Sentences with phrase «paintings suggested narrative»

With elements fragmented and scales distorted, many of the paintings suggested narrative readings.

Rauch's paintings suggest a narrative intent but, as art historian Charlotte Mullins explains, closer scrutiny immediately presents the viewer with enigmas: «Architectural elements peter out; men in uniform from throughout history intimidate men and women from other centuries; great struggles occur but their reason is never apparent; styles change at a whim.»

Not exact matches

Fukui's work reads as non-objective painting at a distance, yet on closer observation intrigues with surprising imagery that suggests narrative.

Much of the meaning of Liu's painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary images, suggesting the passage of memory into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed — but often concealed — in the photographic instant.

While their blue palette suggests photographic cyanotypes, these paintings effectively veer into narrative and metaphoric territory.

Still, the rich, drip - streaked marks of Guirguis» paintings, and the soft glow of vermilion that emanates from behind their intricately cut surfaces, suggest an alternate understanding that prioritizes intuition, embodiment, and affect over official narratives.

Desolate landscapes, decrepit houses, and incongruous moments of glory come together to suggest the presence of a narrative that exists as much in the viewer's mind as in the painting.

In Svobodová's paintings, folds made during a concentrated period of time build the infrastructure of the final image and create a narrative of space that never stops suggesting something intrinsic about flatness.

Her paintings and drawings seduce and beguile with suggested narratives.

He called this work The Drain, and it is a piece emblematic of a «cinematographic» style that he developed across many series, which are overly allegorical, full of suggested narrative and allusions to both history painting and scenes from early modern painting.

Nothing is fixed, and there is liberation, mystery and glory in this, as Carrington's paintings, at their best, brilliantly attest... With their myriad characters, narratives and settings, her paintings suggest not only that art and the imagination can liberate our thinking, but also, by implication, that we make attempts to close down the imagination at every possible opportunity.

In his 2003 biography of Goya, Robert Hughes characterized the artist's eccentric late paintings as «seem [ing] like freakish, vivid precursors of modernity» because, as Hughes suggests, Goya chose to «bypass explicit symbolism» — in other words, he predicted modernism by choosing to bypass the chief characteristic of academic art: identifiable narrative.

There are several new acquisitions that incorporate light, such as Vernon Fisher's The Coriolis Effect, 1987 for which the green glow of a spiraling florescent tube sitting above the panel surface suggests the painting's title and offers an ominous presence that enhances the narrative text.

The Japanese artist Chinatsu Ban creates imaginative narratives using a recurring cast of figures, primarily little girls and elephants, and objects, such as apples and ice cream, in her drawings and large - scale acrylic paintings, which initially suggest the whimsy of children's book illustrations.

Through a particular focus on painting and sculpture, the work in the exhibition often uses abstraction as a vehicle for narrative, suggesting instability and flux.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana) makes figurative paintings that fit together to form «chapters» in large installations that suggest stories or narratives.

small paintings with almost pictographic symbols suggesting familiar but ultimately mysterious narratives

The absence of a human figure tasks the objects in the paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall are the only evidence of the presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out of sight.

Suggesting an intense personal narrative, his paintings are imbued with an essential human drama that is his signature quality.

Lydia Rubio (b. 1946, Havana) Distinguished by the use of words and images in painted multi-paneled pieces or installations, Lydia Rubio's work suggest narrative puzzles and are often accompanied by books outlining the concepts and derivations of the works.

But instead of painting scenes of all - out warfare, Hancock captures super-charged moments of tense waiting or vivid torture, suggesting that his epic narrative has reached a crossroads.

His interest in creating zones of space within a painting and using this not just to suggest depth and texture, but also to direct the viewer through the picture and any suggested narrative, became more evident.

This overarching story, however, is merely suggested and is not as important as the single moment each painting depicts; indeed every work contains its own discrete world in which character and storyline are distilled down to their most basic narrative and compositional essence.

The artist's atmospheric paintings suggest a dramatic narrative, but remain seductively enigmatic.

Casey demonstrates a similar technique, creating paintings that suggest still lifes but are more like narrative tableaux that play with the distinction between the living and the inanimate.

The image suggests the existence of a voyeuristic third party as an internal part of the narrative of the painting itself, as well as the essential presence of a viewer in the equation of artist, art object, and viewer — this would, if intentional, give the painting a quiet self awareness, and a slight conceptual lean?