Not exact matches
A
calligraphic leafed vine, painted in varying
forms and colors against different grounds, is a recurring motif in the new work, which continues Amenoff's thirty - year exploration of an intense, romantic, physical, and densely woven semi-abstract landscape vision based both
on observation and personal interpretation of the natural world.
The spidery
calligraphic lines, the half - developed
forms, the translucent washes of colours, all appear to capture something - a bird, a plough, a pattern
on a dress; but the dissolving
forms continually configure and unravel before our eyes.
His intuitive approach to art - making is epitomized in the expressive black
forms on white surfaces mentioned above, almost
calligraphic in nature and akin to this Asian practice in their emphasis
on gesture, both are
forms of writing that transmit sense visually.
Fluid,
calligraphic and cartoon - like
forms are superimposed
on others that are suggestive of trees, stems...
With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color
forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first
on the painterly mark, adapting a
calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.
On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a
form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and
calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.
The resultant images are gestural,
calligraphic forms whose textures and fractal - like patterns are reminiscent of the endlessly repeating structures in nature that exist
on multiple scale levels from the sub-atomic to the universal; a reflection of the complex architecture of our universe.»
He organizes the
forms by means of a slow and fluid
calligraphic drawing which expands
on the surface to prop...
The diversity of the 1980s can be seen in Dan Christensen's Tuscarora (1980), which belongs to the vibrant and poetic paintings in which the artist furthered his use of experimental methods to include staining
on unstretched canvases and
calligraphic «drawing» using sticks, brushes, and turkey basters, Friedel Dzubas's Barrier (1983), demonstrating the lyrical and contemplative style of this artist who studied with Paul Klee, and Stanley Boxer's Speckledchant (1988), a work in mixed media that evokes baroque opulence in the way that explosive
forms seem compressed within the confines of the canvas.