Sentences with phrase «as figurative subject»

The shapes somehow echo natural formations, like riverbeds, valleys and mountain ranges, without ever suggesting these as figurative subject matter.

Not exact matches

For figurative subjects such as animals, plants, and insects, you can just draw from real life, but you will need to invent ingenious ways to represent matters such as energy, motion, magnetism, or electricity.

Drenda Duff — Drenda Duff regards figurative art, composed and arranged in natural surroundings, as a favorite subject for her drawings and paintings.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects those places and homes to which he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work of tremendous personal significance and emotional power.

Often identified together as Bay Area Figurative Artists, they applied Abstract Expressionist methods to representational subjects.

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.

Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

In this show six artists working in a figurative mode — including Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor and past NAP cover artist Keith Mayerson — demonstrate how the oldest of subject matters can, in the right hands, be as relevant as ever.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

Whereas Bickerton's early works tackle form, function, and communication, with sometimes single words acting as the entire painting, his later figurative pieces are visually deafening, with bright color and cluttered objects mirroring the over-the-top excess featured as the work's subject.

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.

Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process.

The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along with my early background as a dancer, and then as a figurative painter, laid the foundation for my subject of choice.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

This subject matter — painted big and painted simple, or so they claimed — was as much about the human condition as any figurative self - portrait.

Considered one of the most important figurative artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Fischl's work has been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections.

Robinson, 66, is known for his figurative, melodramatic scenes of desire inspired by covers of 1940s pulp paperbacks, as well as his ongoing over-sized still - life subjects of food, pharmaceutical products and stacks of cash.

It includes figurative paintings, such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many of which are based on photographs, such as the series S. and Child, a personal and intimate variation on the traditional subject of the Madonna and Child.

Part of a generation of artists that reacted against the dominant action - oriented, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Wesselmann took interest in quotidian, figurative, and popular subject matter, as well as the representational and graphic qualities afforded by collage.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

Like such diverse otherwise figurative modernists as Alex Katz and Bob Thompson, Joan Brown (1938 — 1990), a San Francisco - based painter, foregrounds her subjects — people, animals, trees — on flat monochromatic and mostly detail - free backgrounds.

Celebrating his life as an artist, this expansive exhibition (organized by Douglas Fogle, former chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles) presents a selection of Mr. Melotti's work, featuring his early, somewhat - surreal figurative ceramics and his later abstract, brass sculptures, which portray political and theatrical subjects.

His work portrays subjects from his own personal world — friends, family members, contemporaries — alongside wider know characters such as sports heros and historical figures to produce loose figurative portraits calling in broader contextual themes, often dealing with the concept of community.

Amanda Parmer I find it strange that there are no subjects in your paintings of domestic interiors because I think of them as figurative.

The last five years of his artistic practice focused on AIDS as a subject matter, drawing on community experience and mixing dreamlike allegory with figurative realism.

His use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject.

After graduating from such prestigious programs as the Lorenzo de» Medici art school and the New York Academy of Art's Graduate School of Figurative Art, Alyssa Monks has become one of the leading forces in subject painting.

, takes this idea one step further as the collages evolve from abstracted Baroque-esque designs that incorporate symbols of these subcultures to personified figurative subjects with clearly recognizable human faces and bodies.

Elected an Academician in 2013, painter Chantal Joffe is renowned for her expressive, figurative paintings, which often feature women and children as their subjects.

His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture, with subjects often seemingly caught in an interrupted moment, as if the sitter has just realized the artist's presence.

Lawson's long career as a painter has seen her explore a wide breath of subject matter through figurative and abstract painting, referencing a number of artistic movements.

Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature.

The latter included an extreme expressiveness of colour, figurative subject matter, as well as significant surface activity and texturalism.

Albert York's small, visionary paintings of humble subjects — including cows, vases of flowers, and pastoral landscapes of Long Island's East End, as well as the occasional figurative subject — were often done from memory.

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, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

Some of my paintings, even if they carry figurative elements, can sometimes be seen as abstract, because I try to dissolve the idea of a central subject.

But on closer inspection, despite a lack of figurative representation, each have a clear subject and evoke the sense of a person or situation as remembered by the painter and hinted at to the world via his art.

As with painting, 19th century sculpture stressed the importance of figurative subjects that usually held some allegorical, religious, or political significance.

Their subjects span still life, landscapes, and figurative works, suggesting that refuge can be found both in the physical as well as within oneself.

In After Tin Man, Redwood considers the hierarchy of figurative painting as a subject.

Figurative sculptors such as Juan Muñoz, Thomas Houseago and Matthew Monahan also picture the body, subject to various deformations, both artistic and psychological.

Like other photo - based painters, such as Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, Kahrs» methodology deals with figurative subject matter overlaid with a haze of ambiguity.

From the pieces which accentuate the beauty of their subjects, such as those of Anna Rose Bain, to pieces with psychological connotations seen in the works of Zack Zdrale, Contemporary Figuration will present a collection of artworks that blend styles, genres, and themes to shed light on the many - sided world of figurative painting.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects the places and people where he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work that is significant and consistent in its vision.

Figurative sculptors such as Juan Muñoz, Thomas Houseago, and MatthewMonahan also picture the body, subject to various deformations, both artistic and psychological.

In the 1960s, Iannone produced abstract expressionist works, yet from the 1970s onwards, she has developed in a more figurative direction with herself, her partner, and what she calls «ecstatic unity» as central subjects.

These large, vibrant, figurative paintings explore the relationship between subject and environment, ultimately the variables that form us as individuals.