Sentences with phrase «painterly surface»

Can you tell us a little about the journey from working on a two - dimensional painterly surface to working with sculpture?

Opposing the dense painterly surface of the 1940s and 1950s abstract expressionism works, the new paintings concentrated on pure abstraction.

Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91) produced some works combining fields of painterly surfaces with gestural shapes (eg.

Greenberg had perceived that there was a new movement in painting that derived from the abstract expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s but «favored openness or clarity» as opposed to the dense painterly surfaces of that painting style.

Susan Homer makes delicious paintings with lush painterly surfaces that are rich in romanticism.

The mixture of traditional painting and printing techniques John Bauer employs results in an illusionary painterly surface that engages viewers with its forms and keeps them guessing as to their origin.

Not the exacting precision of later minimalism — a designation Stella always hated, and would flamboyantly rebel against soon enough — but a more irregular, more painterly surface.

Johns» midcentury paintings» lush, painterly surfaces resemble those of Abstract Expressionism, but Johns arrived at them through slow, labor - intensive processes and mediums such as encaustic.

Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.

Such a highly active painterly surface is a mark of Rothko's paintings from this important period, but it is the scale on which it has been executed in No. 7 (Dark Over Light) that makes this particular work one of the most extraordinary; its broad sweeps and feathered edges reveal the artist's ambition to create a pure and direct form of painting.

Differing widely in approach and style, the best of the group's work was characterized by strong painterly surfaces found in Town, Ronald, Hodgson and Cahén.

Rauschenberg's Bed, 1955, was an entirely new species of art, fusing a flat painterly surface with a 3 - dimensional object.

The heavily worked painterly surface and the exposed copper ground beneath evoke the idea of image - making through rubbing over a raised surface, like brass rubbings, as if the image is in the process of being excavated from its historical references or, in the words of the press release, «as if tuned into the conductive properties of the metal supports, brush marks gather and disperse in the works like iron filings drawn towards a moving charge».

In painting Temple Hum, she continues, «painterly surfaces merge and commune with one another — visual sensations advance and recede to create a sense of depth.

«Still's paintings also echo Van Gogh's in their rich color palette and heavily troweled painterly surfaces.»

In Untitled (P 492), Wool employs the silkscreen technique to mechanically reproduce the image of his earlier work where he used a spray gun in order to achieve a rich painterly surface filled with movement.

In these performances, the artist fabricates a new skin, which envelopes the performers in an embellished painterly surface that connects them to each other in languid and often erotic positions.

Enrique Brinkmann composes a visual tapestry within his abstract paintings which break into the realm of sculpture; constructing his compositions on a fine wire mesh held a few inches proud from the wall, he plays with the space between the physical painterly surface and its support.

On its vast painterly surface four intertwined scenarios unfold between the almost lost mathematical greed, created by sixty wooden panels, that over float with coloured wax.

In this exhibition, two series of Swain's paintings will be presented: the well known meticulous grids with their flat pristine surfaces and his newest all - over paintings with their lush painterly surfaces referred to as the «Brushstroke» series.

Concrete works, their surfaces hacked and molded into the impression of a thick impasto, are emblazoned with a range of emotive colors, forcing an oscillation between the heft of the material and the pure ecstatic painterly surface.

Painterly surfaces keep appearing in different ways.

Paul Pagk's Minuit Fugue, a pink abstract painting is pretty much the definition of painterly surface effect; I really love the contrast between the large areas of thick glossy paint, and the crustiness that occurred as the paint approached the whiteish lines.

His show at Carl Freedman Gallery, just off Old Street which opened last night brings together new small domestic - scale works in which painterly surfaces and textures accumulate into abstract forms — some like unmanageable and off - kilter floral arrangements, others like large pieces of coral or lichen - covered rocks, which sit on plinths or in stage - like spaces, lit obliquely against pink, mustard, deep blue and olive green backgrounds.

Most of his works look as if he has zoomed into the granular detail of a much larger painterly surface, whereas others feel like they have been made by layering abstract surfaces and textures in Photoshop.

His distinctive, monumental pieces are renowned for their adoption of popular iconography such as flags, numbers and maps and their textural painterly surfaces.

The pointed triangular end of «Follow» forces us aside and signals the risks involved in being unaware; at the height of cool, its casual painterly surfaces reveal the pleasure in doing so, yet the painting it points to is the weakest in the show.

It is this dual opportunity, to blend authentic social activism with decadent, luscious painterly surfaces that can be loved on their own terms, and to consider both practices as equally important, that makes Bradford a compelling and appropriate choice for both Venice and, later, for Baltimore.

This sense of «humanity» is clearly present in the horizontal bands of both Untitled # 20 and Untitled # 7 whose human scale and meticulously executed painterly surface exude a warmth and calmness that is contained only within the very best examples of the artist's work.

The result is a photographic image with an unmistakably painterly surface.

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Installations like these shun the painterly surfaces and pop - culture allusions of James Rosenquist or Robert Rauschenberg in his combine paintings.

These works, in monumental size and scale, engulf viewers with their expansive, painterly surfaces that depict moments of intense observation in the landscape — what Katz describes as «flashes» of perception or «quick things passing.»

Although his reductive, monochromatic grey and grey - green field paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s linked him with Minimalism, their painterly surfaces lent them a sensuosity not usually associated with that style.

Although his reductive, monochromatic grey and grey - green field paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s linked him with Minimalism, their painterly surfaces lent them a sensuosity not...

Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Kunath's works jump between daydreams and «reality,» painterly surface and psychological interior.

His paintings draw in viewers with their visual vocabulary and rich, painterly surfaces.

Rosen's work explores the fundamental properties of ceramics by directly confronting the aesthetic and chemical relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface.

Still, her painterly surfaces and firm gestures refuse to go away, and so do the questions.

Throughout the series, Kippenberger uses two opposing approaches to the painterly surface.

The continuous interest in intense relations between pictorial elements, the very perception of a painterly surface, color and forms, suggest the artist's desire to explore different layers of meanings and emotions.

Rivers employed both painterly surfaces as well as an explosion of quotidian references to convey the experience of The Accident.

Through the study of light and atmosphere, his personal space is explored by the manipulation of the painterly surface.

Rothenberg's visceral canvases have continued to evolve, as she explores the boundary between figural representation and abstraction; her work also examines the role of color and light, and the translation of her personal experience to a painterly surface.

In the 1980s he was known for pieces that included a distinctive oblong shape amidst a thick, painterly surface.

The tension between the material and the painterly surface of each work is key.