Lara focuses on the myths, customs, and beliefs of his ancestors and translates them to expressive, gestural and yet slightly figurative compositions. (dcstyleisreal.com)
Filling two floors, the survey offers a glimpse of the artist's extensive range: from powerful, sexualized figurative drawings from the late 1930s and «40s, inspired by scenes she witnessed at her mother's psychiatric hospital, to abstract compositions made from rubber bicycle wheels in the»70s (Rama's father once owned a bicycle factory), and back to figurative compositions in the decade following. (frieze.com)
As he became more involved in the avant - garde and Beat culture of musicians, writers, and artists, the muted and subdued figurative compositions of the late 1950s gave way to dynamic and hotly colored images of the 1960s. (michaelrosenfeldart.com)