Sentences with phrase «pictorial invention»

It also showcases the work of a younger generation to examine how these modes of pictorial invention remain of fundamental significance today.

In 1958 a group of artists came together under the name ZERO with the purpose of heralding in a new beginning in art after the horrors of the Second World War and explicitly opposing the psychologically charged pictorial inventions of Abstract Expressionism.

Pictorial invention consists of replicating snapshot likenesses.

The inherent theatricality of this formal conceit encourages the viewer to attribute a broad range of meaning and possibility to the depicted figure, while allowing the artist free play with pictorial invention.

Tatah's own pictorial invention is grounded in an ongoing exploration of culture and art from all epochs as varied as Byzantine mosaics and Piero della Francesca to Henri Matisse, Barnett Newman and Francis Bacon.

Yet even in this regard, it has never been an AAA priority to impose a ban on illusion or resemblance so severe that the evocation of volume or of corporeally coherent spaces was enforced at the cost of dynamic pictorial invention.

Taken from illustrations in a department store catalogue, the motif of the tent offered Lüpertz a way to further develop his ideas of abstraction and pictorial invention through theme and variation.

Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.

The Phillips presents a survey of drawings and paintings by George Condo (b. 1957, Concord, New Hampshire), a prolific painter whose career spans three decades and is best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor, and imaginative portraits that incorporate a hybridization of art - historical influences, such as Goya, Velázquez, Manet, Picasso, and Guston.

The earliest «dithyrambic» pictures were pictorial inventions of sculptural forms in planar space that lie somewhere between abstract and representational imagery: forms evocative of architecture or figuration, though not always overtly so.

They exude an enthusiasm for historical precedents and their pictorial inventions.»

My favorite lines are: Every painting is a tour - de-force of pictorial invention.

[9] By pouring colour substances on a laid out canvass and directing the process only to a restricted degree through swaying the picture's surface, Polke surrenders the task of pictorial invention to the colours themselves.

Mercier's pictorial invention and playfulness make reference to the contested space at the intersection of modernity and post-modernity where popular culture and high culture converge in his arrangement of ordinary objects presented in a museum or gallery context.

Throughout his career, Howard Hodgkin has filled his small paintings with a tremendous depth of expression and pictorial invention — and these seven pictures confirm his continuing mastery of the intimate.

The main interest of the collectors Peter Schaufler and Christiane Schaufler - Münch is not directed toward the medium and its history per se, but leans more toward the fascination that arises from certain motifs, pictorial inventions, and their formal transformations.

Peter Schjeldahl on «Matisse: The Cut - Outs» at MoMA, in this week's New Yorker: «When Matisse is at his best, the exquisite frictions of his color, his line, and his pictorial invention — licks of a cat's tongue — overwhelm perception, at which point enjoyment sputters into awe.»

Sanya Kantarovsky's works across media explore an off - modern matrix of painterly citation and pictorial invention.

Markus Lüpertz's earliest «dithyrambic» pictures were pictorial inventions of sculptural forms in planar space that lie somewhere between abstract and representational imagery: forms evocative of architecture or figuration, though not always overtly so.

Stepping past the titanic presences of Matisse and Picasso without entirely avoiding their long cast shadows, Hyman positions Henri Rousseau as a key catalyst, pointing the way to a childlike wonder evident in the pictorial inventions of artists like Marc Chagall, Carlo Carrà, Max Beckmann, early Balthus, Philip Guston, and Bhupen Khakhar.

To these pictorial inventions, Ms. Dodd brings a commanding mix of realism and abstraction.

A survey of drawings and paintings by George Condo, the prolific painter best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor, and imaginative portraits that incorporate a hybridization of art - historical influences.