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.
Not exact matches
(Properly speaking, TV and ecological crises are all the 22 characters have in common, though there are many
references early on to doors being left open — a glancing
reference to the more
figurative portals that make the interactions
between the various plots possible.)
If the «contemporary» scene suffers from a crushing surfeit of concept and
reference, which ends in tedium and irrelevance, the contemporary
figurative scene suffers from a lack of internal criticism, from a failure to distinguish
between what is well painted and what is good art, which ends in mediocrity and kitsch.
Antony Donaldson also moves freely
between intangible and
figurative models, the featured Hollywood Pix (1967) combines painting with
references to 1930s American cinema.