Sentences with phrase «own formal qualities»

By exploring themes of philosophy and theology in his work through the formal qualities of space, line, and color, Adams engages Christ and culture in his art.

Classical sculpture's formal qualities, like their religious origins in Greek antiquity, are little understood today.

There was also a formal quality of rigidness that sort of started when Chloë Sevigny said, «I'm terrified of improv.»

Along with its formal qualities, this aura is maintained through a superb central performance from Stewart.

There is a slightly mocking, formal quality to his speech.

@Merve2: disqus: But those tendencies tend to cut both ways, and often game creators, despite prioritizing the ludic formal qualities of their medium, still invoke elements of cinema and literature but treat them in a perfunctory or secondary way.

My background in painting has allowed me to explore the material using techniques that derive more from the worlds of drawing and painting, engaging both traditional and innovative techniques in employing formal qualities with density, texture and pattern.

Braman creates abstract geometric sculptures and paintings in a distinctive color palette of rich pinks, blues, and purples, in which she simultaneously foregrounds the formal qualities of her materials while referring to her own personal narrative.

The fact that both modes of working bore similar formal qualities was seemingly lost on dismissive critics.

The artists in Positivilly Marvillainous embrace tensions, arising from Herriman's formal qualities in character portrayal, including those between line and shade, humor and drama, human and animal, collage and décollage, marvelous and villainous.

This generalized formal quality reflects the mobile nature of the objects themselves, discarded remnants of consumerism within a rapidly expanding global economy.

erwin wurm is an austrian artist who explores the formal qualities of sculpture while pushing beyond the conventional notions of the medium.

«Mondrian was perhaps the first painter ever to be purely concerned with the formal qualities of the brushstroke, and with the optical» — Benno Tempel

Although Pollock was well - known as a, shall we say, dysfunctional personality, his notoriety is based largely on the formal qualities of his art — his technique famously earning him the label «Jack the Dripper.»

I think he was a great painter whose work weds powerful formal qualities with keen observations of human nature.

Engaging both the formal qualities and social aspects of the sculptures, Okudzeto addresses the role and function of art, global and local economics, and tourism.

The art itself had all the formal qualities I liked and also made people think about male dominance in the art world.

Proust's influence reveals itself in both Lim's artistic approach and the formal qualities of her work, evident in her interest in the peripheral, questions of dislocation and self - alienation, and the dialectics of inside and outside.

Grotjahn's butterfly moniker is derived solely from the formal qualities of the paintings; all the works displayed in this exhibition are variations on a theme, using compulsive repetition to experiment within a delineated set of conceptual rules.

The formal qualities of his work reference a history of geometric modernism, including the works of Malevich and Mondrian.

Candida was born in 1944 in Cologne and after completing studies at the Cologne Werkschule, she enrolled in the Düsseldorf School of Art, where she was taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher, heavily influenced by the formal qualities of the austere documentary photography they endorsed.

Similar to Owen's other works, this site - specific installation responds to the particular architectural properties — formal qualities as well as spatial patterns — of the Market and the gallery space, and is constructed out of modest and / or ephemeral materials, which seemingly grow from and within the architecture.

And while Mockrin's works share some of the same formal qualities as an 18th - century Rococo composition — though they're a bit too askew to actually be mistaken for one — the works in question are decidedly 21st - century.

Inspired by mysticism, spirituality, and the occult, Kaur weaves visual echoes from her past to create an evocative, dreamy universe uniquely her own in both its formal qualities and narrative themes.

Issues of colonialism and racism encroach upon the formal qualities of The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1998 — 2000), a set of maps on which the artist has charted the attacks on supply lines in the battle for the remote village in North Vietnam that served as the final battle stage in the French War in Vietnam.

I spent most of my time at Arquetopia (Puebla) walking around the city and observing formal qualities of the buildings, light, and shadows around me.

Lisa Anne Auerbach: Enlarging the images emphasizes both the formal qualities of the pictures and the physicality of the ink and paper.

While imbued with more personality than what is conveyed in a generic ID photograph, the two share formal qualities.

These examinations of the bound books» formal qualities question the assumed authority and infallible knowledge of historical material, especially in relationship to the recorded history of women and individuals of color.

Appropriately enough, Moyer had first become interested in the formal qualities of moving blankets — their off - kilter color combinations, the patterns of their stitching — while assisting the artist Mika Tajima, who at the time had taken to displaying paintings in the kind of wooden storage racks typically found in a gallery's back room.

The artist's upcoming show at Michael Werner will be the painting's gallery debut, where it will be shown alongside seven other works composed since 2008 and inspired by Jones's ongoing interest in the formal qualities of his earlier commercial work.

Some have purchased work featuring familiar locations, while others collect purely for the artwork's inherent formal qualities.

In its focus on Cassatt's experimentalism as a means of fusing subject matter and formal qualities, the exhibition also contributes to a deeper understanding of the relationship between printmaking and Impressionism.

Later that year she began producing single - channel videos, such as Vertical Roll (1972), in which she used performance, static, and repetition to investigate the inherent formal qualities of video.

Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities — a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel.

Cole, who is also a professional illustrator, often uses multiple versions of a given item within an artwork to simultaneously highlight its materiality and alter its formal qualities.

Guided by their formal qualities, notably a lattice of beiges, mauves, and vermillion, Melee collages, crops, rotates, and mounts the images, often attaching this territory to segments of track lighting or sculpted and painted fiberglass curtains.

It is not just about the formal quality of the image itself, but also the networks of meaning and social relations it carries with it: humanitarian, celebrity, pop culture, etc..

The formal qualities of the film are forefronted: Dean uses a limited palette, a slow and steady pace, a static camera position, and very long shots.

Judd was particularly taken by the notion that art no longer had a representational purpose; he maintained that what mattered in a work of art was its own formal qualities - shape, color, surface, volume.

Concern for the formal qualities of matter and the search for perfection and spirituality are to be found in the offerings of James Lee Byars, Dora García, Félix González - Torres and Derek Jarman, which show the disquieting and turbulent reverse side which hides behind the idea of beauty.

The first vantage point captures fragments of the forms peeking through the treetops and gaps in the woods; as the viewer nears and the distance narrows, the objects» size and formal qualities are revealed.

I love Willem de Kooning's «Women» paintings for their formal qualities; the fields of slashing brush strokes and garish colours somehow corralled into dynamic compositions.

March 1st - Abstract In this workshop, participants will focus on formal qualities of shape, texture, and color to create abstract images which break away from any direct references.

The artists of the AAA tended to focus on the formal qualities of abstract art and those of the TPG were more inclined toward nature and the spiritual, thus calling themselves the Transcendentalists.

For the exhibition, Argote has created a new series of monochromatic sculptures that echo formal qualities found in architectural floor plans and domestic structures used for folding laundry.

For Riedel, his concerns are aesthetic, hence the formal qualities of the output.

John McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish.

Leonora Carrington may be a «literary painter» and a surrealist storyteller, but we should not forget the formal qualities that underpin her best work

For Rosenberg, the existential held a central place in painting; for his arch-rival, however, the focus resided on painting's surface, in its formal qualities.