The poetic composition claims a role that exceeds the power of perception, a concept that allows us to arrive at infinity.
The White Ribbon's blend of formal,
poetic compositions and hushed, simmering drama reminded me variously of Malick and Bergman, and if the picture finally does not quite achieve the level of a masterpiece, this may be down to the fact that I've always found Haneke to be a cold, stern and aloof director; the creator of films that I can admire but never love.
For over 40 years, B. Wurtz has been transforming throwaway objects found in daily life — shoelaces, plastic bags, food containers, buttons, socks, hangers — into elegant,
poetic compositions.
She seeks
a poetic composition of colors that create an emotional experience for her viewers.
The exhibition brings together more than two decades of Stark's
poetic compositions and autobiographical reflections, featuring 125 works, including the artist's early carbon drawings, intricate collages, and mixed - media paintings as well as her more recent videos.
In
poetic compositions of vibrant color and organic form, Suzanne LaFleur evokes the serene atmosphere of summer retreat in her newest work now on display at Lawrence Fine Art through August 18.
Islam constructs
poetic compositions that exhibit a precise attention to formal details and an open narrative structure.
Reducing the plane to thick brushstrokes, arranged in tessellated brick red blocks, Sean Scully's Grey Red is a minimal and
poetic composition from his allegorical practice.
At Kouros, a group of rarely seen canvases and watercolors from 1947 - 48 deals with organic, floral and undersea forms, in
poetic compositions of luminous color.
Through the long process of nding the image from within, the artist channels brooding qualities from Courbet's mysterious Cave paintings and
poetic compositions by Albert Pinkham Ryder into her own lush, multi-layered surfaces.
Faded photographs, watercolors, confetti and thread are among the many materials Stewen has recombined into
poetic compositions that are at once visually arresting and charged with emotion.
The elegant tripod base supports a partially twisted column forming
a poetic composition.
Not exact matches
With her third release (her second as a solo artist), Imogen Heap fuses techno with beautiful piano
compositions and
poetic lyrics that make your brain tingle.
Like the other great American songwriters his
poetic songs about politics, love and life are steeped in biblical imagery and spiritual themes that weave beautifully through guitars, string sections and banjos in brilliantly earthy
compositions.
It would have been more
poetic to choose the Tower of Pisa for his thought experiment: Galileo, in his own legendary experiments there — truly legendary, because he probably never actually did them — had shown that objects of different mass and
composition are equivalent in that they undergo the same gravitational acceleration.
In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded him a special citation for «his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical
compositions of extraordinary
poetic power.»
In the exhibition room, Jochen Lempert presents his photographs in
poetic and subtle
compositions.
For more than two decades she has been making
poetic and poignant
compositions combining text and imagery, exploring a wide variety of subjects, including writing, procrastination, the banality of life, failure, success, pride, self - doubt, motherhood, pedagogy, institutional critique, class, music, literature, poetry, philosophy, art, sadness, and relationships.
After juxtaposing images blown up from auction catalogues and printed in black and white on large format paper, Reed applies colorful formal shapes to the
composition creating a dialogue that is dynamic as well as
poetic.
Amplifying the
poetics of the everyday, the marginal and the overlooked, Fyfe increasingly repurposes found materials — a child's kite, a discarded sign, or an abandoned banner — into his near - abstract
compositions that are informed as much by serendipity as they are by any kind of high - minded formalism.
The
poetic decision of each gesture and
composition is foregrounded.
I was familiar with his more abstract word
compositions but not his odes and more traditional
poetic pieces.
As Perriand's biographer Jacques Barsac explains, «the Free - Forms themselves demonstrated a
poetic functionalism on the human scale in which each form was rigorously tailored to its use and its production method, while retaining a freedom of
composition.»
With great attention to the range of the chosen materials and a nuanced sensibility for
composition, Wurtz has been since the early works transforming fragments of the ordinary into sculptures of wit and
poetic composure.
Her
poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked by lines into labyrinthine
compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.
Images as
poetic footprints through their fascinating
composition that blurred the lines between photography and digital retouching, between document and artistic research.
The exhibition presented a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum's collection that incorporate
poetic inscriptions in their
composition or have direct relationships to America's rich
poetic traditions.
Wellington's
compositions are rendered in a mythic and
poetic vernacular and his worlds and images are loaded with layers of painted metaphor.
His
compositions were admired for their decorative and
poetic qualities among critics and collectors interested in a «sane» modern art.
[18] A 2006 essay described the book as «a three - way game that plays the text and illustrations for an introduction to Euclid against Woodman's own text and diagrams, as well as the «geometry» of her formal
compositions,» [37] while a 2008 article found the book «
poetic and humorous, analytical and reflexive.»
Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle:
Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and
Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286
Using several media, from collage to performance, she explores the sensual and formal properties of everyday objects and materials (venetian blinds, fans, infrared detection devices, etc.), taken out of their original context and rearranged into abstract
compositions, investing them with a new,
poetic meaning with political or emotional overtones.
Scanning the table of contents is like flipping through a course catalog: do you want to take Naomi Campbell's «Working Large in Watercolor,» James McElhinney's «Journal Painting and
Composition,» Sharon Sprung's «Figure Painting from Life in Oil,» or Ellen Eagle's «
Poetic Realism in Pastel»?
Each of the six artists will present works aligned with the methodologies or interests inherent to the
poetic process, lending a lyrical sense to both material and object by using a mix of individual abstract language and intuitive
composition or gesture.
He was simultaneously making esoteric, quasi-theosophical
compositions, startling drip and spatter paintings that anticipate abstract expressionism, and
poetic landscapes.
Noting her «complex, highly
poetic pictorial
compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected by the New York museum establishment.»
Frankenthaler's
poetic line drawing is at once met with warm saturated hues, tempering a
composition of free spontaneity combined with thoughtful control.
The artist is known for his photographs that transform ordinary subject matter into distinct,
poetic images through his distinct use of color, form and
composition.
The verdant green and cerulean blue along the bottom are complemented by the earthly tones of ruby and peach that dominate the central
composition and conjure a spring sunrise, altogether resulting in a
poetic and dynamic exploration of how color and form can expose the unlimited space between imagination and memory.
Employing a process in which erosion and layering simultaneously conceal and reveal his subjects, Stewen's rich
compositions conflate abstraction and figuration, anonymity and biography, chance and intuition — inherent material and conceptual contradictions which bely the work's rich
poetic and psychologically - charged effects on its viewer.
Although trained in philosophy, her abstract
compositions contain a more
poetic quality, their rhythm and warmth unbound from the rigors of formal thought and located more in sensory experience.
Whitten's
poetic and physically compelling
compositions reinvent the medium of painting time and again — from his series of small «ghost» paintings of the 1960s, his smeared test slabs and dragged canvases of the 1970s, and his collaged acrylic «skins» of the 1980s to his more recent tessellated constructions of paint tiles.
The exhibition presents a diverse landscape of masterpieces from the museum's collection that incorporate
poetic inscriptions in their
composition or have direct relationships to America's rich
poetic traditions.
While the exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery is hardy the Dodd retrospective we needed, it does have the great virtue of giving us a concentrated account of one of the artist's most inspired inventions: the complex, highly
poetic pictorial
compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light to be seen in and around the windows and doorways of old Maine houses.
From his first spectral canvases, as a graphic trace of a haunted soul, to his recent app for Obama, a key for complex, contemporary life, Whitten's
poetic and physically compelling
compositions capture what is needed, what is left, what is remembered, and what is next.