Sentences with phrase «hard geometric lines»

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The exhibition includes several of Andrade's major Op art paintings, which combine hard - edged geometric forms and lines into illusory, and sometimes hallucinatory, compositions.

The pointy, hard - edged shapes and lines, carefully masked and meticulously painted, are familiarly geometric, but also quirkily unpredictable.

On Friday, Sept. 16, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens «Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight,» her first solo museum exhibition in New York in almost 20 years, focusing on work from 1948 to 1978, when she was finding her signature style: a hard - edged, radiantly colored, vertiginously geometric way of making very little do a lot.

In recent shows I have detected a movement away from hard - edged geometric forms towards more fluidity of line.

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.

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.

So, I think about how would this thing feel on its own outside the rectangle, how does the image droop and sag even though it's rooted in a hard - line geometric sensibility.»

A small retrospective of Ms. Jaffe's large - scale signature paintings — of her ebullient, flat geometric shapes, lines, blobs and squiggles on generous white grounds — confirms that she has been successfully mining hard - edged abstraction for more than 40 years.

Although Martin uses a ruler to apply delicate lines of graphite on her canvases, the resulting image avoids the hard - edge clarity of many geometric paintings.

Her oeuvre is exemplified by vivid colors, geometric shapes, hard edge lines, and curved, gestural marks painted against white backgrounds.

Balcomb Greene's pure geometric style of juxtaposing hard edge shapes and lines against planes of color made the 1930s one of the most important periods in American painting, thus leading the way for the Abstract Expressionist painters who followed in the 1950s.

In two series from 2009, Digital Painting and After Francis Bacon, Paricio used an unusual mix of hard - lined, flat geometric and amorphous shapes in primary and jewel colours alongside swathes of thick, spattered paint on canvases that were gradually edging towards the figurative.

Hard use of lines and geometric color blocks are often associated with her work.

Using hard black lines, bright flat color and organic and geometric shapes, her style is often described as surrealist cartooning, or comic abstraction.

Geometric forms populate Miller's canvases; rarely rendered in a hard - edge style, these triangles, circles, and squares are composed with slightly wavering, disorienting lines.

Emerging from her studies about the time of the Op Art movement and that seminal exhibition, The Responsive Eye, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965 and organized by William C. Seitz, Rector could not help but be influenced by the hard - edge structures, dizzying lines, geometric forms and high key and high contrast colors that created optical and illusory effects challenging visual perception.

These geometric forms with hard edges furthered the artist's earlier experimentations of formalist elements of the line and literal as well as depicted shapes.

Gardens will also feel less structured, as geometric lines and hard surfaces are softened by planting, and edges are broken down to create the feeling of a garden that has been there for years.

In contrast to the hard lines of triangles we're seeing the use of more circular silhouettes, literally taking the edge off harsh angular geometrics.