Sentences with phrase «breaking figures in painting»

The forthcoming shows include exhibitions of work by ground - breaking figures in painting, performance, textiles, film and photography.

Not exact matches

Because Pomerance has chosen not to paint and pad his freak literalistically, Merrick — ever in a double figure — reminds us of that «other» dimension of beauty and wholeness that is nearly absent from the broken world this play exposes.

Through interviews with other women who skateboard and prominent figures in the skateboarding industry, Amelia paints a picture of a subculture within a subculture on the verge of breaking out.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

These trends ramified in art as the return of the figure via painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl, Julian Schnabel's audacious neo-expressionism (he painted on broken dishes), and the exaltation of grown - up toys and commercial polish.

In the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism was still in vogue, Katz broke irreverently away from the wanton brushstrokes of Pollock and de Kooning to begin painting in his signature style — bold, stylized close - ups of elegant figures assembled from intersecting planes of saturated coloIn the 1950s, when Abstract Expressionism was still in vogue, Katz broke irreverently away from the wanton brushstrokes of Pollock and de Kooning to begin painting in his signature style — bold, stylized close - ups of elegant figures assembled from intersecting planes of saturated coloin vogue, Katz broke irreverently away from the wanton brushstrokes of Pollock and de Kooning to begin painting in his signature style — bold, stylized close - ups of elegant figures assembled from intersecting planes of saturated coloin his signature style — bold, stylized close - ups of elegant figures assembled from intersecting planes of saturated color.

One need only to look at Schnabel's Portrait of My Daughter in relationship to de Kooning's «Woman» paintings begun in 1950 to recognize not only a similarity in the palette of pinks and reds but in the way the figure coalesces from the expressionistically painted background (which in Schnabel's painting also includes broken plates).

For many years she painted isolated, precarious figures on break backgrounds reflective of her work in mental hospitals but in more recent years she has dealt with lyrical abstract landscapes in which paint or wax is layered in an open, free manner.She has had solo shows in the United States and Europe and her work has been reviewed in The Woodstock Times, Kouvolan Sanomat (Finland), Women Artist's News and The Village Voice.

The chief characteristics of work from that decade, with its echoes of Hans Hofmann, are densely layered surfaces and the arbitrary petals of paint so evocatively described by Mel Gooding in his book: «They flicker and flash with the chromatic brilliancy of birds, fish or insects against the broken light of impasto and coagulation, or like volcanic debris falling through burned air, or like bright figures of water, air and fire against elemental grounds of pigmented earth.»

The next record came seconds later when Baselitz's colorful, semi-abstract painting of four figures from 1981 sold for $ 7.4 million, breaking his 2011 auction record of $ 5.2 million at Sotheby's in London.

An intense drawing phase began in the late 1960s, culminating in a painterly break with the «purity requirements» of abstraction: Guston introduced crude figures and fragments of figures into his works; they populated his pink, red, black, and blue canvases - smoking, drinking, often painting as well.

Here the blazing figures form a tight, bright jigsaw, while landscape and sky benefit from more variegated brushwork, as if Thompson at the end of his life was toying with the idea of breaking up his big flat shapes and painting in a more spontaneous manner.

At the end of the 1960s, he embarked on an intense phase of drawing, something that culminated in his breaking away in painting from the «purity» demanded of abstract art: Guston introduced coarse figures and fragments of figures into his works; they populate his pink, red, black and blue canvases, smoking, drinking, and not infrequently painting.

The simplified geometry of Smith's monumental late sculptures, the final works he produced before his untimely death in a car accident in 1965, are often seen as representing a distinct break from his earlier sculptures, which often radically reinterpreted the traditional themes of painting, such as landscape, the figure, and still - life.

The committee's 96 members voted on the works selected to bring into the collection, including «I'll Bend But I Will Not Break» (1998) by Betye Saar, Julie Mehretu's «Epigraph, Damascus» (2016); «Forest Spirit Figure,» a monumental 19th century sculptural figure from Nigeria; and a collection of 29 ceremonial barkcloth paintings made in the 20th century by the Mbuti people of the Democratic Republic of Figure,» a monumental 19th century sculptural figure from Nigeria; and a collection of 29 ceremonial barkcloth paintings made in the 20th century by the Mbuti people of the Democratic Republic of figure from Nigeria; and a collection of 29 ceremonial barkcloth paintings made in the 20th century by the Mbuti people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Did I mention that my Mom has NEVER painted so much as one lone wall in her entire life??? I know, crazy - balls huh?!? Mom is really not a DIY'er, so I figured I had better break her in with easy projects that would not overwhelm her.