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39 works tagged with : Abstract
Birds in Flight
by: Braque, GeorgesCollection: Garman Ryan
tags: abstract, symbolism, birds, wildlife, sky, blue, space
Braque was a skilled painter who could employ imagery in the same way that a poet uses words: to create visual sensations. He was born in Argenteuil, France in 1882, the son of a house decorator. Braque moved to Paris in 1900 to study the Fauve artists. In 1907 he met Picasso and the pair collaborated, developing a movement which we would later know as Cubism. Cubism was an avant-garde art movement, initiated by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which revolutionised European painting and sculpture. Their interpretation of the form and composition of their artistic subjects changed the way in which objects could be visualised and represented in painting and art. This highly influential art movement took France by storm between the years 1907 and 1911. Braque was severely injured after he fought in World War 1 and did not resume painting until 1917. Drifting away from cubism, he developed his own, original style which concentrated on bright colour and textured surfaces. The simplicity of this lithograph means that it is often misunderstood - the three floating shapes echo the movement of a bird in flight, upwards and diagonally across the painting from left to right. The sky is inked-in blue and the birds are comprised of empty space, making it unclear whether it is the birds or the sky that is the subject: "All my life, my great concern has been to paint space - visual space, tactile space, manual space." G.B. Thus, the subject of the picture remains anonymous. This is sometimes called metamorphic confusion and it is one of the fundaments of poetry.
Small girl reading book
by: Buffet, BernardCollection: Garman Ryan
tags: symbolism, abstract, leisure
Maquette for Reclining Figure (Two Peice) Version 11.
by: Moore, HenryCollection: Permanent
tags: abstract, sketch., sketch, sculpture
Cell
by: Yass, CatherineCollection: Permanent
tags: interior architecture, Walsall police cells, toilet, corridor, prison, abstract colour, Walsall landscape, Walsall people, The New Art Gallery, photography. x 6 boxes., leisure, urban, photography
Catherine Yass is well known for her colourful, distorted photographs of people and institutions. She is interested in the unreliability of photography, or a mistrust of it to tell the truth, as well as the 'psychology of spaces'. She often works in places such as psychiatric hospitals. Cell comprises of 8 images taken of police cell corridors, some long shots of the hallways, and others close ups of windows, toilets and doors. The distortion of the images draws attention to the marks, and surfaces of these spaces, detail which naturally becomes more noticeable when confined in one place for a period of time. The colour and texture created by Yass' distortion distances the viewer from the reality of the scene, enabling thought about its more painterly qualities. Yass creates the lurid, saturated imagery by cross-processing; she over lays a positive transparency with a negative one which has been taken seconds after. This means that light captured in the photographs are blocked out with dense area of blue from the negative image. Placing the images on light boxes gives them a further three dimensional feel.
