Sentences with phrase «more lyrical work»

Its warmth draws you in and connects the listener, but if the band is striving for excellence, there is still more lyrical work to do.

Not exact matches

The main reason why this film works so well is because Luhrmann and his co-writer, Craig Pearce, know that The Great Gatsby isn't an exercise in realism, but rather it's more an epic, lyrical ballad, complemented with light tones of gloss and glitter.

A later film, Gulls and Buoys (1972) enters into Breer's more personal work, offering a lyrical portrait of a relaxing day at the seaside, though at times accented by the sound of biplanes overhead.

Nevertheless, the concentric shapes and meticulously ordered compositions would remain until the «80s, when Stella's work shifted into a much more lyrical mode of abstraction.

During this time, because of her heavy teaching commitments, Albers made only a few larger works, but the transition of her patterns from the strictly geometric to something much freer and more lyrical is apparent.

Many artists began moving away from geometric, hard - edge, and minimal styles, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions worked in a loose gestural style.

His work fits, more precisely, in the Lyrical Abstraction school of thought, which is also promoted by painters such as Michelle Destarac and Pierre Célice.

These nine prints in themselves offer a mini-retrospective of the main motifs used throughout her career, from the early orthogonal patterns of her Bauhaus period, through her lyrical knots and threads and fibres of her Black Mountain pictorial weavings, to her more geometric and graphic works with their repetitions of triangular and rhomboidal forms of her later years.

The only thing that has changed, as he goes to the studio every day to work (between his habitual thrice - weekly games of doubles tennis) is that his treatment of color has become less naturalistic and more lyrical and virtuosic.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).

Another untitled work from the same period containing more lyrical, spindly forms owes a debt to the Abstract Expressionist pioneer Arshile Gorky.

He told Mr. Serota that while early paintings made visual reference to ancient graffiti, his intentions were «more lyrical» and his inclusion of phalluses and female body parts were often just ways to evoke male and female presences in the work.

Mark Barrow (b. 1982) and Ruth Laskey's (b. 1975) geometric and mathematical compositions complement the clean lines in the works by Fred Sandback (1943 - 2003) and offer a contrasting view to the more textured and lyrical works of Auad, Bratescu and Hicks.

By the late 1930s, O'Keeffe's work took another great shift toward a regionalist look that, although more subdued and lyrical, is also undergirded by the same structural principles from earlier in the decade.

In this excerpt, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies, such as his belief that true abstract painting is nothing more than «lyrical, charming and decorative».

Some of the most surprising works are in the strand entitled Spaces and Predicaments, where sculptures by Melvin Edwards and Senga Nengudi suggest a more lyrical, enigmatic and diffuse approach to exploring protest in art.

Chia's new paintings have now, however, shifted to a softer, more vivid palette than we saw in his earlier work and the monumentality that he's known for has given way to a more lyrical, mythical mood.

For many years she painted isolated, precarious figures on break backgrounds reflective of her work in mental hospitals but in more recent years she has dealt with lyrical abstract landscapes in which paint or wax is layered in an open, free manner.She has had solo shows in the United States and Europe and her work has been reviewed in The Woodstock Times, Kouvolan Sanomat (Finland), Women Artist's News and The Village Voice.

It is more that the works look too romantic, too lyrical for such a hard - boiled era.

The artist organizes the show less like a curator and more like a poet, arranging the work around three lyrical combinations of the words blue and black.

The figurative work becomes more wistful and supposedly lyrical as the forties progress, culminating in the «Hammersmith» paintings of semi-abstracted atmospheric river and outdoor scenes, such as The Gardens of Hammersmith No. 2, made at about the same time as his first forays into abstract painting and collage.

Working in the area of painting, Murillo creating bold powerful abstract pieces full of power and energy while Rosa creates more refined lyrical abstract pieces but what is certain is that both artists are set to see their stock rise, as can be seen by Oscar Murillo pieces already selling for large prices at auctions.

Lyrical and meditative, the work of Elizabeth Enders heightens our curiosity to learn more about the world around us, to penetrate deeper into the often - concealed magic of simple everyday experiences.

So these artists were up in a wave of abstract expressionism and they simply adapted the big direction of free expressionism or free abstractionism to their own particular interest and their work then tended to be more lyrical in character.

At times, her lyrical improvisations are reminiscent of the work of the US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning when, in his final years, he eschewed his angular intensity for a more graceful resolution.

He explains: «For many decades, I was working under a self - imposed austerity, but many artists, as they get older, release themselves and tend to embrace a freer, more lyrical style.

Rachel White of Christie's notes that she used «a technique she inherited from Jackson Pollock, but her gestures are more fluid and harmonious than Pollock... lending her body of work a more poetic and lyrical quality.»

In his trademark lyrical works, Marden paints a network of serpentine lines flowing hypnotically throughout the picture plane; he sometimes replaces paintbrushes with sticks or other natural implements to effect a more gestural and organic appearance.

There's a clear affinity with Abstract Expressionism's grand gestures and monolithic stubbornness but there's also a lighter, more lyrical side to his work.

Described as a «lyrical meditation on the colors blue and black,» the presentation includes more than 50 works by a broad spectrum of artists, including Ligon, Kelly, Ross Bleckner, Simone Leigh, Norman Lewis, Bill Traylor, Andy Warhol, and Carrie Mae Weems.

His colors are bolder and his work is even more lyrical.

He possessed a sensibility that was rooted more firmly in fine art, and while stylistically his work was closer to the «New York School» painters, his lyrical treatment of subject matter had much in common with the gentler compositions of an earlier epoch: that of the Impressionists, and with the paintings of French symbolist artist Pierre Bonnard (1867 > 1947), who endeavoured to evoke mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind via the medium of scenes from everyday life.

Ned Rifkin has remarked that «this seemingly slight change has introduced a new intimacy of scale and simultaneously opened her work to a decidedly more lyrical tone in colour and feeling.»

Having embraced a collecting style that pairs conceptually ambitious work with more classical approaches towards lyrical and figurative painting, Blumenthal's shows have been a distinct analog to his own collection, which features work by Darren Bader, Isa Genzken, Chris Burden, and Mary Weatherford, among others.

Duncan Phillips favored the poetic and lyrical side of Abstract Expressionism over the more forceful and aggressive works.

With time, the brushy bravura of her early work evolved into a more lyrical style that evoked the subtleties of visual perception.

And Mitchell covered some passages of organic color with swathes of bright white, putting more breathing room into her increasingly expansive works and making them more fiercely lyrical.

Personally, I prefer a more lyrical explanation; that the term refers to a group of firms whose ability to attract and transact the best work, whose allure is — simply — magical.