Sentences with phrase «shifting pictorial structures»

Even as Rothenberg's images have changed radically over the course of her career, certain tendencies critical to the compositional dynamics of her paintings have remained constant, reflecting how the artist sees and reconstructs the world through a series of shifting pictorial structures that create a spinning or torquing spatial scenario.

Not exact matches

The large scale Water Lily Paintings verge on abstraction and are unsurpassed in their pioneering efforts at creating viable pictorial structure from color, surface, luminosity, value, hue and chromatic shifts.

This emotive «inner world,» described by fuzzy gestures, liquid washes and subtle patterns, hints at vague pictorial structuring, but Caivano is at her best when creating a fluid and shifting space held together by patches of color and paint, «pictures» that question their own premise.

Noting her «complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected by the New York museum establishment.»

While the exhibition at the Alexandre Gallery is hardy the Dodd retrospective we needed, it does have the great virtue of giving us a concentrated account of one of the artist's most inspired inventions: the complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light to be seen in and around the windows and doorways of old Maine houses.