Sentences with phrase «spareness of»

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

The spareness of his technique often seems more akin to the school known as Minimalism, however, and indeed his closest personal associations were with artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, the latter of whom wrote a laudatory essay on Wesley's early work and later set aside a space for him at his complex in Marfa, Texas.

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.

That day, too, his partly completed trees stood out thanks to the spareness of their surroundings.

Emerging from 1960s New York, Edwina Leapman's paintings pair an abstract expressionist contemplation of the canvas with the spareness of minimalism.

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

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

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.

«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.

The spareness of Bergman or the Fellini circus.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Their very spareness undermines the theme of «Every Act a Repetition,» although Crawford's open weave is a kind of repetition.

We are quite taken with the spareness and raw sensuousness of the paintings and prints that were recently exhibited at two galleries in Chelsea, New York.

Painter John Zurier — whose exhibition A spring a thousand years ago was recently on view at Peter Blum Gallery — is attracted to the idea of spareness.

Sean Kelly, too, is no hole in the wall, and its recent installations, too, were notable for their spareness and theater, but then so are fabulous squares of fluorescent color by Dan Flavin to open Zwirner's added space.

He has the spareness and Nordic roots of Roni Horn or Rita Lundqvist, but not their naturalism, introversion, and translucent textures.

Richter's landscapes were not merely anachronisms but a modern, impersonal view of earth, ocean and sky; in its spareness and delicate coloring «Bridge (By the Sea, 1969, private collection, Berlin)» almost recalls Whistler's misty Japonese - like renderings of Battersea Bridge in London, but Richer's vision is thoroughly modern.

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.

«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.

No surprise, an overtly Goberesque sense of spareness and quiet prevailed, in keeping with this sculptor's installation pieces as well as the Charles Burchfield survey that he organized at the Whitney a couple of years back.

«Examples of Monet's paintings from the last decade of his life, for instance — especially his series of water lilies (1917 - 1919)-- exhibit a spareness and openness comparable to de Kooning's late paintings.