Sentences with phrase «pictorial composition»

Taking an interest in elementary geometry, he turned to the rectangle and its potential measurements as the basis of pictorial composition.

His drawings also take up themes of traditional painting and break them down with humour; they are collages, fragments of a vision, and preparations for large pictorial compositions.

When I was doing those paintings, especially at first, I was trying to avoid pictorial composition.

These observations became translated through the construction of three - dimensional spatial paintings as pictorial compositions that reconfigure the space and its architecture, using specific physical things.

Noting her «complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected by the New York museum establishment.»

While the exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery is hardy the Dodd retrospective we needed, it does have the great virtue of giving us a concentrated account of one of the artist's most inspired inventions: the complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light to be seen in and around the windows and doorways of old Maine houses.

October — December: Calder begins classes at the Art Students League of New York, studying life and pictorial composition with John Sloan and portrait painting with George Luks.

Unlike Siena's algorithmic abstractions, in these figurative (and often erotic) drawings pictorial composition is no longer determined by the will of the pre-established rule; rather, the artist defines the forms at the outset, asserting his own boundaries for the repeating elements and meticulous cross-hatching.

He was a collagist of life, using found objects and images in densely packed pictorial compositions and sculptural aggregations to evoke the subjective nature of experience.

It was here that Frankenthaler learned everything about pictorial composition and started to demonstrate a cubist - derived style which marked her early career.

Ludwig Sander was an American artist whose creative expertise were based on authoring minimalistic pictorial compositions.

But if this initial impulse in pictorial composition seems cerebral, his sensuous enjoyment of pigment, colour, and the exploration of the absolute extremities of an abstractly pictorial situation tend toward a pictorial grandeur and excitement which approximate to the more directly sensuous examples of abstract expressionism.

Though many artists work hard to master pictorial composition and even harder to learn to represent the world's outward appearances, this effort is for naught, Friedrich believes, unless it is guided by one's «spiritual eye.»

He shows pictorial compositions ignite explosive pretend his photographs of abandoned places it first prints on canvas.

Picasso's aggressive deformations, which culminated in the reproachful anti-war painting Guernica, have led to a spectacular series of political pictorial compositions stretching from the second half of the 20th century to today.

While at Bennington College, Frankenthaler studied under the direction of Paul Feeley, who is credited with helping her understand pictorial composition, as well as influencing her early cubist - derived style.

Matisse's pervasive postwar impact is represented by the work of Milton Avery, known as «the American Matisse,» and Hans Hofmann, a pioneering teacher of modernist pictorial composition who was instrumental in disseminating the French master's influence to his numerous students, including Lee Krasner.

Discover the secret geometry that underlies pictorial composition as artist and teacher Maggie Siner guides us on an amazing journey through the shapes of a Rembrandt self - portrait, revealing its beautiful and sophisticated hidden meaning.

Describing abstraction as a «revolution of twentieth century art», Hoyland began making early enquiries into how rational thought and visual perception could be used as the sole basis for pictorial composition.

Furthermore, errors are integrated in his predomintant white, minimalist canvases during the process of pictorial composition.

Alexander Calder revolutionized art in the early 1930s by introducing actual movement into his sculptural and pictorial compositions.

Following his visit of Mondrian's studio, Calder created his first abstract paintings during a two - week period, reducing his pictorial compositions to a few basic components through which he examined elementary spatial relations between form, color, lines, and planes.

«Using unprimed canvases stretched over wooden frames, Wyatt Kahn assembles complex wall - mounted works in which the gaps between the individual canvases give rise to abstract or pictorial compositions.

Heavily influenced by Arshile Gorky and Pablo Picasso, de Kooning was often thought to have blended Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism within his pictorial compositions, ultimately paving the way for generations of gestural figurative painters.

Color now carried independent content, along with basic geometric forms, which became free from all iconographic reference and are meaningfully valid as elements of the pictorial composition.

Comprised of unprimed layers of linen stretched across wooden frames, Kahn assembles complex wall - mounted works in which the gaps between the individual panels form abstract or pictorial compositions.

Using unprimed canvases stretched over wooden frames, Kahn assembles complex wall - mounted works in which the gaps between the individual canvases give rise to abstract or pictorial compositions.

Primarily interested in storytelling and drawing on personal introspection, Fox juggles narrative and pictorial composition to produce a wide array of vivid mindscapes, character designs and scenes full of wild energy and intricate detail.

-- now played out in strange fusions of pictorial composition and large - scale, often computer - generated structures.