Sentences with phrase «use of painterly abstraction»

In this exhibition — which takes its title from the phonetic spelling of the word Atmosphere — all three artists respond to the dynamic climate of contemporary South Africa, primarily through the use of painterly abstraction.

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In my work of 1967 - 1968 using colored lines across thick, rolled colored fields, and painterly abstractions with allusions to nature I articulated where I thought advanced painting should go.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high Modernism.

Mainly, he expanded upon Pop Art's use of images from popular culture, and further complicated it by adding abstraction and an emphasis on painterly process.

However, his rejection of the expressive brushwork employed by other abstract expressionists such as Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, and his use of hard - edged areas of flat color, can be seen as a precursor to post painterly abstraction and the minimalist works of artists such as Frank Stella.

Both used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

Searching for the metaphoric representation of mankind, Millei has used his intuition and painterly brushstrokes to create objects of pure abstraction that are no longer just about making a portrait of one person, but represent a collective portrait of men / women.

These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

Using thinned out paint and working from the reverse of the canvas, Hood's painting technique recalls Van Gogh's painterly strokes and Color Field abstractions.

Beginning with The Tormentors of 1947 — 48, Guston gradually unravels the figurative scaffolding that he used throughout the 1940s into subtle painterly abstractions.

His brightly coloured painting - with its flat, razor - edged imagery, influenced by contemporary techniques of Post Painterly Abstraction and the decor of pinball machines - typically uses single words, or commands, billboard - style - to highlight different aspects of American culture, including the illusion and disillusion of love.

The only important difference is that while Richter utilizes various painterly range from monochrome, minimal color charts, hard edge to gestural abstraction, as well as his occasional use of croppings and other mechanical intervention of makings and unmakings, you have always stayed with one basic image and format.

These she filters through the unavoidable artifice of modern life, using conscious painterly abstraction as a foil.