Sentences with phrase «by figurative representation»

In his book Mondrian: On Humanity of Abstract Painting, the art historian Meyer Shapiro validates the importance of abstract art within the context of an art historical canon that has been dominated by figurative representation.

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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).

Linked by the works» engagement with figurative representation, the show displayed a diverse range of mediums from monoprint and watercolor to photography and sculpture, most of which explore notions relating to identity, society and isolation.

The artists included in this exhibition will present a diverse selection of works that are linked by a shared engagement with figurative representation in contemporary art.

She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»

These depictions, considered his early work, are marked by an expressive figurative style, somewhere between representation and pure abstraction.

La Palestra (2001) by Manuel Neri, equally epitomizes the Bay Area Figurative Movement's predilection for an approach to figuration that hinges on non-specificity in representation.

The only glimpse of figurative representation in the exhibition, the works by Heller are emblematic of the artist's interest in moments of intimate transformation.

Elizabeth Jaeger is a New York based sculptor who explores notions of memento mori by embedding emotions and experiences within handmade representations of everyday objects and figurative sculptures.

By positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned, I knit my contemporary concerns, personal and painterly, into the centuries old conversation of representation.

But on closer inspection, despite a lack of figurative representation, each have a clear subject and evoke the sense of a person or situation as remembered by the painter and hinted at to the world via his art.

These themes finds expression in Schomaker's own visual language, which is characterised by the tension between figurative representation and painterly abstraction.

Deeply influenced by his exile during World War II, the artist shifted away from figurative representation - distinctive trait of the Roman School period - and adapted a more evocative style, embracing the neo-cubist, informal tendencies of the 50s and 60s.