Sentences with phrase «border on abstraction»

Some of his works, like Enfant au sein (late 1889 — 90), on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, border on abstraction.
Tom Wesselmann is represented by a still life of products and objects found in many American homes, alongside paintings of stereotypical female nudes that border on abstraction.
His collection, entitled «TANKERS», features large horizontal paintings of cargo ships that border on abstraction.
In the forty - part work A-E-I-O-U and Sometimes Y, 2009, close - ups of women's expressive faces recall Warhol's celebrity silk screens; some snap with bright color, while others border on abstraction in glittering ebony.
They also border on abstraction.
Osborne is known for her landscapes and interior scenes of the 1970's that utilized the raw canvas and stain effects creating images that border on abstraction.
Clough had a golden touch, representing urban and industrial landscapes and details in a range of evocative semi-figurative styles, from chunky post-war geometries of factories to more freeform, colourful works that border on abstraction.
All of the club scenes are particularly engaging, throbbing with booming sound and visuals bordering on abstractions.
Like many of Isca Greenfield - Sanders» paintings, this photogravure and aquatint print, which borders on abstraction, depicts a serene, idyllic scene — a woman wading out into a florescent blue body of water.
They have just as much to do with the characters bordering on abstraction common to art right now, although never quite as slippery.
He arranges multiple copies of the same book in stacks or rows, for instance, to create a serial linearity that borders on abstraction.
Jones's work has been bordering on abstraction for years, with peeks and subtle figurative faces and body parts emerging from rainbow - fog psychedelia.
In the second, we're deep in foliage that borders on abstraction.

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But to talk about the life of men apart from the societies that shape and constitute them is similarly an abstraction which borders on the reductionist fallacy, which sees social wholes as merely summaries of individual behavior.
Ranee has created large - scale and medium - scale works in this exhibition that tip - toe on the border of control within the realm of abstraction and result in a beautiful culmination of calculated chaos.
In St. Augustine, I painted an asymmetrical, emotionally intense, abstraction that combined several styles and expressions in one picture; hard edge borders, hard edge lines, stacks of painterly brushed smears, on a deep red field.
Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.
In the paintings I've been making in the last five years, the «Scenic Abstractions,» the attitude of a shape is indicated by its edges; how well it gets on with its neighbors and its surrounding environment is knowable by the texture of its borders — if it is rough or refined, feathered, blended, or hard - edged.
Regarded for her «empty» images that border on painterly abstraction, the artist carefully renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments, those which exist almost exclusively within our periphery.
When I began to show my work with David Whitney in 1969, I was painting stained abstractions, bordered by bands of color painted on the edges.
With his impeccably poised hard - edge abstractions, on display at Fredericks & Freiser, Cary Smith does not snipe at the existing borders of Modern painting or endeavor to elevate its political nuance.
As if in perennial perch just above the action, or off to the side observing the group, de Balincourt has found a unique angle in portraying our humanity, bordering at times on abstraction and even mysticism without straying too far from our reality.
Hiroshi Sugimoto's serene, seascape photograph borders on the verge of abstraction and figuration.
He emerged as an important member of the New York School, working on the border between abstraction and figuration.
This exhibition (the first on the artist at Thomas Dane) presents new works by Merz, who is now in her nineties: from portraits — which continue her interest in the border between figuration and abstraction — and small fired clay heads, to works on paper.
Turner could not have known that his work would one day be considered prescient, bordering on genius, as a harbinger of a great new movement: abstraction.
Wróblewski was a creator of formal experiments on the border of abstraction and figuration, an artist manifesting an unusually suggestive vision of war and human degradation, based on deep political commitments.
John Wynne «s diverse, research - led practice includes large - scale sound installations, delicate sculptural works, flying radios and award - winning «composed documentaries» that hover on the borders between documentation and abstraction.
Coming from provocative feminist figuration, Catherine Howe is now reinvigorating the still life with an efflorescence that borders on decadence, while employing the gusto of abstraction, all the while revealing an expertise that grounds these paintings in the essentials of craft.
Known internationally for his unique style of painting that owes allegiance to abstract expressionism and color field genres, his canvases live on the border between image and abstraction.
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