Sentences with phrase «pictorial vocabulary»

Resolutely representational, Rocca developed her own pictorial vocabulary of everyday objects and phenomenon and set them onto a map that neither castigated nor deified the role of women and mothers in the 1960s.

Often using mere paper as a medium and a powerful pictorial vocabulary of her own invention, Nancy Spero spins tales of ferocious, heroic women.

The fourth artist occupying an historical past is Noel Rockmore, a New York - born child of successful illustrators, who discovered New Orleans in the 1950s and spent most of the remaining years of his life developing an eclectic pictorial vocabulary that encompassed Surrealist - tinged views of the French Quarter and detailed portraits of jazz musicians from Preservation Hall.

Here, in these works, he can be seen feeling his way forward into the new imagery, if one looks beyond the specific pictorial vocabulary of his «cast of characters» — Nixon, Spiro Agnew, John Mitchell, and Henry Kissinger.

Chunn's previous works explore historical and current geopolitical scenes on well - researched topics, inventing a variety of new pictorial vocabularies that provide a relationship between each subject and its presentation.

Composed of reductive geometric forms, floating yet grounded on their white backgrounds, these works engage with a similar pictorial vocabulary to Herrera's paintings on canvas.

Despite the specificity of her personal, pictorial vocabulary, the work's impact is direct in any context, and rewards a multiplicity of readings.

His pictorial vocabulary includes easily readable figures, such as animals with a human character like we know from the world of Walt Disney.

Integrating the pictorial vocabularies of times past, Walker presents conflicting realities and role reversals that evoke parallels to the racial power struggles inherent in American society today.

The fact that he helps himself to a depository of easily readable comic figures not only makes up the originality of his pictorial vocabulary, but also its irony.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

Baruchello developed his pictorial vocabulary through a process of fragmentation and miniaturisation.

There are many artists who share great appreciation for the blocky aesthetics of arcade games and gladly apply the same in their pictorial vocabulary.

«I was looking for a pictorial vocabulary and I found it there,» she said.

Dunham «s figures appear to be partly primitivistic and partly referring to the pictorial vocabulary of comics.

Considering the pictures not as an illusion, but as a tangible entity to reduce the pictorial vocabulary with a single solid colour or with random accumulations of lines drawn using a straight edge as though testing where and when the pictorial coherence falls apart.

This exhibition focuses on the range and comprehensives of his pictorial vocabulary and examines his prophetic and enduring career in painting.»

With a pictorial vocabulary that takes up a contemporary look at the history of painting and originates beyond any regard for concepts such as abstraction or figuration, the artist has acquired an international reputation.

Since the early 1980's he sought to create paintings informed — on a meta - narrative level — by his personal experience, while also reflecting the fundamental rules of his pictorial vocabulary.

Starting in the early 1960s, A.R. Penck developed a pictorial vocabulary he called «Standart», deriving from language, mathematics and cybernetics.

These new paintings come out of a pictorial vocabulary for which Gao Ludi has become known, a...

These new paintings come out of a pictorial vocabulary for which Gao Ludi has become known, a language stemming from his (and our) daily engagement with digital imagery, social media, and screen - based landscapes.

Yellow Accent anticipates the pictorial vocabulary that Hofmann adopted in his later paintings, characterized by slabs of color.

Beer's pictorial vocabulary is at turns tragic and militaristic, while his handling of materials lends the work a sense of levity and absurdity.

In her new paintings Belag has expanded her pictorial vocabulary in several notable directions.

They aspire to grandeur — with a pictorial vocabulary that to some may seem painfully narrow.

Eric Brown's mostly small canvasses reflect a new reductivism in a pictorial vocabulary that has often focused on allegorical form, ecstatic color sequences and cartoony arabesques, knobs and nodules.