Sentences with phrase «painting central elements»

Fitzpatrick begins each collage by drawing or painting central elements and then incorporating various found materials.

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The Park Hotels» strong focus on design and art means that locally crafted artifacts, contemporary paintings, sculptures, and other design elements are central to the hotels» identities.

Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses of a fan shape: in early works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive of deeper spiritual meaning; in Taxes (1993), one of her later black and white paintings, the fan shape becomes a central formal element that unifies the composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan shapes create a complex formal variation which co-exists with other images.

MA: With the painting Conjestina Achieng, I wanted to have elements of the painting that suggested that Conjestina, the central figure of the painting, had been given the role of village idiot by the local media (under the guise of public interest, she was repeatedly filmed and interviewed in an institution and at home while going through episodes of paranoid schizophrenia).

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor of the building's entrance to capture the footprints of those entering and exiting.10 The creation of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution of Rauschenberg's works of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes.»

The collection also includes central works from her photographic series of urban spaces, her poster paintings and rubbish bins, as well as elements from larger installations, which shows how Kagge concentrates on collecting across time, formats, media and thematic structures.

These elements that interrupt the fluid qualities of the paintings are central to the excess at work here.

Ligare reaches a poetic level of perfection in his paintings, which take inspiration from the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and artists and often feature elements of Central California's coastal landscape.

Her paintings regularly use the circle as a central structural element, repeated successively to create a sort of vortex of energy and color.

Commanding the studio is a painting with a brilliant red central element that seems to be pushing out of the picture, or receding into it.

In the resulting painting, Yet Another Fight for Remembrance, Kaphar repeats the central compositional element of Voiceless, painting over the mouths of three protestors who stand with their hands raised.

Mike Solomon became fascinated with the grid early in his career and it continues to be a central structural element in his paintings and sculpture.

Some of my paintings, even if they carry figurative elements, can sometimes be seen as abstract, because I try to dissolve the idea of a central subject.

The choice of works is very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty, Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, where the theme of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or erotic nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.

Central to the exhibition is a group of gradient paintings made exclusively with black and white acrylic exterior house paint that has been blended and forced through sheets of burlap laid face - down on a variety of objects and surfaces (from plastic tiles and garbage bags to silkscreened enlargements of Hagen's own high school drawings) that act as molds, effectively casting the paint, or becoming embedded elements in the surface of the works themselves.

Marcus integrated a large number of the central developments of abstract painting into his work over the years, including large - scale calligraphic gestures and the employment of chance - elements, particularly drip - motifs.

Against backgrounds painted in broad swaths of acrylic interspersed with highly - ornamented elements and outlined in charcoal, the detailed worlds of these smaller, printed panes create a heavily - designed pattern on the skin and floor of the central scene depicted.

While studying painting at Central Saint Martins and at the Chelsea School of Art in London, he developed his unique approach; in works evoking the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Doig drew attention to the act of applying paint to the canvas by combining abstracted elements with ordinary subject matter.

As a central figure in the 1970s punk rock and hallucinogenic counter culture, Tomaselli began making visually dynamic and conceptually loaded collages, photomontages, and paintings, eventually developing a reputation for his inclusion of pharmaceuticals, cannabis leaves, and other mind - altering substances suspended in resin as elements within collaged and painted images.

While Bischoff is perhaps best known for his figurative painting of the 1950s and 1960s, the paintings in this exhibition show a commitment to gesture, color and form that are not only central elements of his figurative works, but also in his later abstractions of the 1970s and 1980s.

The monochromatic bands of muted color that bound the central field of calligraphic imagery in Marden's latest paintings and drawings are a distinctly new element in his work.