"Symmetrical compositions" refers to arrangements or designs that are balanced and equal on both sides. It means that the elements, objects, or shapes on one side of the composition are mirrored or repeated on the other side, creating a sense of harmony and proportion.
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Initially, Sanín created works using a gestural abstract style, like contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell, but found her true voice in the geometry of hard - edge,
symmetrical compositions filled with flat planes of color.
Feeley's abstract works with their bright colors, simple repetitive forms and
symmetrical compositions occupy an important place in the history of twentieth - century American art.
«Although Rothko's approach to color and subject,» Gage wrote, «has something in common with, for example, Barnett Newman's, perhaps his closest affinities among contemporary artists were with the work of Ad Reinhardt, whose adoption of near - monochromatic color groupings form the late 1940s and exclusive concentration
on symmetrical composition from around 1950 have clear parallels in Rothko's work.
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roughly symmetrical compositions of sharply angled shapes are rendered in clear, bright colors that intersect and overlap in fevered, sometimes psychedelic combinations.
Who, looking at Bluhm's slashing gestural abstractions of the late 1950s — the work that first brought him attention — would be able to foresee the paintings he created in the 1980s and 1990s: architectonic,
intensely symmetrical compositions that owe as much to the art and architecture of Medieval and Renaissance Europe as to the Abstract Expressionist milieu in which Bluhm's style was initially forged.
A couple of recent untitled «blot» paintings —
symmetrical compositions of splotches in luridly acidic color, like Rorschach tests reinterpreted after Gerhard Richter — suggest that Marshall was justified in his early recognition that his future would not lay in abstract painting.
It has so many different elements borrowed from so many different places but as transformed by Anderson's off -
symmetrical compositions, pop - out colors and dry wit.
Using mysteriously symbolic triangles and
symmetrical compositions, Refn presents Jesse's first catwalk as a transcendental out - of - body experience.
I also love the stories within stories and the marvelous use of models and bright colors to accentuate the artificiality of the world Anderson constructs, as well as the claustrophobic spaces and
symmetrical compositions.
Wes Anderson's films have the feel of a retro storybook with
their symmetrical composition, timeless narrative structure and the most complex and detailed simplicity.
Anderson's distinctive trademarks of extreme close - ups, dolly zooms, whip pans, and
symmetrical composition have proven so singular that Anderson's tastes and iconography arguably constitute a kind of gateway...
He reconfigures visual and compositional speed into vibration: he scales down the faster strokes and pulls them in, like current in a light bulb; he builds up
symmetrical compositions, like vertebrae in a spine.
The black paintings of the 1960s and the later 1950s give way to the monochrome canvases of the mid-1950s, with
their symmetrical compositions of bars and squares, painted with smoldering reds and transcendental blues.
Hayuk is known for her massively scaled abstract murals characterized by intricate patterns,
symmetrical compositions and super bright colors.
With
their symmetrical compositions, intricate patterns, and lush colors, Hayuk's paintings and massively scaled murals recall views of outer space, traditional Ukrainian crafts, airbrushed manicures, and mandalas.
In such paintings as Min - Oe (1951) Twombly devised bold,
symmetrical compositions, which, he suggested, were characteristic of both primitive and classical art.
The symmetrical composition and massed linearity of multiple images parallels that of the everyday German houses depicted in the individual prints.
Up close, one can see a multitude of colors, threads, angles, and lines, but from a distance each work dissolves into
a symmetrical composition, suggestive of a mathematical and architecturally driven process.
Söderberg's work also displays an array of
symmetrical compositions that depict a world full of vibrant colors and spiritualist ideals.
The No paintings are square,
symmetrical compositions of finely differentiated, spectrally exact complementary colors, arranged around a central square of neutral gray created by the complements» mix and equivalent to the color of the overall painting field.
Known for his use of unprimed canvas, Feeley typically employed just two or three bright colors in creating his simple and
symmetrical compositions.
With
their symmetrical compositions, intricate patterns, and lush colors, Maya Hayuk's paintings and massively scaled murals recall views of outer space, traditional Ukrainian crafts, airbrushed manicures, and mandalas.
Blannin has responded to the fresco's particular chromatic properties by using a series of collaged drawings as the basis for paintings, whose oppositional and complimentary colour relationships highlight, balance and unbalance
the symmetrical composition through the organisation of form and layers of paint.
Symmetrical compositions of light fixtures and front - door accents create welcoming entryways and boost curb appeal.