He is most well known for his large paintings populated with
scribbled marks, calligraphic or graffiti - like words, letters, numbers, and references to Classical culture.
But they also draw on European innovations: Giacometti's thin figures, Paul Klee's
scribbled marks and the Cubism of Picasso and Braque.
Standing, sitting and kneeling on three levels of scaffolding, more than a dozen artists drew
scribble marks Monday on the walls surrounding the stairwell at Albright - Knox Art Gallery.
In his late - career scribble wall drawings, an area of wall is covered with random
scribble marks of varying density; the thicker areas possess the distinctive metallic sheen of graphite.
Not exact matches
When I stopped by, a six - foot whiteboard was on display on which someone had
scribbled two lane
markings and what resembled a quiz for advanced calculus — perhaps 30 equations, utter gibberish to the layperson.
I am, as Seamus Heaney noted,
scribbling in the sand — filling spaces,
marking time.
We assume they had the «perfect day out» or the «immaculate house» with no
scribbles or finger
marks on the wall; a moment sigh and looking at your own life, with all the little impurities can feel bigger when compared with others.
When offered markers or crayons, your toddler can begin to
scribble or make
marks, which will eventually turn into letters.
But if you «ooh» and «aah» at every
scribble, pencil
mark or blobbed together Play - Doh sculpture, this is for you.
Drawing and
scribbling Sometime between the ages of 12 and 18 months, your toddler will probably attempt to «write» by making
marks on paper... (more)
Most people call these beginning
marks «
scribbling.»
Instead, try calling children's first
scribbles «magic
marks» and see how proud they are.
These
marks and
scribbles will eventually turn into letters.
Respond intuitively with flowing lines, jagged angles, luscious swirls, wild
scribbles, or dainty
marks — whatever moves you!
Played by
Mark Rylance in a motion - capture performance, the BFG is every bit as vibrant, funny, and lovable as the flap - eared, peaky - nosed creature of Quentin Blake's
scribbles, speaking with glorious fluency in the half - nonsensical lingo proper to giantkind.
Frida had seen the grayish
marks earlier, but had taken them to be Jane's
scribbles: the cave paintings of a seven - year - old.
Also batteries never die on a paper map right when you need it, and I can
scribble in corrections,
mark points of interest, and draw in roads an trails that aren't shown, or are built after the map is printed.
As viewers, we're left with the aftermath of a frenetic,
scribbled outburst that resembles yet critiques the
mark -
marking of the (male) minimalist artists of the day.
The use of
scribbles made with a permanent tool brings to mind an uneasiness and anxiety that will be contrasted with the collection of
marks creating a clean and representational image.
Instead, enjoy Scott's brushwork, the brushy strokes, the energetic gestural
markings, the sweeps and
scribbles of colors that tumble and flow over one another.
He brought a certain kind of
mark - making to art — that slightly childlike feeling of
scribbling on paper, but which suddenly becomes very sensual and full of potential meaning.
A series of cursory strokes, both
scribbles and letters, run across the dense medium - gray, crayon - and - oil ground and remind us of the origin of the impulse toward
mark making and its kinship to the
marking of a letter.
However, in a 1994 article Kirk Varnedoe thought it necessary to defend Twombly's seemingly random
marks and splashes of paint against the criticism that «This is just
scribbles — my kid could do it».
These
marks are layered over pools of poured silver nitrate and
scribbles of graphite.
Striped bathroom wallpaper, Cy Twombly, Imi Knoebel, and
scribbles resembling Pop - like lineaments or cave
markings are all evoked by Matt Connors work in his current exhibition at Canada Gallery.
Sammy Peters produces abstract, multimedia compositions whose complex, layered images are made up of expressive brushwork,
scribbles, gestural
marks, drips, and collaged papers and fabrics.
For «Bed» he
scribbled pencil
marks and smeared paint on a well - worn pillow, sheets and a quilt, which hang on the wall like a traditional painting.
In others, the ovals are filled with multicolored hash
marks and
scribbles too frenetic to read as separate gestures, but loose enough that the artist can put a clear, clanging blue right on top of a fire - engine red and know that the colors will harmonize, like the instruments of a brass band.
At Whitechapel, the deviant retrospective is in reverse chronological order; it has, in lieu of wall text, large Fujifilm - green strips and lingering snippets of text from the gallery's prior exhibition, Adventures of the Black Square; and its mobile walls, some of which have been flown in from a previous show in Germany, are
marked with bits of masking tape,
scribbled shipping instructions, and drilled holes.
The variety of Pollock's
marks is astonishing, from the graceful figure - eights and elegant circular forms to the rather vehement back - and - forth
scribbles and x-
marks that emphatically punctuate the sheet.
Abstract Expressionism also provoked avant - garde responses from several other artists including Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011), whose calligraphic
scribbling is part - drawing, part - graffiti; and the Californian abstract sculptor
Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933) noted for his large scale iron / steel sculptures.
Category winners are: Best Abstract: Zoe Breen («Somera Road»); Best Representational Work: Ann Brandeis («Conversations on Decay»); Best Photograph: JoAnna McCarthy (Old Red Truck»); Best Work on Paper: Barry McCallion («Ladders»); Best Sculpture: Michelle Cooke («Tilted Square 36»); Best Mixed Media: Patricia Feiwel («Paper, Wood,
Scribble»); Catherine and Theo Hios Best Landscape Award:
Mark B. Terry («Beautiful Lonely Pink One») and Best New Artist: Kyla Zoe Rafert («Lady - Like Behavior»).
In this context, the achievement of Jonathan Lasker is all the more impressive, as he has forged a new vocabulary from the most obvious, if not degraded, elements — doodles,
scribbles and seemingly spontaneous
marks: all the gestural tropes of expressionism frozen and re-presented with the glacial accuracy of foresight.»
Her work varies widely stylistically, ranging from dense all - over compositions of geometric
marks to furious, organic
scribbling.
Brewer's manic
marks,
scribbles, drips and splashes produce an agitated tangle of shapes, symbols and figures that offer the viewer a unique and strangely peaceful platform for the eyes and mind.
Mills's squares this time, however, rely less on their identification as revivals of modernist aesthetic than as accessible, sensitive meditations on the affecting presence of
marks, dabs, lines,
scribbles, doodles, smudges, shapes and other basic visual responses.
References to antiquity and the Renaissance abound in his art, which is characterized by a rich repertoire of
marks, scrawls,
scribbles, doodles, and scratches — at once expressive of a gestural approach and of cultural symbols.
Each of Mills» daydreamy paintings transforms the casual
scribbles and meandering
marks of doodles into a pleasurable romp that wends every which way and often ends with an explosive realization of the freedom to be had — and the wonders to be discovered — when you don't where you're going.
From Marcel Duchamp's notorious Fountain and the
scribbles of Cy Twombly to
Mark Rothko's multiforms and Carl Andre's uncarved blocks, Hodge addresses critical outrage with a revealing insight into the technical skill, layering of ideas, and sheer inspiration behind each work.
Space in these works is composed with thin
marks and notations that try to come together to create vaguely familiar open forms and asemic - style writing
scribbles.
In the sheaf were hand -
scribbled editing
marks and notations by Phil Cooney, a White House political appointee who'd come from the American Petroleum Institute.
If you want to erase some or all of the
scribblings you've made on the webpage, then click or tap on the «Eraser» icon once to clear single pen or highlighter
marks you want.
The real ace up the sleeve of the device is that S - Pen, which comes with a stackful of features, including the ability to
scribble on the lock screen itself, sketch, draw,
mark out content and even send Live Messages, which are like animated messages.
It kept up with my swipes and
scribbles, but I suffered a few stray
marks where palm rejection faltered.