Many of Holyhead's
painted shapes seemingly float on the canvas and, in the artist's words, «pierce the space open» for the viewer.
Not exact matches
Inspired by the dividing line on Peugeot's copper and carbonfibre Onyx concept from 2012, the cut is designed to create a triangle
shape at the back of the car — hence the
seemingly random location of the
paint divide.
Slight curves in one direction or another throw each of these sculptures and
paintings into an uncanny relationship with the simple geometric
shapes they
seemingly mimic.
Polyptyque (4 panneaux)(1966), Composition abstraite (1962) and Composition abstraite (1966) each feature a host of swirling, asymmetrical
shapes compiled in a
seemingly free composition, but as with the previous
painting, no element of this is arbitrary.
Holliday references the history of abstract
painting with a fluid style,
seemingly pouring colors over the white of the canvas into lines,
shapes and patterns.
Many of her sculptures are simply large cubes or cones,
seemingly painted solid white, but a peek from another view reveals caverns of fluid
shapes and hues that spiral downward in a series of geometric patterns.
The Frist Art Museum presents Chaos and Awe:
Painting for the 21st Century, a sweeping survey of
paintings from around the world that invite contemplation of
seemingly ungraspable forces
shaping contemporary society, from the ideological to the technological.
Drawing fluidly upon modernist and postmodernist approaches to abstraction, Schuyff uses the language of
paint to marry
seemingly irreconcilable elements: biomorphic
shape and algorithmic repetition, allover flatness and tightly rendered drop shadows...
The
paintings» large size, combined with the density of stacked, angled, and
seemingly jumbled geometric
shapes, has a disconcerting effect.
If he took anything from his earlier experiments, it was that the
shape of a
painting should be specific and that the problem with more traditional configurations was their
seemingly accidental nature.
She makes big, blowsy
shapes with thinned
paint and loose brushwork, with
seemingly no attempt to do anything about the resulting drips except to let them have a life of their own.
The idea of
painting as object, hotly considered at that time, took on even greater depth with this work as it
seemingly beamed out images of colors and
shapes.
A
seemingly disorderly pile of box - like coloured
shapes, flatly rendered in a shallow pictorial space, are featured against a
painted grey ground.
In her
paintings of the «80s, Murray balances
seemingly opposing forces — combining geometric and biomorphic
shapes, hard edges and feathery brushstrokes, imagery and abstraction and oil
paint and three - dimensional structure.
The convoluted, surreal
shapes of his earlier years give way to
seemingly shimmering, luminous
paintings from the 1960s onward in a kind of transcendental Op Art.
A year earlier, in 1909, the French avant - garde painter Francis Picabia
painted Caoutchouc, a proto - cubist work featuring unrecognizable geometric
shapes enveloped in
seemingly unrelated color fields.
What makes her artistic contribution so special, is the combination of her forensic - style photographic skills with a
seemingly insatiable curiosity for
shape and colour in her
painting.
At his studio in Queens, Klingbiel, 50, makes
paintings on top of woodcuts depicting
seemingly random lines and
shapes.