Sentences with phrase «richly painted surfaces»

His later work involves more colorful and richly painted surfaces that place contemporary - looking men in historical environments.

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Tomaselli's new works are richly layered collage and painted surfaces incorporating plant life as well as images from anatomical illustrations, magazines and nature guides.

At Chelsea he discovered the possibilities of paint, in richly textured surfaces, and how to move away from storytelling to let viewers bring something of their own to the picture.

Ofili came to prominence in the early 1990s with richly orchestrated paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter, collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.

By obscuring these erotically charged images beneath richly colored and textured surfaces, Larmon creates a feeling of sensual congestion in which the depicted nudes and fine fabrics merge with the lushness of the paint itself.

He began his first painting in enamel but soon changed to encaustic, building richly textured surfaces.

Known for endlessly reworking his paintings, in Mother and Child, Gorky has scraped and sanded down his canvas to produce a richly layered surface of gold and lavender and Venetian red.

Artist innovative and pioneering, surprised us by creating an entirely personal artistic style, with richly paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter, collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.

Created by spraying paint onto canvas through carefully positioned swathes of gauze, this select series of works develops the innovative technique deployed in Stingel's silver paintings of the early 1990s, and distinguishes itself through striking color, richly variegated tactile texture and intricately detailed surface pattern.

The richly colored flows of pigment across the copper, wood and paper surfaces of Pam Longobardi's paintings create primeval landscapes and underwater vistas that evoke the cycle of creation and destruction that governs the universe.

In this workshop participants use R&F Pigment Sticks to create layered, expressive, richly surfaced paintings.

With heavily worked surfaces finished with richly colored glazes, her pieces recall landscapes, abstract paintings, and the contours of the body itself.

The Paris Paintings at Nathalie Karg are richly dark works with ripples of white, blue, green, rust, and red running horizontally across their heavily worked surfaces; one exception — a mosaic - like patchwork of earth tones, dark greens, and reds from 1953 — provides a bridge to Held's approach after he returned to NewYork.As the debut works of a major American artist, Held's sensual, mysterious, and dynamic Parisian nocturnes are emblematic of the restlessness and audacity that would become hallmarks of his career.

He creates paintings, sculptures, and assemblages with richly - layered surfaces that draw inspiration from Greek mythology.

Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink - jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray - scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111 - color screenprint.

The palette of richly saturated pastels echo with equal vibrance to the bold primary hues that articulate his sprayed and painted compositions that would otherwise slide from the surfaces to visually evoke something of a Lynda Benglis pour.

A collection of richly textured works, which blend gestural painting, figurative drawing and collage on everything from small pieces of cardboard to boards measuring nearly 4 x 6 feet, the exhibition is an audacious debut in a city where the shadows of Abstract Expressionism still loom large whenever an artist splatters, drips, scrapes, pours, or otherwise flings paint at or on a surface to make an image.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

With bright, bold colors, shiny lacquered surfaces, and pattern upon pattern of richly layered images, Casey Gray's paintings immediately evoke the graphic qualities of posters, skate deck designs, and graffiti.

Once the paint is half - dry he scrapes it off the glass and applies the richly textured oil - skin surface to a canvas.

The paintings evoke abstract expressionism with their richly textured surfaces and layers of marks made by countless linear brushstrokes and extruded paint, but take it to a different level with their luminous colors and the way they capture and hold light.

Creating his richly textured surface by painting layer upon layer of richly pigmented oil paint, carefully sculpting and applying each brush stroke, Still would often scrape away the surface only to rebuild it again, resulting in a surface both densely layered with colour or often transcendent, conveying deep, mystical space.

The collection also belies the impression Still's painting has progressively «thinned out» during the past two decades; in fact, it shows that he has alternated between thick, richly troweled surfaces and more thinly applied pigments, surrounded by large expanses of bare canvas, throughout much of his career.

His painting from this time until the mid-1980s was to be characterised by high colour, architectonic structures loosely based in geometric forms, and a richly textured, painterly surface.

Trade in floor - to - ceiling white for the timeless elegance of black with richly painted walls — just remember to give the space plenty of natural light and reflective surfaces to veer it away from feeling dreary.