Sentences with phrase «playful use of paint»

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I thought it would be playful to begin with a selection of words used by a few writers and critics over the years to describe your paintings.

The only medium he uses is unmixed oil paints, typically in bright, cheery colors, merging a rigorous formalism with a sense of playful humor.

Los Ojos presents new works by Kyle James Dunn and Sarah Elise Hall: using foam, plaster, fiberglass and caulk, Dunn creates sculptural paintings that incorporate a maximalist approach in a playful union of color and texture.

Her playful, abstract paintings and installations feature a bold use of color, improvisation, and a variety of perspectives.

Indeed her works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.

Hard edges, playful gestures, spatial conundrums and a masterful, unpredictable use of white paint — sometimes to erase or conceal, sometimes to open and enliven spaces — come together in compositions that call attention to how painting are put together without demystifying their power.

Peter Wüthrich makes reference to Minimalist sculpture and monochrome painting, simulating and creating landscapes and objects with playful use of form and color.

With more than 250 works on show, the exhibition explores the tireless experimental spirit that drives Raysse's entire artistic output, from his small, playful sculptures to the self - discipline of drawing; from films expressing the libertarian trends of the 1970s to Raysse's use of neon as colour; and from installations celebrating consumer society to his paintings, which represent the most complete aspect of his work — among them, transcriptions of great Renaissance masterpieces, female portraits, large group paintings, and imaginary landscapes.

Although Chicago used industrial methods to make her art - including spray paint and power tools - the work is characterised by a playful use of colour and scale that conveys her interest in sensory responses.

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.

While the aforementioned affinities are obvious, there is contained and mediated anger and violence in these paintings; anger deflected by the use of a more playful or pop palette, which also helps create a deeply personal narrative for Norton himself.

Whereas Louis and Noland worked with an icy control, often using colored washes rather than viscous paint to avoid even the texture of paint strokes, Thomas allows a playful humanity to appear through the rigor, pushing against it in creative and unexpected ways, but never breaking through or turning haphazard.

Initially serving as a basis for her paintings, Aerts» collages on paper consist of roughly cut colour planes arranged to form landscapes Using a generous helping of humour, Aerts merges her fantasy, her surroundings and the art scene into a whole which is both poetic and playful, as well as absurd and grotesque.

Norton's large abstract paintings make use of playful, bright palettes to mediate a contained anger and violent impulses imbued into the work, according to the gallery.

Using experimental colours and an unmistakeable playful approach to the traditional method of painting, Paricio has always set out to solve conceptual problems, to pay homage to great artistic figures of the past and to examine and question the role of the artist through his bright and dynamic canvases, layered with meaning.

Paricio is known for his experimental use of colours and his playful, modern approach to the traditional method of painting.

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 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.

She makes playful use of a palette of styles and visual languages that ranges from Renaissance painting to modern art, combining them with everyday observations and humorous references to pop culture and pornography.

Elsewhere, Theaster Gates's In Case of Race Riot II (2011), a fireman's hose coiled and framed in a wooden box, evokes the high - pressure water guns historically used to suppress civil rights protests; Kara Walker's deceptively playful cutouts tell narratives of the cruel racial dynamics and oppressive stereotypes of the antebellum South; and Titus Kaphar's chilling duo of paintings in The Jerome Project (My Loss)(2014) show the monumental, detailed face of a black man disappearing behind a rising glut of thick black paint.

His paintings, with their playful use of color, can be viewed as either lyrical abstractions or vague remembrances of dream world landscapes.