Sentences with phrase «painted architectonic forms»

[xii] In a series from 1956, Thomas dispensed with thin paint, giving the picture plane solidity with more densely painted architectonic forms locked in puzzle - like configurations, as in Highway II (1957), whose sage green, grays, and ultramarine blues are suggestive of the heaviness of the approach of dusk.

Not exact matches

The second series of paintings focuses on color and consists of seven vertical canvases, each with a palette centered around a particular hue while bearing witness to the artist's melding of architectonic composition and organic form.

It's fascinating to see these paintings in «the flesh» because you simultaneously take in the strong scaffolding structural design and architectonic, reductive form, explored with very fluid, sensitive brushwork.

By melding these diverse and humble sources with polyester resin as a binding agent, Mallary sought to reconcile structure, gesture and content, in ways not unlike his abstract expressionist forebearer Franz Kline, whose paintings combined energetic brush work with architectonic forms originally inspired by his surroundings.

The angular forms of the figure in this drawing recall his portrait paintings, and the vertical, architectonic marks also reference his cityscapes and nonrepresentational abstractions.

Paintings that once represented architectonic forms and alluded to optimism or idealism are no longer considered «advanced.»

Hung side by side, a lively conversation develops between photography and painting, realism and abstraction, and together they make us more aware of architectonic forms that surround us but that we rarely give our full attention.

Using industrial materials such as concrete and painted steel, Low's works «investigate what might be seen as traditional sculptural or architectonic concerns with form, space, rhythm, tension, balance and the properties of materials».

Complex underlying structures caused the canvases to bulge or reach out along the wall or into the room; a sequence of 12, gradually changing forms was based on the pages of a calendar from which successive pages had been torn; and finally, in work from 1972, the architectonic quality of the paintings was discarded in his Kite Paintings, in which unstretched, painted canvases were suspended from rods and interrupted by cords and threads hanging off and passing thropaintings was discarded in his Kite Paintings, in which unstretched, painted canvases were suspended from rods and interrupted by cords and threads hanging off and passing throPaintings, in which unstretched, painted canvases were suspended from rods and interrupted by cords and threads hanging off and passing through them.

They are reined in by architectonic structures, broad fields of color are interrupted by smaller gestures and idiosyncratic forms... his work has a palimpsest effect, where layers of previous activity bleed through the final layers of paint.»

The rigorous symmetries of his colour forms, which are invariably centered in a unified chromatic field, and the massive sense of space enclosure they convey, give Rothko's paintings an extraordinary architectonic power.

The standard square support and architectonic form provide a heightened sense of rhythm in the paintings as a series.

In the early 1960s, Bishop developed the vocabulary of color and form that would characterize his paintings on canvas for over twenty years: a reduced but rich palette, the employment of subtle architectonic abstractions, and a consistently large, square format that reinforces the viewer's sense of scale and space.

His painting from this time until the mid-1980s was to be characterised by high colour, architectonic structures loosely based in geometric forms, and a richly textured, painterly surface.