blends figuration and abstraction to address into various subject matter.
Blending figuration and abstraction, Whitten's emotionally riveting gestural works — including a series on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — touched upon the racial turmoil he understood so well as an African American from the South.
Not exact matches
Blending abstraction and figuration — common in today's painterly practices — each canvas displays a recurring combination of saturated colors, loose gestural marks,
and patterned surfaces.
Dunham has long resisted prevailing stylistic trends
and consequently carved out a space for American painters to explore the possibilities of
blending both
abstraction and figuration.
Blending abstraction and figuration in a riot of bold color, Jazz contains some of the most daring
and original imagery Matisse ever produced.
His eccentric compositions shared Neo-Ex's
blend of highly subjective
figuration and gestural
abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach was more akin to outsider art than to the style's usual bombastic clamor.
Since the 1950s, artist Maria Lassnig has incorporated painting techniques from various art - historical periods into her practice — realism, surrealism,
and expressionism alike — in an effort to develop a distinct style of painting that
blends figuration with
abstraction.
Blending abstraction and figuration, he depicts lush landscapes
and places of personal
and cultural significance, settings that capture singular moments that speak to important arcs of time.
Here Bickerton's merging of
figuration and abstraction comes to new levels: in m - DNA eve 3, for example, he has nearly obscured the image of the figure with impasto strokes of vibrant green, blue
and yellow paint,
blending the foreground
and background until the model's bulging, exaggerated features seemingly emerge from the camouflage.
Blending abstraction and figuration, Bourgeois delved into the struggles of everyday life to create personally cathartic objects that reference the body, sexuality, family, trauma,
and anxiety.
Known for his innovative
blending of
figuration and abstraction, deft use of color, «hybrid juxtaposition of high
and low,»
and inspired interpretations of folkloric myths
and Roman poetry, the survey features six bodies of work including layered paintings from the 1990s, Afromuse watercolor portraits,
and new works created since Ofili began living
and working in Trinidad.
Fluid strips of bright colour
blend into one being; it's a union between male
and female
and between
figuration and abstraction since, being headless, the pair happily occupy the middle ground between portraiture
and colour field painting.
Blending abstraction and figuration, Romanticism
and psychedelia, von Wulffen's large - scale paintings wryly revisit
and reprocess tactics
and tropes of modern painting from German Expressionism onward, while recent series of drawings have tweaked the conventions of the children's book, the comic strip,
and the storyboard, turning these formats into vehicles for her own psychologically charged narratives.
Combining emulsion with spray painting
and blending paint with chance, the piece oscillates between
abstraction and figuration, its fluid form conveying feelings
and traces.
This small oil work is a study for a major painting of the same name, featuring brusque brushstrokes
and remnants of a confederate flag, exemplifying the artist's tendency to
blend abstraction and figuration.