Rather than representing
the outer shape of the world, this painting expresses the fluid...
Not exact matches
Dr Michele Bannister said: «We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well - baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest
worlds in the
outer regions
of our solar system, has a greyish / red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and
shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.
Loose all over quilts
of limpid blues, greens, pinks, reds, and yellows... fairly burble, their colored lines and
shapes registering a painter's fast - moving hands as they rise steeply, floating between inner and
outer worlds, to jostle and bank at their tops» (Ibid., pp. 313 - 314).
Loose allover quilts
of limpid blues, greens, pinks, reds, and yellows... fairly burble, their colored lines and
shapes registering a painter's fast - moving hands as they rise steeply, floating between inner and
outer worlds, to jostle and bank at their tops» (P. Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, New York, 2011, pp. 313 - 314).
In sculptures such as Big Coat, a series
of works relating the human body to basic geometric
shapes, Wurm questions the relationship between inner and
outer and the dominance
of the material
world over the subjective, which increasingly seems deprived
of its free will.
They are tactile and the non-square
shapes make them seem less likely to have been painted from a «window - view»
of the
world, but more like they were observed from various
shaped portals from
outer space or through one's imagination.
Early 20th century abstraction went the other way, expressing faith that colors,
shapes and lines could be powerful reflections
of an artist's inner life, rather than the
outer world.
Perhaps
shaped by harmful childhood experiences or brain dysfunctions, people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder live in a
world of inner and
outer turmoil.