Sentences with phrase «often paint the elements»

Not exact matches

I too have run into folks (so far always men) who have fetishes involving stockings and / or feet (and also various other elements that us vintage gals often wear, such as gloves and painted finger nails) online and know how unnerving it can be to have someone say something wildly inappropriate to about your attire.
This added an extra element of puzzle to a game that likes to challenge your mind, yet it never quite seems to push you with the task at hand as more often than not a few balls of paint thrown at anything remotely colourful will lead to you solving the mystery at hand.
Marshall's subdued, slightly melancholy, slightly hopeful canvases are often allegories — they rethink various art - historical genres, such as history paintings and self - portraiture, by applying elements of African American culture to them.
Working across sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, artist's books, and film, Andro Wekua creates intricate environments in which the various elements form unexpected and often dream - like relationships.
The so - called expansion of course is into sculptural and installation - type manifestations of painting, where the space of the viewer is often encroached upon by physical elements in the artwork.
Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his drip paintings — read as vast fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued paint skeins that read as all over fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.
Visually complex and often cartographic in form, Bradford's paintings incorporate elements of the everyday — from end papers used for perming hair to billboard poster remnants, polyester cord, caulking, bleaching agents, and carbon paper — to draw attention to what he refers to as the «invisible underbelly of a community.»
Combining several elements of his work, this piece features the crowds common to works by Lowry, who often painted from memory or imagination.
Focusing on elements of chance, play and the marvelous in DeFeo's work, the exhibition brings together paintings, photographs, collages and works on paper to reveal how DeFeo's art often aligns with Surrealist attitudes.
Scher's larger works (and groupings of multiple works) provide fields where some of these elements convene, where countless drawings — which often get loose into otherwise abstract paintings — are funny conundrums that outlast their own laugh lines.
Drawn both inwards and outwards by the pictorial and architectural elements of his paintings, the viewer is invited to engage in the act of balancing a reading of the part against the (often) monumental «whole».»
His paintings often incorporate collage and three - dimensional elements and are monumental in scale.
His paintings often combine formal compositional elements with distinct art - historical references and images appropriated from popular culture; they resist classification and thoroughly beguile the viewer.
She often works from models, painting still lifes that are not depictions of reality but increasingly abstract transformations of shapes and the relationships between various elements.
She often cited natural elements as inspiration, and her signature style reflects the influences of Henri Matisse, Josef Albers, and Wassily Kandinsky — featuring loosely painted yet meticulously constructed canvases, filled with latticework of bright color creating patterns from negative space.
In recent years, Moran has added a new practical and physical dimension to her work with the inclusion of collage; often partially obscured by paint, the collage elements engage the materials and framework that underlie each work.
Nelson often incorporates unconventional materials, such as cheesecloth, modeling paste, or strips of painted fabric or painted string to the work to add textural elements to her paintings.
I combine these elements, using collage and assemblage techniques, often integrating encaustic into the work as either a paint or an adhesive.
Reminiscent of the remnants from a horrendous car crash, her works often incorporate «paint skins,» combining the opposite elements of the soft and the hard, the malleable and the intractable, the masculine and the feminine.
Jackson's often large - scale paintings blend figural elements of bodies pointing, kneeling, drawing, and playing instruments with colorful abstract compositions and vigorously worked surfaces.
An early 20th - century school of painting and sculpture in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements largely by use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones.
In contrast to Helen Marten's enigmatic works made of disparate elements, Mary Weatherford (b. 1963, Ojai, California) works with a sparer set of materials — paint and often neon — to create pieces that reference her experiences.
She often compares the rhythm of her painting as akin to weaving in which she uses representational elements made of paint, textiles or plastics to build abstract paintings where each element is recognizable but does not behave as it should.
The 16th - century Low Countries painter Pieter Aertsen pioneered a new genre of large - scale art: the market scene, which combined the virtuoso rendering of materials prevalent in still life paintings with a human element that often had an allegorical subtext.
While the paintings still hew to the cadre of influences that Martinez is often mentioned alongside — Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston — they have more or less abandoned the figurative elements of epic earlier work, like «The Feast,» a dense triptych from 2010.
These architectural monuments are captured against a grand, thick forest, which reveals and hides its part in a dynamic tension that is an integral part of Peter Doig's figurative painting — the artist often delves into moments of tranquillity and contrasts them with uneasy oneiric elements.
His paintings from this time included imagery from advertisements, music hall entertainment, and wrestlers, often including collaged elements.
Known for his distinguished use of color and form in his paintings, Sean Scully defies the limits of abstraction at extents that his surfaces — often times composed of various panels — gain sculptural elements.
In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.
Much of Cy Twombly's more abstract art was based on language and the process of writing, and he would often write narratives that lurked just beneath the surface elements of his paintings.
Thus while he painted individuals from photographs, Richter's replica images were often blurred and bore nothing distinctively identifiable about the subject, an effect that forced the viewer to consider the fundamental components of the painting itself, such as composition, color scheme, and so forth, rather than leaving the viewer to identify with, or be distracted by, a picture's implied content or its emotional element of «humanity.»
His paintings often combine formal compositional elements with distinct art - historical references and images appropriated from popular culture; they resist classification and thoroughly beguile the...
Her paintings, often of reduced, abstracted compositions in drenching colors, involve the interplay of elements.
The pieces often include obscure text as well - a technique that adds additional texture, as well as a human element to the otherwise nonrepresentational paintings.
His works center around the relationship between form and content: often using several layers of paint, resin, glitter, collage elements, and occasionally, elephant dung, Ofili enlists sexual, cultural, historical, and religious references to create uniquely aesthetic and physical works that expose the darker undercurrents of society, while also celebrating contemporary black culture.
His multiscreen installations often unite elements from dance, painting, sculpture, theater, and music and include Ten Thousand Waves, Vagabondia, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, and Long Road to Mazatlan.
It is difficult to precisely define what faux - naive means, but, loosely speaking, it is a term often attached to contemporary painting that actively embraces elements from the visual language associated with outsider and self taught artists.
Ligare reaches a poetic level of perfection in his paintings, which take inspiration from the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and artists and often feature elements of Central California's coastal landscape.
Known as Faux Fauvism, it's inspired by Matisse and celebrates elements of Fauvism — that is, early 20th - century French paintings, marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colours — as well as Cubism, Pointillism and street art.
In either case, the eyes are often the most immediately affecting element in her paintings, which double as reflections of how we look at portraits.
There is, first, the obvious fact that the elements don't really very often add up to a legible landscape (the black pentagon in Calvi looks no more like a cave than the squares in Mondrian look like skyscraper windows — that is, a confusion might be possible because of the limited number of shapes available, but everything in the intention of the painting is there to steer one away from it).
Rivers, trees, bubbles and meteorites are the elements found often in HUANG Yuxing's paintings for the recent five years.
The large dimensions of the paintings in the series Lignes - Report, far from staging a kind of «physical» (or «virile» to use one of the adjectives often associated with American Abstract Expressionism) creative power, instead served Degottex to completely wipe himself out of the painting in order to better propose a space as vast as possible, which is deprived of any formal element.
There is often paint on the surface, which can at times be invisible and at other times obvious depending on the light, another important element of my work.
Known for large, abstract, mixed - media paintings that often incorporate ephemera and discarded elements of urban life, the African - American artist received critical acclaim for his presentation, Tomorrow Is Another Day, in Venice, which will open at The Baltimore Museum of Art in September.
Urdarianu's paintings often have a three - dimensional element as well.
This exhibition will reveal Moran's painterly development, from her early and more gestural paintings to her later works which, though more structured and detailed, often include added elements of collage and layering.
These figures, though squarely centered in his paintings, often have the appearance of being part of still lifes: collaged, anachronistic elements belonging to different time zones and eras offer a contemporary take on the storied tradition of visual and psychological pastiche.
His paintings are intimate and appealing, often with an element of fantasy,
Incorporating elements of both painting and sculpture, Chun's Aggregations are assemblages: freestanding and wall - hung amalgamations of small, triangular forms wrapped in antique mulberry paper, often tinted with teas or pigment.
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