Sentences with phrase «symmetrical paintings»

There is also the Swiss healer Emma Kunz, who used a pendulum to compose her drawings, or the Belgian miner Augustin Lesage, who began to create complex symmetrical paintings following a vision he had in the mine, according to direct instructions from «above».

She also started exploring the potential of symmetrical paintings which was the first time Frankenthaler was interested in the edges of her paintings.

(1959), «Black Paintings» series «Out of frustration with some previous works I'd made using combinations of black, yellow and red stripes, I started making symmetrical paintings with all - black bands that radiated in concentric patterns from the center of the composition.

I found the question annoying because you could make a beautiful or a lousy symmetrical painting, or a beautiful or a lousy asymmetrical painting.

You might have noticed in the home tour that I painted a symmetrical painting that I uploaded to Etsy so you can by it and download it if you want to for only $ 6.

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We all want our holidays to look like a Norman Rockwell painting, with the turkey basted to golden brown, the kids acting like perfect angels, and an exquisitely decorated and perfectly symmetrical tree glittering in the background.

This is Chanel's Provocation and Finger Paints's Symmetrical Symphony mattefied with Essie's Matte About You matte top coat.

Rothko subsequently jettisoned the patchy irregularity of the multiform paintings for a simplified, symmetrical format.

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.

This means that the galleries show chairs and tables arranged in symmetrical patterns as though in a great house, even if four identical chairs give no more information than one; they contain numerous «cutesy vignettes» (in the present curators» words) with vases placed on furniture to create a decorative effect, often to the detriment of the support; and are filled with paintings which make a decorative but not thematic contribution to the whole.

Each of his paintings is symmetrical — one side of the canvas mirrors the other, like a Rorschach test.

This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at the symmetrical center of the composition — by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support.

An exciting exemplar of contemporary abstract painting, Caio's new works like a release of Apollonian exuberance, begin as checkerboards of light, broad stripes, and end in smooth symmetrical swathes of colour.

Using geometric forms found in traditional Plains First Nations beadwork and hide painting (see Indigenous Art), this consummate colourist created largely symmetrical works consisting of interlocking arrows, triangles and rectangles.

The Los Angeles artists emphasized a unified whole by creating paintings of centered, though not always symmetrical, composition of forms connected on a flat surface.

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.

I was an abstract painter when I left Yale, and I was really aware, partially because minimalist artists had helped me articulate this, how standing in front of a painting or sculpture felt different depending on whether it's symmetrical or asymmetrical, if it towers over you, or it's smaller than your head how all of those things affect bodily feeling.

«Untitled 1» and «Untitled 5» are symmetrical abstractions of flower forms, built from hundreds of thin painted prongs of clay.

This series of large paintings represents a break from previous work which was based on symmetrical figures created by direct transfer from painted sheets.

In such paintings as Min - Oe (1951) Twombly devised bold, symmetrical compositions, which, he suggested, were characteristic of both primitive and classical art.

Loie Hollowell is a Queens - based artist, whose oil paintings of symmetrical and anatomical forms pose between slight figuration and geometric precision, doubtlessly recalling Georgia O'Keefe's floral depictions.

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.

These works presented flattened surfaces completely covered in black paint with the addition of geometrically symmetrical white lines.

Her paintings are usually dominated by symmetrical linear patterns fashioned with bright acrylic colors except when figural forms emerge, which have the effect of decentralizing the composition.

But his obsession with colour as the fount and origin of painting, and his preoccupation with the image of the sun, symmetrical, haloed, brightly pulsing, would lead to a reappraisal of his achievement in the 1940s and 1950s, resonating with the colour experimentation of Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, and through him on the young Kenneth Noland.

Wright's geometric drawing painted in gold leaf were, he said, «that rare thing in the Turner Prize — a work of dazzling, incandescent beauty — harmonious, symmetrical, satisfying and sensuous».

Scottish - based Richard Wright, who specializes in large wall paintings made for specific spaces, has adorned the far wall of a room with symmetrical, intricate gold - leaf patterns.

Their bright symmetrical designs draw on a host of multicultural sources while exploring still - current concerns with the materials and methods of paintings.

And its visual correlative — stark black enamel stripes arranged in a predetermined symmetrical pattern — is the work of a precocious smart aleck (whose youthful callowness is also on display in the title of the 1958 Black Painting, «Arbeit Macht Frei») demonstrating the true condition of the art form.

These paintings from 1962 and 1963 radiate a symmetrical serenity in their velvety colors, classical forms that speak to the art of ancient Greece and Egypt, and their interlocking patterns that evoke Moorish tile decorations.

He had smeared a line of cadmium red light on a strip of masking tape that divided a vertical canvas painted cadmium red deep into two halves, creating a bilaterally symmetrical image of solid color.

Ben La Rocco paints symmetrical compositions that resemble race car graphics, while Derek Leka channels Peter Halley's cells and conduits.

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.

It is as if Allen has lifted them from the studio floor of Leon Kossoff or Frank Auerbach and stuck them — like wads of tar — onto an abstract painting, whose graphic imagery of symmetrical patterns evokes the symphonic abstractions of Frantisek Kupka and the Surrealist landscapes of Paul Nash.

Recognized for his early paintings of simple, formally symmetrical shapes in a carefully considered color palette, the works in this exhibition continue his recent experimentation with a looser structure.

Thiebaud's 1961 still - life painting of rows of symmetrical Pies, thickly painted on a cream background and in step with a then - emerging Pop style, sold for $ 4 million, above the $ 3.5 million high estimate.

The compositions are bilaterally symmetrical and are drawn directly from ancient Roman mosaics, decorative wall painting, quilt patterns, and textile design.

Matthew: The new bilaterally symmetrical forms in your paintings elicit a fierce kaleidoscopic effect, a kind of folding, centrifugal space.

Symmetrical and Mandala - like, these paintings are logical like game boards or flags.

In the newer American painting we strive to get the thing in the middle, and symmetrical, but just to get a kind of force, just to get the thing on the canvas.

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.

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.

From Nefertiti's beautifully sculpted, brilliantly painted, symmetrical face, to the alluring renditions of Venus» voluptuous full - figure, to photographs of Marilyn Monroe's iconic wind blown dress, the list goes on and on.

The leather ottoman complements the blue Paul Pagk painting, creating a symmetrical silhouette.