Sentences with phrase «color figurative paintings»

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

The exhibition, which opened yesterday, includes five large - scale hyper - color figurative paintings and eight monochromatic watercolor paintings.

Jerry Saltz writes in the October 23rd, 2017 issue of New York Magazine, «Christina Quarles makes a splash here with tightly composed, kaleidoscopically colored figurative painting.»

Several galleries used the fair as an opportunity to preview upcoming exhibitions, such as Lehmann Maupin, which has show of Hernan Bas's brightly - colored figurative paintings planned for its Chelsea location.

She mentioned artists like Antonia Eiríz Vázquez, a painter of powerfully dark Goya - like visions who died in 1995; Raúl Martínez, a Pop - inflected painter and graphic designer, who also died in 1995; and Alfredo Sosabravo, whose vividly colored figurative painting often combines whimsy with a social bite.

R.B. Kitaj was a major influence on British pop art due to his brightly colored figurative paintings.

Christina Quarles makes a splash here with tightly composed, kaleidoscopically colored figurative painting.

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For one, there is an institutional urgency to speak to a more diverse audience with painting that depicts the black community, the Asian - American experience, the Latino face, to attract the various people who had been excluded from the museum by remaking the history of figurative painting, this time with color.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

Tim Eitel (b. 1971, Leonburg, Germany) conveys a deep command of color, technique, and form in his figurative paintings inspired by his observations of contemporary life and art history.

«The Beautyful Ones» Series # 2 demonstrates Njideka Akunyili Crosby's rich use of color and collage in her complex, figurative paintings.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

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.

Beginning with figurative paintings in the 1960s and»70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums.

Pollock's energetic «action paintings», with their «busy» feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning's figurative paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstrcolor in Mark Rothko's Color Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstrColor Field paintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist, and which Rothko denied were abstract).

Though he emerged in the New York art world in the 1950s during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Katz has been dedicated to figurative painting throughout his career, anticipating Pop art with his bold use of color and stylized renderings of humans, animals, and landscapes.

Whereas Bickerton's early works tackle form, function, and communication, with sometimes single words acting as the entire painting, his later figurative pieces are visually deafening, with bright color and cluttered objects mirroring the over-the-top excess featured as the work's subject.

Gary Hume is known for figurative and abstract paintings on aluminum panels, which often feature startling color combinations made with paints purchased premixed from a hardware store.

A few years ago, neutral - colored abstract painting was hot; this year, colorful figurative painting is more in demand.

After starting with figurative paintings in the 1960s and»70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums.

In 1972, he returned to figurative painting with a looser hand and a softer, more muted, color palette.

Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, she has always maintained the primacy of color, with her narratives intricately based in her use of paint.

British artist Gary Hume is known for his brightly - colored, Minimalist paintings, which are usually figurative, yet highly reduced and abstracted.

In those days, people would have seen gestural abstract painting or color field painting as sweeping away figurative art.

All of these — Color Charts, Grey Painting, Inpaintings, and Photo - Enlargements represent Richter's efforts in exploring abstraction and attempts of dismantling the figurative pPainting, Inpaintings, and Photo - Enlargements represent Richter's efforts in exploring abstraction and attempts of dismantling the figurative paintingpainting.

Curator Glen Cebulash, whose own work has beautifully deconstructed the figurative into interacting planes and color forms in both painting and collage, opines that realism «is a fascinating and slippery concept and one that confounds as much as it clarifies.»

Her deceptively romantic - naive visual language dissolves distinctions between abstract and figurative art, and her paintings exhibit a whimsical engagement with sources as various as Color Field painting, Pattern & Decoration, children's book illustration and textile design.

The Columbus Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major exhibition tracing the evolution of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced, figurative compositions of the early 40s to the abstract, color field paintings for which he is best known.

Katz's brightly colored, large - scale figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that oftentimes resembles the aesthetics of the everyday visual culture commonly found in advertising and cinema — a feature that regularly linked Alex to the norms of Pop art despite the fact his work predates this movement by a relatively big margin.

The artist's barbershop paintings from 2007 - 2009 are shot with color, and range from figurative to completely abstracted, color - blocked canvases referencing the architectural perspective of the space.

Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted and abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstract forms.

Her paintings feature wildly colorful brushstrokes and her color monotypes showcase the sensory overload and luscious texture found in those paintings, while her black - and - white drawings are haunting and gestural, blurring together figurative and abstract elements.

Will's photo - realistic figurative paintings attract me with their humor, fashion, and color.

In Rosa's figurative paintings, a twinge of Socio - Realism is mixed with Pop tendencies, whimsical color choices and dreamy narratives to create a unique aesthetic landscape that often centers on the role of women in society.

Reengaging with the iconography of previous bodies of work, the new paintings on view mark Osborne's return back to figurative painting after a period of total abstraction — utilzing bookcases, her studio painting storage, and windows as a point of departure for further play with blocks of color within the paintings.

What surprises many curators is that while many of her 20th - century contemporaries in South Asia were making brightly colored, figurative paintings, Mohamedi was intensely focused on abstract, monochrome line drawings rendered in combinations of ink, graphite, gouache, and / or watercolor.

Flat in color and form, the figurative painting of Alex Katz is considered a precursor of Pop art for its representational approach to the daily and the mundane.

The Chunk series consists of three, six - foot - square acrylic paintings plus two smaller paintings where large portions of the canvas contain black or brown blocky figurative structures accompanied by explosions of straight lines of bright colors with soft round forms capping the ends.

Previous to this I planned painting compositions with brush and ink using figurative forms and actual objects with color.

Jenny Saville's figurative painting is an extraordinary one, characterized by high - caliber brush strokes and a rich use of color that accurately transmits her subject's physical, but also mental state.

During these years and those that followed, her paintings reflected some major influences, such as Hofmann's color principles and structural relationships between figurative and nonfigurative elements.

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.»

Alfredo Otero paints interesting pieces with a simplistic and disciplined method that results in fascinating figurative paintings full of color and life.

It was the late eighties and people definitely were not looking at goopy, brightly colored, lyrical, awkwardly sensitive figurative painting.

[9] After a period in which he experimented with figurative constructions, Close began a series of paintings derived from black - and - white photographs of a female nude, which he copied onto canvas and painted in color.

Around the corner, three paintings by Tatiana Blass at Millan of Sao Paulo played with perception, taking figurative scenes and saturating them with color.

Raedecker creates haunting paintings — landscapes, abstract and figurative, sometimes a bit of both — with the use of oils and thread and gothic colors imbued with a sense of the spiritual and the humorous.

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to set the stage and create the mood.