Dzubas did not create his next major series until 1960, when he began working on large canvases in a black and
white calligraphic style.
He followed this up in 1975 with a new series of dense, richly coloured abstract paintings, and later, with a series of mostly
white calligraphic - style compositions.
Always trying to escape the limitations of medium, form and style, the artist's creations are quite unique pieces of mostly black and
white calligraphic drawings and abstract sculptures.
Rostarr has built a extensive oeuvre of abstract polymorphic paintings, totemic iconographic characters and mostly black and
white calligraphic drawings.
In RESIST, text is used as a repeated element rising from the floor to the ceiling intertwined in an elaborate
white calligraphic motif.
When working in this technique, Tobey would place
white calligraphic marks and symbols atop an abstract field composed of thousands of densely interwoven brushstrokes.
Shortly after leaving Shanghai, Tobey began painting little fields of
white calligraphic marks on colored backgrounds.
Simultaneously there were surfacy, colorful abstractions, latter - decade paintings feature enamel paint — he was too poor for anything else — with black and
white calligraphic forms.
Nearby is a gorgeous late Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1951 that is semi-figurative; a Franz Kline black and
white calligraphic abstraction, Untitled from 1953; an architectural collage of rectangular shapes by Conrad Marca - Relli from 1965; and, from 1976, the Larry Rivers pop - historical Big B Signs Up, a lithograph of two hands clasping a quill pen created by Rivers to mark the U.S. Bicentennial and honor Benjamin Franklin's signing the Declaration of Independence.
Not exact matches
Hanae Mori
calligraphic print gown in graphic black and
white semi sheer georgette.
Jirō bows to tradition, too, as with a
calligraphic black painting broken by a
white impasto circle.
Automatic writing was an important vehicle for action painters Franz Kline (in his black and
white paintings), Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Cy Twombly, who used gesture, surface, and line to create
calligraphic, linear symbols and skeins that resemble language, and resonate as powerful manifestations from the collective unconscious.
Where an inky, consuming black expanse is the bass note of Stacked Black, an incandescent
white expanse is at the center of Light Stir, surrounded by a rhythmic frame of
calligraphic red, blue and green strokes that pursue one another around the edge with quiet elegance.
Honoring traditional Asian arts through her use of Hanji paper, Korean silk, and
calligraphic brushstrokes, she plays with iconography and symbols that have been classified as «foreign» such as blue and
white china patterns, fortune cookies (which originated in California but are identified as Chinese), Korean fans, and floating dragons and intermingles them with references to Pop and southern folk art.
Tobey is most notable for his creation of so - called «
white writing» - an overlay of
white or light - colored
calligraphic symbols on an abstract field which is often itself composed of thousands of small and interwoven brush strokes.
Photographed in black and
white, the female models» bodies and clothing have synergy with the graphic backdrops constructing the scenes: a curve of the waistline in the foreground of one woman merges into the
calligraphic line of the background.
His intuitive approach to art - making is epitomized in the expressive black forms on
white surfaces mentioned above, almost
calligraphic in nature and akin to this Asian practice in their emphasis on gesture, both are forms of writing that transmit sense visually.
Following a number of shows in recent years, Khan is now «in the studio playing with a lot of different aspects of the work»: his first
white on
white paintings, which will be exhibited at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, in late 2015, and
calligraphic black paintings inspired by his longstanding admiration of Cy Twombly.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by
white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (
calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
«His late work consists of
calligraphic, predominantly
white canvases that demonstrate the artist's ultimate synthesis of figuration and abstraction, of painting and drawing, of color and line.»
His paintings are predominantly large - scale, freely - scribbled,
calligraphic and graffiti - like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off -
white colors.
In Chrystie 21, for example, a moderately heavy palette knife of
white adds just an impasto without the trowel load that made ski slopes in a Hofmann, and a delicate line under a patch of yellow at the upper left hand corner has a wonderful
calligraphic snap to it.
Franz Kline (1910 - 1962) Famous for gestural action - painting &
calligraphic black - and -
white pictures.
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CALLIGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) Noted for his White Writing, a form of calligraphic gesturalism; t
CALLIGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) Noted for his
White Writing, a form of
calligraphic gesturalism; t
calligraphic gesturalism; tachisme art.
The influence of calligraphy first became apparent in the tangled brushwork of his cityscapes of the 1930s, and Tobey went on to develop a unique style consisting of a web or network of
calligraphic marks painted in
white against a gray or coloured ground.
Briefly: Kanter, though he does not fling paint like Pollock, uses
calligraphic black and
white marks against the
white, non-negative void; Sloane continues his Herculean examination of the darkest, densest fields of early de Kooning; Paulson, darker still, studies the lines between the figure, the landscape, and oblivion (Thompson) like disappearing tracks in the sand.
El - Salahi, the Sudanese artist now based in Oxford, UK, renowned as «the father of African Modernism» — a key member of the 1960s Khartoum School in which
calligraphic motion and Arabic language was broken down to give birth to new forms — is here showing black - and -
white ink and paper works: the idea of the show is to delve into the genre of the «artist's book», picking up complexities of language and hybridity along the way.
Tobey's mature work is characterized by what he referred to as «
white writing,» delicate
calligraphic markings overlaying and animating the surface.
Other 20th century innovators of pen drawing include the American oriental artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) who was famous for his «
white writing» style of
calligraphic paintings; the German artist Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 - 51), noted for his hair - thin graphic seismograms; and Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), noted for her delicate hand - drawn minimalist grids.
Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline is known for his large black - and -
white paintings that treat the medium of oil with a
calligraphic freedom, influenced by his acquaintance with Willem de Kooning.
Late works, like the two diptychs titled Trees, 1990 - 91, are composed of broad, downward strokes and loose,
calligraphic knots of jarring color against a
white, light - filled ground, conveying a sense of Mitchell's personal struggle as she approached the last year of her life.
His unique
calligraphic markings and his invention of
white writing were very unexpected elements introduced to this specific movement in expressionism.
The legendary biblical scene reconfigured by Zeng includes masked figures eating watermelons at a pristine
white table with
calligraphic scrolls flanking the walls behind them.
Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his
White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bur
White Writing style of
calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and
white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bur
white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on
calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).
• Biography • Early Career • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) •
White Writing:
Calligraphic Abstract Painting • Mature Career: Exhibitions • Tobey's Style of Art
An almost
calligraphic, blown - up red - on -
white coral motif at the Global Views home décor website translates equally effectively to ceramic chargers as it does to dramatic area rugs in hand - tufted wool.