Sentences with phrase «simple geometric forms»

To draw the viewer into a direct relationship with the artwork they created their own pictorial language, often based on the use of simple geometric forms and employed industrial materials.

She has focused exclusively on work that explores simple geometric forms since 1961: lines, circles, curves and squares on different mediums — from canvas to paper and wall.

Known for his abstract sculptures of simple geometric forms, the artist explores the expressive quality of the rectangle along two planes in this untitled work from 1982 - 83.

Dominated by simple geometric forms and their interrelationships, the movement was often held up for derision in the popular press and the non-art world as the ultimate in «the Emperor's New Clothes» syndrome — when Andre's Equivalent VIII (1966), a rectangular arrangement of 120 firebricks on the floor, was bought and exhibited by the Tate Gallery in London in the 1970s, there was a considerable hoo - ha.

In 1998, Gloria Ortiz - Hernandez gave up the brightly colored figurative paintings that she had been doing for years and began drawing simple geometric forms.

Beginning with line and often painting directly on walls, Odita transforms simple geometric forms into elongated triangles, trapezoid - like shapes, or irregular bands of color that stream, intersect, and diverge from each other.

Best known for his iconic wall - mounted stacked box sculptures, Judd's work often involves simple geometric forms in repetitive arrangements, typically employing industrial materials such as plywood, aluminum, and Plexiglas.

«It was so unexpected that the brain would use the same simple geometric forms that we have been describing in mathematics for millennia.»

Superimposing what seem like disarmingly simple geometric forms — on top of, beside, or inside each other — Wilson devises complex modular sequences that achieve mesmerizing visual effects.

The works selected for Unlimited Perception include a retrospective overview of two of the main series that Biasi has worked with for decades — the Torsioni, simple geometric forms enlivened by a rhythmic procession of PVC strips, and the Rilievi Ottico - Dinamici, colorful explosions that seem to vibrate via the grids of PVC that hover above painted designs.

The uncomplicated backdrop and simpler geometric forms represent for him his own cultural background of Tokyo and the East, and are juxtaposed with the vibrant color and materials symbolizing the energy and openness of his adopted New York City and the West.

Primarily a painter, Feeley favored canvases in which simple geometric forms are deployed singly or in repeating groups.

Just as he saw squares as referring to cells and prisons, I see very simple geometric forms as — in part — representations of social issues surrounding the use and abuse of specific drugs.

An international art star, Kapoor's work mainly consists of simple geometric forms that are monochromatic and reflective.

There are several works by Paine at the Booth ranging from transparent veils of semi-transparent pigment bound by simple geometric forms to this towering human form, also constructed out of expanding layers of blue pigment.

This video demonstrates how to draw simple geometric forms and how use tonal identification to produce highly technical drawings.

Utilizing vivid colors and simple geometric forms, the artist produces abstract compositions with oil on canvas.

In the decades since, the now -90-year-old Mason has become renowned for his simple geometric forms (spears, crosses and torqued pillars), which he fires in a room - size kiln in his downtown L.A. studio.

Noland became celebrated in the 1950s for his series of concentric circles in a dazzling array of colours; not, like the paintings of Jasper Johns, targets, but circles as a simple geometric form that could demonstrate an infinite number of colour combinations.

Reduced color palettes and the repetition of simple geometric forms, as well as industrial materials that have a symbiotic relationship to architecture, create new mash - ups that mix formal rigor with sensuality, subjectivity, personal narrative, and contemporary sexual politics.

According to the gallery - «Ellis fossilizes the past, encasing the vintage record albums in a glossy layer of resin, exploiting Minimalism's application of simple geometric forms, seriality, Gestalt theory, and sleek exterior, while simultaneously adding history and memory by implementing found objects.»

Interested in the ways reality can be represented and reflected, Opie often reduces iconic subject matter, like close - up portraits, landscapes, and the body in motion, to simple geometric forms, typically rendering faces as a series of piercing dots and lines.

Once there, he radicalized sculpture with nontraditional materials, brilliant color and, most of all, simple geometric forms that used more space than materials.

The artwork creates a dialogue with architectural design through their simple geometric forms and pure colors.

Geiger's paintings are characterized by simple geometric forms (rectangles, ovals, circles), bright colors, and intense contrasts.

A highly formalized abstract language was developed, often consisting of simple geometric forms.

His career developed stylistically from Abstract Expressionism with which he had contact early in his career to Minimalism, a movement which propagated the use of simple geometric forms, industrial materials and repetition.

Like surveyor's marking posts mapping out the perceptual landscape of objective reality, Judd's art investigates the material nature of the world we live in using only the simplest geometric forms and materials as its tools.

Dominated by viscous black acrylic; one or two simple geometric forms; and an impastoed, at times gestural, facture, these canvases from 2002 — 2003 seemed a radical departure from her practice over the previous four decades.

Upon closer inspection, the materials are understood to be pigment prints bonded to the simple geometric forms.

Through his research and his three - dimensional works — with seemingly limitless permutations of simple geometric forms — Rashid explores the phenomenological relationship between work, viewer, and architecture.

The early work that Wright produced under this philosophical framework was dominated by simple geometric forms and motifs, but he gradually began to incorporate elements of commercial design, tattoo art, and Gothic iconography into his wall paintings.

He experimented with abstraction for several years, aiming to «eliminate realistic space» in favor of simple geometric forms.

Like many other artists from that period, he turned to simple geometric forms, a sort of stripe in his case, to provide that freedom and flexibility.

Liz Deschenes (American, born 1966) shapes cameraless photographs into simple geometric forms that derive from Bauhaus - era diagrams.

«Resika is recognized for the buoyancy of his palette and the basic shapes of his subjects, which are pared down to the simplest geometric forms — neat little houses in profiles and swishes of color that define the boats.

In response to these sensations, Fu minimizes the cityscape in her work to simple geometric forms to present how she sees the urban environment and the relationship between its people, spaces and structures.

Mangold seeks an equilibrium between the recurring elements in his work: simple geometric forms, coloured with hand - made tints, and often curvilinear lines hand - drawn within these forms.

larson draws inspiration from collected treasures and distills them down to simple geometric forms.