Certain pieces in the show seem to have evolved from representational objects and
into more abstract forms.
Although this feature will start in 1993 and focus on of his move
into more abstract forms of graffiti, there is no doubt that Joker is skilled in all aspects of traditional graffiti as well.
Not exact matches
Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever
more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and
abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien
form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated
into a radical and total state of guilt.
They've either grown
more allegory - friendly or
abstract (as in Fernando Mereilles's adaptation of the Jose Saramago novel Blindness or M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening) or
into some souped - up
form of undead rabies (as in 28 Days Later or Omega Man remake Blindness).
But the powers of observation that are
formed from going outside and studying our immediate surroundings
more deeply can not be replicated by delving
into these other important, but much
more abstract, topics.
Shōhaku transformed
more conventional representations of the dragon found in the traditional Japanese mythological figures of the Cloud and Dragon paintings
into fantastical images where the mythological being verged between hideous monster and an
abstract anamorphic
form.
My long - term goal is to keep pushing the figure deeper
into an
abstract space — some have referred to this space as purgatory, but I see it as
more free
form and other - dimensional.
The productive tensions between an
abstract expressionist engagement with surface, paint, and gesture and a
more decisive shift
into the ambiguous terrain between painting, collage, and assemblage find their fullest expression in Untitled [black painting with portal
form], specifically in the way the composition is structured around (and then decisively proceeds from) a tonal, monochromatic center: a flat, inky, double - truck sheet of newspaper.
Even after a century of
abstract art nothing seems quite so radical as this dazzlingly simple
form —
more parallelogram than square — leaping
into scarlet life out of pure white space, tilting eagerly forwards.
A departure from earlier work in the early 2000s in which Simmons depicted dense
abstract environments, Jump Start reveals an investigation
into the use of negative space as a
more expansive field for carefully positioned
abstract forms.
Often combining two or
more abstract forms into one piece to create a three - dimensional composite wall relief, the surface of the canvas is painted using industrial materials such as oil - based enamel and spray paint.
Though he never signed or dated any of his works, the exceptionally bright and contrasting colours and the vibrancy of his
forms — vaguely evoking flowers, birds, objects and human beings, but
more often dissolving
into abstract shapes — unquestionably became a signature of sorts.
The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and
form of sculpture grows
more flexible and
abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life
into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.
This lead him to move away from relatively straightforward figurative representation
into more abstract work concerned with questions of
form and colour.»
He weaves autobiography
into abstract minimalist - style paintings, a
form more commonly associated with white American artists.
The
more abstract the work, the
more ideas and concepts I can put
into the
abstract form.
It is then that he conveys to the viewer the expansiveness he must have felt looking at Arizona desert sky, although he distills this expansiveness
into a
more basic
abstract form.
Perhaps
more than any others, these paintings exemplify the artist's ability to distil the essence of a complex scene or composition
into an arrangement of near -
abstract forms.
JCH, Bruce is using a
form of a proof that the general statement is not true by taking a concrete example of the
abstract statement: «So when you take uncertainty
into account, it actually leads to the decision that we should take action
more quickly.»