Sentences with phrase «modernist figuration»

Peters» sculptural language draws from diverse iconographic influences which include Assyrian antiquities, Greco - Roman tragedy masks, Egyptian funerary figures and Cypriotic portraits, as well as the work of Elie Nadelman, early American folk art, Constantin Brâncusi, and early modernist figuration.

His works from that period — images of circus acrobats and music - hall performers — are striking for their reductive and caricatural approach to modernist figuration.

Engorged heads and lopsided bodies suggest a ridiculous character or personality which is absent from Moore's own restrained modernist figuration.

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«There were those people who were trying to breathe new life into what was essentially 19th - century portraiture versus those people who were intent on making a truly modernist form of figuration.»

Thomas Chimes: Early Works (1958 - 1965), 2009 Text by Lisa Saltzman 56 pages, Hardcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 978 -1-879173-41-5 «Developing, in these formative paintings, a visual style indebted to the palette and compositional structures of such modernist forefathers as Marsden Hartley and Henri Matisse and emboldened by the stenographic proto - abstractions of such New York School predecessors as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Chimes systematically put forth a series of paintings that pressed such experimentations with the limits of figuration into the realm of the theological, the philosophical and the historical.

Although post war years saw a strong figuration in his work, with the creation of miniature theatres or Teatrinis, the 1960s brought a returned modernist influence.

Ofili is, at heart, a modernist; his compositions are concerned as much with figuration, color, and texture as they are with identity and mythology.

The art of preeminent American modernist Stuart Davis (1892 — 1964) feels especially vital today in its blurring of distinctions between text and image, high and low culture, and abstraction and figuration.

In this installation drawn from the Seattle Art Museum's permanent collection, artists including David Salle, Eric Fischl, Richard Pettibone, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Brian Jungen and others grapple with these concerns in various ways — by returning to figuration in painting, rethinking modernist masterworks in more humble scale, or reconnecting art and craft in their work.

To mine this threshold between truth and story, Ghenie remixes this classic Modernist scene with the shock of Francis Bacon's gnawing figuration and with Gerhard Richter's squeegeed abstraction.

Alluding to Color Field, a style characterized by large, highly simplified compositions in which the use of color is independent of line and figuration, Scharf connects with modernist art movements by creating new hybrids, almost as if these earlier forms of art had been placed in a blender.

These new woodcuts represent the range of imagery that the Tobias Brothers have become known for, from movie posters to figuration and modernist abstraction.

Revisiting the dichotomies at the heart of modernist painting, Furnas manipulates the boundaries between figure and ground, form and formlessness, and figuration and abstraction, working in an idiosyncratic style that falls somewhere between Carroll Durham's and Kai Althoff s....

Neo-Expressionists championed the highly unfashionable practice of fine art painting (condemned as «dead» by postmodernists) and supported everything that the Modernists had tried to discredit: figuration, emotion, symbolism, and narrative.

A modernist genre painter, a virtuosic colorist, and a realist painter who traffics in otherworldly moments, Resika has integrated so many idioms of abstraction into figuration that he seems to be giving a middle finger to the art world's ever - changing avant - gardes.

Noting that both men continued working on representational imagery even as they pursued abstraction, Wilkin admits being tempted to «speculate about what the evolution of modernist painting in New York might have been, had these two virtuosos of the enigmatic portrait not abandoned figuration.»

I'm not in any way advocating anyone starts mimicking the spaces (or anything else) of figurative art; I am suggesting (yet again, tiresomely) that abstract painters and sculptors compare their output with the best achievements of figuration, which of course includes some great modernist art, if that's what you want to call it.