Although figurative, these works still show the influence of abstract painting in their rigorous compositions and limited pictorial space.
Renaissance man: Stewen's recent inspirations include the great 15th-century painter and mathematician Piero della Francesa, whose rigorous compositions are renowned for their serene mystery.
From the start, Louis Armstrong's famous trumpet breaks were interludes in King Oliver's rigorous compositions, and some of Armstrong's apparently spontaneous solos were in fact composed.
Nothing in Callahan's rigorous compositions was ever unintentional, Mr. Cox noted, so that particular detail makes it clear that "it's not just a body, it's not just an object: it's his wife".
The cinematic stylization that came to fruition in the sixties in the work of such filmmakers as Sam Peckinpah, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Pierre Melville courted opacity and ambiguity in order to realize something like modern music: their rigorous compositions aimed at and achieved effects independent of the action.
In the Story of Esther, depicted on the ceiling, appear the first of his rigorous compositions of foreshortened groups in luminous architectural frameworks and his decorative fancies that juxtapose animated, almost stereometric foregrounds and background figures wrought with a few strokes of light.
The cinematic stylization that came to fruition in the sixties — in the work of such filmmakers as Sam Peckinpah, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Pierre Melville — courted opacity and ambiguity in order to realize something like modern music: their rigorous compositions aimed at — and achieved — effects independent of the action.
In principle, a rigorous composition-based model is preferable to describe a system accurately.
And the reverse is also true: his great silkscreens begun in 1962 show a "designer's intelligence", and, as Benjamin Buchloh has written, his Pop art carries over traits of his commercial illustration: "extreme close-up fragments and details, stark graphic contrasts and silhouetting of forms, schematic simplification and, most important, rigorous serial composition".
AGF It's no insult to say that AGF — a German "vocalist, software musician, producer and e-poet" — specializes in rigorous electronic compositions that work equally well as background music.
