Sentences with phrase «pictorial structure»

The pictures provide neither a coherent narrative nor a singular meaning, but rather create connections through the repetition and interplay of pictorial structures and subject matter.

I see it as the last great innovation in pictorial structure.

A committee meeting, for example, should demand an entirely different pictorial structure than shoppers in a mall.

It also explained his aesthetics of spatial tension, colour relationships and overall pictorial structure.

Influenced by the works and writings of Wassily Kandinsky (1866 — 1944), Knaths became interested in music and believed that there were correspondences between musical intervals and spatial proportions, a theory that suited his cubist pictorial structure.

He is concerned with the nature of reality, probing underlying pictorial structure through rhythm, movement and the logic of color and light.

This idea can be found in treatises on pictorial structure from the Renaissance to the present.

References of agony and purification are ascribed to Guston's artistic evolution, as he moves away from the confines of modernist purity, the language of abstraction and the tenets of the New York School towards a total expressive pictorial structure, which he finds in figuration.

Under his guidance she learned the pictorial language of cubism, while also absorbing a formalist method of analyzing pictorial structure and evolving a deep and abiding respect for the old and modern masters of the history of art.

Even as Rothenberg's images have changed radically over the course of her career, certain tendencies critical to the compositional dynamics of her paintings have remained constant, reflecting how the artist sees and reconstructs the world through a series of shifting pictorial structures that create a spinning or torquing spatial scenario.

This emotive «inner world,» described by fuzzy gestures, liquid washes and subtle patterns, hints at vague pictorial structuring, but Caivano is at her best when creating a fluid and shifting space held together by patches of color and paint, «pictures» that question their own premise.

Strong shadows and the representation of a particular time and place suggest the distinctly American scene so memorialized by Hopper, while attention to flattened surface planes and a rectilinear pictorial structure reveals Diebenkorn's underlying tendency toward abstraction.

Pictorial structures seem to be disassembling, assembling and re-forming.

Trust in pictorial structure.

Balthus begins to reveal the intensity of his commitment to color and pictorial structure.

Subtle elements within their pictorial structure defy expectations and leave attempts at decoding their narratives open - ended.

Abstract Expressionist paintings produced the heaviest concentration of meaning claims focussing on highly abstract concepts like the sublime or existentialism that seemed to fit with the «abstract» pictorial structures and methodologies they devised.

Bonnard has been described as «the most thoroughly idiosyncratic of all the great twentieth - century painters», and the unusual vantage points of his compositions rely less on traditional modes of pictorial structure than voluptuous colour, poetic allusions and visual wit.

His lush and elegant Provincetown Piers from the nineteen eighties, his progressively more abstract Vessels series of the nineties, and his figures and landscapes from the early 2000s reveal his ongoing dialog with Hofmann's sophisticated ideas about color and pictorial structure.

Matisse's transformative impact on their works is revealed not only by their adaptations of his palette and pictorial structures but also through their choice and appropriation of his subject matter — still lifes, landscapes, figurative works, studio interiors, and portraits.

Another highlight is the triangular Estructura (Structure), 1958, an example of Darié's «estructuras pictóricas» («pictorial structures»), wherein he explored notions of the frame and its relation to space and time.

There was nothing in his interest in social, cultural, ethical questions that he needed to be liberated from, that inhibited his commitment to the art of painting, to «handling oil paint and watercolour freely and using the resources of light and colour to choreograph the pictorial structure of his work».

His subtly playful color, mixed with gel — laid down in delicate, squiggly, linear re-tracings and pours — at once builds and dissolves the pictorial structure.»

Taking this pictorial structure as a starting point, Vasell has fashioned paintings that are made up of disparate elements collaged onto stained canvases.

The catalogue of the exhibition juxtaposes and interlaces twenty years of Torres - García's work with that of Vieira da Silva, balanced by the pictorial structure they both shared despite the thirty years separating them.

The Belgian artists, including Mil Ceulemans, Joris Ghekiere, Bernard Gilbert, Marc Maet, Werner Mannaers, Xavier Noiret - Thomé, Bart Vandevijvere, and Jan Vanriet are a mixture of younger and older artists who all share an interest in deriving their pictorial structure from immersive painterly experience, and foregrounding such experience as inherent to their aesthetic doxa.

Hofmann taught students there successfully for some 17 years, and also published a number of written works dealing with colour in painting, composition theories, and pictorial structure.

For Hartigan, abstraction and figuration were not mutually exclusive; pictorial structures in her work are vehicles for emotion, and are handled in a painterly, expressionist manner.

Zao's use of this calligraphic motif conflates the act of painting with the pictorial structure of the work, something he had in common with other postwar abstract painters, such as his American contemporary Franz Kline.