Sentences with phrase «painterly forms»

This exhibition celebrates the resounding resonance of color and energy between these sculptural and painterly forms.

In the selected works on view, similarities in color and energy between the two artist's sculptural and painterly forms become apparent when viewed side - by - side.

She filters the heroic style of Michelangelo through her feminist and lesbian subject matter, yet in recent years her work has become more abstract and less overtly narrative, encompassing psychological ambiguity and looser painterly forms.

The significant factor is to recognize how the matter of painting, in each case, is addressed to the spectator — a point underlined in the work of Ron Martin, whose recent shift from an open and painterly form to a geometric colour structure is a syntactical, not a stylistic change.

In this new endeavor, Fig's particular interest takes a painterly form.

Raphael curated a tight show showcasing a selection of terrific artists — all of whom were well known at the time — for whom painterly form «within painting» was of the essence.

Bartlett is known for her large installations of enameled steel plates that blend conceptualism with painterly form.

Bartlett is known for her installations of enameled steel plates that blend conceptualism with painterly form.

An alchemist of painterly form, Taaffe combines silkscreen, stencil, collage, marbling and staining as he integrates the following opposites: decorative + narrative, natural + man - made, ancient + modern.

Richter counters the gesture of Abstract Expressionism with completely neutral surfaces and vibrant textures that he does not draw from his subjective responses but, conceptually, from the fundamental possibilities of painterly forming.

This precise and detached aesthetic can be seen throughout the works; and is at the centre of the curatorial narrative, beginning with a focus on objects, restricting, eliminating, and reducing the painterly form; which is later employed in the Precisionist's representation of the modern dehumanised landscape.

Yet the real drama lies not so much in the kissing, shooting, and running figures that populate Furnas's pictures as in the artist's knowing investigation of painterly form.

Not exact matches

With painterly grace, Jessell has peeled back layers of the spinal cord's astounding molecular complexity to reveal how specific classes of neurons are generated in growing embryos and form the elaborate circuits that control muscle movement.

A sheer pink Blumarine dress featuring light polka dots and embellished with painterly tulips forms playful motions for Summer.

But observation informs Bailey's only indirectly; his carefully remembered forms recall Morandi's circumspect pittura metafisica more than the painterly empirical work.

Memories are woven together with filaments and tendrils, the sway of a branch or the curve of a river's course; layers of improvised painterly processes all spilling forth in expressive spontaneous gestures — intricate layers of technique and images, the forms taking shape as though guided by an external impulse.

The painting I saw by Robin Bruch in that group show offered new possibilities by combining geometric forms with rough direct, painterly mark making.

This suite of eight monumental paintings collectively bridges the formal and painterly gap between the emotionally powerful Abstract Expressionist masterpieces that brought Tworkov to prominence in the 1940s and 1950s and the more quiet, cerebral constructs that became the artist's late career focus in the 1970s and early 1980s, and which formed the basis of his one - man show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1982.

One of the first American artists to investigate the aesthetic potential of the irregularly shaped canvas, Neil Williams initially depicted hard - edged geometric forms, but eventually turned to a painterly abstract style.

The «offcuts» from his painterly sculptures formed ready - made imagery.

The lightness of being in his work, the range of forms, contours, edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness of the spaces in between his network of slashes, swatches, and other painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the paintings are airy, permeable, and most significantly, written in a language that is all his own.

Rachel Macarthur's four oil paintings on paper are informal, gestural, arriving - at - form in the process of paint application, and there is gesture and painterly dialogue in the three wonderful paintings by Karl Bielik.

Depending on their contours, these forms, which are made up of countless painterly events, can read as mounds, tilted irregular planes or rough - hewn ovals suggestive of heads or stones.

On a flat canvas painted forms appear sculptural and his three - dimensional works are painterly.

[34] Lyrical Abstraction is a type of freewheeling abstract painting that emerged in the mid-1960s when abstract painters returned to various forms of painterly, pictorial, expressionism with a predominate focus on process, gestalt and repetitive compositional strategies in general.

Gibbons» work is a painterly convergence of figuration and abstraction; resembling a Rorschach test, one side of the canvas mirrors the other, lending symmetry and precision to fluid and spontaneous bursts of color and form.

With specimens from Hantaï's painterly «Mariale» series (1960 - 62) to the almost Matisse - like «Meuns» (1967 - 8) and the frenetic «Études» (1968 - 1971), where the negative space forms take on a wing - like nature, the Mnuchin Gallery succinctly paints a portrait of Hantaï's dramatic evolution in a short span of time.

Jones» first mature works — cartoonish depictions of city buses, rendered in bright colors on shaped panels — became iconic images of British pop and also hinted at the conflation of painterly space and sculptural form that would characterize much of his later work.

ONE - Time Pad Thomas Scheibitz's work retraces the conceptual and painterly development of his career with a particular focus on the human figure and the existence of form between figuration and abstraction.

Her painterly gesture and her understanding of the volatile dialogue between brush and paint are easily and readily translated onto the canvas through her composition and form.

The form and patina of real world equivalents are represented in a painterly tribute with use of heavy flax or raw polyester.

At a time when the world is increasingly abstract, Borremans submits his paintings as evidence that this particular form of painterly expression retains its validity.

Through a process of forming paper pulp into shapes and painting with pigmented pulp, Liu cultivates chance and embraces a stylistic looseness that playfully mines painterly traditions.

The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.

Ross Bleckner's interest in painterly techniques and investigations into biological sciences have long formed a major part of his oeuvre.

«Collages by Tim Spelios reorder the history of art and its context and Ryan Steadman's ersatz book forms provide a beguiling and painterly façade in which the viewer really can tell a book by its cover.

This exhibition present new large - scale painting and sculpture which feature exuberant pop references mixed with painterly abstraction and stoic minimalism, unified by the over-arching motif of funerary form.

Frankenthaler, Louis and Noland formed the core of a group known as the colour field painters, though the critic Clement Greenberg preferred one of his own clunking coinages, «post-painterly abstractionists», meaning that after the «painterly» surfaces of the abstract expressionists, the purely colour - based paintings of Noland and the others marked out a different and more advanced stage of art's march to absolute abstraction.

I don't think you'd be far wrong to see it as simultaneously a riff on op art (a term coined by Time magazine the same year as Greenberg's Post Painterly show), a metaphor for the fluidity of U.S. race relations and a sort of tidying up of what Brummel calls «the thick, frayed brushstrokes» of Franz Kline and the bulbous forms of Robert Motherwell, both of whom worked largely in black and white.

In Hansen's «paintings» — hand - knitted constructions stretched on wooden frames — loops of yarn give form to a painterly abstraction or assert its uncertainty.

There is no need to pre-define their characteristics because these reveal themselves innately.The layering of painterly thought is an art form that attracts artists who start with an idea and accept that it will not be carried out as planned because unforeseen changes — some radical, some subtle — will smuggle themselves into the making.Overall, Kahn's paintings became much more complex.

Bravura swirls and snaking rivulets of painterly gesture form endlessly perusable eddies of incident and yet the metallic sheen refutes and repels easy interpretation, making these simultaneously seductive and unyielding, adamantine objects.

The painterly effects that interest him suggest energy that flows, the expansion and compression of form, the diversion of a line, the spatial illusions of colour.

He paints geometric patterns, manipulates color, and his distinctive painterly expressions with vertical lines, diagonals and triangular forms and curves appear to be grasping for the borderline between representation and abstraction.

I fuse the domestic with the painterly tradition of painting by staining, mopping, throwing, printing, spraying, dragging, imprinting, brushing, washing and bleaching pigments onto fabrics, drop cloths and canvases forming expressive abstract patterns.

From the early 1960s, Forrestall experimented with panels shaped from triangles to T - forms, each chosen to fit his painterly ideas.

As he juxtaposes painterly mistakes against the rigidity of the grid, we witness a form develop content.

Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Football Player — Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, 1915 Oil on canvas 26 x 17 inches March 2 — April 30, 2011 I have transformed myself into the zero of form and dragged myself out of the rubbish - filled pool of Academic Art.

But this purified painterly approach to form also inspired artists in other media and continues to do so today: Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling and their Abstract films, Minimalism of Yves Klein and Frank Stella, Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold «s Formalist theatre, Land art etc..

In introducing Murray that evening, Varnedoe referred to her work «as dramas of form and color that accept, indeed demand, to play on the more austere terrain of high abstract art, in decisions about push and pull, bright and dark, fragmented and whole, planes and volumes, sculptural and painterly, that move us before we know what they are about.»