Sentences with phrase «into near abstraction»

A development in Moore's art where the human figure is pushed into near abstraction.

Yet the colours and forms dissolve into near abstraction and a mishmash of brushwork techniques when viewers approach more closely.

Bold colors and extreme painterly expressionism turn Ms. Rubenstein's figurative elements into near abstraction.

Not exact matches

So, yes, some things that may appear realistic from afar morph into abstraction as they come near - Chuck Close is a master at this, as are Goya and Turner.

Though the modernists played with vases and flowers, distorting them into Cubist near - abstractions, or incorporating collage in ways that were revolutionary at the time, still life innovation may have peaked in that era.

John Zuerier's near - monochrome abstractions do the opposite of paintings by Robert Ryman, James Nares in his monochrome illusions, or other recent abstraction: they blend into the walls, as if all to eager to conform.

Kalm notes: «Brown has transformed her neighborhood views into near fantasy scenes that conflates science - fiction landscapes with Color - Field abstraction.

Figuration flows easily into abstraction in these 14 works (all 2010), which present semi-abstracted locales backed by palm trees and the lush foliage of jungle or near - jungle.

The medium offered techniques of cropping, foreshortening and near abstraction that allowed her to incorporate the «graphic power of photography into her painting,» as O'Keeffe biographer Hunter Drohojowska - Philp puts it.

One group of works on view are her «Landschaft» [Landscapes] for which she often worked out - of - doors, distilling natural elements into gesture and essential marks, paring them down to near abstraction while retaining a pictorial organization.

We are presented with four works: in Tower Block, a blank monitor is interjected with high rises, surreally spliced into abstraction via arbitrary image edging; in Floor, three parallel projections explore the surface texture of floorboards with a near - fetishistic, intimate scrutiny; in Shirt, worn fabric is rendered nonfigurative, the patterns and folds becoming landscape instead of fashion; while in Moon, a twin - screen installation, presents us with 21 miniature viewing - windows from which we voyeuristically glimpse the moon, creating a field of juddering orbs.

[12] Her painting style changed in 1947, turning from small landscapes and portraits into a bold, subjective abstraction when she began to make constructions from bits of wood and other materials that washed up on the beach near her home; [18] most often her constructions reflected the area around her North Fork home, but sometimes the pieces reflected her travels to the Caribbean and abroad.

Demonstrating Ligon's acclaimed strategy of pushing appropriated text into abstraction, Stranger Study # 11 is the result of the systematic overlaying of stenciled passages from Baldwin's essay with black oilstick until they coalesce into near illegibility.

Louise Fishman scrawls «Angry» over and over, Senga Nengudi turns stockings into distended breasts, and a near abstraction by Joan Snyder centers around her crotch.