Sentences with phrase «recognizable forms»

In 1991, he turned to a more recognizable form: the mask.

Each canvas is rendered in black - and - white patterns of little shapes, some of which convert into recognizable forms.

They seem to use, with much more freedom, figure art, and other recognizable forms, with elements of abstraction, for the creation of sometimes ambiguous narratives.

Very often, the abstract artist paints landscapes, people, and other familiar subjects using simplified or only vaguely recognizable forms.

The paintings are at once abstract and representational: the multiple grids recall the bars of the bird cages; and the birds themselves are simultaneously recognizable forms and moments of pure color.

Drugs, alcohol, and gambling are some of the most recognizable forms of addictions out there, but they are far from the only obsessive attachments you may come across in your life.

``... energy in recognizable forms (kinetic, potential, and internal) in an expanding, spatially unbounded, homogeneous universe is not conserved.»

Amora has been the most recognizable form.

Avery retained color as the primary vehicle of feeling and expression, but achieved a greater degree of abstraction by increasing the parity between recognizable forms and abstract shapes.»

Subclinical hypothyroidism is essentially a less easily recognizable form of hypothyroidism.

But it would still be several years before Kandinsky would finally break free from recognizable forms in his art.

They are mixing the human figure and other recognizable forms with elements of abstraction and... read more... «Finding painting's pulse»

The ubiquitous nature of clay accompanied by recognizable forms and supporting structures, is used to enhance to the visual interchange and sense of potential flux and instability.

Fiona Banner's works often present a dual experience, using recognizable forms as representations of a more private narrative based on a particular subject of research.

Emerging from a world torn apart, Abstract Expressionism discarded everything - including recognizable forms - except self - expression and raw emotion.

Certain elements suggest recognizable forms — cars, the sun — while others are more cryptic, such as the repeated appearance of perpendicular lines.

Warren's sculptures in clay, bronze and steel, ebb from figuration to abstraction, ranging from the amorphous to more clearly recognizable forms.

By the turn of the century, however, painters had loosened themselves from the tight grip of appearances, but still remained in the orbit of representation, Hence Matisse's work «never reached the radical focus that in abstract expressionism separated recognizable form and reality.»

Gradually, recognizable forms begin to emerge from the midst of this elemental drama: the unmistakable almond shape of an eye, repeated in skewed alignment and bisected by vertical cascading lines that suggest the bridge of a nose.

This transition towards abstract forms and shapes is best illustrated in Kandinsky's Study for Composition # 8, 1909, a turning point in the artist's vision, where recognizable forms — people, church towers, cupolas and hills co-exist with abstract shapes and pure fields of color.

The result is a distorted abstraction in which fragments and silhouettes of recognizable form appear.

Back in New York in 1959, his memories of Mallaig took on mystical significance as «dimly recognizable forms of real landscapes with glimpses of the horizon and receding distances.»

[11] Whether its through recognizable forms or her own mythologized fantasies, her ideas constantly build and transform.

Influenced by early 20th century Modernism, Jurgensen often quotes from art history by intertwining recognizable forms and ideologies with fragments of popular culture to create ritualistic monuments divining a contemporary spirituality.

Though there are not concretely recognizable forms in David Schutter's pergamena study sheets, the historical drawing forms of the Baroque do appear and recede in a scrambled presence.

Williams's sculptures are made from crafts materials such as cardboard, epoxy resin, and wood, and they look like recognizable forms such as bird decoys and flowers, but in the gallery they are ultimately meant to be something new and distinct from these materials and appearances.

By the late 1950s, Judd had reduced recognizable forms to organic shapes, and by 1960, even those summary forms disappear.

The haunting desert tableaux of MICHAEL ASHKIN, which have been making their presence felt in group shows over the last year, also feature small instantly recognizable forms surrounded by expanses of space.

I reconstruct recognizable forms with a bent towards function that we utilize everyday to streamline and aestheticise our environment.

The visual clues offered seem both familiar and hard to place, taking the viewer on a circuitous hunt for recognizable forms and meaning.

Some of these works show recognizable forms — the newspaper homepage, the view from Guyton's Bowery studio — and some dissolve into abstraction as their source material is subject to extreme enlargement.

Then in 1947 Rothko eliminated recognizable forms defined by lines, building up his surfaces with irregular colour stains, high in key, which formed a complex of distinct, segmented areas.

The radical shift developed in the studio over two years, after Dine completed a series in which recognizable forms were increasingly occluded until they were almost submerged in gestural abstractions of vivid colors.

The world has to be satisfied with the EU and a few other countries turning their domestic climate legislation into internationally recognizable form — with very low ambition.

But the push - and - pull between recognizable forms and indistinct brush marks plays out especially elegantly in the monotypes.

I noticed I was repelled from pieces with easily recognizable forms.

The geometric patterns within the works gradually consolidate into recognizable forms, such as a line, a grid, or a square that are frequently seen both in art and architecture.

Having begun working with concrete in the mid-1980s, here Genzken revisits some of her most recognizable forms, including her Paravents (Screens) and Lautsprecher (Loudspeakers).

Much of Sillman's oeuvre can be categorized as such, although her abstractions often suggest recognizable forms and figures.

Warren's sculptures continue to ebb from figuration to abstraction and range from amorphous to more clearly recognizable forms, which are sometimes sexual in nature and reference the body in humorous and challenging ways.

In the final analysis, however, the teacher unions must grasp the nettle if they are to survive in recognizable form.

Assuming Adams will be a more recognizable form of himself moving forward, who's to say this team can't hang with or upset both a bipolar Florida team and an overachieving Texas Tech team with little NCAA tournament experience?

Eighth - century B.C. Hebrews, for example, could not have embraced the contemporary medical technology that would enable life to continue after humanity in any recognizable form had ceased to exist.

Because of this fact, moral dullness often creeps up and possesses us without our being stopped by the signals of conscience that usually flash before we are tempted to other more overt and recognizable forms of sin.

Yahweh, together with Israel in some recognizable form, will fulfill the purposes of Yahweh's creation and covenant.