Sentences with phrase «of abstract form»

Because native title is not an institution of the common law then, it is argued, it «can not be elevated to something akin to common law tenure by describing them [native title rights] as «incidents» (90) of an abstract form of title from which pendant rights are derived.

However, in Sillman's universe, the reclaimed triumph is more about the power of abstract form to function as an effective visual metaphor for a range of emotional truths.

In the brilliant, sardonic and rambling essay Sillman authored in 2011 for Artforum, «AbEx and Disco Balls: In Defense of Abstract Expressionism II,» she suggests just this: that the malleability of abstract form, the tactility of the materials is the potential content.

Gorelick switches styles, as any artist might, to question the formal success of certain techniques: Is the effect of an abstract form in color and shape more genuine to the human?

Thornton is interested in the perception of pictorial space, and his paintings are typically colourful and ambiguously suggestive of both abstract form and recognisable figuration.

Hothouse Video: Amy Finkelstein marks the first solo exhibition of Amy Finkelstein's film works which have been made over the course of ten years and include stop - motion animations, unedited shorts, and documentations of abstract form.

For example, Theo Van Doesburg's «Compositie VII: de drie Gratiën (Composition VII: The Three Graces)» (1917) presents a dynamic interplay of abstract form and color that — via its title — references a trio of female dancers.

The exhibition includes six digitized 16 mm film works which have been made over the course of ten years and include stop - motion animations, unedited shorts, and documentations of abstract form.

This individualistic interest and treatment, as well as his understanding of abstract form and space, give his work the personality and sensitivity of contemporary art.»

In the recovery of the earlier title one might see a melancholic reiteration in 1966 of Hepworth's belief in the affirmation of abstract form in contrast to the destruction of war.

Using jewellery as an art - form, she evolved new techniques which included controlled fusion with precious metals, to obtain fine textures, broken surfaces, and fluid lines...... Her overall concepts are a subtle blend of abstract form and Eastern splendour, with a distant echo of the flowing elements in Art Nouveau.»

Twenty years after appearing as one of the first of the National Gallery's Artist's Eye series of modern artists and their influences among the Gallery's pictures, this ever - evolving mistress of abstract form returns with a similar display of influences and new pictures, including two large works painted directly onto the Gallery's walls.

The show's excellence is in how the pieces collectively exemplify an understanding and variety of abstract form and juxtapositions, reaching out to the viewer with an unusual display of creativity...»

By modulating the dye on each tinted fiber, she asserts a tighter than ever control over her work's appearance and the tightest integration possible of abstract form and surface.

Despite using purist notions of abstract form and color that date back to 1950s art critic Clement Greenberg's domineering brand of New York School formalism, Lawson fashions nothing short of a vicious attack on photography's «objective eye» via these modestly sized canvases.

Like Sun Ra, who destabilized an origin myth to create the possibility of new potential, Better Dimension investigates the potential of abstract form approached through a composition of destabilized figurative elements.

The presentation offers fresh insight into the importance of line in her work — from preliminary sketches and drawings, to the fluid, seemingly effortless outlines that define regions of her canvas and divide her compositions into dynamic zones of color, be it the curve of a flower petal, the horizon of a landscape, or the contour of an abstract form.

In his abstract work Kandinsky invented a language of abstract form to replace the forms of nature.

Conscious perception, as he sees it, is a complex prehension integrating the prehension of another concrete actual entity, or physical prehension, and prehension of an abstract form, which he calls conceptual prehension.

On the positive side, I am sure you are right that Catholicism goes beyond all other religious traditions, Christian and non-Christian, in the dignity it confers on matter and the human body; on the negative, we must indeed get rid of «infinitely contrary poles of existence» and the successive swapping of abstract forms by parcels of intrinsically featureless matter.

She resolved this, very cleverly by re-asserting a more personal response to her subject by returning to a more naturalistic style and applied a great deal of what she had learnt of abstract forms to decorative work, at the Omega Workshops, and her house Charleston in Sussex.

The human figures are this time assembled out of abstracted forms in order to avoid an interpretation that would rely too much on pyschology.

In addition to other works on canvas Thomas» recent series of abstract forms and marks on paper — created by hands - on manipulation of printing plates and unique prints — are on view.

In my work I use the complexity of abstract forms and tangible elements as a response to the undeniable beauty of colour.

Conflating worship and desire, Ray's sculptures indicate the presence of a body that is rematerialized through a mysterious yet systematic organization of abstract forms.

It is important to the artist that in the intentional ambiguity of his abstract forms lurk chance reminders of human figures, animals and landscapes.

Thomas» series of prints often relate to her signature works on canvas and are dynamic, masterful orchestrations of abstract forms and marks realized by hands - on manipulation of printing plates.

This is evident in the drawings that excite the vocabulary of abstract forms at the border with figuration.

When I ask about Steciw's inspiration, Blomfield points me in the direction of The Overloaded Man, a short story J.G. Ballard in which the protagonist, suitably named Faulkner, narrows his perception of the world which in turn becomes nothing more than an array of abstract forms and colours.

«The exhibition will feature fifty graphic works from the last ten years, ranging from rhythmical arrangements of faces and inanimate objects to lively explorations of abstract forms.

In still other works, such as the adjacent silver circles of Felix Gonzalez - Torres» «Untitled» (1995), kissing surfaces as just one potential reading suggested by the simple meeting or melding of abstract forms.

So, we can only expect that we see some new great examples of abstract 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.

It was a fusion of abstract forms and color creating a sense of movement and traces of that mode of expression can also be found in some of the prints here.

The shapes and lines create my own vocabulary of abstract forms.

«It would be a mistake to try to read landscape into [my painting] even less any specific landscape,» Tworkov told Edward B. Henning, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1962, «For it is a willful part of my painting process to abolish specific references in favor of abstract forms that stir a sense of recognition in me.

The colourful photographs of abstracted forms and planes are reminiscent of Los Angeles - based artist Walead Beshty's Color Curl and Black Curl series of photograms, in which he exposes photographic paper to different coloured lights.

Galpin's piece originates in a large - scale photograph of a cityscape, from which he painstakingly peels away strips of emulsion, reducing and altering the visual field to a grid of abstract forms, Constructivist in its geometry, Futurist in its dynamism.

Over at the Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, painter Eddie Martinez is experimenting with this idea in an installation of his Matador paintings where a grouping of abstract forms occurs over and over again with messy alterations.

Bruguière's abstract light exposures of paper cutout constructions from the late 1920s, on the other hand, resonate with Demand's photos of the Lautner models in their willing confusion of perceived space through a disorienting investigation of abstract forms, light, and shadow.

It shares with them the combination of abstracted form with linear details, but retains characteristics associated with the artist's carving of wood.

This experience affirmed his belief in the timeless value of abstract forms, which he contrasted with the desire for novelty that characterized the New York art scene in the 1960s.

Vidokle's work with logotype decals exposes the commercial and political cooptation of abstract forms once believed to embody revolutionary potential.

The title of Fallen Images is also reminiscent of Paul Nash's 1930s paintings of abstract forms in the landscape as substitutes for megaliths.

In these works, viewers explore human experiences through examinations of abstracted forms, the power of nature, plays of light, shadow and reflective surfaces, and the unknown possibilities of infinity.

The proposal, created with Sophie Walker Studio, features a grove of cypress tress and a national monument composed of an abstracted form in the shape of a meteorite

The paintings represent a series of abstract forms that are repeated throughout his work, like the «Grip» and the «Wave».

Lorraine Carol is unveiling the work she's completed in the past six months, a collection of abstract forms on canvas and paper.

Kevin Larkin is revealing his latest series, «Palimpsest,» paintings of abstract forms with retouched elements that maintain the visibility of the original form.

For the show — the museum's first monographic exhibition of a single artist at the sculpture park, and this artist's first exhibition in Austin in 10 years — Bove «interprets a classical sculpture garden, reinventing it in a multitude of abstract forms in varying shapes, colors, and scales.»