Sentences with phrase «totemic forms»

AR Penck (Ralf Winkler) is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor who received worldwide recognition for his paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.

During his career, Pousette - Dart created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches.

Spare and elegant, Kelly's free - standing totemic forms, one in bronze, the other two in mahogany and redwood, exude the same quiet and spectacular beauty as his better - known, brightly colored paintings.

The objects are often stacked, suggesting totemic forms.

In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.

Somewhere between totemic forms and mounds, these organic forms materialise in their own way an idea of the shapeless.

Inspired by Romanesque, Byzantine, Cubist, and Surrealist painting as well as African, Oceanic, and Native American art, he created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches.

Both artists create totemic forms that have been devised through physical labor, from either the deconstruction of material or the application of numerous layers of unblemished paint.

[5] Simpson's sculptures, with their totemic forms, suggest costumes, coverings, or containers for the viewer's body — the audience animates the work with their own memories and desires.

The totemic form appears ancient and is reminiscent of prehistoric fertility goddesses such as the Venus of Willendorf.

The resulting sculptures had a vaguely human - like, totemic form.

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He thinks that «rituals made strikes into cultural events,» while the singing of «time - honored revolutionary songs» and the «totemic identification of places, buildings, squares and marching routes» form «an inversion of religious processions.»

Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

His vocabulary includes pared - down forms and earthy and industrial materials that have a timeless, even totemic quality.

Situated in the Giardino delle Vergini, at the end of what Macel calls the «Pavilion of Time and Infinity», Arancio's contribution to the 57th Venice Biennale takes the form of a sort of therapeutic sculpture garden, where visitors are confronted by these mysterious, primeval totemic formations inspired by the petrified trees that were formed in Hawaii when a lava flow swept through a forest in 1790.

In the 1940's, these connotations evolved towards a more universal language which included the creation of myths such as Idolatress I (1944) by Hans Hofmann (1942 — 43), archetypes such as Pollock's totemic Male and Female, and primitivistic forms such as the savage biomorphs of Richard Pousette - Dart's Undulation (ca. 1941 — 42).

Geist's painted wood and plaster sculptures often utilize the totemic structure we associate with Brancusi, but they reject purity in favor of a more playful form of expression and lively sense of color.

Soon, A.R. Penck was enjoying a worldwide attention for his paintings with pictographic, primitivist imagery of human forms and other totemic designs.

It seems likely that many of Andre's early totemic sculptures may have been inspired by Brancusi, but it was only later that Andre began to produce his pure, simple forms and transitioned them to the horizontal plane.

When vertical it forms a tall, totemic pillar and is known as All That Rises Must Converge / Black (1972).

Tribe uses constructed steel to make sculptures that have a feeling of totemic obsession and pre-industrial roughness, from tiny amulets formed of bolts and other metal scraps to a giant bent phallus with two heads.

This exhibition reveals the broad scale of Ross» work from the large, free - standing, colorful metal sculptures whose simple forms evoke the totemic monuments of an ancient world to the smaller lyrical wall reliefs composed of wood veneers that create a visual extravaganza when placed next to one another.»

The writings hailed largely from the years spanning 1952 — when Bourgeois was refining her brand of metaphoric abstraction in her Personages, a series of precariously assembled totemic structures — to 1964, when Bourgeois debuted her now - canonical sculptural aesthetic of turgid, visceral forms rendered in emotive arrays of latex, wax, and resin.

Willem de Kooning's later abstract paintings are consistently placed within the sight - lines of John Mason's totemic glazed clay sculptures, their roughly hewn, hand - formed surfaces in uncanny harmony with the heavy impasto of de Kooning's brushwork.

Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used to impose forms of power, authority and control.

In its polysexual form and totemic size, Shaffer's sculpture confronts the notion of the fetish object in all of its anthropological, sexual, and Marxian formations.

Standing just over four feet tall, this totemic figure is comprised of a vertical arrangement of protruding, semi-biological forms.

Noah Purifoy's work amasses found objects — chair - casters, pipes, shoe lasts — into mysterious totemic structures that tap into a vein of traditional African belief that runs deep in American culture, while Betye Saar brings a chilling political twist to the form with the likes of Sambo's Banjo, where she dangles the image of a lynched man inside a «Sambo» banjo case.

Totemic in form and looming from high above the viewer, the scale of the latter renders the photograph more intimate than inscrutable by contrast, while the enigmatic quality of the small work heightens, by proximal suggestion, the quasi-religious solemnity evoked by its neighbor.

Each work condenses the film's dominant themes — death, rebirth, and the twilight era of modern America — into totemic sculptural form, while invoking the complex personal iconography of Barney.

Through his art he personified the historical imagery, mythical creatures and totemic figures of the past, depicting them with a true modernity of form.

Jamie Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used within the work to impose forms of power and control.

From totemic wooden sculptures to frank drawings of himself and his wife that expose the vulnerability of the human form, echoes of German Renaissance art haunt the dark forest of this demonic imagination.

This pyramidal totemic sculpture is a form of delocalized psyche and its exoskeleton — composed of steel cubes of various sizes stacked to create a three - dimensional grid — evokes the geometric compositions of Sol LeWitt and the modular works of Carl Andre.

The book traces the development of several important bodies of work, from the Penetralia sequence begun in 2008, a series of plaster and fiberglass sculptures of totemic pink phalluses, to the recent series of NUDS sculptures, which consist of nylon tights stuffed with fluff and fashioned into ambiguous biomorphic forms, redolent of Louise Bourgeois.

The art work, along with two other golden totemic sculptures on view (The Figure of the Question of Death and The Figure of the Interrogative Philosophy), illuminate Byars» interest in the transient experience of beauty and evoke simplified versions of the human form and the physical manifestation of «question.»

A similar stacking up of elements was seen in larger, more totemic pieces such as Three Forms Vertical (Offering), 1967 (BH 452, Gimpel Fils, repr.

Many of his paintings and sculptures from the 1930s, such as Woman Bird Group (Smithsonian American Art Museum), embrace these totemic and symbolic forms.

The group show features the abstracted bird shapes of Boleta (pictured above right), Fefe (who creates «typographical monsters» from letters cut out of street posters, pictured here), Highraff's mix of illustration, comics and organic forms, Kboco who paints totemic aboriginal forms, Onesto (pictured above left), Speto, Titi Freak, and Zezão who paints in sewers as well as on the streets.

Untitled, c. 1954 - 59, contains all the requisite elements of what had become by 1948 a set form: isolated sections delineated like irregular puzzle pieces, in this instance offset by an abstracted totemic figure.

Like the illusionist's apparition, works by Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel resemble gigantic totemic necklaces or quasi-ceremonial findings, their precious ceramic and wood forms twisting the building blocks of contemporary culture.