Sentences with phrase «sculptural idea of painting»

The surfaces of the canvases were covered with latex and are reflecting an almost sculptural idea of painting.

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The painting explored Wittgenstein's idea of «kinship» among the yellows or blues, and «contrast,» most dramatically between the sculptural black lines (not a major color for Mait) and the veils of white.

Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work — which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition.

His current body of work is a series of «painthings,» formal sculptural objects made exclusively of paint; these objects play with ideas of representation in abjection to conventional hegemony of the image.

Ideas of exchange, circulation and migration are considered through large - scale sculptural installations, painting, collage, video and textile works, alongside displays of archive material relating to John Robinson Whitley and an off - site billboard project which runs between the north and south of the city.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

A series of soft assemblage sculptural objects on the walls and floor fill the front gallery, utilizing a broad platform of techniques that include digital media, painting, installation art, sculpture and color theory — as tools to tackle ideas of cultural and economic exclusion and privilege.

Showcasing 30 paintings, 20 drawings, with 7 sculptural works, Kent Knowles explores the idea of self - preservation and self - isolation in an overly stimulated world.

While Remi's art has always been about creating dimension within the depths of a canvas or a wall, his new works have taken that idea in an exciting new direction, by transforming a three dimensional object such as a skull through the application of paint and by extracting complex shapes from the flat canvas into sculptural forms.

Works on view explore several key ideas in modern and contemporary sculptural practice, such as the exploration of unorthodox materials, new choices in subject matter, and the dissolution of the boundary between painting and sculpture.

From Heilmann's and Davidson's personal and quirky approaches, to Davie's sculptural undulations, Schifano's reductive vocabulary, Owens» and van Genderen's investigations of space, and, finally, Levine's sentimentally wise paintings, the work in this exhibit addresses ideas of pleasure for both the artist making the work and viewer beholding it.

Forecast: Snow at The Renaissance Society presented a selection of paintings, drawings, sculptural studies, and crystal and marble snowflake sculptures, which showcased the artist's idea of snowflake patterns as blueprints for architectural spaces and psychological states.

As in his paintings, the sculptural work explores ideas of both the presence and absence of the artist's hand, whether it be as simple a gesture, fold, crease or his personal handwriting manifested in neon.

Drawing inspiration not only from spatial theory, but also from postmodern ideas like Claus Oldenburg's «The Store,» Whalen's inclusion of new sculptural objects redefine his personal relationship with painting, subject and form.

Partly sculptural installation, partly deconstructed painting à la Jackson Pollock, partly a performance vacated by the artist, partly the scene of a violent crime (Le Va has adocumented interest in detective novels), not even Artforum had any idea what to call Le Va's work — a November 1968 cover story dubbed it «distributional sculpture,» for lack of a better term — but today, it's safe to dub it a watershed moment, with reverberations seen in such contemporary artists as Sarah Sze.

«I started them (the Pharmaceutical paintings) as an endless series like a sculptural idea of a painter (myself).