Sentences with phrase «suggested forms and colors»

The answer may be found partly in the consideration that these artists are not concerned with representing a preconceived idea, but rather with being involved in an experience of paint and canvas, directly, without interference from the suggested forms and colors of existing objects.

The natural world, loosely defined as landscape, suggests the forms and colors that inspire the paintings.

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Central Colorado's Tava sandstone (light - colored band of rock at center, with geology student for scale) probably formed between 680 million and 800 million years ago, a new study suggests.

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Through color alone — applied to suspended rectangles within abstract compositions — Rothko's work evokes strong emotions ranging from exuberance and awe to despair and anxiety, suggested by the hovering and indeterminate nature of his forms.»

His sculptures and paintings — made of wood, metal, fiberglass, or cardboard; silk - screened or spray - painted; often neon - colored and sometimes wonderfully oversized — draw upon familiar forms to suggest another space - time.

The show suggested a shift: from privileging gestural abstractions and Color Field paintings to celebrating pared - down forms in three dimensions.

Moreover, the sculptures» failure to live up to the Minimalist ideal of purity of form, material, color and installation — the works at Lynden get dirty and scratched, their colors fade; they are in need of constant maintenance — allows Cucullu and Partegàs to suggest that they are alive and in need of human care.

Composed of near panoramic images of earth's diverse terrains — from the savannah wilderness of southwestern Kenya to the elegant geometry of Venetian canals, from the rococo forms of Toledo to the luminous color fields of the Indian Ocean — each picture in the series is connected by a common horizon line that lines up in the identical position to form a continuous landscape that suggests a common bond and an ever expanding view of the globe's surface.

The four - paneled piece is united by the way the folds in the four individually colored and patterned quilts suggest a circle, as well as a cross that is formed by the edges of the adjoined canvases.

The final wall is devoted to pieces from Ippolito's «Regatta Series» (1984 - 89) in which the watery color planes suggest abstract but recognizable elements like pennants, sails and boats, and black wave forms blend into blue ground in «Land's End» (1986), with the full blast of wind on sails being felt in the horizontal diptych «Windward» (1987).

With lines, shapes, and colors, pure abstraction can suggest emotion and action, concentrating on the relationships between forms and colors.

And despite the mechanical rigidity suggested by Desmarais» architectural forms, the movement continued as one walked past each piece, the body's motion stirring constant shifts in shape, lighting, and colAnd despite the mechanical rigidity suggested by Desmarais» architectural forms, the movement continued as one walked past each piece, the body's motion stirring constant shifts in shape, lighting, and coland color.

Neil Welliver's Brook on Ledge is a representational landscape that plays with reflections in pools of water to complicate the image, while George McNeil's Landscape Abstraction # 2 is a kaleidoscope of colors and forms, suggesting rather than representing the landscape.

The continuous interest in intense relations between pictorial elements, the very perception of a painterly surface, color and forms, suggest the artist's desire to explore different layers of meanings and emotions.

In 1923, there was a big change in Miró's art, moving toward more sign - like forms where flat shapes and lines, mostly black or strongly colored, suggest the subjects, sometimes quite cryptically.

Form is suggested by broad areas of color, sometimes applied with a heavy impasto or gauzy indistinctness, and scrubbed onto the canvas until it resembles a film of floating light.

The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico, with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.

These paintings investigate this question by making form and color suggest one thing while evoking another.

Comparing this painting with The Conjurer (1959), with its billowing forms and intense color range, again suggests the diversity and genius of Hofmann's art.

Christensen's washy colors and defined horizon, Vicente's light infused color dotted with mysterious forms, and Frankenthaler's watery, flooded field of color suggest a sense of place that is felt rather than seen.

Mondrian's brightly colored geometric abstract forms impressed him, and, according to Calder, he suggested to Mondrian «that perhaps it would be fun to make these rectangles oscillate.»

Formally, her distinctive work combines textures, forms and colors in flat, patterned paintings with collage on paper in order to suggest cultural overlay.

Ericson's clear spatial divisions suggest Ukiyo - e printmaking and give the painting a certain intensity wherein form and color play off one another.

Delicate, gently bowed branches or stalks of bamboo adorned with brightly colored bulbs and funnels and bits of mesh, and displayed leaning against the gallery walls, these improvised forms with found objects suggest fantastical fishing poles or butterfly nets.

The light play and cool color schemes characterize VanDerBeek's studio compositions that suggest references to modernist sculpture and urban architectural forms.

The bright colors and blinking lights of Sanford Biggers's Smirk suggest carnival signs, while the form — broad red lips surrounding white teeth — alludes to the racist images of African Americans used in early 20th - century advertising.

Now it recurs in the pieces like «Double Echo Wave,» «Wave Bias» and «Wave Hole,» forming concentric squares or diagonal stripes whose patchy colors suggest Frank Stella's early work rethought by the great quiltmaker Rosie Lee Tompkins.

Here, Motherwell gives enough information to suggest figuration but ultimately leaves the composition willfully ambiguous, allowing the viewer to revel in his line, color, and form in their own right.

Lozenges, zigzagging lines and circles meet up with amorphous forms, gestural sections as well as with liberally applied lines that suggest silhouettes; powerful colors or reduced black - and - whites constitute some of the elements of a highly personal pictorial realm.

Elizabeth Murray's works are frenzied cartoon - like shapes while Joanna Pousette - Dart's paintings contain subtle layers of line and color on floating curved wood panels that suggest forms in motion — «line moving through light» and what Dart calls a «visceral interchange with nature».

Two new paintings by Terry Winters display an unaccustomed feel for color and a sense of psychological entrapment in hand - spun form that suggest that he has been studying the later work of Philip Guston.

Occasionally there are subtle hints of anthropomorphic forms that suggest another level of meaning, and there is a richness and sparkle to your color, as well as the visual geometric dramas of the setup.