Sentences with phrase «abstract figurative painting»

Mid-century abstract figurative painting on paper by Jack Hooper.

Large mid-century abstract figurative painting by Robert Gilberg, circa 1952.

Female forms depicted in a byzantine style, as the artist... more Large mid-century abstract figurative painting by Robert Gilberg, circa 1952.

Richly colored, signed and dated, 1969, oil on board, abstract figurative painting, «Personaggio» in the style of Francis Bacon, by Italian artist, Graziano Dagna (1939 - 2015).

This abstract figurative painting is at once dark, complex and rich, as is characteristic of the non-traditional style of Miami artist Don Shearer.

The artist signs this abstract figurative painting on the front in the lower right corner.

Can you explain how you developed your unique abstract figurative painting style?

Don't be puzzled by Cecily Brown's abstract figurative paintings!

Tim Tozer, new Rosalux member, is showing his colorful abstract figurative paintings in a solo exhibit at Groveland Gallery.

Leslie Nolan's abstract figurative paintings depict what is felt rather than what is seen.

Not exact matches

The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

Neal notes that «it is interesting that 8 Painters, comprised of all figurative painting, and timed to run concurrently with The Forever Now, offers an alternative to the mostly abstract works at MoMA.

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.

Your paintings are a synthesis of abstract and figurative, romantic in appearance, that might belie the confrontation of mortality at such a young age.

Moving from figurative to abstract painting, British painter Cecily Brown thinks about the qualities of paint itself:» When the body disappears it's almost like there's no» there» there,» she explains.»

Moving fluidly between figurative and abstract gestures, Mathieu's paintings — which are priced between $ 15,000 and $ 20,000 — are at once personal and political.

Banisadr's exuberant paintings oscillate between the abstract and the figurative.

Diebenkorn speaks of his family background and early life; his education and his service in the Marine Corps; his introduction to modernism; his early abstract work; the formation of the Bay Area figurative school and the relationship between art in New York and in the Bay Area; teaching; critical and public reaction to his work; important exhibitions of his work; vacillating between the figurative and the abstract in his painting; his working methods.

I was making figurative paintings and trying to learn how to make abstract paintings: she said I had to choose.

JS: There are also more abstract paintings, which don't have figurative characters.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier figurative work, but these paintings, on view through July 7, aren't about garden design or abstract composition.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

While the first exhibition in 2008 * focused on the iconic Estate Paintings, White Abstracts and History Paintings which established Coventry's reputation in the 1990s, Works 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibited.

Nancy Cogswell's wonderful painting Dopellganger II is similarly «both abstract and figurative».

Although a critical force within the group, the artist's contributions to Memphis — in the form of graphic patterns — were only a small segment of her career; as the ICA show makes clear, Du Pasquier is a multifaceted artist, and she became particularly interested in abstract and figurative painting.

With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.

In the next decade, dark and ominous forms crowded his painting, forming a visual language somewhere between abstract and figurative.

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

We have included both the abstract planer painting and the figurative - expressive - painterly expression as key exponents for our era's pictorial art.

The results include paintings, drawings and photographs in landscape, still life, figurative and abstract genres.

Well known and admired for her internet - era busts of figures seeming to emerge from abstract matrices, Sascha Braunig has recently evolved to paint full portraits as well as these kinds of truncated figurative studies, which create an alluring and elegant sense of mystery.

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.

In media, he was all over the map: painting (abstract and figurative), drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, installation, performance, sound art; he did them all, often messy, counterintuitive combinations.

By the mid-1950s, Richard Diebenkorn abandoned abstract expressionism and along with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and several others formed the Bay Area Figurative School with a return to Figurative painting.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.

After nearly two decades of rigorous experimentation, his abstract paintings reached new levels of technical and conceptual sophistication, hinting at figurative realities whilst simultaneously deflecting all attempts at interpretation.

Figurative abstract oil on canvas painting by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963).

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

They were these weird, muddy paintings that looked half - abstract and half - figurative on these cheap, skinny canvases with visible tacks in them on the side.

A couple of the early abstract Berkeley paintings feature here, these leading to the second gallery where we see Diebenkorn abandon abstract painting and become part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».

There the paint remains, somewhere between the figurative and abstract, or, as the exhibition catalogue aptly puts it, «on the brink of formal composition and its collapse.»

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

The Last Painting of the Century (1999) and Ultrazoomazipzamapopdeluxa (1998), two large acrylic, oil, and spray paint works, use figurative and abstract elements to represent energy, motion, and the relationship between reality and imagination, freedom and control.

Pollock's energetic «action paintings», with their «busy» feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's figurative paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstract).

Matisse stands as the artist who most directly got under the skin of his work, and indeed there have been few artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to create a distinctly American panorama, both in his figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.