Sentences with phrase «between figurative»

But later, according to Irving Sandler, «it was sort of a mixture between figurative and geometric abstraction.

Ronny Delrue is a Belgian contemporary artist whose paintings and drawings are somewhere between figurative and abstract art.

The more obvious link is figuration — in each case aggressive and unapologetic — and one feels immediately upon entering the National Academy Museum that the connection between figurative painting and art world obscurity provides the subtext of this exhibition.

Though these sculptures evoke the body through an elemental vocabulary, they also reveal the tremendous physical challenge of creation — most clearly evidenced when the work walks the tightrope between figurative complexity and palpable mastery.

Often blurring the lines between figurative and geometric abstraction, the canvases from this period are characterized by painterly brush strokes and expansive compositions, often broken into smaller geometric regions of color and pattern.

Pollock painted nothing in 1956, and thus failed to resolve the issue of primacy between the figurative and abstract aspects of his style.

In Swamped, Doig's intricate and seamlessly woven tapestry of process - based and abstract techniques creates a special friction between figurative atmosphere, and dense abstract and painterly meaning.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

Born in 1950, he was a student of Philip Guston, the great postwar painter who made his various shifts between figurative and abstract styles feel as consequential as the shifting of tectonic plates.

Henrietta Dubrey is identified as an abstract artist, although she oscillates between both figurative and abstract arenas; she is an artist who is very much in tune with her instincts.

These themes finds expression in Schomaker's own visual language, which is characterised by the tension between figurative representation and painterly abstraction.

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

While she has been grouped with the Abstract Expressionists, Sterne moved freely between figurative work and abstraction throughout her career.

This provides a convenient abstraction, but the intend is to create a sort of marriage between figurative parts.

First, I would like to situate the difference between figurative and abstract sculpture, since I don't see them as entirely unalike.

For the past seven years his fantastical works, oscillating between figurative and abstract, have captured freeze - frame instances of stirring sporting events, amusement park thrills, and mass group exercises in attack strategies that often situate the...

Betancurth manages a fine balance between the figurative, the anthropomorphic, and cold abstraction in his collection of objects, and their relationship to one another is additive.

For the first time, a museum presentation will be establishing a dialogue between the figurative works of his early oeuvre and his abstract works.

The only Progressive who deliberately shifted between figurative and non-figurative was the Mumbai - based Padamsee.

This would be unique enough — they haven't been shown together since Pollock's death, drunk at the wheel of his Oldsmobile in 1956 — but here they appear among a tremendous selection of paintings from every period, to reveal a startling continuity between the figurative and the abstract in Pollock's career.

There's a difference between a figurative painting that's illustrative and one that has codes.

Oscillating between figurative, constructive and abstract designations, Richter returns to and build...

Her vibrant paintings blur the lines between figurative and abstract, depicting raucously joyful scenes with seemingly contradictory titles that hint at an unseen darkness.

The ten works in Plot are striking juxtapositions of structure and surface that alternate between the figurative and the abstract.

Condo started making «drawing - paintings», where you can't distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: «There's no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, «cause it's all painting to begin with... You don't» have to follow any rules as a painter.

Henrietta Dubrey's paintings oscillate between figurative elements and abstraction.

«They weren't doing this as a hobby,» Garrels reflects as he sits on a bench on the fourth floor, which is divided between figurative and abstract art by Warhol, portraitist Chuck Close, abstract expressionist painters Joan Mitchell, Phillip Guston and others.

Impressed by Old Masters rather than modern art, Stael was an experimental artist who succeeded in evolving a style of painting that bridged the gap between figurative and abstract art.

Faltenwurf (Morgen) II 2009 represents a bridge between the figurative and pure abstraction.

This set of projects looks at the fluid, and at times oppositional, relationship between figurative and abstract practices.

Light - handed colour pencil and pastel drawings, they depict fragments of Abruzzo's nature in a delicate balance between figurative and abstract.

As you spend more time looking at his full range of shapes and forms, you'll soon begin to recognize clear connections between his figurative and abstract sculptures.

With this new body of work the artist draws parallels between the figurative and the abstract and suggests that the distinction may not be so fixed and rigid.

Each sculpted piece teeters somewhere on the brink between the figurative and the abstract, between the ambiguous and the referential.

During these years and those that followed, her paintings reflected some major influences, such as Hofmann's color principles and structural relationships between figurative and nonfigurative elements.

His works are posed exactly in the midpoint between the figurative and the abstract, with the regular shapes for trees or logs and ponds organized with the precision of a mathematical proposition.

It seems a long time since distinctions between the figurative and the abstract presented us with confusion and difficulty.

Classically trained as a painter, his vast oeuvre consists of a paradoxical body of work that sits somewhere between figurative and abstract art.

Allowing the work to flow through her and onto the canvas, the series floats between figurative and abstract works but tend to be dominated by familiar dots that form eyes and portraits of women — some laughing, some weeping.

His work oscillates between figurative and abstract elements, and embodies his lifelong research about the interactions between form, content and critical thought.

-- between figurative and abstract work, specializing in still lifes and landscapes.

We're reminded that the distinction between figurative and abstract is also a construct, one which yields misguided information as often as it does clarity.

The tension created by a dissonance between figurative and abstract, public and private, cultural and subjective, historical and post-historical is eased by the creation of these new worlds.

Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted and abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstract forms.

The idiosyncratic shape at the centre of Parrot, along with the teeming, organic ground, places it on the edge between figurative and abstract painting.

For the past seven years his fantastical works, oscillating between figurative and abstract, have captured freeze - frame instances of stirring sporting events, amusement park thrills, and mass group exercises in attack strategies that often situate the male figure in actions that bolster his heroic status.

When confronted with Vaughn Spann's work there is an immediate intrigue into the compositional delicacies between the figurative and abstraction.

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.»

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.

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.