Sentences with phrase «paintings allude»

Harmony Korine's checker paintings allude to Vasarely's Op Art, but being liberated from perfection, they posses an organic note as well.

Laura Stack's hyper - color ink paintings allude to a bodily, cellular or chemical world with its own rules and physics.

Incorporating the vocabulary of tracking numbers and of various discarded materials, the paintings allude to various techniques of mechanical reproduction to explore traces left of relationships.

The abstract objects in the paintings allude to buildings, perhaps homes.

Maximum impact is achieved through large scale, while the intriguing titles selected for her paintings allude to stories and histories that have become confused, part - forgotten or illegible.

These paintings allude to parts of a whole, focusing on an indiscriminate component of a random structure, whose proportions are amplified by the black lines and enriched by the textured white ground.

Moore's paintings allude to American culture and presciently address ecological concerns and the dangers of genetically modified foods.

Her paintings allude to circumstances in which human activity threatens nature, yet the work is neither sententious nor moralistic.

Other paintings allude to a state of weightlessness: floating, flying, and most particularly, dreaming, free from the constraints of gravity and time.

In the 1960s, however, he produced some paintings alluding to racism in the American South, and they are among the exhibition's most imposing works.

Paintings alluding to race — Is it OK to be Black?

In a series of horizontal paintings alluding to Abstract Expressionists and, particularly, Franz Kline, Shepherd's lines are less referential and instead convey activity and spontaneity.

On exhibition will be a group of oil paintings alluding to the art historical moment during which the old guard of painting was overtaken by the pioneers of modernism.

Tjungurrayi's acrylic on linen painting alludes to Pintupi beliefs and attempts to map cosmic and temporal systems with its geometric motifs.

The clean, white, monumental structure refers to Minimalist forms, while the explosive action and dripping paint allude to Abstract Expressionism.

Each painting alluded to an individual patient from the hospital, the unique pattern and label giving us a sense of their story beyond their illness.

The multiple perspectives and planes in the painting allude to the double meaning of Varzea in Portuguese, both seasonal floodplain forest and tricky situation.

As Weber writes in the catalogue, the painting alludes to Jasper Johns but also, in its abjection, to Mike Kelley's Janitorial Banner (1984); some observers at the time seized on it as a «feminist gesture.»

Not exact matches

Again, in the book, it's Peeta who has drawn Rue (using the same artistic skill that had him so amusingly camouflage himself in the first film), which affects the judges deeply so they mark him high, but none of this is alluded to in the film and so it's really not clear how or why the Rue painting is there and why it's significant.

The new title brings in the swoony blueness of David Hockney's painting and alludes also to the unsubtle male competition at work in these poolside encounters.

Guilt - ridden interviewees paint Foley as saintly, selfless and idealistic, if somewhat naive, alluding to the competitive and reckless aspects of war reporting.

At Jack Shainman, Hayv Kahraman debuted a series of paintings that alluded to the mahaffa, a type of fan made of woven palm fronds, and one of the only objects Kahraman's family brought with them when they left Baghdad in the early 1990s.

Miller's frames - within - the - painting also gently allude to the studio comforts (the familiarity of the floor and the smell of oil paint) and protection — psychological as well as physical — the truck affords him.

Visually, The Garden of Delights alludes to abstraction, and conceptually it engages with the late seventeenth and eighteenth century casta paintings commissioned by Spanish officials in Spain's New World colonies in the Americas that depicted the intermingling of three major races.

Based on a park with native California vegetation and a running track, my McKinley Village project uses color keys from outdoor paintings to create a woven pattern of daily light on a picnic table (which also alludes to repeated laps completed on the running track).

These works, like «Providence Spirits (Gold)» (2017), are the most lovely objects in the show and are meant to stand out as carry horses for the metaphor of wealth and the gap between the lives these heavily aestheticized and finely crafted paintings represent and the lives (alluded to in other rooms) that are deemed worth significantly less.

As a result, the full - flung poetic beauty of these recent paintings shows that the artist is continuing to advance upon her achievements, deftly alluding to both Western and Chinese sources without succumbing to either tradition.

The grandeur may become forced, cryptic, or self - defeating, like a painting that alludes to Ben - Hur.

[6] In 1970 Motherwell said, «Throughout my life, the 20th - century painter whom I've admired the most has been Matisse», [7] alluding to several of his own series of paintings that reflect Matisse's influence, most notably his Open Series that come closest to classic Color Field painting.

The featured works in the exhibition — ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, film and installation — examine the passage of time by alluding to nostalgia or sentiments about aging, often depicting specific places in states of decay; these works can act as documentation, memorial or symbol.

His harmonious paintings combine a heightened color sensibility with calligraphic strokes, and occasionally stenciled letters, alluding to his varied artistic influences.

Mueller's painting Meltami (sic) alludes to the powerful meltemi or etesian winds that tear through the Aegean Sea in summertime.

Casts of assembled, inexpensive materials and painted in excess, his sculptures allude to his connections with the assemblages of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

In previous shows, I was loosely alluding to those things but primarily talking about abstract painting.

Might the title of one of Phoebe Mitchel's paintings, Smoke Screen, even allude to this: the uninterrupted texture of the screen, itself a product of gestural «smoke»?

Evans alludes to Yve - Alain Bois» 1993 book Painting as Model, using parts of Bois» essays on Mattise, Mondrian, and Newman within the context of his current studio investigations.

The narratives in the paintings are stories taking place over a period of geological time, with references both topographic and tectonic, alluding to simultaneous multiple histories.

He created a series of ten paintings titled Composition that allude to the relationship between painting and music.

(Titles are the only domain in which Stella gets expressive: paintings are named after his friends, or allude to authors, or get as obscure as Balinese anthropological jargon.)

The show features works by Moon Wilson that, like Gouverneur's paintings, allude to quantitative precision.

The shocking exposure of the painting's interior subtly alludes to everything that the material is meant to conceal, protect, and contain.

In each of your paintings, you seem to allude to characters you have created who could be part of a larger performance or plotline.

This tapestry alludes to Duccio's Annunciation, in the National Gallery collection, while the series was inspired by A Rake's Progress, Hogarth's series of eight paintings telling the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who inherits a fortune.

In his 2010 painting Not Yet Titled Condo alludes to group portraits by Goya and to Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863), with cavorting nudes and men primly dressed in satin smoking jackets.

Within the paintings simple abstract structures alluding to architecture coexist with simple but vast fields of marks, drips and staining.

Figurative paintings signal the subject on the canvas, while also alluding to larger concepts like identity, history, and colonialism.

However, Isaacs» sculpture exists beyond the mere effect of visual provocation; it subtly refers to Rembrandt and Soutine's paintings of flayed ox carcasses that inspired Bacon and those alike, alluding to the fragility and pain of a being that exists within this body of flesh.

His April - May 2009 exhibition at Postmasters Gallery presented five projects based on the same concept (one of them a video), and made over the last several years, with the selection of sites alluding to Thomas Cole's series of allegorical landscape paintings (at the New - York Historical Society), «The Course of Empire.»

Although she sometimes ventures beyond her circle (her dream subject, she says, would be Joan Didion), the series is in part a valentine to creative souls with whom she has forged an enduring connection, as much as a study in contemporary portrait - making that alludes to historical painting.

Her extraordinary and highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room - size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.