His sculptures can be regarded as expression of
traditional abstract form, but in their interaction with the viewer, they work on another level as well.
Not exact matches
Refn's latest film, Only God Forgives, reunites him with Drive's star, Ryan Gosling, but it moves even further away from
traditional narrative and into a near
abstract, near hallucinogenic, near nihilistic subversion of
traditional narrative and with it, the usual visceral, emotional, and intellectual pleasures associated with that
form.
Shōhaku transformed more conventional representations of the dragon found in the
traditional Japanese mythological figures of the Cloud and Dragon paintings into fantastical images where the mythological being verged between hideous monster and an
abstract anamorphic
form.
Artist Hong Hong combines two
traditional forms of papermaking — Tibetan and Japanese — to create large - scale
abstract paper sculptures.
Apfelbaum's work explores the limitations of
traditional disciplinary
forms, approaches to
abstract representation, and references to graphic pop cultural imagery.
On the one hand, you have these really beautiful, minimalist,
abstract works (in the kind of
traditional sense of thinking about Donald Judd, Anne Truitt, that kind of concern for color and
form), and then you have your video works, or your use of flowers, like the way a flower or an arrangement of flowers can stand in for something.
We're not sure what exactly to call Lena Henke's printed - on boxes of transparent plastic — in the
traditional of Donald Judd's «specific objects,» they hang on the wall but are clearly sculptural, and they use photographic images, but in
abstracted forms.
Ignoring the
traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted and
abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and
abstract forms.
Formed in 1938 with the aim to defend, validate and promote
abstract and non-objective art, the Transcendental Painting Group was an oddity in an overwhelmingly
traditional art world devoted to representational art.
Inspired by the Sienese painters from the thirteenth to fifteenth century, Geers interweaves the razor mesh with
traditional iconography and
abstract forms.
Jennifer Mehigan (b. 1988), currently working in Ireland, uses
traditional and digital methods of drawing, painting and sculpture to create «cybersensual» works: material pieces that combine vivid arrays of colour and
abstract forms with a pronounced digital character.
The theme of the show marries the often sacred and sensual
traditional use of the human back to represent
form with the more
abstract concept of what it means to be «back to back».
Using
traditional «feminine» color palettes, textures and imagery, I manipulate the most notable parts of the female
form like lips, curves and hair into
abstract forms.
Stripped of overt narrative, his
abstract forms are fabricated by hand, achieving a visible poetic harmony while offering subtle references to both the human
form and to
traditional cultures.
Conversely, Steven Frost's assortment of embellished sex toys — protests against
traditional notions of good taste — become investigations of
abstracted color and
form in their ornate departure from the norm.
Palmeri created these works using
traditional painting tools as well as graffiti marker and spray paint to pay homage to
abstract painters like Willem de Kooning while reclaiming
abstract depictions of the female
form from a woman's perspective.
Traditional letterforms are melting and straightening and refracting and layering and
abstracting and slicing into geometric
forms tonight in Portland Oregon as «Three The Hard Way» opens with men who came up through graffiti and embraced a new enthusiasm for this modern visual vocabulary.
Although this feature will start in 1993 and focus on of his move into more
abstract forms of graffiti, there is no doubt that Joker is skilled in all aspects of
traditional graffiti as well.
Heavily influenced by biology, this original collection uses
abstract ideas of sculpture,
traditional forms of jewelry and the human body to create pieces intended to function as separate organisms living with their human hosts.
Van de Velde expands this experience of
traditional projected image by taking advantage of recent technological advances in both hardware and software to combine light, non-pictorial visuals, color and
abstract geometric
forms into three - dimensional environments.»
Milcah Bassel's newest work incorporates
traditional printmaking and ceramics, employing
abstract geometric
forms as compartments of body interiors and exploring the perpetual human need to measure and quantify the organic world.
As people have different views of what is «feminine,» we hope to push the typical thoughts on femininity and not only have portraits of women, but also art relating to: Women across cultures, empowerment, non-typical feminine qualities, feminine qualities in
abstract forms,
traditional vs contemporary femininity, mother nature, and other creative concepts.
Avoiding a didactic approach to storytelling, Beloufa interrupts and
abstracts traditional forms of narrative.
While his early works in the 1970s were mostly created using recovered objects, in his later work Cragg has used more
traditional materials, such as wood, bronze and marble, continually renewing his repertoire of
forms, reaching towards an
abstract appreciation of the human body.
The selection of works feature both
traditional and
abstracted representations of landscape depicting various
forms of the exterior world as well as our internal or psychological relationship to nature.
With the internet as his podium and round table, he has been historicizing and canonizing these artists, young and old, who have been creating art beyond the norms of
traditional graffiti, esoteric
forms of painting and sculpture that veer outside of the proscribed boundaries into the experimental, the
abstract, the poetic, and the hybrid.
Last year, during a summer residency at Lake George in upstate New York sponsored by Openings Artist Residency, Lee experimented with new
forms, techniques and materials, while continuing to take inspiration from masters of
traditional Chinese art and modern,
abstract painters.
The resulting
forms are at once minimal and dense, familiar and
abstract, and what initially may have seemed simplistic and
traditional instead reveals a complex and strategic approach to painting.
With the internet as his podium and round table, he has been historicizing and canonizing these artists, young and old, who have been creating art outside the norms of
traditional graffiti, esoteric
forms of painting and sculpture that veer outside of the proscribed boundaries into the experimental, the
abstract, the poetic, and the hybrid.Artists that fall under the term Progressive Graffiti are generally innately gifted draftsmen, who aspire to a Master's Level at their craft.