Korean scholars expressed Confucian values
in calligraphic poems written in albums and on screens.
Zao remained wary of objectively Chinese - influenced art and avoided using ink for much of his career, preferring to work with oil paints
in a calligraphic style.
His surfaces are often densely covered
in calligraphic, brushed and hand - drawn patterns that express both the logic and complexity of written language.
The ten amazing artists presented here all come from different cultures and every heritage
in calligraphic sense shines through their work.
El Seed's In the desert of language, calligraphy is the shade where I rest (2013)(Courtesy Ouahid Berrehouma / itinerrance GALLERY) Less obvious perhaps is work by Shirazeh Houshiary, with her dreamy works on paper defined by bold yellow symbols, or Shirin Neshat's C - prints of faces faintly covered
in calligraphic script.
While Qin employs traditional Chinese materials in his work — brush, ink and paper — and paints
in a calligraphic manner, his works are created with a physical vigour and scale evocative of Western Abstract Expressionist painters (it is interesting to note that many Abstract Expressionists were deeply interested in Eastern philosophy).
And now I can use those things
in the calligraphic paintings.»
The invitation, which reads, «Let's take a field trip,» is drawn
in a calligraphic style, which implies Apple may be releasing a new Apple Pencil — and with it, a new iPad.
Not exact matches
Like me, my Mum has an old exercise book
in which she writes,
in her beautiful
calligraphic script, the recipes she finds which are too good to pass by.
Hanae Mori
calligraphic print gown
in graphic black and white semi sheer georgette.
In that guide, I outline the benefits of Oldstyle fonts, as they retain
calligraphic traits of their typographic origins that make them look beautiful as well as read easily on the page.
The greatest demand
in Marden's market is for the six
calligraphic paintings that make up his «Cold Mountain» series (1988 — 91).
Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 — 2011) had her first solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
in 1951, an exhibition that synthesized the most radical aspects of works by Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, with ambitious canvases of textured surfaces, pale color, and
calligraphic drawing.
Part of a series of 102 silkscreened canvas panels conceived as one painting with multiple components,
in this piece there are elements that call to mind Franz Kline's investigations into
calligraphic compulsions.
The exhibition also includes a number of
calligraphic drawings, including a group of twenty works Marden began
in Tanzania.
The tool also provided exceptional variations
in paint layering and effects, from smooth, transparent blocks of color to saturated,
calligraphic drizzles of line.
Another important innovation was Dan Christensen's use of a spray technique to great effect
in loops and ribbons of bright color; sprayed
in clear,
calligraphic marks across his large - scale paintings.
His most recent works come
in a variety of mediums, including a mix of
calligraphic and abstract paintings, as well as landscape photography.
However, when Zao became established
in Europe, he began creating fascinating paintings, such as Landscape (1951), which reworked traditional Chinese
calligraphic techniques with reference to Paul Klee.
In 1970, his dealer Xavier Fourcade took de Kooning to Japan, where they stayed near Mount Fuji and explored not only the area around it but also Japanese drawing in ink, in particular the calligraphic marks that he rephrased in an attempt to extend his mastery of line and ton
In 1970, his dealer Xavier Fourcade took de Kooning to Japan, where they stayed near Mount Fuji and explored not only the area around it but also Japanese drawing
in ink, in particular the calligraphic marks that he rephrased in an attempt to extend his mastery of line and ton
in ink,
in particular the calligraphic marks that he rephrased in an attempt to extend his mastery of line and ton
in particular the
calligraphic marks that he rephrased
in an attempt to extend his mastery of line and ton
in an attempt to extend his mastery of line and tone.
In the late eighties his
calligraphic paintings inspired by Chinese Landscape Painting widened his range even more.
She has the largest, with only a few broad brushstrokes against a slightly lighter field, like
calligraphic Chinese art, but
in monochrome.
The figures are simultaneously human and
calligraphic markings standing
in for the human.
YFJ: I think that when you explore with
calligraphic line, it is freer, there are more possibilities and many more ways of putting time and space together than
in photography.
Direct drawing,
calligraphic use of line, the effects of brushed, splattered, stained, squeegeed, poured, and splashed paint superficially resemble the effects seen
in Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting.
The «gesture»
in the show's title is shorthand for the term Action Painting, coined by Rosenberg to describe the
calligraphic brushstrokes — and, by extension, the existential angst — of AbEx's embryonic phase
in the early 1940s.
Covering a 4,000 - sq - foot site with burnt orange and powder blue impasto surfaces and
calligraphic marks, Amistad America is the artist's most ambitious project yet and was inspired by the history and natural landscape of Texas, whose name
in Spanish, Tejas, derives from the Native American Caddoan word for «friends».
Lewis» work then moved into what Fine described as «a very
calligraphic period, where the use of line
in fairly abstract terms for me reflects his interest
in music.»
Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions
in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious
calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.
Karen Wilkin explains, «The most apparently self - referential cluster of strokes on his recent
calligraphic gesture paintings often have their origins
in shorthand references to the characters
in Saito's haunting performances, transformed and made independent by their new context.»
A
calligraphic leafed vine, painted
in varying forms and colors against different grounds, is a recurring motif
in the new work, which continues Amenoff's thirty - year exploration of an intense, romantic, physical, and densely woven semi-abstract landscape vision based both on observation and personal interpretation of the natural world.
Her fascination with language comes through
in a large, light - filled
calligraphic work from 1965 titled Kufic, as well as
in the tightly painted, untitled schematic grid of 1949 that stacks hieroglyphics
in meticulous boxes.
In a similar vein, Dan Flavin's Sailing Across Gardiner's Bay Near Lionhead Beach (lithograph, 1982) uses abstract
calligraphic impulses to picture the mast of a sailboat seemingly perched precariously atop the crest of a wave, conjuring a dramatic sense of frailty and motion through an effective use of negative space.
Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (
in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create
calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.
This compact show touched on the long arc of Mitchell's career, from her early,
calligraphic slashes
in the 1950s, when she was painting
in a studio off St. Marks Place
in New York and drinking with the AbEx boys, through her time
in Paris
in the»60s, and, until her death
in 1992,
in the French countryside at an estate with an overgrown garden and a
It includes 12 paintings —
calligraphic and monochrome, with multiple panels and single panels — and 43 drawings, all illustrated
in full color.
Often cited as the father of contemporary art
in the United Arab Emirates, Sharif began making art
in the 1970s, but soon departed from his region's dominant art form of
calligraphic abstraction and embraced the radical approaches of avant - garde movements such as Fluxism and British Constructivism.
The earliest works exhibited, gouaches from 1956 and 1957, combine
calligraphic elements on broad fields of color
in ways which clearly relate to the work of Mark Tobey, who also showed at the Willard Gallery, and to Helen Frankenthaler.
The bequest paintings are
in Twombly's distinctive swirling
calligraphic style.
Possessing the qualities
in abundance, Untitled VII is one of de Kooning's final triumphs — a painting that's both rapturous and lean, defined by
calligraphic lines that curve and wend their way through the canvas, revealing the renewed strength of de Kooning's line and his restrained yet glorious use of color.
Paint is applied
in many ways: stains, splatters,
calligraphic lines and layered washes.
In terms of how I work, when I paint in the figure — I call [the calligraphic lines] a figure — it's like this [he waves his hands in the air
In terms of how I work, when I paint
in the figure — I call [the calligraphic lines] a figure — it's like this [he waves his hands in the air
in the figure — I call [the
calligraphic lines] a figure — it's like this [he waves his hands
in the air
in the air].
There seemed to be something
in the nature of the brush that aligned with his measured yet exuberant (and often
calligraphic) mark - making.
Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and
calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated
in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.
Highlighting Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad's most striking artworks, from 1970s to today, this exhibition showcased three phases
in Ahmad's artistic career, from early oil paintings to mixed media
calligraphic pieces, to his latest contemporary pieces derived from the medium he creates.
Get lost
in the rich pop, cinematic, and
calligraphic references
in the digital prints of Rosaire Appel at Schema Projects, trying to decipher as you go.
This exhibition, featuring forty works from 1932 to 1952, will trace Boris Margo's development from Surrealism
in the 1930s; through abstraction imbued with biomorphic imagery
in the 1940s; and finally, to luminous
calligraphic abstractions of the early 1950s.
The
calligraphic shapes appear suspended, floating
in mid-air, almost recognizable, with their linguistic meaning obscured.
Those very words echo upstairs, too,
in some uncharacteristically
calligraphic paintings by Morris Louis, the great color - field painter.
For example, if I take a lyrical text from Persian tradition, I put it
in a straight line of a grid instead of preserving its
calligraphic nature.