Sentences with phrase «wrought skeins»

Houshiary finds succour in the transformation of material: Arabic words, one an affirmation the other a denial, are pencil - stroked onto canvas so lightly, and clouded over by finely wrought skeins of pigment, that they morph in front of the naked eye and defy reproduction.

Not exact matches

Using one leftover skein of Mission Falls 1824 from Harper's sweater, this was such a great, quick and easy hat pattern to work up.

With a single skein on a single day, tucked / snuck in between work and rehearsals and classes and making dinner.

The yarn is a gorgeous Sweet Basil Fiber Works sockweight skein combined with a goldenrod skein from deep in my stash that came from Siri.

This year after searching all over Paris every holiday, at last found all the right colour skeins at BHV — they have a good craft department — and have now finished all the work.

Approx. 1 skein of yarn per color, if you're doing a two color wreath (I used the inexpensive yarn from Michaels — it worked great for this!)

Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his drip paintings — read as vast fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued paint skeins that read as all over fields of color and drawing, and are related to the mural - sized late Monets that are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued fields of color and drawing that Monet used in building his picture surfaces.

Rauschenberg had left New York for Florida in 1971 and found a new seam or skein of the lightness that is everywhere in his work, but perhaps less visible in the politically heated (and fame - filled) late 1960s.

In 1967, she added fiber to these metal elements, devising the seemingly paradoxical works for which she is most renowned — sculptures of cast metal resting on supports hidden by cascading skeins of silk or wool so that the fibers appear to support the metal.

Skeins of flocked pigment coagulate, ooze, drip, and cake over visibly built - up layers, as if his work was mimicking healing flesh.

The sweeping gestures and fearless colors of Liliane Tomasko's stunning paintings are the lure, but once I engaged with the work I found myself trying to unravel some of the skein of three - dimensional layers in the big, bold, recent Who you were is not what you will be.

They realized Pollock's process — working on the floor, unstretched raw canvas, from all four sides, using artist materials, industrial materials, imagery, non-imagery, throwing linear skeins of paint, dripping, drawing, staining, brushing - blasted artmaking beyond prior boundaries.

In the late 1970s, even as Johns curtailed his involvement with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he might have taken special note of the set Robert Rauschenberg designed for Cunningham's dance Travelogue 1977, a sculptural installation that Rauschenberg titled Tantric Geography (fig. 10).33 The set design was related to a series of works Rauschenberg created in 1975 and 1976 entitled Jammers, which also made use of fabric panels reminiscent of flags or sails, and whose brightly coloured skeins of cotton, muslin and silk drew inspiration from the artist's 1975 visit to Ahmedabad in India to research textiles and printmaking.

Wrought in thin skeins of loosely flowing white paint, these late works have an immediacy and sense of mastery culminating in over 50 years of painting

In earlier works, a concern with the perceptual space of painting juxtaposed abstracted human faces with overlapping skeins of color.

When we think of the work of Jackson Pollock, we are likely to conjure his classic drip paintings, those massive canvases covered in dribbles and splotches and stringy tangled skeins of multicolored paint that forever changed the art world's understanding of how a painting can look.

Some of the works were reminiscent of the gossamer skeins of a spiderweb; others, of lichen covering the forest floor.

This unique work is part of Reeder ongoing series of text paintings that combine his virtuoso mixture of humor, painterly skeins, and encyclopedic vocabulary.

Influenced by the events of the Arab Spring, the artist, who was born in 1970 in Addis - Ababa and works in New York, has again filled huge canvases with skeins upon skeins of architectural plans, city maps, darting lines and free - flowing, undulating attacks of ink that are more powerful than ever, abstractly suggesting wild rivers, treacherous mountains and bombed - out landscapes.

The refracted light, bouncing off the glittery silicate, creates ineffable layerings of space, where skeins of color seem to hover above the previously applied layers of paint, a softly sensual contrast that halts the the aggressive, creative - destructive momentum governing the painting's gestation, forcing an about - face in the character of the work.

Commonly cited examples, which are repeated in the catalog, include, among others, Lynda Benglis» pouring of pigmented latex directly on a floor, on which it hardened; Richard Serra's works in which he cast molten lead into the corner where floor met wall (one of which has been reproduced at SFMOMA); Robert Smithson's pouring of viscous asphalt down a hillside outside Rome; and Eva Hesse's «Rope Piece,» in which lengths of rope were let to hang loosely in a space in three - dimensional mimicry of the skeins of pigment in Pollock's drip paintings.