In a sense, his best known works — the «multiforms» and
his other signature paintings — are, in essence, the same expression, albeit one of purer (or less concrete or definable, depending on your interpretation) means, which is that of the same «basic human emotions,» as his earlier surrealistic mythological paintings.
Not exact matches
She is on a search for its origins;
painting as practical magic, the prosaic made ecstatic, and self - portrait in its most basic sense as a trace of its author... The non-traditional materials Strobert employs — powdered graphite, pumice, papier - mâché and glitter among
others — all have visual
signatures as distinctive as the bulbous shine of oil
paint or the transparent skeins of gouache.
De Kooning never abandoned the human form, Pollock sought (and failed) to reappropriate it after his
signature drip
paintings, and Gorky's abstractions, those lyrical elisions of biomorphic shape and washy veils of pigment, are nothing if not figure
painting by
other means.
Many of Schnabel's
signature tropes — the use of dropcloths and soiled canvases, the incorporation of studio debris and
other «imperfections» into the body of the work, and his re-imagining of found materials — have become celebrated gestures in contemporary
painting.
Exhibited across two floors of the gallery, the
paintings here range in scale from the tablet - sized Boardwalk Barter a reminiscence from the artist's earlier years selling his work in Venice, California, to one of his
signature, immersive flower - like explosions, which can be read as either the conceptual origin or the end point of all
other work.
Among
other successful sales of the evening was a gray - scale work by Cy Twombly, a Donald Judd installation, a
signature white
painting by Robert Ryman and several works by Yves Kline, including a blue sponge sculpture and works on paper.
This group tackles many challenges including, project management, title - wall construction and installation,
signature panel fabrication and install, patching and
painting walls, modular wall set up, blocking the walls for art installations, shipping and receiving of artworks, condition reporting, conservation of artworks, art installation, gallery seating building and placement, lighting, labels, and a host of
other details to make the galleries shine and complement the artworks.
A second grouping of
paintings highlights
other recent work, which incorporates Faust's
signature shadows and illusionary effects.
Parrot (1976), on the
other hand, is one of the
paintings that introduced Bolduc's
signature style, and intimated his deeper ambitions: a yellow and white line of pure pigment atop a yellow and red base, situated in the midst of a roiling jungle of green, blue, and red strokes.
Additional new works include a reflective bronze beach ball (appropriated from a famous Roy Lichtenstein
painting) and Ms. Levine's
signature paintings of pieces of plywood with prominent knots, which whimsically reference
other attributes of Modern Art.
Kusama worked both in monochrome and highly colourful materials, often
painting the protrusions in her
signature polka - dots and
other motifs for which she has since become universally recognised.
Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave
paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's
signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and
other everyday occurrences.
In this
painting, as well as
others of the same year such as Listen and Sun Woman I, Krasner's actual
signature, scribbled in umber, is woven throughout the body of the
painting.
From September 1959 to January 1960 de Kooning sojourned in Italy, working in Rome, where he produced what are now known as his «black and white»
paintings, such as Black and White (Rome) 1959 (fig. 6).24 These are highly reminiscent of Kline's
signature style in their combination of bold gestural abstraction, a black and white palette and structured compositions that consist of a series of emphatic strokes that are at odds with each
other and positioned at angles that create nearly regular geometric shapes, such as triangles and squares.
Colors independent of reality,
painted in bold patches of irregular shapes, and his use of slashes and squiggles representing trees, shrubs, rocks and
other elements of the landscape became his
signature style.
The 70 - year - old Chicago - based artist has been quietly crafting Minimalist - influenced
paintings since the early 1970s, with his
signature variance of oil stick marks on wood or aluminum surfaces that share the spirit of
other painters from that era such as Brice Marden and Robert Ryman.
Longtime SAIC professor and conceptual painter Gaylen Gerber often works with his
signature paint color — gray — to cover the artwork of
other, often famous artists, or simply as a backdrop to present their work.
Not many art appreciators were there to block my view of Rob Pruitt's hilarious installation: big fancy abstract
paintings twinkling with the artist's
signature glitter, innertube objets encrusted with more sparkly «action
painting,» and (literally) heavy - duty floor pieces composed entirely of cement - filled jeans (Levi's, Sasson, brands from every price point): Five stuffed pairs «sitting up» created a starfish; a snakelike lineup of several more doing splits straddled the floor like a team of torso - free cheerleaders; denim couples, oozing cement cellulite, spooned, mounted each
other, and / or tempted one to sit on them like furniture.
Besides his
signature boxlike sculptures, the exhibition will include
paintings, prints, architectural interventions, furniture designs and examples of Judd's influential art criticism and
other writings.
To execute a single «squiggle,» sheets of plywood are laid on top of each
other, resembling a topographical model, before they are covered in canvas and
painted over in Sperling's
signature palate of saturated, sometimes clashing colors.
Intimately scaled sea and sky
paintings in her
signature hyper - realist
painting style are pure, absolute, and timeless beings that make no demands on the viewer
other than to look and feel.
The Polychrome
paintings stem from Nixon's use of colour in his earlier monochrome
paintings, here using his
signature orange colour with
other colours.
The marks and gestures in these and
other paintings don't have a telltale
signature or a sense of the artist's ego yearning to burst out in full cry.
Additionally, Ono's
signature interactive Bag Piece (1964) will be on display along with
other interactive works including
Painting to Be Stepped On (1960/61).
In the late 1980s, when Chris Martin began showing his
paintings, he adapted
signature motifs from Paul Feeley and Philip Guston, among
others, which was a way of paying homage to them as he worked his way through their iconic images.