Sentences with phrase «painterly exploration»

The paintings are not portraits of specific people, but the artist often uses the same facial shapes and motifs as a starting point for painterly exploration, such as in Shared Borders and Shared Space.

Danish artist Julie Sass presents a cohesive body of new work as part of Copenhagen Arts Week that signals complex, painterly explorations in abstract minimalism

Starting from photographs she takes of people in her community, Laughlin converts the photos into composite figures and generates a line drawing, a coloring book template, for painterly exploration.

Mitchell's paintings instead reflect an imagined landscape, where she defers subject matter for the painterly exploration of color, texture and surface.

The 1990s was a particularly prolific decade for the artist as he elaborated his experimentations in sculpture, filmography and black - and - white photography — all of which in turn informed his painterly explorations.

Melissa Oresky is a Chicago - based visual artist known for her painterly explorations of modern landscapes.

In his current practice, Chapman continues with the concept of space, moving towards more gestural and painterly explorations.

Approaching subject matter collected in Glasgow and Edinburgh; motorway underpasses, building sites and billboards became the focal point for his painterly exploration.

Despite this turbid content, it remains fashionable to talk about Baselitz's paintings as abstractions, as though the perverse act of reversing the figure — the works at Michael Werner, from the»70s, include some of the first examples of this practice — were merely a technical matter, and as though his painterly explorations were mere attempts to stretch

Not afraid to reference the natural world in her painterly explorations of identity, she encouraged associations by giving her paintings titles such as Ladybug.

Breslow's panels, which favor atmosphere over specificity, are about the artist's genuine affection for the city she lives in, and also represent a painterly exploration of the balance between representation and abstraction.

Simultaneously, the velvet makes a perfect unprepared canvas, proving itself an ideal material for Bochner's linguo - painterly exploration.

Because of his nontraditional artistic background, in the 1950s Davis felt free to explore different media and surfaces of support, painting on irregularly shaped masonite, suspending gravel and rocks in oil paint, incorporating mirrors into his composition, and using pages of the phone book as the ground for his painterly explorations.

One of the most important painters of English Abstraction, Ben Nicholson begin his painterly explorations in the turbulent period between two wars.