With no training, she developed her unique style, often labeled as «outsider» or «folk» art, of
painting simple figures and covering them with a rhythmic pattern of dripping paint.
Not exact matches
What a twisted convoluted analysis of a
simple figure by an AKB, who desperately trying to
paint a good picture of an ugly face already been so nasty.
Simple figures reveals clear understanding of the subject being
painted.
... From the early colorful efforts to the final... marvelously rough
paintings accompanied by
simple figures, [his works] clearly need to be organized within a revised understanding of the art of his time.»
These recent works with their multiple perspectives and deceptively
simple rendering of landscape and
figure look much connected to the tradition of Korean ink
painting from which they do indeed come.
His
simple, wavy stick
figures painted over metallic backgrounds, or wonky chevron patterns, are a figurative version of his older series of «DUMB AND EASY» text
paintings exhibition at Tomorrow Gallery in 2011.
This is not
simple figure - ground
painting, and the fields in the
paintings are never static.
John has admitted to an obsession with
painting the
figure explaining, «it's such a
simple thing that can have a million permutations, both conceptually and as a form».
Ms. Kogelnik's
paintings feature bright colors,
figures and
simple geometric shapes, under which she compressed enormous emotional and formal complexity.
Incongruous and disparate imagery — a man's tongue probes the mouth of a
figure from a
painting — create scenes that exist between reality and artifice as O'Reilly stages an often jarring and transgressive alternative to known or
simple narratives.
Inspired by #BlackLivesMatter, a
simple hashtag that symbolizes an ongoing movement, Pecou's
painting attempts to reorient the angst and despair experienced by Black Americans by emphasizing beauty, strength, and resilience in this rock - star - like
figure.
A suite of large
paintings, produced in 2014 and 2015, shows women in patterned garments interacting within
simple architectural forms; Arabic script annotates the
figures.
By the end of the decade, the artist's ongoing exploration of
figure - ground tensions is expressed in works such as «Große Flächenteilung / Spiegel» (Large field - division / mirror)(1989) and «Unterbrechung» (Interruption)(1989), in which
simple shapes are
painted over horizontal swaths of intense and even acrid contrasting colour fields.
By the end of the decade, the artist's ongoing exploration of
figure - ground tensions is expressed in such works as «Große Flächenteilung / Spiegel» (Large field - division / mirror)(1989) and «Unterbrechung» (Interruption)(1989), in which
simple shapes are
painted over horizontal swaths of intense and even acrid contrasting color fields.
Although his black silhouette
figures and murky oil
paint abstractions might appear from the hand of two different artists, Bradley has an underlying vision of movement and the
figure that links his deceptively
simple, charming output.
As one of the
simplest geometric
figures, the circle is subject to huge variation, in nature and in art, and this exhibition considers the ways in which artists have gravitated to this universal and recurring form, and to the very idea of «roundness», through a variety of processes and media including
paintings, sculptures, film and photographic, alongside design objects and historical artefacts.
Painting has remained central in his pursuit to construct a deceptively
simple visual world where
figures often seem to elude the passage of time.
The
paintings start with a few elements prepared in advance: a field, a limited number of colors mixed and a
simple structural idea (stuff on shelves, elements on a chart, a sandwich, composite
figures).
I'm trying to
figure out the
simplest, user friendly recipe for chalk
paint.