Sentences with phrase «combined figurative subjects»

These artists (like Eric Fischl, David Salle, Elizabeth Murray, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel) ignored critic Clement Greenberg and his prescriptive view of Modernism that had influenced the previous generation of artists, and instead crafted works that combined figurative subjects, abstract landscapes, and intuitive mark - making into volatile works of art.

Not exact matches

Figurative painting is cool again, according to Doron Langberg, a Queens - based painter who combines a mythical tie - dye painting style with human subjects in sometimes quite compromising positions.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

Her work, which is imbued with a highly personal character, is innovative exploration of form, subject matter and space, in which abstract and figurative elements combine to offer impressions of both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

The subjects dealt with are released from the political - social complaints that have characterized the two decades of the Equipo Crónica, a Valencian collective that combined elements of Pop Art with the figurative aesthetic of Nueva Figuración movement, highlighting a critical look at Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and art history itself.