Sentences with phrase «master of abstract forms»

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It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

We will explore the issues central to abstract painting, such as nature, structure, geometry, the human form and master paintings as potential sources of investigation and inspiration.

A few years later, she enrolled at the Institute of Design and received her Master's degree in 1966 based on her series of abstract nudes entitled «Human Forms».

By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures as Composición IV (Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.

Through a combination of figuration, color, and form, he transformed scenes inspired by the the Old Masters into abstracted, allegorical images of modern American life.

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

Last year, during a summer residency at Lake George in upstate New York sponsored by Openings Artist Residency, Lee experimented with new forms, techniques and materials, while continuing to take inspiration from masters of traditional Chinese art and modern, abstract painters.

With the internet as his podium and round table, he has been historicizing and canonizing these artists, young and old, who have been creating art outside the norms of traditional graffiti, esoteric forms of painting and sculpture that veer outside of the proscribed boundaries into the experimental, the abstract, the poetic, and the hybrid.Artists that fall under the term Progressive Graffiti are generally innately gifted draftsmen, who aspire to a Master's Level at their craft.