Philip Taaffe, «Nocturne
with Architectural Fragments,» 2014, Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 111 1/4 inches (381 x 282.6 cm).
Compositionally, the paintings range from compressed layers to airy patterns, such as Nocturne
with Architectural Fragments (2014), with its layered structure of geometrical lines.
Not exact matches
Not only does that reading explain the fervent use of voice - over, never more present here, recounting and musing on each experience
with that hushed, inimitable whisper, but it also explains the unique aesthetic of Malick's films: his desire to capture
fragmented but ideal forms of corporeal, natural and
architectural beauty, rendered so by Emmanuel Lubezki's superlative cinematography and some elliptical, compelling editing.
The rest of the gallery has paintings made of grids filled
with images of
architectural fragments and symbols from history, various religions or perhaps dreams.
Claire Jenson (a PhD student in Art History at the University of Chicago) discusses what
architectural fragments reveal about monastic life at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny in the Middle Ages, a project she co-curated
with Aden Kumler (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago)
From 1988 to 2005 a programme of restoration within the Museum was carried out under Peter Thornton and then Margaret Richardson
with spaces such as the Drawing Rooms, Picture Room, Study and Dressing Room, Picture Room Recess and others being put back to their original colour schemes and in most cases having their original sequences of objects reinstated; Soane's three courtyards were also restored
with his pasticcio (a column of
architectural fragments) being reinstated in the Monument Court at the heart of the Museum.
The stairs confront visitors
with a powerful and loaded re-configuration of a now defunct
architectural fragment taken from an old house in India.
Spalletti's work refuses any straight - forward labelling as painting or sculpture — they are
architectural fragments in geometric forms, impregnated
with flickering luminosity and pulsating touch.
Since the early 1990s, Pedro Cabrita Reis has made masterful use of
architectural materials including cement, bricks, wood, steel, metal, beams and actual
fragments of architecture, which he juxtaposes
with elements from the visual arts such as enamels, pigment and neon light to create poetic, imagination - led works of great political value, capable of revealing memories associated
with the context in which they are located and from where they come.
The photographs in «The Resonant Image: Photographs by Chip Simone» at the High Museum of Art — a 10 - year retrospective initiated by former curator Julian Cox and completed by his successor, Brett Abbott — are well - crafted images produced
with excellent resolution, color balance and formal composition, and many cleverly align decomposing advertisements, scruffy walls and artfully abstracted
architectural fragments.
Berlin - based artist Bernd Trasberger (born 1974) deals
with the transformation of urban space through his sculptural works, installations and collages, utilizing recycled and reappropriated
architectural fragments.
In my works I combine
architectural dreamscapes and theater sets
with fragments of memories and representations of the subconsciousness.