Sentences with phrase «cartoonish figuration»

Condo's signature brand of cartoonish figuration has been celebrated for its erotic imagery and provocative style.

Others break dramatically from their pasts, as did Philip Guston when he abandoned Abstract Expressionism for rowdy cartoonish figuration.

Other works in the exhibition mine a vast swath of cultural and visual history, employing text and cartoonish figuration to explore the repressive, violent history of American cultural attitudes towards homosexuality.

But it's also a reminder of why Guston moved on to fleshy, cartoonish figuration in the last decade of his life — this show inadvertently makes the case that abstraction became a dead - end, or perhaps circuitous cul - de-sac, from which Guston desperately needed an exit.

If these cartoonish figurations, in his earlier idiom, stem from the Beckmann / Markus Lüpertz / Kippenberger tradition of soured angst and caustic irony, the geometric abstractions bait the US market that has avidly bought into them as European exoticisms.

Not exact matches

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

The American artist's work is famous for having three distinct phases — realism, Abstract Expressionism, and then an unexpected return to figuration, with a highly idiosyncratic, and cartoonish, visual vocabulary.

Focusing on Philip Guston's mature production in abstraction and his later figuration, this book argues for Guston as a consistent artist whose generic shift in the late 60s, from Monet - like abstract hatchings to the cartoonish forms of his final decade and a half, reminded artists everywhere that courage is what it's all about.

Best known for his cartoonish paintings and drawings from the late 1960s onwards, Philip Guston audaciously returned to figuration at the height of Abstract Expressionism.

You've probably seen Dunham's cartoonish paintings of nudes in colorful landscapes that blend abstraction with figuration, but did you know he's also a really great writer?

In the next room, Canyon Castator's colorful, cartoonish figures channel Nicole Eisenman's buffoonish figuration.

By turns cartoonish and diagrammatic, Fairhurst's drawings epitomise his offbeat and melancholy - tinged humour, his experiments with figuration, and his use of gorillas as figures of pathetic buffoonery and otherworldliness.