Sentences with phrase «in symmetrical compositions»

She layered nature and spirit, plant and animal, human and divine in symmetrical compositions of swirling intricacy.

Not exact matches

The bun and the braids come together in a perfect symmetrical composition.

He reconfigures visual and compositional speed into vibration: he scales down the faster strokes and pulls them in, like current in a light bulb; he builds up symmetrical compositions, like vertebrae in a spine.

Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge, symmetrical compositions filled with flat planes of color.

(1959), «Black Paintings» series «Out of frustration with some previous works I'd made using combinations of black, yellow and red stripes, I started making symmetrical paintings with all - black bands that radiated in concentric patterns from the center of the composition.

This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at the symmetrical center of the composition — by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support.

Feeley's abstract works with their bright colors, simple repetitive forms and symmetrical compositions occupy an important place in the history of twentieth - century American art.

The lemon yellow design in the lower quadrant is nearly symmetrical, the encircling black shape provides an emblematic focus, and the entire composition is a merging of strength and sensuality.

More than mere documentation, her images are carefully staged, often symmetrical in composition, and add to the power of her groundbreaking sculptural work.

In such paintings as Min - Oe (1951) Twombly devised bold, symmetrical compositions, which, he suggested, were characteristic of both primitive and classical art.

The symmetrical composition and massed linearity of multiple images parallels that of the everyday German houses depicted in the individual prints.

«Although Rothko's approach to color and subject,» Gage wrote, «has something in common with, for example, Barnett Newman's, perhaps his closest affinities among contemporary artists were with the work of Ad Reinhardt, whose adoption of near - monochromatic color groupings form the late 1940s and exclusive concentration on symmetrical composition from around 1950 have clear parallels in Rothko's work.

A couple of recent untitled «blot» paintings — symmetrical compositions of splotches in luridly acidic color, like Rorschach tests reinterpreted after Gerhard Richter — suggest that Marshall was justified in his early recognition that his future would not lay in abstract painting.

These roughly symmetrical compositions of sharply angled shapes are rendered in clear, bright colors that intersect and overlap in fevered, sometimes psychedelic combinations.

Reacting against the dominant Abstract Expressionist tendencies of the time, he focused exclusively on the control he found in symmetrical and linear compositions and the materiality of the canvas.

Who, looking at Bluhm's slashing gestural abstractions of the late 1950s — the work that first brought him attention — would be able to foresee the paintings he created in the 1980s and 1990s: architectonic, intensely symmetrical compositions that owe as much to the art and architecture of Medieval and Renaissance Europe as to the Abstract Expressionist milieu in which Bluhm's style was initially forged.