Sentences with word «spareness»

I can imagine the words popping brightly from canvas, less like the conceptual spareness of Lawrence Weiner or the political rigor of Jenny Holzer than like Deborah Kass or Ed Ruscha.

I'm interested in spareness, but I don't think it has any connection to symmetry.

Painters generally return you to the foursquare, rectangular bunker and operate with a sense of spareness by comparison; noteworthy shows by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Daniel Sinsel, Varda Caivano and Clare Woods spring to my mind.

Merriam Webster defines «minimalism» as «a style or technique that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity.»

Kelly's was an art both reserved and generous, that was constantly reinventing and refreshing itself with an unerring spareness and elegance.

People who knew him say the rich prose of that work, so unlike the earlier spareness, is most like Camus's living voice.

Properly diverging from the tension and dizzying wonderment of his other 2016 film «Midnight Special,» Jeff Nichols composed a richly - hewn film of eloquent power presented in absolute spareness.

But despite its measured pacing and formal spareness, First Reformed has a powerful sense of narrative drive.

But there's a good reason for such spareness.

For all its air of almost authorless spareness, Zurier's art bespeaks tremendous self - assurance.

How can Rudolf Stingel alternate between spareness and glitter, instructions for painting and photorealism, skeptical and sentimental?

Reinhardt's polemical spirit emerged early, but it found its fulfillment only in the 1960s, with his black paintings — just when Motherwell found a new spareness as well.

One expects spareness from Yoko Ono, just the facts from Sol LeWitt, a lecture from Daniel Buren, and a check for Marcel Duchamp, and they deliver.

Cordy Ryman, his son, pursues a ragtag spareness of his own — with painted wood that can form nested doors or nestle into a corner.

Spareness also got a boost in painting from a MoMA exhibition called «Sixteen Americans» — and in sculpture from the Jewish Museum in 1966, with «Primary Structures.»

Different as they are, these artists share their Minimalist spareness and materials, like maps of the Lower East Side abstracted away from the bars and the galleries.

Spareness rather than heroism in full - dress uniform dominates the designs for memorials to the Holocaust, Columbine, the Irish famine, the World Trade Center, and pretty much everything else these days.

The previous show at the same gallery did favor spareness, with oil stick and gentle curves.

Herrera returned with her husband in 1954 to New York during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, but the idiosyncratic spareness of her style left her thoroughly ignored.

He collects spareness and geometry, with Hans Arp, Piet Mondrian, and Barnett Newman.

[2] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted «the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness.»

She articulates a» less is more» direct and humane aesthetic with her graphic spareness.

It's great truth in advertising, and achieves the bracing spareness of the best Swiss - German museums.

Certain galleries (Sean Kelly, Zeno X) have gone for an almost arctic spareness.

«Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes, 1951 - 1995» features nearly 40 pared - down paintings of urban or pastoral motifs installed with breathtaking spareness in large light - filled galleries, never more than one painting to a wall and only two or three to a room.

Eigenheer and Walker show a similar spareness of line held to the sober project of examining perception.

Not the aesthetic spareness of minimal art and its progeny, but its exposed quality and its attendant power to expose may explain its current appeal.

You keep talking about spareness and austerity.

Focussing almost entirely on shape and colour, the late artist made artwork felt with your body as much as your eyes, with an unerring spareness and elegance

The spareness of Buchler's system, his systematic strategy and style of expression might disorient the reader who is unfamiliar with systematic philosophy.

Pare it down to what really matters the most (spareness and simplicity!).

Mr. Bogosian's venomously funny play, which he adapted himself for the screen, is given warmth and generosity by Mr. Linklater, whose elegantly fluid direction and great skill with actors are accentuated by the play's spareness.

Achieving its goal to rattle and unnerve, «The Strangers: Prey at Night» is lean and breathlessly intense, calling back the spareness and ambiguity of its predecessor, while embracing conventions from slasher movies of yore.

The spareness of Bergman or the Fellini circus.

While the spareness and seriousness of the film are to be admired, and Gibson makes for a sympathetic protagonist, there is little here that we have not seen before (even if it may have been set after), and even less that rivets the attention.

I've heard some people say otherwise, but I found the novel, with its spareness and reliance on landscape as a character in itself, ideally suited for film.

It is, however, breathtakingly lovely, visually composed like a painting, scored and sound designed by Toru Takemitsu with a spareness that leans on silence, and suffused in sadness, regret, and loss.

«There is more to admire here than a simple economy of form and content, and the spareness of Ramsay's approach is no mere approximation of Ames» hard - boiled prose.

It may not be strictly speaking a horror film — it's not scary or particularly unsettling apart for a few exquisitely created images — but it is breathtakingly lovely, visually composed like a painting, scored and sound designed by Toru Takemitsu with a spareness that leans on silence, and suffused in sadness, regret, and loss.

But there is more to admire here than a simple economy of form and content, and the spareness of Ramsay's approach is no mere approximation of Ames» hard - boiled prose.

A 12» LCD instrument panel isn't novel any more, but the spareness of the Lincoln's display could make a Volvo look rococo.

The driver was telling me that customers didn't like the spareness and proportions on the Elise, and that Lotus had responded to this.

I found the prose to be prickly in its spareness - some of the interactions between characters are so pared down they seem wooden.

I love the spareness of Haruf's prose, and his ear for the voices of his characters.

He was moving beyond Europe and Abstract Expressionism as well — toward the spareness of the 1960s and 1970s.

We are quite taken with the spareness and raw sensuousness of the paintings and prints... Continued

Like his, too, their spareness hides a dedication to color.

Farmanfarmaian, too, roots Minimalism's spareness and repetition in local culture and tradition.