Sentences with phrase «playful paintings shaped»
Nate Lowman has dropped his facade of hyper - cool to cover a wall with big playful paintings shaped like leaves or flowers; it's quite startling, in a good way.
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She expresses her compassion in playful compositions of acrylic paint, mixed media and resin on canvas, balancing organic shapes, while often masterfully incorporating delicate ink drawings.
Nearby, at Galerie Richard, Armleder's abstract paintings grasp sparkling, playful shapes in thickly impastoed surfaces.
Energetic, playful and a bit coarse, James's paintings are a nose - dive into a calamitous, crude world of shape and movement.
Part of her Homes series, which includes acrylic paintings on paper illustrating a «utopian view of the concept of home», the illustrations offer playful, geometric shapes, vibrant colours and a strong contrast of light and shadow.
Mr. Motherwell's work ranged from a series of brooding abstract paintings known as «Elegies to the Spanish Republic» — whose obsessive theme roughly took the form of oval shapes confined by vertical bars — to elegantly playful collages contrived from scraps of music, stamps, tobacco labels and other ephemera.
She uses materials with cavalier abandon, and her paint handling is loose and playful and incorporates a variety of techniques such as painterly monotype backgrounds, fluid shapes, lyrical gestures, and impasto.
In the recent paintings, the shapes and lines of his previous works are extended into increasingly dazzling, and playful, compositions.
There's a roughness about the paintings, made on unevenly shaped board, blankets and hessian, that lends an authenticity to Penck's voice, as do the playful sculptures, made with aluminium foil, bottles and jars, cardboard and Sellotape.
Cubist paintings such as Pablo Picasso's Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 3 (1912) use geometric shapes as playful and haunting references to the organic shapes of the human body.
For his fifth solo show at Casey Kaplan, Berlin - based, British artist, Jonathan Monk, will present a new body of work that takes shape from key principles of Conceptual art — the favoring of ideas over object - making, serialism, the dematerialization of the art object — interpreting them with a playful sensibility and through a variety of media: 16 mm film, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and a laser - light installation.
For his first solo show in the U.S., the German Hurzlmeier presents a new series of paintings in his distinct, playful style — figures and faces crafted using angular shapes with rounded edges, all in eye - popping hues.
Stilleben 28 (2009/11) is an example of Scheibitz's playful ambiguity: the viewer is uncertain whether the central figure is an abstract shape or a mimetic painting of an abstract sculpture.