Sentences with phrase «of pictorial composition»

Taking an interest in elementary geometry, he turned to the rectangle and its potential measurements as the basis of pictorial composition.

Furthermore, errors are integrated in his predomintant white, minimalist canvases during the process of pictorial composition.

Color now carried independent content, along with basic geometric forms, which became free from all iconographic reference and are meaningfully valid as elements of the pictorial composition.

Not exact matches

Yet in the difference in conception, composition, and attitude between Papety's allegory and that of Courbet lies the enormous gap between painting which is advanced in subject but conventional in every other way and that which is truly of its time, or even in advance of it (to use the term «avant - garde» in its most literal sense) and hence, a pictorial paradigm of the most adventurous attitudes of its era.

In his recent work, González seems to want to test the power of his own reinvention of the pictorial field by veiling starkly divided compositions with the sort of tremulous grid that not even he could duplicate from one painting to the next.

His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»

There is a significant tension in Toebbe's work that dreives from the collision of her faux - naive pictorial style and the formal sophistication of her compositions.

Describing abstraction as a «revolution of twentieth century art», Hoyland began making early enquiries into how rational thought and visual perception could be used as the sole basis for pictorial composition.

Some of the qualities explored were a conscious shift to complexity, content, mystical, psychological and pictorial relationships, asymmetrical composition, expressive color, feeling and a depiction of the landscape of the mind.

Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston — often referred to as the «father of color photography» — has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition.

At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

Without recourse to the traditional means of brush, canvas and illusion, he has «painted» with fire and iron, creating a tight, balanced composition with all the compelling pictorial logic of a great abstract painting.

Prioritising the role of the materials that underlie painting also shifts the emphasis from the pictorial to the structural and from composition to chance.

While his unfussy, casual compositions share the pictorial flatness of AbEx, they are resolutely figurative; and while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife, Ada.

She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making into compositions that confound expectations of pictorial space.

One of the namesake founders of the legendary if short - lived BMPT collective — named for its constituent members Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni — Buren has since built his reputation on his instantly recognizable leitmotif that runs through his oeuvre: a set of vertical stripe, which serve to unite pictorial space with the surrounding architectural space, and meld composition with construction.

Since the late 1970s, however, a number of photographers have been engaged with a renewed investigation of composition and thus, inevitably, with the historically devalued concept of the pictorial.

(«Hopper bets everything on composition, which, in his work, is almost as tautly considered as in a Mondrian,» Schjeldahl wrote in his 2007 review, in which he also advised viewers to sketch Hopper's paintings in order to better grasp them: «Just get the main shapes, including those of empty space, and how they nest together in the pictorial rectangle.»)

A degree of mannerism is apparent in his later paintings, in which wraithlike figures «float in a watery netherworld» in a deeper pictorial space than that of his compositions of the 1930s.

Since then and throughout all the years of the 1950s, her artworks showed tendencies to be highly focused on the center, meaning that the majority of main pictorial incidents took place in the middle of the canvas, while the edges were of little consequence to the composition as a whole.

Expressive, gestural fields of colors, juxtaposed within the pictorial space are signature Stamos compositions that seem to speak the same language as another famous abstractionist of the time, Clyfford Still, albeit in a calmer tone.

Frank O'Hara, the critic and poet who collaborated with Bluhm, wrote in 1962, «Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom of abstract - expressionism who has a spirit similar to that of Pollock, which is to say that he is out — beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old - fashioned kind of pictorial ambition.»

Heavily influenced by Arshile Gorky and Pablo Picasso, de Kooning was often thought to have blended Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism within his pictorial compositions, ultimately paving the way for generations of gestural figurative painters.

Another important source of Poliakoff's pictorial language was the sculptor Otto Freundlich, with his curved colour - form compositions.

There is a tightly constructed pictorial logic that gives the limbs of the officer such visual force; the composition of this painting is a primary source of its power.

Seen in this context, the graphic optical effects deployed in these early compositions reveal the genesis of Asawa's interest in repeated forms, motion, and collapsing pictorial space that logically culminate in her wire sculptures.

Another technical aspect of the wall reliefs is the way that Sloan thinks through her compositions in three dimensions, drawing on her design experience in the service of constructed pictorial spaces.

This pictorial sign language will be a central theme throughout the rest of his career, and the overall composition would later be used by Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky and other artists of the modernist period.

These artists, as pictorial cartographers in their own right, have utilized the human form in their compositions as metaphorical representations; «figural» signifiers of the continent, highlighting the innate interconnectivity between man, visual culture and evolvements in the urban sphere.

But if this initial impulse in pictorial composition seems cerebral, his sensuous enjoyment of pigment, colour, and the exploration of the absolute extremities of an abstractly pictorial situation tend toward a pictorial grandeur and excitement which approximate to the more directly sensuous examples of abstract expressionism.

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.

These observations became translated through the construction of three - dimensional spatial paintings as pictorial compositions that reconfigure the space and its architecture, using specific physical things.

Abigail Groff Hernandez uses the restrained tradition of still - life painting to subtlety break the illusion of pictorial space through contrasting formal compositions.

«This bicoastal photographer,» a San Francisco Chronicle reviewer wrote, «has taken a pictorial cliché, reflections on the surfaces of bodies of water, and turned it into a means of generating compositions that echo classics of Surrealist and abstract painting.»

For the decorative in Stubbs's work stands for the rootlessness of painting, for the need to concoct it upon a «groundless ground,» to conjure it up out of nothing, yet conjure it as style and as a composition of stylised pictorial phrases.

The pictorial space in these mesmerizing assemblages is comprised of clean geometric forms reminiscent of Constructivist experiments where light with its reflections and distortions acts as a foundation for the structure of the composition.

Gain the confidence to explore the use of color, mark making, surface quality and composition, emphasizing your own pictorial language.

Though the picture lacks the pictorial strangeness of its neighbors, the composition is mysterious, brooding.

October — December: Calder begins classes at the Art Students League of New York, studying life and pictorial composition with John Sloan and portrait painting with George Luks.

Echoing the pictorial style of Impressionism through rough strokes and composition, Yiadom - Boakye's canvases exclusively portray black faces, which seems to address the shortcomings of European art history in representing black subjects.

Over the course of nearly six decades, American artist William Eggleston has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition.

He shows pictorial compositions ignite explosive pretend his photographs of abandoned places it first prints on canvas.

Bowling abandoned the political narratives found in his early works such as the Martyrdom of Patrice Lumumba, 1961, and began to focus on purely pictorial issues of colour and composition.

For centuries, viewers of this masterpiece have puzzled over the meaning of Bellini's composition and have sought explanations in a variety of pictorial and textual sources.

Comprised of unprimed layers of linen stretched across wooden frames, Kahn assembles complex wall - mounted works in which the gaps between the individual panels form abstract or pictorial compositions.

Picasso's aggressive deformations, which culminated in the reproachful anti-war painting Guernica, have led to a spectacular series of political pictorial compositions stretching from the second half of the 20th century to today.

They influenced a specific formal component of Abstract Expressionism, the «allover» composition, which disperses pictorial incident evenly across the picture surface.

Indirectly, this bilateral representation intended to offer an academic analysis of the pictorial parts of each painting in relation to a «composition» or presumed «coherence.»

As a result they focused greater attention on matters of pictorial organisation, structure, composition and colour.