Sentences with word «vacui»

It's a phantasmic and room - filling tour de force that mixes Depression - era cartoons, Led Zeppelin album art, Italian restaurant faux - fresco painting and more in order to create the most rhythmically pleasing horror vacui of modern Americana you're sure to find.

There is vacuus ignorance and prejudice in many walks of life.

A profusion of economic cycles unifies visual information with a horror vacui aesthetics, but conceptually the work calls for the opposite.

Paintings by Zhang Huan (b. 1965) made in the past three years explore his transition from the stark ash - on - linen depictions of the natural world to his ebullient, horror vacui skull paintings.

Exemplifying this abundant, horror vacui approach to painting is the Femmes Fatales series.

Though the aversion to empty space signified by horror vacui usually connotes a fear of such spaces, in Ossorio's case, it should be understood as stemming from a daring to fill space.

His figurative, narrative artworks are characterized by a neo-gothic style and horror vacui aesthetic.

But Down the Line seems to successfully exploit these challenging qualities: the architecture is engaged, small details are playfully lost in horror - vacui works that struggle against the void, motifs are repeated until they fade, and there's an optimistic sense of unfinished business.

In their horror vacui obsessiveness, some of his works suggest...

Golden's work is a continuation of her 2015 solo show at Canada where the use of illusion and mirrors created a horror vacui filled with tables and chairs of a banquet hall from floor to ceiling.

A self - described horror vacui enthusiast, Byington explains, «My intent is to insert as much information and as many layers into a painting as possible.»

Spelunking Thomas Hirschhorn's installation Cavemanman, a vast horror vacui warren of brown packing tape and photocopied historical and sociological scholarship, I bumped into trustee emeritus Ann Wardrop.

But lest such relatively rational production leave you yearning for more, an onslaught of paintings by schizophrenic artists (with whom Melgaard has been sharing his studio) tests the venue's optical limits in true horror - vacui form.

Mr. Samaras — quietly one of the show's stars — returns, this time arranging the objects, material and tools necessary for his nonphotographic artworks into horror - vacui still lifes.

The hang is unusually packed, almost verging on a type of horror vacui — the eccentrically shaped Gallery 2 is comparable to a pierside funhouse.

This «chicanery in absentia» relies in part on horror vacui, or the aversion of empty space.

Those trippy»60s album covers and infamously illegible posters have impressed his work with a similarly intricate horror vacui, riotous abundance of color and tendency toward optical overload.

His compositional horror vacui is increasingly less science fiction than it is foreshadow, as infinite industrial horizons appear as foreign as sketches of the New World were once perceived.

Forget horror vacui: De Forest's all - over and exaggerated pointillism, characterized by blips of acrylic squeezed directly from the tube, aren't obsessive; they're a celebration of life's bounty.»

Paintings by Elizabeth Chandler, for instance, suffer from a horror vacui.

Described by Art Forum as a leading example of horror vacui, a term for filling the entire surface of an artwork with precise detail, his dense compositions are swarming with life to create a whimsical yet dystopian universe.

The artist feels he is moving in the ruins of modernism, with a strong consciousness of the» horror vacui» and the power of the «pictural turn».

Framed in white, his dark surfaces become «horror vacui» — empty spaces that our minds try to fill, using the tiny fragments of information that were saved from the fire to reanimate our memories.

McMillan suggests that horror vacui — the «compunction to fill up all empty pictorial space» — is the mark of the self - taught artist.

As horror vacui is inherently related to space, pieces that deal with spatial perception and use have been chosen.