning of paintings and sculptures made by Minimalist artists such as Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin.
Poons's early compositions of rectangles, diamonds, and other geometric shapes, went against the grain of prevailing tastes at the school, which favored various forms of late Abstraction Expressionism, in vogue around the world by the mid-1950s.
However, in his drawings, Moon deployed loosely defined forms with lines that are softened by the use of pastels, making them distinct from the more strictly geometric shapes and sharp edges that characterise his paintings.
The geometric forms that consistently appear in his work give shape to his preoccupation with space, form and materials.
Known for employing the fundamental elements of geometric form and color to create beautiful investigations of perspective and space, Shepherd's latest works both subscribe to and play around this base, introducing a looser spatial vantage point and a more layered, experimental approach to shape and process.
Continuing to develop drawn forms, the 1990s introduced outlined geometric forms more autonomously depicted on solidly - colored, shaped canvases: Attic Series III, Study (1990) places an ellipse inside of a parallelogram; Plane Figure Series A (1993) sets two ellipses within a two - color parallelogram; and Curved Plane / Figure VIII (Study)(1995) places two ellipses within a three - color half - circle, cut off a canvas truncated on its right edge.
Soon after, he transitions to working with acrylic and pencil on masonite, outlining his geometric forms on shaped panels, such as the three half - circle canvases of & frac12; W, V, X Series (Orange, Green, Blue)(1968).
Featuring a series of luminescent, geometric forms that resemble the shapes of common pharmaceuticals, Fishman's new work straddles the line between sculpture and post-painterly abstractions.
By simplifying form and color, any recognizable elements become geometric shapes of light and shadow.
For these «site sculptures,» Huebler would draw a series of arbitray points on a map in the form of a geometric shape and set out to collect samples located by those geometries.
The three monochromatic wall paintings created for the Jean - Michel Wilmotte - designed gallery space are rendered in intense colour and each form is a subtly distorted geometric shape that activates the wall, disorientates the viewer, and almost seems to waver like a pool of water.
Using patterns and precise puncturing, Taney Roniger creates biomorphic and cellular - like forms, referencing landscapes, mythology, and geometric shapes found in nature.
Before affixing the translucent coloured Perspex to Propaganda (1965) and Plastica (Paesaggio con Brancusi)(1965), he used the simple geometric shapes as stencils to create repeating forms, which give a sense of dynamism.
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