Sentence examples for active paintings from inspiring English sources

They are seen here with later, more free-form and spatially active paintings from the 1980s, forming a group that packs a visual punch.

In Georgia, he began to use a bricklayer's trowel on his canvases, creating a textured appearance within his already visually active paintings.

I make the models in the paintings active and no longer passive.

Labor-intensive and intensely active, Raqib Shaw's paintings look like X-rated, subaquatic hybrids of Hieronymus Bosch, Victorian fairy painting, Persian miniatures and Bollywood films of the Ramayana.

But, as this show explores, artists had already been active creating work, from paintings to relief posters for the war's victims.

The best are monochromes reminiscent of Agnes Martin grid paintings but with active, sometimes hallucinatory, spatial twists.

In 1908 he met the prominent Viennese architect Adolf Loos, who, having been impressed by one of Kokoschka's early paintings, took an active interest in the young artist.

His many paintings reveal an active concern with preserving the aesthetic discoveries of bygone ages as well as a similar concern with nature in its many manifestations (especially landscapes).

There is ample evidence of Rauschenberg's involvement with artists whose efforts were primarily time-based: musical scores, dance notations and drawings by the composers John Cage and Morton Feldman and the choreographers Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton, as well as paintings by Alex Hay, active as a dancer in the 1960s.

Active collector of old masters paintings and furniture.

By looking afresh at buildings within paintings, treating them as active protagonists, it becomes clear that they performed a series of crucial roles".