Sentences with phrase «painted marks resembling»

Her layered paintings merge gestural abstraction with spray - painted marks resembling graffiti or airbrushed T - shirts.

Not exact matches

Resembling a full stop or black hole, Divola's spray painted circles, almost as lesions upon the interior walls of a derelict abandoned space, add both a lethal mark to a sinister image of utter abandonment, as well as accentuate the significance and weight of a single material gesture enacted by the artist upon a chosen ground.

His crosshatches resemble painted brushstrokes yet arise from a far more physical process of mark making with crayon on panel.

Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.

The works in the exhibition range from paintings marked by «water stains» resembling the patina of vintage photographs to Foulkes» tableaux paintings, which are constructed on a massive scale, exhaustingly carved into with a sandblaster, collaged with plaster, paint, and found objects (such as two Coke cans, an American flag, and a tree branch in «Lost Horizon,» 1991).

An abstract painter who up until recently had not used the figurative in his paintings, John Millei is now ready to explore painting built out of abstract marks that in the end come together to resemble a human head.

Touch (1999) resembles a fingerprint whose whorls are limned in dust, while several other paintings explicitly recall the warp and weft of finely woven gauze as the marks seem to float like mist over the painting field.

It was interesting to walk through the Jasper Johns exhibition, Something Resembling Truth, only a couple of days after my first look at Mark Bradford's new paintings at Hauser & Wirth.

In the 1990s, she began exploring the potential of plaster reliefs, carved with alpha - numeric or hieroglyphic - like marks and painted in earthy - tones to resemble something excavated from antiquity.

The building's clean geometric lines, often fleshed out with panels of primary colours so that the structure resembles a painting by Mondrian seen from a distance, are obscured by looser, darker, more furiously energetic marks representing the forest.

In the 60s, these enigmatic configurations in his paintings resembled either hieroglyphic or graphic elements, in the manner of Chinese calligraphy, or concentrated areas of colour, similar to, but more pronounced and graphic than in the works of Barnett Newman or Mark Rothko.

It does leave some brush marks, again, it's made to resemble the chalk painted look but with a much easier application.