Sentences with phrase «like collages»

Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.

«The gift includes the last examples of many silver gelatin prints and early works like collages that we were really reluctant to sell.

Known for his usage of everyday objects and organic materials, Langa creates whimsical, map - like collages and imaginary landscapes that link disparate things.

[6] Her most famous pieces are her grid - like collages of magazines grouped together into larger pieces.

The collages I did in ’95 look exactly like collages from 100 years ago, even though they have pop images in them.

Like the collages, it deftly combines flatness with dimensionality.

Paintings depicting vibrant scenes of life are casually arranged next to more subtle sculptures and quilt - like collages of color.

There is a crafty aspect to the work Personal Protocols and Other Preferences, which takes do - it - yourself techniques seriously as a way of questioning what is standard, whether it is man - made machines, videos filmed with a handheld camera, or textile - like collages.

Lisa Blas» understated work is dominated by Matisse - like collages on music paper, but her «Autosculptures» are the most engaging; while they appear to be little more than scans of crumpled paper, their simple forms posses the grace of origami without the need of swans.

There is a crafty aspect to the work which takes do - it - yourself techniques seriously as a way of questioning what is standard, whether it is man - made machines, videos filmed with a handheld camera or textile - like collages.

Kirstine Roepstorff's textile - like collages, some of which are made directly on the wall, can partly be viewed from a tower constructed by her colleague Michael Beutler.

The frieze - like collages evoke filmic motion and fragments of contemporary society, which confirms Spero as major contributor to post-modernism.

Teens and tweens may enjoy some of the above summer craft ideas (like the collage or birdfeeder), if done with younger siblings or scaled more to their level and interest.

If you liked my collages from this Christmas holiday looks post, this Valentine outfit ideas post and more like them, continue reading to find out how to create similar collages with Photoshop.

It kind of looks like a collage made from one photo, don't you think?

For this weather I prefer a lighter jacket, a leather jacket, a bomber or this time a pink jacket, like this from StyleWe, looking like a collage jacket.

Like your collage roommate, the BRZ parties hard all the time.

With jewel - like collage art, this over-sized edition examines different beetle species and their distinctive characteristics.

It seems that GTA V's magpie - like collage of influences and reference points is very much a reflection of its lead writer's mindset.

It's like a collage.

He likes collage art, so he starts doing searches inside of Facebook for collage artists.

Although they are called proofs, each is more like a collage or watercolor, Ms. Brodie said, because Diebenkorn added elements to them like bits of paper.

-LSB-...] The top lot was an historically important work by Burri, dated 1953, in which sections of canvas sacking were sewn together like a collage, which sold to Meltzer for # 3 million, close to a record for the artist who is due a major retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York in 2015.

The works follow a trajectory that begins just after his 12 - year Hourloupe cycle and move through some interesting and increasingly heavy grid - like collage compositions and back again into lighter, loopy abstractions.

After that, what looks like collage is likely to be the sheer accumulation of acrylic.

From far away, his paintings look like collage, which makes them all the more impressive when you walk up close and see the paint hardened and layered into and on top of one another.

Quinn's recent work is full of deeply personal impressions of the people he's stored in his memory (it should also be noted that he's developed a virtuosic painting style to apply these images to canvas in which he matches oil to soft pastels to avoid the scattered images bleeding into one another, which is why the paintings look like collage from a distance).

Polemical but symbolic, it combined drawing and painting as well as craft - based techniques like collage and printmaking seldom associated with traditional Western notions of high art and mastery.

As a musician I make field recordings of my surroundings and arrange them into a story - like collage; as an artist I record my daily thoughts and emotions as gestures on a canvas.

It is so convincing that it looks like a collage.

His narrative stretches across three pages, like collage disassembled, ending in a fan letter to him.

A quilt - like collage of wooden bits, porcelain, and sawed colored pencil, inspired by aerial views of the Wisconsin farmland and created for the firm's Wisconsin Art Preserve proposal.

But besides the interesting plot, the story is constructed like a collage.

Like the collage artist who takes objects from the world, combines them with paint, and sets them inside a frame in order to show the viewer that «the tiniest authentic fragment of daily life says more than a painting,» Genzken uses the gallery space itself as a kind of frame, setting objects within and then adding her own version of a paint stroke.

The walls of the space will be treated like a collage sheet and furnished with a constellation of paintings and collages focusing on the formal relationship of - human - figure and pictorial ground.

The painting is a collection of multicolored paint spills that have been molded and squished together into a canvas that, from a distance, looks like a collage of used chewing gum.

Essayistic in style, and constructed like a collage of original musical compositions, contemporary footage, narration, animation and 8 mm home movies, it deftly flits between the serious and the playful, the funny and heartfelt.

[14] Nevelson's most notable sculptures are her walls; wooden, wall - like collage driven reliefs consisting of multiple boxes and compartments that hold abstract shapes and found objects from chair legs to balusters.

Known for his tactile, map - like collage paintings, Bradford's trademark monumental, mixed - media abstractions layer string and advertising posters stripped from the streets of his notoriously gritty neighborhood, where he maintains his studio.

That said, it is important to state that while American avant - garde artists of this period (especially Rauschenberg) were indebted to earlier Europeans (like Duchamp, Schwitters et al) for establishing certain traditions (like collage), their unique focus was on producing art which reflected the reality of contemporary America.

Controversy aside, the 14 international galleries» worth of contemporary African art was a definite highlight of the Armory, adding a welcome mix of diversity and showcasing standout works like collage - like paintings from Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a video from Kapwani Kiwanga, and bright canvases from Barkley L. Hendricks, seen here.

Like cities are a patchwork of neighborhoods and places, the work of Sunita Maharjan is like a collage of stitched pieces of textile on which she did a transfer of images.

Similarly like the collage works by Picasso and Georges Braque, the original idea of what a sculpture can look like and be was free to use whatever material it deemed necessary.

Warhol has incorporated blocks of irregularly shaped colour, which, although printed, appear like collaged fragments of coloured paper.

The other Cubist idiom developed by Picasso and Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), was synthetic Cubism, a style which incorporated new materials (like collage) into the picture surface.

The end result is more like a collage than a painting: a loud and exasperating argument in different tongues, promising never to be resolved for lack of a common idiom.

Wylie often paints through the filter of memory and impression, using text to enhance facts and recollections and editing images by overlaying new pieces of canvas over images, like a collage.

They look put together almost like collage because of the breaking up and confusing of objects and subjects but also from the textures and colors that create a multitude of different vocabularies.

And it offers a variety of tools to help you do more with photos — like a collage maker, and a way to batch edit hundreds of photos at once to do things like apply filters, mass delete, etc..

I really like the bright pillows, particularly the one that looks like a collage.