Sentences with phrase «translucent surfaces»

noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, February 19 FACULTY BIENNIAL ARTIST TALKS: Looking Through the Surface with Barry Badgett, associate professor of sculpture, and Ogallala Vision with Diane Thomas - Lincoln, assistant professor of painting and drawing and director of Art and Design's decorative and ornamental program Barry Badgett uses translucent surfaces in sculpture to interpret personal experiences, objects, and ideas.

In still another set of repetitions, the outlines of cardboard tubes again acquire her craggy, translucent surfaces.

In other words, the ratios must be compatible with what would occur with actual translucent surfaces (for example, fog or frosted glass).

Thick, textured, translucent surface draws the viewer into the piece.

In the following room an unmistakable if mediocre Philip Guston dominates a space that includes a Richard Hamilton, an Alberto Burri, whose scorched and translucent surface rhymes with a Sigmar Polke a few rooms away, and a dull Domenico Gnoli - four paintings that derail suspicions that the show is a survey of masterpieces.

During the 1960s in Los Angeles, many California artists were creating work that focused on the surface qualities of a work of art — a tendency that generated the descriptive phrase «finish fetish» — an immaculate, glistening, often translucent surface which conveys the look of a refined industrial process.

In each of the images, Schomaker captures her naked body pressed against the translucent surface in different poses — some suggesting dance, others suggesting imprisonment.

Not exact matches

Cook, on one side only, until the crepe is uniformly translucent and the surface no longer looks wet, 45 seconds to 1 minute.

Aside from appearing somewhat more translucent than the skin we've become accustomed to, the skin on the faces of newborns and older babies can have a few or a whole bunch of little bumps on its surface.

From millimeter - scale dots in surface waters to relative giants in the depths, larvaceans have jellyfish - translucent bodies but a cordlike structure (called a notochord) reminiscent of very ancient ancestors of vertebrates.

Diamonds, those translucent rarities, illuminate the depths of our planet and reveal connections between the deep Earth and the surface of our planet through both time and space.

«This helps the skin protect itself from environmental damage, prevent too much moisturize loss through evaporation, and keeps surface cells translucent, keeping that glow of youth shining through when light hits your skin.

Translucent solar panels in the top surface of the instrument panel capture sunlight and convert it into energy, showcasing the vehicle's «green» character.

To prepare the ground, he covered the entire surface in multiple layers of a radiant lead white, which were then sanded down and painted again, only to be sanded anew, «until the surface became almost translucent» (M. Stevens and A. Swan, De Kooning: An American Master, New York, 2004, p. 562).

From the presentation of her monotypes through which the translucent nature of the rice paper was highlighted, to the sculptures from her Cadernos series where rice paper was sandwiched between acrylic leaves, Schendel was engaged in a constant battle to free her work from the constraints of its two dimensional surface.

Installed throughout the gallery, these freestanding, translucent screens multiply the reflective surfaces of the gallery's glass walls and deliberately incite a choreography of movement.

The translucent quality of encaustic directly applied to the surface augments whatever atmospheric condition the image holds.

I employ a responsive use of time and gravity to achieve surfaces that are luminous, translucent, and show evidence of the artist's hand and the process of their own making.

The translucent layers define the plane as a screen rather than as a surface, which links the artist to David Reed, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli and, to a lesser degree, Pieter Schoolwerth.

In his current show, Whitney extends his gamut, going from thin, crackled surfaces, to washy, translucent layers exposing painted over shapes, to solid planes of color.

In his recent exhibition, Standard Deviation, at the Green on Red Gallery (May 30 — July 6, 2013), the aluminum sheets that make up the surfaces of his paintings are covered with thin layers of translucent colors; puddles, slashes and spills; scraped, sanded and scarred areas; built up grooves and ellipses, none of which add up to an overall image or dissipate into randomness and chaos.

The rich dense or translucent colours, multiple accurate placement of dynamic marks, control of layers and of surface quality, and directory of marks.

Instead of the translucent washes of faint color seen during earlier periods, Martin experimented with a palette of muted greys, layering paint to create robust, opaque surfaces that serve as a bridge between her early and later works.

Through a process of applying many translucent layers of oil paint onto canvases lying on the floor random expressionistic color fields are created sometimes with broken geometric structures floating on the surface.

Thousands of slim, inch - long rectangles of translucent vellum are pinned just above a white surface, forming a large grid with continuous rows.

As in Brydelsky's landscape and floral work, encaustic is applied to add a translucent, atmospheric quality to the surface.

Unlike Barnett Newman, whose flat opaque layers of even reds, blues, whites and browns emphasize the flatness of the surface — after all it's a two - dimensional space, Francis draws with a combination of translucent, semi-opaque and opaque pigments.

Watermarks were an unexpected thread in a number of works on display and lent marvelous results: Bochner's Language is not Transparent (1999)(watermarked translucent abaca on black cotton) recalls investments in language as an artistic material and support, a proposition mirrored in the materiality of paper; while Kentridge's Anne (2009)(watermarked cotton) is displayed in a lightbox illuminating its normally discreet surface.

Comprised of countless buttons, the flat disk - like surface of each translucent unit is repetitively stacked and affixed with glue, unveiling tones and hues of ivory, soft fleshy pink, and mauve, in an otherwise transparent object.

The paintings» wax - like surfaces — built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers — have a luminous warmth and spatial depth.

Rather than using paint to depict skin with observational exactitude, Brown presents translucent brushstrokes revealing the flesh and muscles beneath the surface.

The early evidence of the artist's ability with the brush is first revealed in the late 1960s when he pulls away from the hard - edge elliptical dots that had come to signify his work by stretching and enlarging them, ultimately giving the shapes a translucent appearance that, by the»70s, would eventually disappear into the surface.

The catalogue notes that his was the second painting the artist completed in 1949 and is a «precursor to those White Paintings with respect to the way the pigment is applied to the panel,» adding that «Rauschenberg painted the board in such light hues that the surface of Unitled is render with a translucent glow.»

«The uniquely refined translucent glass surfaces suggest the mysterious qualities of cells and, on a larger scale, the cloudiness of their futures.

The initial surface of his paintings is composed of translucent scrims of chiffon, fiberglass window screens, geometric pieces of steel, and brightly colored layers of vinyl.

In areas where the surface is translucent, the stretchers and the wall behind the painting can be glimpsed.

Beverly Barkat's Evocative Surfaces at Museo di Palazzo Grimani is an exploration of surface and process in painting through large transparent and translucent paintings that hang in many rooms of the Grimani Palazzo.

Though still made from acrylic paint and aluminum strips, TK5182 - 3 / 4 ′ 75 (1975) incorporates metallic pigment and translucent layering to create a shimmering, continually changing surface.

After coating them with as many as eight layers of translucent or opaque paints, he binds the initial blobs onto the surface, producing gorgeous, intriguing, collagelike works that gleam with luscious hues and palpable paint.

Polke's trademarks are all here: the painstakingly rendered benday dots; the resin - soaked translucent fabrics which bring the stretchers» underlying cruciforms to the surface of the image; the substitution of two or three garishly patterned fabrics for canvas; the carefree ectoplasmic, ejaculatory paint trails; the disjunctive combinations of imagery drawn from current affairs, histories and fables.

The highly saturated surfaces radiate with translucent layers of color.

The surfaces are predominantly painted black; projected on these dark backgrounds like fleshly X rays are translucent, ghostly - white figures, their heads always cropped by the canvases» top edges.

Employing oil, acrylic gouache and ink on canvas or linen, the artist builds coats of intensely hued pigments and then deconstructs the surface; creating translucent layers which evoke space and dimension.

Both men, under the influence of Ms. Frankenthaler, began experimenting with stain technique, thinning their paint and applying it to unprimed canvas to create translucent layers of color that revealed the canvas surface.

He organized the panels as though viewers were «reading a book,» he said, placing them in a sequence that starts at 9:15 a.m. and goes until 8:54 p.m., from left to right, top to bottom, capturing the changing reflective and translucent conditions of the water's surface.

The artist's signature technique of staining an unprimed canvas with diluted paints is employed to dramatic effect here, with added translucent bands of white that glimmer and oscillate as sunlight might play across its surface, while darker greys and browns add depth, richness and dimension.

Juxtaposing translucent rainbow - hued shapes over the natural image Shahbazi creates a lively interplay between surface, depth and color.»

Rather than using paint to depict skin with observational exactitude, Brown shows the medium itself to be full of visceral life; translucent brushstrokes reveal the flesh, muscle, and sinew beneath the surface.

Close - ups of Gianna Commito's abstract painting reveal the textured mark making that results from taping the surface and layering translucent and opaque paints.

Perhaps Kai Althoff's homage to the fluid seductiveness of Jewish masculinity hung on translucent silk curtains is the show's most grandiose artwork; it's exceptionally beautiful and weird in a German - Catholic - homo sort of way, and you can see how, in the moments where the more dangerous confluences of personal proclivities begin to surface, the curators» premise allows for a kind of Huysmans-esque inventiveness.