Sentences with phrase «tracery of»

Ackerman hangs that portrait off - center, like the remnant of an imaginary museum, amid a tracery of black - and - white.

Here he worked a tracery of ridges into walls of wet riverine mud.

Song for Coal is based around the flamboyant tracery of the apocalyptic rose window of Sainte Chapelle, Paris: 152 separate panels form a rose window of film, each containing its own individual piece, creating kaleidoscopic imagery that is rich, meditative and slowly evolves through viewing coal as a mineral, economic driver and a source of iconography.

A field of overlapping solid rectangles, layered with a tracery of open frames painted - drawn, really - in contrasting hues, it positions itself somewhere between the famous «Homage to the Square» paintings and prints of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) and the jostling, evanescent windows of a computer screen.

Ground colors at a picture's periphery and a tracery of open rectangles running over areas where canvas tooth shows through probably indicate decisions made early and late in the work's making.

The drips and washes that so vividly recall the liquid state of the paint as it leaves the brush are most aptly visible in the perfect summer painting, Pool, which uses four panels of Dura - lar paper (like vellum) on which she has drawn more than painted the delicate tracery of plants, layered over a firm painting of a pool edged in a blue crosshatch pattern, the most representational moment in the show.

With its thin, delicate tracery of black threading throughout the strokes of whites and filaments of shifting color forms, Number 15 is a fitting culmination of Tomlin's career.By inclination a superb colorist, Tomlin reduced his palette from 1945 to 1947, and focused first on the painterly mark, adapting a calligraphic technique within a vaguely Cubist structure of horizontals and verticals.

Sheinkman recalls the layered tracery of Abstract Expressionism, the shallow space of Brice Marden, and hints of calligraphy.

She turns successively to dots, stripes, and a tracery of lines like that of tiling or stained glass.

Altmejd's diverse and varied oeuvre includes his familiar platform - like structures punctuated by mirrored reliquaries of crystals, flowers, birds, and werewolf bodies and body parts, an inventive assortment of singular werewolf heads, clear Plexiglas boxes filled with an intricate tracery of gold chains, his spectacular aviary filling the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, uncanny part - bird part - human sculptures, a sculptural clock representing the temporal process of its making, and most recently colossal giants.

«Pom - Pom Painting» by Chris Martin suggests the mad tracery of errant pinballs on their several journeys.»

Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could, just as Mama Fresia had taught her in the gentle nights of her childhood, when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.

The result is a tracery of lines that tangle together into beautiful braids.

Creation thus becomes increasingly automated through what Deltorn calls «the arcane traceries of deep architecture.»

One canvas is bookended by traceries of dirtied turpentine and delineated with a swift, lilting line.

Not exact matches

Images and colors shift and swirl as the music rises and falls; along the way there are fleeting suggestions of Gothic tracery, images of light shafting down through darkness, and the sun rising through clouds.

The long exposure captures the evolution of the firework's tracery, which is arguably more beautiful than our ordinary real - time view of pyrotechnics.

As with Jackson Pollock's enamel tracery and Janet Sobel's drip paintings of roughly the same time, Gorky blows up the intimacy of drawing to the epic scale of painting.

Pollock's drips could now seem impersonal rather than impulsive, and his late tracery in black, with obvious hints of human figuration, made more sense.

Alice Attie draws abstract traceries with it, Simryn Gill fashions it into paper boats and spheres, Erica Baum gently folds it, and Jackie Mack collects it, starting with the first and last word of «every book I own.»

In these works, individual letters seem woven into lace like patterns from the upper to the lower portions of the support; in others, letters are distributed evenly across the work's surface as though collectively constituting gossamer scrims or two dimensional traceries.

Ed Ruscha obsessively catalogues the world around him in photographs of palm trees, gas stations and the empty parking lots on show; seen from above, the herring bone patterns that mark the different bays create delicate traceries across the tarmac (pictured above right: Gilmore Drive - in Theater - 6201 W. Third St. 1967).

While the exhibition emphasizes Hofmann's drawings from the 1930s and»40s, there are a few highly suggestive late works in the exhibition, particularly several untitled pieces from 1961 in which the artist contrasts a few seemingly carefree drips and spatters of richly hued oil paint with delicate felt - marker traceries.

In this light, his overlapping white rectangles of 1951 can resemble tracery as well.

The sun's a flying saucer surrounded by rays of elation, foliage throbs, every little cricket, cottage and cow becomes an excited hieroglyph in a leaping black tracery.

At the same time, the highly controlled tracery makes one more aware of his material's fragile complexity.

Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay «On the Inevitability of the Middle Class,» it consists of ten large - scale canvas - mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout color plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries, sigils and quotation derived from the pop culture of the era narrate an epic vision of the scars and aspirations of postwar Europe.

The resulting panels take on new sculptural lives as tracery that delineates the space of a canvas behind it.

Later he intensified his focus, concentrating on all - over compositions of intricate tracery and linked patches of color.

Excavation, 1950 (Art Institute of Chicago), Asheville, 1949 (The Phillips Collection, Washington), Attic, 1949 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Painting, 1948 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Light in August, 1946 (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art) are among the most poetically charged and original paintings of the century, almost abstract but alive with human traceries.

The tracery screen of tree foliage and the tall buildings add to the uncertain weather.

His multilayered, optically rich compositions and their highly precise, overlapping skeins of elusive traceries and dots anticipate the paintings of Steve Charles and the drawings of Gina Ferrari, Simon Frost, John Morrison and Daniel Zellner.

In many of the paintings, the dots and tracery seem poised and ready to detach themselves from the material world.

«The glamour look evolved,» Schwartz says, «as we discussed mirrored glass on the refrigerators, intersecting tracery mullions on the glassed doors of the wall cabinetry, and underlighting at the island.»