Sentences with phrase «paintings oscillate»

These paintings oscillate between celebration and desolation.»

Most of the paintings oscillate between a maudlin naiveté and a serious, desperate search for something in painting that is worth renewing.

With the recognizable emblem set against carefully painted patterned or color field backgrounds, Bengston's Chevron paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, refusing to settle exclusively as either.

Intuitively developed, Rohlf's paintings oscillate between traditions of geometry against intuition in an asymmetric composition.

Henrietta Dubrey's paintings oscillate between figurative elements and abstraction.

His paintings oscillate between an apparent desire for visual realism and a contemplative ideal resulting in a complex and imaginary temporality where the past reinvents the present of painting.

Farah Atassi's colorful paintings oscillate between abstraction and figuration.

Banisadr's exuberant paintings oscillate between the abstract and the figurative.

Not exact matches

In the painting shown below, titled Guitar, the artist creates an oscillating mathematical rhythm, creating the illusion of movement as the patterns collide in the center of the work.

These new paintings are based on the artist's series of hundreds of computer - generated drawings created in homage to the exchange between artist and poet Brion Gysin (1916 — 1986) and writer William S. Burroughs (1914 — 1997) surrounding Gysin's «dream machine,» a device built by Ian Somerville in the late 1950s that uses oscillating light frequencies to stimulate the optical nerves while the viewer's eyes are closed.

Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from performative collage collaborations, has a malleable quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending on the density of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs of Stoner Spots underscore the politics of leisure through the exploration of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «abstract» paintings replicate multiple generations of photocopying through the prism of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.

Merging a wide array of different materials, such as oil, enamel, and spray paint, his color sensibility is resolutely experimental and oscillates between close - value, nearly monochromatic works to luminous, retinally - charged paintings that appear to vibrate off their surfaces.

That exhibition thematized the relationship between Liu's paintings and his three - dimensional sculptural forms via explicit formal echoes: Black - and - white geometric paintings were adroitly paired with rectilinear pseudotopiary sculptures in which bands of foliage were interspersed with horizontal neon lights, while the oscillating static playing on stacked TV sets chimed with the abstract canvases as well.

His pictures oscillate between «wounds» made on the original painting and the loss of the image.

Revisiting an idea he first employed in his late - seventies project «128 Photographs of a Painting», he divided the work's surface into two vertical sections, then halved those halves, and so on, he had each work printed to his desired scale, so that we might contemplate what have become remarkable horizontal, rhythmic fields of fine lines, oscillating with vibrations of color, the largest of which stretches over ten meters, as seen on the gallery's first floor.

His painterly practice has always oscillated freely between figuration and abstraction, but in the past few years gained a specific focus on the relationship and dichotomies between Western and Asian approaches to landscape painting and nature.

Paul Beumer's painting practice oscillates freely between figuration and abstraction.

His artistic attitude is embodied in audaciously scaled and shaped paintings, incorporating classical pictorial elements, oscillating between figuration and abstraction.

Five large paintings, a hundred foot wall drawing and a floor work describe a strange, transformative cycle as a large drowning figure oscillates through phases of birth and death, shifting between the confining solidity of the shore and the murderously infinite possibilities of the sea.

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

The resulting images oscillate between representation and abstraction and blur the boundary between photography and painting.

Physically moving around a black - on - black painting of a cubic grid will reveal layers of optical illusions, while simply blinking when standing in front of a canvas covered in a complex navy - and - white pattern tricks the eye into seeing an oscillating, three - dimensional piece of art.

Like many works by these practitioners, Mallary's reliefs, paintings and assemblages oscillate between visions of destruction and recuperation, registering the impact of World War II and the threat of the Cold War, but also expressing a desire for reparation.

«Dimensions Variable» also features the artist's hand - constructed frames, suggesting a threshold for the subjects of the paintings to come forward, into «real life», as they visually oscillate between the foreground and background of the illusionistic painting.

To keep the viewer engaged, some manipulations were employed: e.g., the painted spaces corresponded with the object's actual frames, oscillating the viewer's attention between the painting's inner reality and the one outside.

Los Angeles based artist Jennifer Boysen, oscillates between painting and sculpture, defying the boundaries between these artistic categories and evading immediate understanding in favour of a lasting sensory, meditative experience.

Comprising thirty - six works, it spanned more than three decades and focused on the artist's long - standing interrogation of painting via a practice that oscillates between representation and abstraction and locates the medium within an expanded field.

Eliav's unique ensemble in Art Brussels will comprise three illusionistically rendered works oscillating between painting and tapestry, adding a further dimension to the already perplexing work by the Spanish master.

Reinterpreting Malevič, Tatlin, El Lisitzky and other key exponents of these movements allowed Pardi to take the still vital elements of these artistic directions and become one of the most active and qualified representatives of the history of contemporary painting and sculpture.This extensive retrospective illustrates the development of Pardi's explorations at every phase, from the first depictions of architectural interiors and exteriors of the 1960s, such as the Environments and Hanging Gardens, to subsequent works from the 1970s, which he named Architectures.The series Diagonals are from the early 1980s and consist of straight lines whose tight rhythm oscillates between black and white to a search for new montages and movements.

One example is his Meereslandschaften (Seascapes), for which Kasseböhmer used oil paint that was so diluted that it took on a water - like transparency, allowing the paintings to oscillate between naturalism and abstraction.

Thirty - eight of Adnan's delicate, diminutive, untitled paintings from 1959 — 2010, oscillating as you approach them between landscapes and abstractions, line the walls of another gallery on the ground floor of the documenta - Halle, the glass - fronted exhibition venue down the street.

Spanning the 1940s and 1950s, Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings means to investigate Motherwell's «ever - oscillating positions between representation and abstraction; automatism and predetermination; and object versus image.»

She oscillates between painting on steel plates and canvas, occasionally combining the two as she did for the monumental commission Swimmers Atlanta (Atlanta Courthouse, 1979).

Abts is an abstract painter who paints elegant (yes, that slightly damning word) ribbons and zigg - zagging lines and intersecting and oscillating planes in gradated shades of bright colours.

HH: I want to address the unique oscillating spaces that painting can inhabit and how that interacts with our subconscious.

Fade Away explores «paintings that oscillate between representation and abstraction.»

American painter Courtney Johnson paints in a variety of styles, often oscillating between portraiture and geometric abstraction.

Laurel Shear makes lush oil paintings that oscillate between abstraction and representation, allowing and encouraging the paint to become a part of the narrative.

A video projection, a small painting and two synchronized slide projectors oscillate between fiction and the reality of Egypt's new building developments and transformations.

Across it he explores the life of sculpture in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s - the period of the display in our main galleries - as it oscillates between figuration and abstraction, between painting and sculpture and between black and white and colour.

The paintings themselves are made through a multiple processes and playing with the relationships of negative space, depth and the picture plane to create art that play with balance and perception and oscillates between sensations of chaos, tranquility and curiosity of what lies just beyond view.

Versteeg's signature abstract paintings, ones that are formulated directly via computer algorithms, hang in various configurations, including one in a perpetual tango with an oscillating fan.

The effects range from oscillating dynamism to monolithic stillness - every one of Gleason's paintings is in a state of constant flux, inspiring a unique experience for each individual who beholds it.

The paintings in this exhibition situate viewers within a realm of uncertainty, oscillating in a single painting between light and darkness, color and colorlessness, form and formlessness.

The paintings on the other hand have a different feel to it: Almost uniform in color they oscillate between backdrop and fully articulated piece.

After a number of successful shows, including his sell - out solo exhibition at Madder139 in London, he now lives and works in Glasgow where his painting practice oscillates between sculptural form / object / image and performance.

Painted rapidly and assuredly, wet into wet, the flowers oscillate between states of awkwardness and grace typically associated with the human body.

Taking as starting points two groups of works, the «Lacquer Paintings» and the «Hardware Store Collages» (1994 --RRB-, Yang attempts to implant a hybrid or an oscillating view between seemingly different phenomena in «Quasi-ESP».

Their mature post-abstract figurative paintings preserved a sophisticated dialogue between abstraction and representation — the image oscillating between a recognizable subject and a boldly colored, abstract arrangement of thick slabs on paint.»

Oscillating between high formal contrasts — figure and ground, image and object, surface and depth — Vanessa Maltese's practice takes its point of derivation from discussions on painting - as - object or painting - as - architecture.