Sentence examples for decorative abstraction from inspiring English sources

One painting might be a purely decorative abstraction; another an architectural interior or a figurative work.

If anywhere, the remnants of 90's extravagance exist only in jazzy examples of decorative abstraction.

There are fanciful vine benches at each entrance, a folly (a decorative abstraction made of vines) and an arbor framing a long pathway.

BRIDGET RILEY New oils and gouaches by the former doyenne of Op art (seen here and in the gallery's West Twenty-fifth Street space) raise her current mode of decorative abstraction to pitches of urbane bliss.

Amounting to decorative abstraction, meanwhile, are Benito Huerta Lozano's large grids containing symbols, among them skulls, torsos, the sun and the moon, musical instruments and what appears to be medieval headgear.

It was big enough and odd enough to be clearly out of place, but it too struggled for presence in a room that also featured a tape loop of chanting, an appealingly decorative abstraction in gray, red and silver by Katherine Mann, and a complicated but opaque installation by James J. Williams III.

One might trace a Latin American baroque sensibility in Paul Henry Ramirez's decorative abstractions, or in Fernanda Brunet's draftsmanly clouds of volcanic smoke, but other readings are equally valid.

Ms. Cheng's radiantly colored, radially composed paintings combine the polished riffs of post-abstract abstraction with bits of decorative patterns or schematized lotus designs.

Mr. Shields has long worked at mixing abstraction and decorative patterning; with his pop-out mandalas, suspended cages, space wheels and other Constructivist contraptions, he looks to be at the top of his game (Johnson).

They should not be described merely as precursors of New Image or Pattern painting either, even though their mixture of figuration and abstraction and the decorative effects they achieve can bring those movements of the mid-1970's to mind.

The exhibition will include works produced over the last 25 years of the artist's career and examine their evolution from softer, more decorative forms to harder-edged abstraction.