Sentences with phrase «planar compositions»

This formative studio activity fed the abstract linear planar compositions of the Ocean Park series of paintings and works on paper for which the artist is renowned.

His work alternated between abstraction and figuration, but always with vibrant colors defining planar compositions.

The painting has been likened to Ingres for simplicity of line and smoothness, to Egyptian Funerary art for pose, to Cézanne for flat planar composition, to Picasso for form and color.

In his major four - panel postcard painting I Kandinsky (2012), the artist explores figuration and abstraction through vivid colors, lines, curves, and a planar composition, as if in an homage to Kandinsky.

Not exact matches

Alexander writes: «Working with aspects of observed landscape as his starting point, Hatton builds abstract compositions comprised of many layers of shapes and spaces — beautiful contrasts of linear and planar dynamics laid out in juicy scumbled color.

In the titular painting of the exhibition, alphanumeric icons and recognizable symbols are brought together in the field of the imagined artistic workspace to construct and define the planar elements that slip between didactic representation and an abstracted composition.

Within the borders and on these surfaces Stella is suggesting that composition is inherent before the painter makes any mark on it; that present in every painting is a geometry that the artist simply elaborates or works against — physical and planar conditions that are already there, that are, in a sense, self - creating.

His various methods for producing optical effects on canvas, including his use of color — contrasting, physical mixing or varying proportions of just one color — in combination with other techniques, such overlapping planar shapes or lines in compositions; defining shapes with hard or diffuse edges; adding vertical or horizontal lines to activate the surfaces; and layering dots, dashes and triangles in contrasting colors on the surfaces to produce vibrational effects.

Monday 10am - 1 pm Instructor: Jill Phillips $ 455 For students with some basic painting experience, this class is a further exploration into figure / space relationships, issues of design and composition, color orchestration and planar structure, as well as the use of mark as a vehicle for expression and content.

Tuesday, 7 - 10 pm Instructor: Joren Lindholm $ 455 For students with some basic painting experience, this class is a further exploration into figure / space relationships, issues of design and composition, color orchestration and planar structure, as well as the use of mark as a vehicle for expression and content.