Not exact matches
After a
pictorial timeline of brain exploration and a quick journey
through the brain itself, chapters cover brain anatomy, the senses, movement, emotions,
language, memory, thinking, consciousness, development, disorders and more.
Showing work made over this expansive time period will offer an insight into Hodgkin's relationship to India while also revealing the evolution of his
pictorial language — from the figurative work of the 1960s
through to the dynamic, gestural style of recent years.
Aquavella's knock - out exhibition of judiciously selected works from the 1940s
through the early 1960s illuminates the philosophical roots of his
pictorial language.
There, he learned the
language of portraiture, a
pictorial tradition that White believed could uplift race
through aspirational images.
Drawing on Aztec mythology and
pictorial codices — as well as colonial histories — his works reframe
language through the physical activation of these symbols.
These large sections of asymmetrical photo paper evolve into a
pictorial language of impressions of bodies, and objects
through color, light and shadows.
This is an exit out of the picture, but the
language of the painting forms a ligament to the edifice, connecting the
pictorial, conceptual, and physical spaces
through the established
language of color and form in the painting.
In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a
pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility
through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism
through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.
According to the gallery - «For this curated exhibition, the artists navigate the possibilities of mining the
pictorial language of 1960s Modernism,
through personal and contemporary lenses.
The artworks are intriguing because the
pictorial language is so familiar but it is presented
through the lens of a new spatial and temporal context.
Narrative unfolds
through a
language of
pictorial construction where objects within each painted or drawn interior are chosen for their potential for symbolic form — simultaneously loaded and banal.
Taking his cues from artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Henri Michaux, and Christopher Wool, Feaster seeks to advance the
language of abstract painting
through the use of an ever - expanding lexicon of material effects, marks, and erasures, entreating the viewer to participate in a disjointed narrative that warps the experience of
pictorial space, light and action.
The painting by David Schutter, fluid expression of a philology of
pictorial language — perception, gesture, memory of the image and its translation
through layering — converse with the sculptures by Nicola Martini, animated by a inner and perpetual tension between rigidly opposed elements (horizontal / vertical, centrifugal / centripetal, solid / liquid) and which draw, challenging the limits of their own materials, a distant, atemporal and almost metaphysical landscape.
A mise - en - scène of images takes place
through a new
language whose structure is made up of cultural and emotional stratifications in a succession of linguistic and
pictorial images, where the latter lose their original / residual formal specificity.
Meticulously executed, Smith's works pick up the
pictorial language of the classics but breathe fresh life into the minimalist art form
through innovative color combinations and clever new spacial relationships.
Rather than articulate universal visual codes for collective mobilization, these works reduce the specific lives and experiences of those represented in the images to a
pictorial field for the artist to play upon; the fetishized beauty of documented protest rendered even more beautiful, and even less capable of stimulating social change, by its sublimation
through the commercially - viable
language of abstract painting.