These themes finds expression in Schomaker's own visual language, which is characterised by the tension
between figurative representation and painterly abstraction.
Not exact matches
What is at stake here is not a single text, but the entire meaning of the whole revelation: the opposition
between YHWH and «the»
figurative representations of the gods, and the very definition of the God of Israel.
While this exhibition began somewhere
between the vague boundaries of
figurative art and realism, it coalesced quickly into something more personal, that is, a
representation of those artists who have been foremost in my mind over the course of my own experience and personal development.
This series is a
figurative representation of the exchange of life
between man and nature.
One of these is her movement
between abstraction and
figurative representation.
Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted,
figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy
between design and fine art, and
between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional
representation.
The emergent work is at once logical and lyrical, minimal and expressive, and moves fluidly
between abstraction and
figurative representation.
Most belong to the generation of painters who followed Abstract Expressionism and navigated
between abstraction and
representation to reach a new understanding of the use of colour, formalism and
figurative painting.
These depictions, considered his early work, are marked by an expressive
figurative style, somewhere
between representation and pure abstraction.
From a contemporary point of view, her works can be likened to Picasso's «Guernica», as Wheat, too, uses narrative in a nontraditional way, breaking her story into segments and employing a composition that moves back and forth
between abstract and
figurative representations.
Later works of the 1990s and the 2000s, such as Mortal Coils (1995) and Vespers Pool (2000) are centred on symbolic and
figurative representations of death, moving
between conscious and unconscious worlds.
Their mature post-abstract
figurative paintings preserved a sophisticated dialogue
between abstraction and
representation — the image oscillating
between a recognizable subject and a boldly colored, abstract arrangement of thick slabs on paint.»