Wieland replaced ornate décor with bare stages and carefully lit elemental shapes.
Yet far from being merely cleverly retro, his new compact configurations of elemental shapes have a startling freshness and a robust energy that belie their seemingly modest delicacy.
Appropriately, the piece is titled "The Girl Child," and the elemental shapes recall the simplicity of Hindu representations of male and female principles.
Using elemental shapes, and primary colors to evoke a synesthetic, multi-sensory experience, and deploying non-representational and minimalist images, they sought to establish an unmediated, visceral, and emotional engagement with the viewer.
"I had an idea to be a developer," Mr. Williams said the other day, explaining how he bought four more barns and moved them to the site, hoping to test himself as an architect by creating two inexpensive dwellings from a combination of these elemental shapes, and then selling one and living in the other.
The paintings of French Syrian artist Farah Atassi at Ghebaly Gallery hark to Picasso and Cubism, reducing everyday objects — vases, telephones, guitars — to flat, elemental shapes that dissolve into riotous paroxysms of pattern.
Practice with basic, elemental shapes in the beginning.
Designers reduced images of products to elemental, symbolic shapes that were placed over a flat background colour, and they lettered the product name in bold shapes.
He is a Jötun (an Elemental; a shape-shifter) of uncertain parentage.
Richly glazed and textured, Mr. Sammarco's pedestal scale compositions of elemental geometric shapes have a coolly refreshing beauty.
