Sentences with phrase «pictorial compositions»

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

From the 90s, Raysse's paintings have tended more towards great pictorial compositions.

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

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Yet in the difference in conception, composition, and attitude between Papety's allegory and that of Courbet lies the enormous gap between painting which is advanced in subject but conventional in every other way and that which is truly of its time, or even in advance of it (to use the term «avant - garde» in its most literal sense) and hence, a pictorial paradigm of the most adventurous attitudes of its era.

He moved to New York in 1966 and started to concentrate on purely abstract pictorial issues relating to colour and composition.

In his recent work, González seems to want to test the power of his own reinvention of the pictorial field by veiling starkly divided compositions with the sort of tremulous grid that not even he could duplicate from one painting to the next.

Poons became increasingly pictorial as his color and composition developed along a romantic and decidedly subjective path.

Their seemingly clear and simple compositions belie their pictorial richness.

His kaleidoscopic compositions of overlapping grids and patterns create complex pictorial spaces, and his use of transparent pigments allows the viewer to see, as the artist has said, «all the events that went into the making of the painting.»

Focusing on the dark shape that he previously announced in the Untitled composition from 1954, Kline confirmed his devotion to pictorial forms.

There is a significant tension in Toebbe's work that dreives from the collision of her faux - naive pictorial style and the formal sophistication of her compositions.

Some of the qualities explored were a conscious shift to complexity, content, mystical, psychological and pictorial relationships, asymmetrical composition, expressive color, feeling and a depiction of the landscape of the mind.

Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston — often referred to as the «father of color photography» — has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition.

At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

Without recourse to the traditional means of brush, canvas and illusion, he has «painted» with fire and iron, creating a tight, balanced composition with all the compelling pictorial logic of a great abstract painting.

Prioritising the role of the materials that underlie painting also shifts the emphasis from the pictorial to the structural and from composition to chance.

While his unfussy, casual compositions share the pictorial flatness of AbEx, they are resolutely figurative; and while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife, Ada.

She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making into compositions that confound expectations of pictorial space.

One of the namesake founders of the legendary if short - lived BMPT collective — named for its constituent members Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni — Buren has since built his reputation on his instantly recognizable leitmotif that runs through his oeuvre: a set of vertical stripe, which serve to unite pictorial space with the surrounding architectural space, and meld composition with construction.

Easel painting was intimate and required the viewer to slowly lean into the pictorial space; large compositions immediately confronted the onlooker from afar.

Since the late 1970s, however, a number of photographers have been engaged with a renewed investigation of composition and thus, inevitably, with the historically devalued concept of the pictorial.

The first works in the series were debuted in Douglas's 2016 Hasselblad Award solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the compositions that will be on view in this exhibition represent a more expansive and nuanced investigation into pictorial abstraction as well as the complex relationship between technology and image making.

(«Hopper bets everything on composition, which, in his work, is almost as tautly considered as in a Mondrian,» Schjeldahl wrote in his 2007 review, in which he also advised viewers to sketch Hopper's paintings in order to better grasp them: «Just get the main shapes, including those of empty space, and how they nest together in the pictorial rectangle.»)

A degree of mannerism is apparent in his later paintings, in which wraithlike figures «float in a watery netherworld» in a deeper pictorial space than that of his compositions of the 1930s.

These changes in venue and topography prompted more energetic brushwork, less contained shapes and a reinvented composition with greater emphasis on the sky to shape the pictorial space.

Since then and throughout all the years of the 1950s, her artworks showed tendencies to be highly focused on the center, meaning that the majority of main pictorial incidents took place in the middle of the canvas, while the edges were of little consequence to the composition as a whole.

Expressive, gestural fields of colors, juxtaposed within the pictorial space are signature Stamos compositions that seem to speak the same language as another famous abstractionist of the time, Clyfford Still, albeit in a calmer tone.

Frank O'Hara, the critic and poet who collaborated with Bluhm, wrote in 1962, «Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom of abstract - expressionism who has a spirit similar to that of Pollock, which is to say that he is out — beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old - fashioned kind of pictorial ambition.»

He takes an image, reduces it to a two - tone bitmap and enlarges it into a grid that structures the overall composition, which he enlivens with various layered pictorial elements.

Another important source of Poliakoff's pictorial language was the sculptor Otto Freundlich, with his curved colour - form compositions.

There is a tightly constructed pictorial logic that gives the limbs of the officer such visual force; the composition of this painting is a primary source of its power.

Seen in this context, the graphic optical effects deployed in these early compositions reveal the genesis of Asawa's interest in repeated forms, motion, and collapsing pictorial space that logically culminate in her wire sculptures.