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.
Through the
use of abstract form and a wide choice of materials, Bourgeois dealt with issues concerning universal balance.
Filled with snaking rivers, moonlit beaches and glowing caves, de Balincourt's paintings begin life as a series
of abstract forms in acid - bright colours that slowly transform through his own intuition into scenes from memories and dreams.
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.
Kevin Larkin is revealing his latest series, «Palimpsest,» paintings
of abstract forms with retouched elements that maintain the visibility of the original form.
Marking the end of a solitary period living and working in rural Northern California, these new pieces again present his unique
language of abstract form and simple shape.
For the museum's first monographic exhibition of a single artist at the sculpture park, and the artist's first exhibition in Austin in a decade, Bove interprets a classical sculpture garden, reinventing it in a
multitude of abstract forms in varying shapes, colors, and scales.
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.
What initially appear to be
arrangements of abstract forms reveal themselves as flocks of birds or people floating in the Dead Sea upon closer inspection.
«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.
Works by Constantin Brancusi, Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam, Eduardo Chillida, and other artists that made important contributions to abstract art during the twentieth century are presented alongside a
variety of abstract forms from earlier eras, showcasing the rich history of this aesthetic practice.
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.
These immeasurably complex
compositions of abstract forms recall the flood of sensory input, or what Roberts refers to as «collections of ambient language,» that humans take in while immersed in the contemporary information culture.
The title of Fallen Images is also reminiscent of Paul Nash's 1930s
paintings of abstract forms in the landscape as substitutes for megaliths.
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.
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.
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.
There remain the inexhaustible
realm of abstract forms, and creativity, with its shifting character ever determined afresh, by its own creatures and God, upon whose wisdom all forms of order depend.13
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.
However, this abstract form takes on meaning as soon as it is in the
context of another abstract form; these amoeba - like forms build meaning through their juxtaposition.
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.
Havard developed a technique whereby
certain of the abstract forms in his paintings would have a sort of shadow below them, as if they were floating above the picture plane.
As well as being enjoyable to the eye today, these
juxtapositions of abstract forms act, at times, as records of the Academician's early sculptures that have since been destroyed.
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.
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.
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.
This is evident in the drawings that excite the vocabulary
of abstract forms at the border with figuration.
Staring at these
skeins of abstract form, he found «landscapes, battles, clouds, uncommon attitudes, humorous faces, draperies.
While snippets of narrative and recognizable imagery can be found, Robertson's work is primarily
comprised of abstract forms — dripping, prismatic and shadowed.
This is most evident in the collection of pieces by Pablo Picasso, which offers a valuable opportunity to appreciate his skill as both a representational artist and a
master of abstract forms.
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.
Linking Sisson's own Nigerian heritage with his personal politics of contemporary and historical events, the progression of this narrative reveals the demonization of the «other» through the eyes of an outsider via the deepening
barbarisms of the abstract forms.
The illusive
nature of the abstract forms in this painting may suggest a reading of the title as representative of the Buddhist notion of maya (illusion) and how an external reality conceals another invisible spiritual one.
The strenuous, tenacious process of creation, the surprising juxtapositions of stable armatures and swinging elements, and the
negotiations of abstract forms and found objects express the contradictions of contemporary life.
«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.