Sentences with phrase «black figuration»

The origin of Bearden's collage works, in a meeting of the Spiral group of African - American artists during the Civil Rights movement, specifically on the eve of the March on Washington of 1963, marked a political gesture to move away from abstraction to black figuration.

Does all that black figuration recall late Jackson Pollock, the overlapping planes of a Willem de Kooning abstraction, or Robert Motherwell in his Elegy to the Spanish Republic?

For all of the prominence of black figuration in 2017, the weight of history was always present either in the background, or woven into the substitution and reclamations staged in the pictures themselves.

The Black Moving Cube: Black Figuration & The Moving Image, The Tate Britain, London, UK Fountains.

«Black Figuration on Blue» by Robert Motherwell, 1950.

Not exact matches

«RASHID JOHNSON: Anxious Men» @ The Drawing Center New York, N.Y. Over the past 15 years or so, Rashid Johnson «s practice has explored a range of themes, including «the black experience in America, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the relationship between art and personal identity.»

Pollock's drips could now seem impersonal rather than impulsive, and his late tracery in black, with obvious hints of human figuration, made more sense.

With his distinctive style of figuration, Colescott laid bare issues of systemic racism and the omission of black subjects within the genre of history painting, offering up a disturbing yet poignant critique of male chauvinism, sexual misconduct, and interracial relationships.

Hovering between abstraction and figuration, this monolithic shiny black torso of a woman in a bathing costume, two - metres high, also asserts itself as an anti-monument and alternative to the European tradition of a white Venus rising from the waves.

The large tableaux have been executed in Melgaard's easily recognizable, personal and clearly expressionistic style with firm black contour lines and paint in strong, bright colours in the figuration, with Bjarne Melgaard's own words and text elements.

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The painting also signaled his embrace of figuration and commitment to painting black figures with black paint and considering blackness in cultural, social, and aesthetic terms.

And to further contextualize these innovative new practices, Cassel Oliver will turn to the often overlooked, with the two - part show «Black in the Abstract,» focusing on the disintegration of figuration by black painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the foBlack in the Abstract,» focusing on the disintegration of figuration by black painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the foblack painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the formal.

Featuring works spanning abstraction to figuration, the exhibition «offers a lyrical meditation on the colors blue and black.»

«Most extraordinary in the series of black paintingswas the re-emergence of figuration.

In the early 2000's, the artist began making stark, black and white abstractions that again obscure the boundary between figuration and abstraction.

The emergence of the black pourings was also notable for having signalled a return to figuration, which featured at the start of Pollock's career.

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To many, the black paintings signaled a step back — a retreat from avant - garde abstraction to retrograde figuration.

Across it he explores the life of sculpture in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s - the period of the display in our main galleries - as it oscillates between figuration and abstraction, between painting and sculpture and between black and white and colour.

These works also speak to the artist's perception of automotive and locomotive industry products as gestural markers and carriers of poetic, political resonances — as figurations emblematic of the Black modernity and futurism inscribed within the epic practices of the road tripping troubadours who created and propagated the soundtrack to Delta's mobile blues culture.

The artist will also be exhibiting a number of black - on - black charcoal and chalk line drawings, pushing both his abstraction and figuration into new territory.

Shown at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 and at Sidney Janis in 1952, the «black pourings» had undeniable suggestions of figuration and fragmented faces.

His figuration needs to be closely related to other black artists from Robert Colescott to Jean - Michel Basquiat, who also made black achievement one of their subjects.

His exhibition «Pinturas e Relevos Recentes» (Recent Paintings and Reliefs) included seventeen pristinely executed, predominantly black or white, wall - mounted pieces that seductively hovered between abstraction and figuration.

Among these are the artist's most famous, landmark paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black - and - white compositions of 1948 — 49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.

Painting almost exclusively in tones of black and white, Singer's canvases teeter between abstraction and figuration.

Whereas the works in his 2007 show at Honor Fraser retained a distinctive figuration — painted black - and - white bodies lifted from lingerie ads, 1970s yearbooks, and porn magazines, and portraits of Mexican wrestlers and geishas, all of which were partially consumed by anxious, repeating brushstrokes — the artist has now loosened his grip on unequivocal source material, allowing a minimal abstraction

Including artwork by: Jason Vance Dickason, John David Forsgren, Stephen Hayes, Jackson Pollock Presence / Absence features black and white artworks by Jason Vance Dickason, John David Forsgren, Stephen Hayes, and Jackson Pollock in styles ranging from abstraction to figuration.

Placing his work in direct conversation with the tenets of modern and postmodern painting, Marshall refuses the marginalized status of black art and the limiting dualisms, such as abstraction versus figuration, that have reinforced this marginalization.

Simultaneously recalling paintings on velvet, black - light posters and Warhol's disasters and race riots, Ratcliff's works consistently negotiate the oppositions of positive and negative space, of abstraction and figuration, and of a conceptual rigor and the punk aesthetic.

But even abstract artists like Lewis, who resisted pressure from within the black art world to be more overtly political, were eclipsed — in part, paradoxically, because when curators did seek out black artists» work, figuration helped them check off a box.