Sentences with phrase «about figuration and abstraction»

Her bold and experimental work challenges traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, as well as the relationships among avant - garde art, craft, pop culture, and technology.

I was talking to somebody today about figuration and abstraction.

Laura Owens's work on display at the Dallas Museum of Art challenges assumptions about figuration and abstraction, as well as the relationships among avant - garde art, craft, pop culture, and technology.

The exhibition features the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.

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LOS ANGELES — Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer - Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction.

Mercedes was my main inspiration, teaching me about spatial connections and how to move from figuration to abstraction.

Morley has been at the heart of the contemporary debates about painting, its authenticity and surface, and the validity of figuration versus abstraction.

These new works appear looser than earlier pieces, less about the categories of figuration and abstraction.

Many of these examples are traditionally representational: interestingly, much of the discussion about Open Casket has hinged on the appropriateness of Schutz's characteristically grotesque painterly style, and on the limitations of abstraction or figuration in political art.

Focusing on Philip Guston's mature production in abstraction and his later figuration, this book argues for Guston as a consistent artist whose generic shift in the late 60s, from Monet - like abstract hatchings to the cartoonish forms of his final decade and a half, reminded artists everywhere that courage is what it's all about.

The most fascinating response was that of Philip Guston, who seemed to come out of the other side of abstraction into an alternative world of figuration, ironic, often amusing, but at heart deadly serious about human failure, and how hollow the pose of artistic heroism had become.

This talk will be about Francis Bacon's complex figuration that involved a balance between figuration and abstraction.

You were talking about something that was completely uninteresting to you when you started your work, which was the early - «60s and late -»50s battle between the conceptual and the process artists with the figurative people and action painters, and those painters with abstract painters: abstraction versus figuration.

Burgard also speaks about de Kooning's influence on Diebenkorn noting that «deKooning moving from abstraction to figuration... that gives Diebenkorn the license and permission to consider that option as well.

Besides all the high - end artworks, the special thing about this exhibition, The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction is the curator, who is responsible for the subject and selection of works.

It helps me... because most of my trouble begins when I think too much about the balance between abstraction and figuration... and feel too conscious about resolving the problem rather than let the work be itself.

The artist was known for her richly coloured compositions treading the line between figuration and abstraction, and has often been acknowledged for her influence on the work of her husband, the sculptor Anthony Caro, in what the couple themselves had described as a «64 - year conversation about art».

The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977 — 1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker's methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language.

This, together with his suggestions about how painters might address pop culture from a semi-abstract viewpoint, and his erasure of the normal boundaries between abstraction and figuration, constitutes his most important legacy to the history of art.

The jury praised Anderson as an outstanding British painter whose art speaks to our current political moment with questions about identity and belonging and recognised a deeper interplay between figuration and abstraction in his work.

The Abstract Expressionists were notoriously loath to abandon subject - matter and metaphor; and looking at Pollock's late painting and his return to figuration, recently reviewed here by John Bunker on Abcrit, you get the strong impression that, very different from Gear though he was, he too fretted about abstraction's detachment from human content.

She talks about how paintings can function to heal old wounds, about not wanting to wear a dress to art school, figuration and abstraction, and the letting go and anxiety in her painting process.

Amidst all the hoopla about the return to painting, specifically figuration (and the overheated frenzy about Neo-Expressionism), Bess offered an alternative, particularly to painters interested in abstraction.

While continuing the dance between abstraction and figuration found in her previous decade of works, the new pieces move away from a more direct narrative to a more abstract, open language about painting itself.