Sentences with phrase «by figurative imagery»

His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large - scale formats.

His work is characterized by a figurative imagery mixed with abstractions.

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Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

What's really of the moment about the work isn't its content as such, but its meta - abstraction — the treatment of figurative imagery and nonfigurative gestures as equal actors in an overall visual project defined by its mood rather than its meaning.

Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture.

His figurative compositions are intimate, psychologically - charged portraits influenced by the artist's own past experiences as well as contemporary imagery.

Rossi, who spent several years as a Catholic nun before becoming an artist, was a member of the Chicago Imagists, an influential group defined by their common interest in non-Western and popular imagery, a dedicated pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and a fondness for pop imagery and wordplay.

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

On these ceramic plates, the imagery of Jamie's automatic drawings of the interior and exterior of his figurative art (heads, guts, organs), real matrices of his whole body of work, have been replaced by more slender, ethereal signs.

Stamm's confident figurative style triggers a dusky melancholic psychology by persuasively employing pensive, somber colors and incredibly detailed imagery.

Robert Smithson presents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery and specially commissioned photography of the artist's works; it considers the interrelationship of Smithson's complete artistic output, from the earliest figurative work up to his famed earthworks.

The Nature of Memory is poorly served by resorting to a vocabulary used to describe figurative imagery like «figure / ground.»

An abstracted figurative style, combining machine - age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex, this movement emerged in London at a moment when the staid English art scene had been jolted by the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism.