Sentences with phrase «figurative abstraction at»

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BB: I consider myself at the moment an abstract painter enthralled with observational painting, but one issue I have with post-war and contemporary figurative painting is how overbearing the «abstraction» can be sometimes.

While Edelson, Alexander, and Hershman Leeson focus largely on the female body, Graham Anderson's figurative paintings, which were on view at Klaus von Nichtssagend, dissolve the nude male into a decorative abstraction.

Although the artist's figurative abstractions may appear crude at first glance, closer examination reveals works vibrating with energy and pulse, creating an all - out assault on the viewer's concept of reality.

At the time (not long before Mondrian was in London painting, and dancing, with the Nicholson / Hepworth crowd), I wonder if it could have seemed like abstraction might replace figurative painting.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as «painter laureate.»

But if you look at a lot of this abstract painting and you put it against the history of abstraction, or you look at this figurative painting and you put it against the history of straight - up, Modernist figurative painting, a lot of these artists are not really offering anything that adds much.

Known for his figurative abstraction, Taylor will spend January living and working at Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco (the historic former residence and workshop of the late Mexican muralist) and, at the end of the month, the works produced during that time will be presented in an exhibition in the space.

Also, previously, the major retrospectives at the Whitney had showcased only recent developments in abstraction; in the case of the New Image show, figurative art made its way into the exhibition.

Currently on view at MCA Chicago through May 20, the exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

His pictures stand between abstraction and figuration and he is, in his own words (which he has tired of hearing thrown back at him) a figurative painter of emotional situations.

At times her work has been figurative and at times completely abstract; at times it's been totally about a picture, and other times there's been no picture, just pure abstraction or pure procesAt times her work has been figurative and at times completely abstract; at times it's been totally about a picture, and other times there's been no picture, just pure abstraction or pure procesat times completely abstract; at times it's been totally about a picture, and other times there's been no picture, just pure abstraction or pure procesat times it's been totally about a picture, and other times there's been no picture, just pure abstraction or pure process.

Her work sits within the realm of emotional abstraction, with geometric and seemingly coincidental outlines of bodies or vases as her only hint at figurative representation.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

He has also written, «I had been looking at an abstraction and a figurative painting that had neither narrative nor visual coherence.

But his body of work completed over many decades, the artist died in 1993 at the age of 71, includes many figurative, landscape and still lives that served as a foundation for his large scale abstractions.

These painters focused on depicting contemporary life through innovative figurative works, rather than the abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism that dominated contemporary art at the time.

Ranging from painterly abstraction to figurative interiors and landscapes, Hurvin Anderson's solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, expands on two long - standing motifs of the barbershop interior and the municipal park landscape and includes his Arts Council Collection commission, Is It OK To Be Black?

By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

Working in New York City during the 1950s, Katz rejected abstraction, which was dominant at the time, and associated with other figurative painters.

The emergent work is at once logical and lyrical, minimal and expressive, and moves fluidly between abstraction and figurative representation.

Estimated at # 15m — # 25m, it is a rare work dating from the artist's expressionist moment and marks his transition from figurative painting to abstraction.

Hassel Smith, a major figure in Bay Area art whose expressionist abstractions and figurative paintings were admired for their improvisational zeal, potency and humor, has died at age 91.

In the front gallery, two large sculptures dominate the space and appear at first glance to be monumental figurative abstractions.

«They all wanted me to use figurative art when I was moving into abstraction,» Pindell said at the exhibit opening.

... As he translates the rhythms of the urban landscape into increasingly abstract terms, without ever fully abandoning a figurative impulse, Bradford deftly operates at the intersection of abstraction and representation like few before him.

«I just thought it was so different from anything that I had seen because, at the time, so many of the artists of color were working in heavy abstraction or very differently in terms of figurative representation.»

It was there that Mr. Colacello, the man perhaps known best for being a sidekick to legendary artists like Andy Warhol who he worked alongside for 12 consecutive years at Interview Magazine, leapt from writer to curator with the debut of «The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction,» a selection of works all tied together with a theme of abstraction rooted in tangible objects anAbstraction,» a selection of works all tied together with a theme of abstraction rooted in tangible objects anabstraction rooted in tangible objects and concepts.

Another engaging show traced the stylistic turning points in the early career of Donald Baechler (Cheim & Read), while elsewhere, strikingly assured younger painters (Jason Karolak's boldly colored abstractions at McKenzie Fine Art; William Buchina's complexly arrayed figurative works at Garis & Hahn; Alison Hall's historically aware Minimalism at Stephen Harvey) were making their presence felt.

Coming out of the tail end of a legacy of abstraction at the region's art schools and in the midst of the ascendency of new figurative painting and changing approaches to sculpture via clay, etc, (eg, Voulkos) in the Bay Area, the work they made in that period of transition shows the freedom with which they approached art - making.

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Unlike Ireland, where there seems to be a sympathy towards both the painterly and the abstract, Britain has long maintained a figurative tradition and held abstraction at arm's length.

Opening: «Richard Diebenkorn: Early Color Abstractions 1949 - 1955» at Van Doren Waxter Richard Diebenkorn is one of the most celebrated artists to come out of the Bay Area Figurative Movement — a group of San Francisco Bay area artists that included David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Wayne Thiebaud — who eventually forsook the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the»50s to revisit figuration.

The exhibition was considered controversial because it championed figurative painting at a time when abstraction reigned, particularly in the United States under the long - term tutelage of critics like Clement Greenberg.

After this, with the exception of figurative Surrealism (1925 - 50) and American Scene Painting (1925 - 45), abstraction dominated art until at least the 60s.

The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational elements).

This group of classic works by the American painter Alex Katz from the 1980s shows how he kept the ideals of figurative painting alive during a time when abstraction was at the forefront of the discipline.

It's a wide range of pieces, really looking at the idea of bridging two points between working as a figurative artist but also having fluid abstraction going on in the process.

There was no barrier there between figurative and abstraction at all!

Among the other winners: Alex Bradley Cohen's charming figurative paintings at Nicelle Beauchene (1.00), Marley Freeman's luminous small abstractions at Parker (2.02), Farah Al Qasimi's complex and beguiling photographs of life in the United Arab Emirates at Helena Anrather (4.02), Jenna Westra's cerebrally suggestive black and white photographs at Hassla (4.16), and Graham Anderson's sepia - toned retro - futurist figurative painting at Klaus von Nichtssagend (2.05).

At the time I was thinking about both contemporary figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and these solidify in Linhares's work with a rare conviction.

Featuring eight painters — four from L.A. and four from New York — the exhibition runs the gamut of current artistic styles, from Heather Gwen Martin's 2015 abstraction of figurative forms, titledCousins, to the hyper - realism of Marc Dennis» art historical pastiche Ironman, Captain America and a Russian Mobster Walk Into a Bar, which humorously constructs a new scenario for these three characters and Edouard Manet's famous painting A Bar at the Folies - Bergère.

In retrospect, it was less a conversion than it seemed at the time, because the figurative works were really an extension of his abstractions, just as his later change back to abstraction grew naturally out of his figurative paintings.

I'm an abstract artist that oscillates towards abstraction in a sly, subtle way, and Caris is a figurative artist that slides towards abstraction at times.

Kahnweiler's wish to include Caziel in his stable of figurative artists headed by Picasso, occured at a time when Caziel had turned to Abstraction, ensued by the exciting developments of the movement following the end of the Second World War.

As he matured, his early landscapes and figurative works, often of men at work with machinery, segued through surrealism and into abstraction, with traces first of Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, perhaps, and of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst.