Sentences with phrase «hypnotic paintings»

Kokoska will present hypnotic paintings of faces and monochromatic acquired object sculptures.
Lorene Anderson's hypnotic paintings are abstracted landscapes influenced by the forces of nature.
Reminiscent of the 1960s Op Art movement, especially the British painter Bridget Riley, Auerbach's hypnotic paintings, sculptures, books and prints reflect abstraction, Minimalism and even Pop, with a meticulous attention to craft.
Destined for the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, the hypnotic painting executed in his color rich, isometric perspective (or «fake» perspective, as Matthew originally self - ascribed), producing that uniquely flat, two dimensional aesthetic of a three - dimensional environment, will be on display at the Eli Ridgway booth (formerly Baer Ridgway, with co-owner Kent Baer -LSB-...]
Almost everyone knows Grant Wood's «American Gothic,» the hypnotic painting of a pitchfork - toting farmer and his daughter.

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In addition, there are the many repeated visuals of paint marbling, which is just hypnotic to watch.
Debut director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor - sharp feminist subversion of the revenge - thriller.
Composed of 10 wood panels painted in acrylic and highlighted with gold and platinum leaf, it depicts several characters in traditional dress and a sea dragon surrounded by hypnotic motion of colorful whirls.
Highlights include Pam Lins's Red White and Blue (2013), a trio of ceramic drum sets perched on USPS boxes repurposed as pedestals, and Caitlin Keogh's paintings reworking extracts of text from Dior by Dior and The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras into hypnotic patterns.
Still, I love not knowing what to make of Potato (date unknown), a hideously painted yet hypnotic plaster - of - Paris sculpture that resembles a double - headed baby seal (with nails protruding from one head) nestling in a bed of actual potatoes.
It is a hypnotic work of art, and it is no surprise to learn that, after Josef died, Anni kept this painting in her bedroom where she could contemplate it.
Beyond the conceptual aspects of their construction, the paintings themselves have a visceral and physical vitality that makes viewing them an unfolding and hypnotic experience.
Opening on October 22nd, their Mid-City space will be filled with Williams» hypnotic, large - scale paintings on canvas and metal that present the physical and conceptual disintegration of structures.
Full of hypnotic curves and seductive lines, the painting is obsessive in a way and contemplative in another.
Clayton Colvin Clayton Colvin has developed a practice of painting that is both challenging and seductive, using a hybrid of figurative and abstract approaches to create delicate, fantastic, and concrete spaces - the immediate and intimate nature of drawing infusing his paintings and ceramics with an hypnotic mix of familiarity and mystery.
In Face Eater, the eyes fill the center of the painting with a hypnotic reminder that the creature doing this bizarre act is supposed to be human,» according to Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Renee B. Miller of the Denver Art Museum.
5) Blum & Poe: «From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction» A retrospective of 1960s - 70s Korean painting: hypnotic scrawls, repetitive hatching, torn patterns, and all of it powerful.
The painter's hypnotic, abstract canvases consist of tens of thousands of dabs of oil paint.
Hollowell's association of the light in her paintings with orgasm, cited in the press release, evokes connections to earlier efforts to engineer bodily energy, such as Wilhelm Reich's orgone box, or to the proto - psychedelic technology of Beat poet Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, a rotating light box intended to generate transcendent, hypnotic states.
Maintaining the consistency of the brushstrokes while varying the amount of paint and pressure applied, Lee keeps «expression to a minimum in order to achieve the maximum» (L. Ufan, Lee Ufan, Tokyo, 1993, p. 3) The almost hypnotic repetition of marks that comprise From Line is created by the artist pressing a brush loaded with blue paint suspended in viscous glue directly onto the surface of the canvas, then repeating the process until there is barely any pigment left on the filaments of the brush.
Martin, whose work is currently on view at the Whitney's figural - painting show «Flatlands,» has become a buzzy emerging artist for these perplexing images, and now, at Bodega, he'll show more of them in a show titled «Eczema Song,» which, if its loopy press release is any proof, will be as weird and hypnotic as anything else he's done.
Roger Brown's (1941 - 1997) quirky, stylized paintings were influenced by such disparate sources as comic strips, hypnotic wallpaper patterns, medieval panel paintings, and early works of Magritte.
The paintings are hypnotic, and they have a Pop Art - like graphic punch.
This hypnotic installation will be carefully layered in groups that include a neon rainbow, colored gels on the windows, floating mandalas, blurred target paintings, painted windows, gradient color walls and a surreal cast of life - size, clown sculptures.
As a result, I intend to tie a reality constructed and modeled from representations and the virtual world of pictorial illusion with the physical interactive space created by the painting's materials and hypnotic conditions.
Sascha Braunig, born in 1983, is a Canadian artist who combines vibrant color and a hypnotic style in her paintings and drawings.
The interplay of adjacent graphic blobs of color combined with a highly unusual technique that gives certain areas of the painting a splotchy «melted wax» look makes Application: One a particularly hypnotic item that is sure to suck you in.
Old men with birthday cakes, explosions of garish house paint, and hypnotic patterns are all highlights of Harmony Korine's new exhibition in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.
Kusama first began making her Infinity Nets upon her arrival in New York in the 1960s, and it was paintings such as these, in combination with hypnotic site - specific installations and daring performances that won her international critical acclaim.
Constantly moving between opacity and transparency to an undulating, hypnotic effect, the painting offers the illusion of movement.
Using layered improvisation to create hypnotic, highly rhythmic, psychedelic environments, they perform in front of Alvarado's large - scale paintings, equally reminiscent of psychedelic environments, which feature patterning and bright colors like those used by the AfriCOBRA artists in the 1960s.
His intense little painting Going West (c1934 - 35) is a hypnotic vortex of gothic Americana.
The new African - styled paintings, comprising thick rings of oil paint, are hypnotic and beautiful, and, unlike most contemporary art, they appeal to everyone.
By the same token, though, the rich blue palette (many of the paintings are simply titled «Night Studio») is visually hypnotic, and the heady scent of linseed oil (some are still wet) cuts directly to the heart.
The hypnotic appeal of Eichelmann's paintings can be attributed to their direct reaches into literary musings and impressionistic applications of color as their backdrop; two well - established, canonical movements in aesthetics (free - verse poetry and Impressionist painting) congeal in a kind of pastoral haze.
Multiple layers of glass painted with abstract figures and hypnotic scribbles r...
A majority of the work express a frothy, slurry gesture in paint which is hypnotic in nature when viewing the works, and also display a quality of uneasiness knowing that these are representations of liquids many individuals consume on the daily.
Anderson presents abstracted, hypnotic landscapes created with poured paint and structured marks made with a variety of tools.
When you get to be an old geezer you remember these moments with paintings or sculptures: they don't quite make you faint but do put you into a strange hypnotic trance.
This is the first book dedicated to the work of American artist Xylor Jane (born 1963), whose latest body of work consists of hypnotic, grid - based paintings, using dab - by - dab painting technique rooted in mathematical concepts and numerology.
One of Richard Aldrich's paintings has a certain redolence of the Philip Guston of the early»60s; Matt Connors is showing a twelve - foot - tall triptych of red, yellow and blue monochromes that can't fail to remind you of Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman; Nicole Eisenman's stylized heads have discreet echoes of Paul Klee and Alexej von Jawlensky as well as of the»80s neo-Expressionists themselves; Mark Grotjahn's densely layered concatenations of shimmering, thickly textured lines recall Joseph Stella's Americanized Futurism as reinterpreted by way of Richard Pousette - Dart's hypnotic tactility; Amy Sillman sometimes uses still life as an armature for abstraction in ways that would not have seemed alien to Hans Hofmann; Rashid Johnson and Julie Mehretu draw very different conclusions from Cy Twombly — in Johnson's case, an influence productively united with that of the matterism of»50s Europeans like Antoni Tàpies and Alberto Burri.
With its hypnotic, radial explosion of colour, executed on an extraordinary scale, Damien Hirst's seminal Beautiful mis - shapen purity clashing excitedly outwards painting is one of the first and largest examples of the artist's majestic «spin» paintings.
Ross Bleckner's immersive, large - scale paintings elicit a powerful hypnotic, dizzying effect.
Robert Goodnough may have favourably described Number 32 1950, the first black painting, as showing «open black rhythms... dance in disturbing degrees of intensity, ecstatically energising the powerful image in an almost hypnotic way», 1 but not everyone shared his good opinion.
But these were some of the finest paintings of his I've seen, elegant and gritty at once, their sumptuous yet evanescent color here and there coalescing into strangely hypnotic ocelli.
Airbrushed atmospheres, gradients, hypnotic curlicues, industrial roller marks, thin skeins of paint, paint squeezed directly out of a tube — Benson knows that each of these techniques creates a discrete physical sensation of create ocular depth and tactility that belies the flatness of the canvas.
His paint application and saturated colors are hypnotic and intense.
The overall hypnotic effect of Korine's paintings is triggered by lifelike randomness and impulsive energy.
In art, blue paint was reserved for depicting royalty, dignitaries and religious figures and still, to this day, holds the same luxurious appeal and hypnotic allure.
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