Sentences with phrase «pictorial layers»

I'm talking about virtual or, as I'd prefer to say, pictorial layers.

To create the foundational axes for his pictorial layering in Old Bottles, he has butted together a diptych of canvases, with two further small passengers inserted containing greyscale silkscreen images of bottles and glasses.

But painting as such has always been about a pictorial layering of the image that is discontinuous with the actual matter of the paint surface.

In Stubbs's current work, I see a consistent attempt to re-think the pictorial layering of the contemporary image.

Epstein uses his signature technique of pictorial layering, and with Rocks and Clouds he further refines his convergence of the conceptual and documentary.

Not exact matches

That's a great idea, and it pays off best in the esoteric typefaces and fleeting images — many treated to multiple layers of digital degradation — that beautifully recall a vanished land of pictorial storytelling.

Sigmar Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany.

Artist Statement Shara Hughes» new paintings present layers of abstracted, actual and pictorial space, all in search of simplicity.

The found imagery taken from the shredded advertisements is then put through a process of layering and compositional reduction, mimicking the accumulation of the source material and creating a pictorial historical document.

Using materials with communal value for the base of the artist's collages, bedsheets and table cloths are transformed from crisp white to a peachy pink as pictorial cuttings as embossed and layers with lipstick, iodine, Pepto Bismol and hair dye.

«By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, the whole animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas as a record of the artist's spontaneous gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself,» wrote Chalif.

Her richly layered pictorial works often evoke the forms and imagery of Russian Constructivism but also draw on her own contemporary lexicon of mass - culture motifs and abstraction to reflect on changes in the artist's home city of Moscow since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Here, Braque lightens his ground layers, brightens his palette with washes of pure color, increases the size of his canvas, and creates a complex pictorial space that shows multiple, simultaneous viewpoints.

Alongside the recent developments in the artist's material choices, Ofili has remained faithful to a pictorial style that relies on a conscious flattening of the picture plane, carefully layered surfaces, and diverse, history - spanning sources of inspiration.

This series of 15 prints features Walker's signature black silhouettes layered over illustrations first published in Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Beatriz Milhazes's works are layered with elements of both local Brazilian popular culture and modernist pictorial language.

Her paintings and drawings are complex meditations on pictorial surfaces, the multivalent layering of images, and societal constructions of gender.

Previously, Parrott played with pictorial depth by building up veil - like layers of pigmentation through a complex process of dying and screen - printing.

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.

Once printed, the photograph reveals an image layered with deeply sensuous tonalities that harkens to the pictorial effects achieved by some turn - of - the - century photographers.

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The continuous interest in intense relations between pictorial elements, the very perception of a painterly surface, color and forms, suggest the artist's desire to explore different layers of meanings and emotions.

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«Mr. Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany, at 69,» writes Roberta Smith.

What can be considered common here is the sense of layering pictorial strata «on top of» the monochrome that was inherited from minimalism.

By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures as Composición IV (Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old Master canvases.

Because of these details, the models have a strong pictorial quality, while at the same time their spatial dimension is underlined by thick layers of paint.

Writing about Matisse's Snow Flowers (1951), Morris notes: «This chromatic orchestration in and out of pictorial space is inseparable from a literal, collaged layering, as fronds overlap or touch edges, some crisp, some soft.

Letven intricately layers sharply detailed vibrant geometric cut outs, flat yet tactilely hard - edged, and composes them to produce pictorial depth.

Working from anecdotal photographs, each painting is deliberately built up through multiple layers of translucent pigment, a crucial aspect to the recontextualization of these images, a process which effectively dissolves the spatial / temporal specificity of the photographic source, while retaining its pictorial trace.

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.

Thus, just like in the montage of attractions, André Hemer's aesthetically charged and layered visions — on both a physical and visual level — are made out of complex digital images transposed onto canvas and punctuated via a manual and pictorial action, that defy while at the same time exert a compelling pull towards the viewer's perception.

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.

If on some paintings the layer of solidified lead lets parts of the original landscape visible, on others it imprisons the pictorial elements rejected by the carbonized surface.

Again, the pictorial space is layered with reddish paint underneath and circular moons rising up through the expressionist whiteness.

The paintings in this series are produced using the classical oil painting methods and materials of the Old Masters — successive layers of warm and cool black pigment glazes varnished to a highly reflective surface resulting in a profoundly deep pictorial space.

This novel perspective — when layered upon her existing awareness of the arts and crafts of her native Iran and the refined historical decoration of its ancient cities — produces a singular aesthetic fusion of Persian pictorial language and pristine geometry.

He develops his pictorial language by assembling and layering found images from diverse sources such as magazines, monster fanzines, art books, and film publicity, and equally from a fund of forms whose origins, even if not directly referential, derive from American Surrealism.

The result is an intensely layered pictorial surface reminiscent of a palimpsest, revealing traces of history and culture through the collaged fragments.

Found objects and images, flyers, posters, brochures, provide a ground for drawing, a pictorial space that the subsequent layers and actions contend with.

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

I paint the layers, guided by the study, and then play the opaque elements against the color «field» and pictorial space as it has developed.

How do you keep the painted relationships in an abstract painting JUST spatial / pictorial — neither depictive, descriptive, suggestive of illusionistic, figurative, atmospheric space; nor literal, one layer on top of another (even though they are), or flatly adjacent?

Keltie Ferris is known for large paintings that lap, layer upon layer, into glimmering pictorial spaces; like her, they are utterly debonair.

Her pictorial images, which are a compendium of layers of color involving time, intuition, and pressure from hand to surface, appear to have their own point of view rather than conforming to the current look of abstraction, which, given the plethora of art media today, already has begun to appear repetitive.