Sentences with phrase «near abstractions of»

Robert creates unique work that balances negative space with near abstraction of elements.

The First World War saw a transition from the near abstraction of his Vorticist work to a more figurative and expressionist style.

Not exact matches

«In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

If the life and rule of Jesus and his incarnation is to be normative in the church, then we must stand for real people, not abstractions: for soldiers, their families, congregations to which they belong, and the chaplains and pastors who minister to their needs from near and far.

At our last lunch, on Lexington near 60th, not long before his final illness, he noted with disapproval the anorexic waitresses and expatiated engagingly on why the fashions of androgyny are part and parcel of the propensity for abstraction that is the fatal flaw of Western culture.

The inevitable outgrowth of the immersive social realism of the Taiwanese cinema of the Nineties is the aesthetic sheen and near formal abstraction that the Taiwanese masters developed in the Aughts.

PT: This is not a «pure» landscape show, you have included a deliberate mix of artists whose approaches range from plein - air to near geometric abstraction, and yet all are undeniably involved with landscape, in particular the image of the tree.

With «Song of the Earth» den Breejen has shifted the focus of his text based paintings from images of Rock - n - Rollers and celebrity bad actors, to more abstract color and poetry based near abstractions.

Employing grand religious subjects as familiar narratives for his works, Furnas has developed a suite of six large - scale paintings presented in the downstairs gallery which depict the Creation myth, while upstairs, a series of contemplative near - abstractions evoke the vast desolation of the final flood.

Here Thiebaud was in agreement with Philip Guston, a near contemporary of his, whose work incorporates a diversity of ingredients from painterly abstraction to comic strips.

Featuring a wide variety of approaches to abstraction in landscapes, including Cubist fragmentation, gridded compositions, and pure geometric abstraction, the artists in this exhibition explore landscapes both near and far.

His curved lines, shallow pictorial space, and practiced departure from symmetry fit just fine, however, near Alex Hay's illusions of wood veneer and Kim Fisher's decorative abstractions.

Indicative of his mature style and inspired by a hugely productive stay in the Italian town of Voltri near Genoa in 1962, Voltron XXIV (above), which is offered from the collection, exhibits the artist's interest in geometric abstraction on a large scale.

Joseph Stashkevetch comes closer to Welliver, accruing near abstraction out of objects in nature.

Hints of architecture in abstractions by Barry Le Va from the 1980s or his Cleaved Wall from 1970 look stronger near global shantytowns by Amy Brener, sculpted high - rises by Nick Ralph, and New York souvenirs from Liene Bosquê.

His steady output of far - flung series has ranged from street photography to landscapes to interiors, black - and - white to color, regional to foreign, closeup to panoramic, wealthy to homeless subjects, urban to desert terrain, and from stark realism to formal near - abstraction.

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.

Even his later near - monochromes and a painting of a lump of gold edge towards a kind of magisterial abstraction (it has a grandeur that Robert Motherwell or Helen Frankenthaler could dream of, but never quite achieve).

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

A comparison between that work and the latest work in the show, Mountain and Meadow (1960), on loan from the National Gallery of Art, with broad washes of color, exemplifies the transition Avery made from a more realistic, impressionistic style earlier in his career to near abstraction in his last few years.

The subject matter still floats between abstraction and realism: some of the discernible forms include two women at a wedding and a number of images springing from the landscape around his new New York state studio, situated near an abandoned apple orchard.

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.

Drawing inspiration from a commemorative publication celebrating the assassination of Osama bin Laden, Hume's new compositions isolate and fragment the photographic source imagery to near total abstraction.

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.

The significantly larger and more ambitious two - part Richter abstraction, Gelbgrün (Yellow - Green)(1982)-- which exhibited at documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, that same year, as well as in the artist's acclaimed «Panorama» retrospective at Tate Modern in 2011 — sold to a telephone bidder for # 9.5 million, near its high estimate of # 10 million, and came to # 10.8 million with fees.

The continuum between the primitive impact, which the artist projects onto each canvas as if a spell were cast, and the minutia of the ligatures that embroiderers entwine on each canvas as if they were gazing on onto the Unknown contained in the self, polarized and therefore reverses the incessant shuttling of scale between Chaos and Cosmos, Speed and Slow Motion, Abstraction and Figuration, Near and Far, Self and Other.

In the Jpegs series, German photographer Thomas Ruff exploits this imprecision in digital technology, locating online jpegs and enlarging them until the pixels emerge in a chessboard pattern of near abstraction.

In another gallery, one of Picasso's finer Cubist accomplishments, «The Birdcage» (1923), hangs near Kandinsky's large lyrical abstraction, «Composition V» (1911).

The result is a near survey of the range contemporary abstraction is unfolding today.

With shades of Joan Mitchell, Cecily Brown, Claude Monet, and a sort of raw deconstruction of Henri Rousseau, Weber's special gift is for evoking and recreating the organic tumult of fecund places in the most convincing manner despite her aesthetic of near - abstraction, animated in her paintings with the chaotic spirit of actionist expressionism.

[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.

Jill Moser recapitulates the effect 57 years later in Mirroring Mist (2014), while Meyer's tempering of her gestural impetuosity with discreetly and carefully modulated shapes and brushstrokes links Mitchell's work with the hard - edge strictures followed by Westfall and others near the opposite end of the abstraction continuum.

Bradford was originally an abstract painter and her fluidity in the language of modern abstraction is always near the surface of her work.

Diebenkorn may well have made his decision to drop abstraction because of external influences that he might have been better to ignore, There would have been some influence from near artist neighbours and friends who were working figuratively, and he may have been turned off abstraction by his problems with the «New York School».

acting for the Environment Agency (with Gerry Facenna QC) in an appeal against its refusal to issue water abstraction licences for sites near to Special Areas of Conservation protected by the EU Habitats Directive