Sentences with phrase «brings figuration and abstraction»

Yet, his unique visual language brings figuration and abstraction together to challenge perceptions and assumptions.

Not exact matches

It both brought him to the attention of a wider public at a time when Abstract Expressionism still held sway in the eyes of the New York art world, and it documented, step - by - step, his transition from abstraction to figuration.

These instantly recognizable works and series — which succeed in reinvigorating and complicating traditional categories like portraiture, history painting, figurations, and abstraction — have never before been brought together in a single exhibition.

This exhibition brings together paintings, gouaches and drawings from 1948 to 1955 and reflects Caziel's artistic developments from Figuration to Abstraction and his love for Catherine Sinclair.

The artists fluctuate within the systems of abstraction and figuration to bring painting to an articulate point of self - consciousness.

Always somewhere between abstraction and figuration, Kiefer's poetic and deeply psychological approach discusses hard social issues that are, thanks to him and his contemporaries, such as Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, brought into the discussion, forcing Germany to face its terrible past.

Her paintings also bring to mind the extravagant decadence of fin de siècle Vienna, the crystalline colors of ukiyo - e woodblock prints, the late figuration of Philip Guston and the Pop abstraction of Nicholas Krushenick.

Commenting on the works he brought to the fair, Centeno added, «I wanted to find a balance between figuration, gesture and abstraction, and also a feeling of human presence on the stand.»

The final room in the exhibition will bring together, for the first time in the United States, a major grouping of large - scale paintings created over the past thirty years that play with the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

Her paintings bring to question the line between figuration and abstraction as within the visual language of the horizontal, a sense of place is suggested.

Best known for introducing imagery into minimalist abstraction and bringing a new sensitivity to figuration, two of the most important threads that run through her work are the human touch and the nature of human engagement.

exhibition brings together paintings, gouaches and drawings from 1948 to 1955 and reflects Caziel's artistic developments from Figuration to Abstraction and his love for Catherine Sinclair.

2 Brought to bear on our eye by subtle colour gradations of mauve, grey, blue or brown, his colour field becomes charged through a strategic introduction of condensed areas of darker or lighter hue, bringing the work closer to Klee's ideal of «exactitude winged by intuition».3 Despite the artist's quest for total abstraction, all Gaitonde's seemingly non-objective works have elements of unevenness and suggestion, which tend toward figuration.