Sentences with phrase «paintings simple compositions»

They focused on paintings simple compositions that utilized a limited range of colors in order to present the most direct emotional statement possible.

Not exact matches

Bem's psi research reminds me of the geometric paintings of Piet Mondrian — simple - looking canvases whose elegantly balanced compositions actually reflect decades of investigation into color and form.

Insight into an artist's process — the way he or she conceived the composition and applied paint to the canvas — can be gained by looking closely at the work and using relatively simple imaging techniques such as X-radiography and infrared reflectography.

The floral subject matter of this painting couldn't be simpler, and the color scheme is likewise straightforward, but there's something about the work's composition and the haphazard white lines that throws you off - kilter.

Blackham paints simple still life compositions of solitary subjects, such as a blue marble or a glass of water.

Colors, in their variety, combinations and sequences, reference lived experiences from garishness to mysticism, and it is this range that is key to their depth of feeling... Compositions are built on simple layouts — diamonds intersecting cruciform shapes — but it is the complicating of these geometries through color that make the paintings happen.

The simpler shapes in my previous paintings have become more complex over time and my compositions have become more dynamic with the use of tessellations and vanishing points.

Now, by contrast, your paintings are made using a clear, simple, bold, frontal composition, almost a non-composition.

He builds compositions that are both simple and involved, paying close attention to all aspects of a painting's construction, including the differences between cotton and linen surfaces, the weave of each canvas, and the individual properties of tempera versus oil paint.

The heart shape provides a simple structure that defines the composition while allowing the freedom to fill the painting surface in a multitude of different ways and to try new creative approaches, just as Jim Dine has done.

Again this encourages fresh interpretation of Burri's deconstruction of painting, juxtaposing the simple geometry of a celotex to Signorelli's compositions and the intricate cracks of a cretto to the aged surfaces of fresco.

His paintings take their starting point from simple underlying structural compositions, which divide the canvas into linear pathways and segments, such as crossed bars or architectural elevations.

The range of perspectives presented to the viewer is also broad: One has both feet firmly planted on the ground in Catherine Murphy's severely cropped and concentrated depictions of nonspectacular scenes, has bird - like flight in the softly glowing paintings of David Bierk, and is engulfed in Rick Shaefer's surreal magnifications of overgrown foliage and insect dynamics whereas the simple compositions of Brenda Zlamany's free - floating creatures make for visual disorientation.

With their areas of flat, unmodulated colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R's paintings have long questioned our conception of and presumptions about our surrounding reality — what we see and where its meaning and beauty lies.

Sol LeWitt cleanly tears a piece of white paper into stark geometric sections in R115, 1973, generating an elegant composition with a simple gesture, while Robert Ryman defamiliarizes the monochrome in Untitled, 1967, a white - painted canvas square affixed directly to the white wall with masking tape.

The leaning works are simpler, as well, many just one shape and one mark, and when there is a material shift in the work — for example, in the move from painted wood structure to steel base in «Deft Composition (Deft Composition)» — the move is hardly as disjunctive as painted wood structure to movie poster base.

Effulgent in their gorgeous, low - toned palette of greys, mauves, greens and a whole range of pinks that are Avery's trademark, these late paintings appear modest and even simple — the shapes flattened and nearly blunt, but balanced in the most elegant compositions.

March 12 — June 12, 2016 Building F, SAF Art Spaces A significant solo presentation of Simone Fattal's work, this exhibition features sculpture, simple non-figurative ceramic forms and works based in textual compositions, collage as well as paintings.

His paintings move between abstraction and representation, presenting simple organic shapes in graphic and often chromatically vivid compositions.

The simple compositions enact a dialogue between the paint and the unmarked space of the ground layer.

Long dismissed as childish, her outwardly simple compositions have recently won a string of high - profile accolades (the Wollaston Award, the John Moores Painting Prize, and entry into the ranks of the Royal Academy's senior royal academicians), and the British press can't get enough of her.

As he sees his work as part painting, part sculpture, Sinsel brings these different kinds of found objects together in tight, simple, yet detailed compositions by means of craft - based practices such as metalworking, ceramics, weaving and sewing.

While her compositions are seemingly simple, there is a well - thought - out process for each painting, including preparatory charcoal drawings with calculated geometries and numerous color studies in search of precise color combinations.

The other paintings in this series play with maze - like patterns or simple diagonals; Palmito Ranch is unique in its understated, stacked composition, where painted line and raw canvas create an even, horizontal rhythm.

The paintings themselves make use of simple forms and repetition to create compositions that inspired peace and quiet moments.

While his vehicles have been popular subjects, the series actually originated with simpler sculptures of streets — asphalt spheres (a form with no beginning or end and the three dimensional equivalent of an allover composition) painted with yellow and white lines: an embodiment of movement and the continuous fluid interconnection of paved roads.

Still lifes In their entirety, the paintings render frontal compositions of simple volumes, cones, cone trunks, cylinders, with organic outlines, folds and curves.

Working in acrylic on wood panel or linen, Takenaga arranges the simple components of her paintings, predominantly thin lines and small dots, into stunningly complex compositions that undulate, radiate, and recede in seemingly infinite space.

His paintings are characterized by bright colors; simple, abstract forms; and symmetrically arranged, but serene, compositions.

Color field painting is defined by expanses of color close in tonal value and intensity, large presentations and simple compositions.

During the 1970s, Parker introduced lines into his canvases, intermixing linear elements with irregular shapes to create simple, dramatic, highly colored compositions, such as his large painting, Untitled (1979) in The Phillips Collection.

Barbara Takenaga arranges the simple components of her dense, abstract paintings into stunningly detailed compositions that undulate, radiate, and recede in seemingly infinite space.

Unapologetically beautiful and deceptively simple, the nine mural - size compositions here (averaging 8 1/2 by 14 feet), painted between 1958 and 1960, immerse the viewer in a luminous, ethereal space like no other.

With their areas of flat, unmodulated colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R's paintings have long questioned our conception of and presumptions about our surrounding reality — what we...