Sentences with phrase «like cubist»

Like their Cubist, Dadaist, and Surrealist ancestors who came to collage in the World War I period, these later makers of collage complement a concern with picture - and world - making with an attention to material instability.

Wood's work shows that way, guided by a Gris - or Leger - like cubist remove that makes affect indirect, and complicated by the variable of photographic likeness.

Titled «Women of Venice», after a group of plaster figures that Giacometti consented to be displayed in the French Pavilion in 1956, the exhibition sets seven striking, royal - blue sculptures by Bove — a response to Giacometti: upright and planar, like cubist figures rendered in sheets of Fimo — in the pavilion's enclosed courtyard.

Rail: When I look at the reproduction of the painting «Four Children,» the feeling for the simplicity of form, which suggests the potential for monumentality, and the way you invent the diagonal and horizontal lines around the figures, function like cubist structure.

The Cadillac CTS performs OK, but it looks like a Cubist ice scraper.

Maybe like cubist portraits where I can see them from every possible angle and still go through an entire emotional spectrum, falling and then standing up again.

Not exact matches

Like one of Picasso's fragmented Cubist portraits, Homo fossils from 300,000 years ago give a vague, provocative impression that someone with a humanlike form is present but not in focus.

Though the museum's collection is heavily weighted toward post-war artists like Pollock, Gorky, Warhol, and Johns, it is also rich in Impressionists and post-Impressionists like Gauguin and Van Gough, and Cubists, Surrealists, and Constructivists like Picasso, Miro, Braque, Matisse, and Rodchenko.

Does she act like a snooty impressionist, or is she as haughty as that famous Spanish cubist?

The visual basis of the works of the most interesting of this group of American painters like Georgia O'Keefe, John Marin, Arthur Dove and the great Marsden Hartley ultimately depended upon the work of the Cubists, the Fauves and Albert Pinkham Ryder.

Two such stars are the sculptor Satoru Abe, who makes elaborate metal constructions in all sizes from a range of materials with the precision of a jeweller, and the painter Tadashi Sato, who progressed from architectonic or cubist - like compositions to more evanescent forms and the spiritual.

The forms she paints inhabit a shallow, cubist - like space, if I have the chronology correct many of the later works are larger in size.

When I saw his architectonic relief paintings of the early seventies with new materials like wood, felt, and different levels, slopes, and planes they struck me by their relationship to Picasso's Synthetic Cubism and Picasso's Cubist sculpture and Jackson Pollocks» cut out paintings like Out of the Web.

Cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque rejected linear perspective and distorted the shape of the objects they painted, but still took objects as their subject.

On one level, if I can flip things around even more, Faux Faux (Lobby Life) engages as a cubist - like still life, but in the future tense, as in: In the future plants will uproot from fertile ground as a survival mechanism.

The conversation begun in Venice is morphing into «a more art historical dialogue,» in Rajaratnam's assessment, one that loops in the voices of American minimalists like Donald Judd (the subject of a recent exhibit at Mnuchin), and 20th century European cubists.

It is like how Clement Greenberg criticized de Kooning for being a late Cubist.

He is well known for sculptures that look like 3 - d cubist paintings and for striking mobiles.

Though still at the top of his game, with the emergence of Pop Artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rothko sees his and his peers» dominance starting to be eroded, just as he and his artistic contemporaries had usurped the Cubists and Surrealists before them.

Cubist forms loosen up in a series of Ippolito's «still lifes» like the emblematic table arrangement of «May Still Life» (1979), the earlier «Cubist Still Life» (1970) with its arches and scrolled string instrument, and the low - key floral arrangement within angles of the «Still Life with Cubist Glass» (1979).

The most controversial of the three was, of course, the most abstract: Duchamp's robot - like depiction of a descending Cubist form.

The very foundation of Ross's work is within the reality of where her art comes into being: the studio, and in particular the studio floor, on which her work is initially composed like a map unfolding in various directions, fitted together from any number of pieces and sewn into place, a sort of cubist quilting.

He liked household appliances, too, before Stuart Davis in America, but he forbade Cubist wordplay far too much to anticipate Robert Rauschenberg and in his name - brand images.

In MacConnel's well documented trip to Western and sub-Saharan Africa in 1989, he speaks of how he went «in search of Picasso's ghost;» meaning he researched the African tribal masks and traditions that Picasso incorporated in his own tribal art and cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Some of the selections border on the absurd, like Joel Shapiro's contemporary Cubist assemblages of sharp - cornered pieces of painted wood.

In Self - Portrait with Haircut, created in 2003, Saul portrays himself in mock - cubist fashion, with his eyes, nose and ears placed at impossible angles and his head sliced geometrically to reveal spaghetti - like hair (or brain) stubble.

Picabia's statement can be allied to the new building with its hyper modern, cubist - like geometrical structure.

Hodges is currently working on mosaic - like paintings, constructed with small shards of mirror that reflect / warp the viewer and surrounding space with a disturbing elegance; site - specific wall drawings that reorient gallery architecture with a full Prismacolor palette and Lewitt like precision; and collages made with assorted sheet music that reference the Cubists and John Cage, allowing for a performable poetry that includes a «milk - y Blue per - fec - tion» located «Some - where near — the end of the skies.»

This almost narrative - like exhibition plan can be seen as one that moves from the beginning cubist abstraction into a gallery surveying sensitive, almost impressionist abstract works by the artists like Georgia O'Keeffe.

While he liked much of the exhibition, especially the works by such established names as Goya, Renoir, and Glackens, he found the most radical elements — the European Cubist, Fauvist, and Futurist experiments — awful.

These displays of European art were augmented by solo exhibitions for American modernists like Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943), John Marin (1870 - 1953) and Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946), and Cubist - Realists like Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935), Paul Strand (1890 - 1976) and Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965), the leader of Precisionism.

These simplified Cubist - Realist compositions gradually became more detailed, with sharp edges, pronounced light and shadow, and striking aspects - just like photographs.

The surfaces are hard, flint - like, with the array of colored dots creating a palpable sense of space — not the shallow Cubist space of Abstract Expressionism or the aerial space that defines Color Field painting — but a gravelly surface riddled with innumerable pits and ridges that's at once dazzling and forbidding.

Meanwhile, avant - garde artists like John Marin managed to capture the energy and flux of metropolitan life in Cubist inspired compositions.

These gave way to monumental faces born of the lozenge - shaped eyes, linear scarification and mask - like bearing in Picasso's ferocious 1907 Cubist masterpiece, «Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.»

Set against a painted surface of psychedelic colors, Aram's process of layering various incongruous images into a unified composition recalls the formal practices of 1960s Pop artists like Andy Warhol, which in turn echoes early Cubist collage.

«I like to say, you can teach someone to make a Cubist painting.

«2nd January 2011» looks from a distance like one of Hockney's Eighties coloured pencil drawings, but as you get closer the image breaks down in an almost Cubist fashion.

The Synchromists made use of the broken planes of the Cubists, but their lavishly colored areas of paint sometimes looked, as the art historian Abraham Davidson has described them, like «eddies of mist, the droplets of which collect to form parts of a straining torso... To find anything like this in American painting one has to wait for the color - field canvases of Jules Olitski in the 1960s.»

Hans Namuth (1915 - 90) Famous for his photographic series on artists like Jackson Pollock, the Cubist Stuart Davis; the pop artists Andy Warhol, George Segal and Roy Lichtenstein; the minimalist sculptor Richard Serra and others.

Cubists (flourished 1908 - 14) This revolutionary abstract art movement was co-founded by Braque and Picasso, and received valuable contributions from modern artists like: Juan Gris, Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), Robert Delaunay (1885 - 1941) and Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968).

In this shifted context, the Cubist subject, be it a portrait or still life, no longer feels like an obsessive examination of form in space, but the trajectory of an image flashing past the eye too quickly to be recorded in conventional terms,» suggesting that «the real subject of art in the modern era is the anxious blur of time.»

Tola's work has traces of cubist inspiration and explores the beauty of simple child - like forms.

And think of the time when Picasso was making those great synthetic Cubist paintings like Three Musicians and simultaneously painting his neoclassical Three Women at the Spring.

While this creative partnership — which has been liked to that of the Cubists «mountain climbers,» Picasso and Braque — is widely celebrated, Krasner's pioneering work remains far more accessible on the market, and this signed lithograph is an opportunity to acquire a piece of Abstract Expresionist art history before it recedes into private collections for perpetuity.

The buoyant impact of Calder's creatures has spread far and wide, in the likes of Chris Burden, Mark di Suvero, George Rickey, Pae White, Tim Hawkinson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nick Cave, Andy Goldsworthy, Olafur Eliasson, Dale Chihuly, and others — where would contemporary art be without his discovery that animation was an essential expansion of Cubist collage, Futurism's frozen dynamism, and the Constructivist expansion into space?

Rail: Like your own cubist version, «The Beer Glass?»

• For more about pioneer Cubists like Mary Swansey, see: Irish Art Guide.

Cinquecento also shows elements of the artist's employment of cubist - like structural elements that more and more become counterpoints to her stains in pictures of the mid-1980s onwards.

Pablo Picasso is renowned for his Cubist constructions, like «Guitar» (1914), that occupied several spatial planes and skewed the viewer's perspective of the intended subject.