Sentences with phrase «visual lexicons»

From sculpture to installation, film and painting, their studio works feature in the exhibition to highlight the crucial process of collaboration in many instances, and demonstrate how partnerships or a dedicated environment that incubates and generates different approaches can lead to fresh visual lexicons, methods, materials and trajectories in practice.

Using the visual language of engraving intrinsically tied to honor and venerate, Pauley employs this association and unexpectedly combines it with visual lexicons of the mundane, the fleeting, and even the defiled, such as vandalism and graffiti.

Fairey uses the visual lexicons of advertising and propaganda to implore viewers to question their surrounding environment, rather than passively accept the messages broadcasted to them by corporate and government entities.

Made in Japan I illustrates Basquiat's growing maturity as an artist, bringing together multiple visual lexicons in the manner for which his work is celebrated.

With his formidable visual lexicon, Gallo suggests he has drunk from the cup of breakthrough seventies cinema.

In one sustained series, she uses an appropriated visual lexicon of 276 images gleaned from diverse sources (books on biology, phrenology, and physics; tattoos, stamps, and cartoons; etc.), reconfiguring public information into the private space of the imagination.

Michael Joo's visual lexicon speaks to issues of transformation of matter and energy.

Then came Athens, the city I chose to live and work in to this day, where it comes as no surprise that all these influences derived from the core of my oeuvre and, surely, my visual lexicon and artistic practice.

As the gallery notes: «Although often initiated by spontaneous encounters and intuitive connections with his sitters, Taylor's portraits carry a visual lexicon that he has developed over decades.

Motifs do reappear — black pears, strawberries, monkeys, noses, silhouettes, roosters, clocks — but less as representations or signatures, and more as a visual lexicon which allows her to expand and distort their meanings in an ongoing meditation on the nature of representation and the elasticity of symbols.

Together the works form a powerful visual lexicon, a yearbook depicting the faces of a new culture forged by the artist.

These influences are mixed with personal references, adding complexity to Pessoli's visual lexicon.

, in which Bass addresses the tension between containment and mobility while creating her own unique visual lexicon.

Part anatomical icon, part contemporary vanitas and part self - projection, the floating cranium represents a vital touchstone within Basquiat's visual lexicon.

Eggs, flowers, and desiccated corn signify the fragility of existence, while portals, crushed beer cans, and cacti complicate the references to beauty and luxury that have long been staples of the artist's visual lexicon.

With oil on canvas Marti Cormand builds a visual lexicon, connecting bits of discrete information into complex networks of spheres, tubes, vessels and modules.

The series Diagrams with my Father was created through the appropriation of theological diagrams from the elder Young's teachings, combined with symbols that carry a particular weight in the artist's visual lexicon.

His now famous Slides of a Changing Painting (1982 - 1983) established much of the imagery that would go on to form his rich visual lexicon (the torso and drain motifs featuring in Untitled can be traced to these slides).

It popularized the idea of the artist as designer rather than craftsmen, and introduced an entirely new visual lexicon to Western art history.

Indeed, Gober's rich visual lexicon is peppered with seemingly ordinary objects — lightbulbs, sinks, limbs, a stack of newspapers, or a giant box of cereal or stick of butter — that emanate a mysterious and unworldly beauty.

Continuing what has become a hallmark series of self - portraits, Heffernan has developed a unique and fertile visual lexicon, which deftly combines themes of the personal with the political, the universal with the individual, and the familiar with the fantastical.

Lê uses these new collages to illustrate a cultural shift in Vietnam in recent years, as corporate logos and insignias gradually replace the war imagery that has long dominated the country's visual lexicon.

Her works make use of an idiosyncratic visual lexicon, the directness of cartoonish figures, and a flattened perspective, but simultaneously betray a deep awareness of art history and painterly conventions.

In formulating a distinct visual lexicon he has achieved unbelievable freedoms - not only creating pure gestures but also allowing those gestures to manifest in complete, purposeful ways.

During this transition, Howard looked to Josef Albers to learn from his modernist visual lexicon.

Gilbert & George are famous and infamous for their provocative and controversial visual lexicon and have built a strong tradition of eccentric, radical, and pugnacious cross-disciplinary art practice — embodying performance, sculpture, and painting since they first met as students at St Martin's School of Art in 1967.

For the design, the abstract shapes and colors were pulled from my visual lexicon diary.

For the next few decades, Sharrer built a visual lexicon throughout her paintings with repeated imagery.

While there certainly is a value to an artist reinterpreting their own visual lexicon, I would have liked to see Johnson reach further with his own experimentation, particularly given such a grand forum.

This triptych appears to be a regular point of reference within the artist's visual lexicon.

In counterpoint, groups of multi-headed animals, figures with hands raised, and seated nudes derived from the Nayarit visual lexicon appear on mantels, in reference to Stafford's claim that prior to their acquisition by LACMA as works of art, the ceramics had served as decorations.

For Commonwealth and Council, Porras - Kim studies the formal vocabulary of objects found in Jalisco and offers parallels from our contemporary visual lexicon.

Introverted and stoic, these works are abundant with unexpected juxtapositions, idiosyncratic arrangements, and a subversive visual lexicon.

The combined forces of his formal training, quick graffiti chops, and expert skills as a draftsman, along with multiple artistic influences (Mexican Muralists, tramp art, surfer culture, graffiti from the 1970s and 1980s, the beat poets, geometric abstraction, op art, early video and site - specific works, graphic design, typography, and cartoons) have factored into his unwieldy, yet unmistakable visual lexicon.

The composition is reminiscent of the iconic history painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, but the visual lexicon is anything but triumphant.

Inspired by artists including Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas and Saya Woolfalk, Moleski created a visual lexicon somewhere between the ancient past and the imaginary future.

Her paintings establish their own visual lexicon without jettisoning existing systems of signification.

Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964) built his visual lexicon from the most minimal of props — dust - covered bottles, bowls, vases, pitchers, tins and boxes.

It is beautifully paced so that inklings of the future were always there in hindsight, as it were; when you come to the Black Paintings, they still look irreducibly abstract in their visual lexicon, no matter how figurative they may be; and the same becomes true in reverse.

Known for paintings that merged the gestures of mid-century abstraction with the political iconography of 20th - century radical graphics, I continue my ongoing interrogation of Modernism with a significantly expanded visual lexicon.

Modern abstract paintings challenged and transformed humanity's visual lexicon.

29 March - 10 June 1994 Galleries 1, 2 and 3 This exhibition surveys the visual lexicon of Serge Spitzer, who over the past twenty years has devised a kind of sculptural language.

Having a recognizable and recurrent visual lexicon shows us the way an object is thick with the residue of significance.

What Moyer refers to as an «ongoing interrogation of Modernism with a significantly expanded visual lexicon,» has come to define her technically precise and boldly suggestive work.

Over decades, he has refined a complex system of symbols and motifs into a distinctive visual lexicon, fusing Persian traditions with pop sensibility.

Both were originally conceived as part of the visual lexicon of Uncounted, a larger project about time, light, and performativity.

The exhibition Barberadise showcases new paintings that integrate familiar icons from Scharf's visual lexicon and implies a utopian world that is at once nostalgically comic and vibrantly cosmic.

For her second solo show at the gallery, she expands her visual lexicon to incorporate new mediums.

Pulling symbols from the everyday, art history and his own visual lexicon, Heyer's work questions the nature of the known.

The most striking of Douaihy's works come from the latter period where he developed his own visual lexicon, allowing himself to exaggerate colours on his canvases.