The work certainly justifies recognition, especially the lively, freely brushed oil sketches of shoreline scenery and the dramatic landscape set pieces, like "Long Island Farms" and "North Fork, Long Island Landscape," with their stylized compositions and vivid tonal contrasts.
Yet his work could hardly be described as original, for it borrows from Andy Warhol in its use of static, stylized compositions, and from David Hockney, perhaps less obviously, in its vivacious, sometimes lurid palette.
Along the gallery's perimeter hangs the Still Life photo light boxes of Mirka Laura Severa, which combine luxury goods with prosthesis in stylized compositions that question the superficiality of perfect bodies.
Moore's color-saturated, large-format photographs showcase his eye for highly stylized, formal compositions ("Stalin's Billiards"), for stripped-down, soulful chaos ("Volodya, Wife and Dog") and for unlikely collisions ("Peter the Great and BMW").
Mannerist art painting and sculpture as well as prints typically shares characteristics that include elongated figures in graceful, complex and stylized poses; complex compositions, often with multiple figures; a stress on contour; ornamental embellishments; and high finish.
Of his illustrations, she writes: "Their highly stylized simplicity, their perfect composition, his exotic and feminine expression, their fascinating technical virtuosity and strong attention to detail; his work is simply beautiful, incredibly delicate and overwhelmingly sensual".
But the ornamental compositions of stylized dragons, auspicious bats, geometric interlaces are as vivacious and as exquisitely balanced as ever.
In each successive stage the composition becomes increasingly stylized and mechanical, eventually taking on the appearance of commercial printing.
Marc's "Playing Dogs," a stylized study in color and composition, endows his creatures with expression, mood and grace.
A master of off-balanced composition — or highly stylized turbulence — Pittman superimposes all his razor-sharp graphics atop equally animated arrangements of angled racing stripes, solid blocks of garishly tinted colors — often in queasy combinations — and a cornucopia of stylized fruits and leafy vines, some realistic, others far-fetched.
