Sentences with phrase «combining figuration and abstraction»

Sultan's series comprises a confluence of seeming dichotomies, merging the industrial materials of Minimalism with representational painting, stylistically combining figuration and abstraction, and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events to art historical iconography.

Conjuring references as diverse as Velasquez and Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, Ensor and Brueghel, Liu Wei expertly depicts the human condition, combining figuration and abstraction in a manner reminiscent of Bacon and Freud.

The artist skillfully combines figuration and abstraction, which is reminiscent to the work of Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and other representatives of The London School.

While Jack Whitten's early work combined figuration and abstraction, he became known for his conceptual advancements, focusing on the materiality of paint.

While Whitten's early work combined figuration and abstraction, he later made a significant conceptual and stylistic shift, moving from oil paint to acrylic to focus on the process and materiality of painting.

Not exact matches

This began my serious interest in combining abstraction and figuration.

Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color Field painting, moved into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.

For her P.S. 1 project, Molly Larkey presents The Believers, a new series of sculptures that combine abstraction and figuration to comment on political and social ideologies.

This work enhances the museum's growing collection of paintings that combine abstraction and figuration by such artists as Marlene Dumas and Amy Sillman.

Combining her formal background in illustration, abstraction, landscape, figuration, and her interest in mysticism, spirituality and Kabbalah - Appel creates a uniquely original interpretation of the ages old Tarot deck, and is probably one of the only contemporary fine artists to undertake such an ambitious project.

Cecily Brown draws inspiration from sources as diverse as Goya, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning, and her paintings combine aspects of both figuration and abstraction.

In this work from 1960 Lewis again combines abstraction with figuration, and the tension is palpable.

These paintings combine abstraction and figuration in layered, painterly compositions in which the artist strives to convey his own personal and particular view of the world with «extreme clarity.»

The exhibition will also feature a group of paintings that combine portraiture, abstraction and figuration.

In her paintings of the 70s, Steir often combined realistically painted flowers with a grid or color field, on one hand paying homage to admired Minimal artists Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and on the other, questioning the dichotomy between abstraction and figuration.

Dimas combines pre-Columbian Taíno symbols with contemporary modes of abstraction and figuration.

Kanevsky's multilayered works combine abstraction and figuration to present ambiguous connotations.

Charles Mayton is New York - based contemporary artist, whose paintings combine the abstract and the schematic, exploring the questions of time, language and performance in painting, straddling abstraction and figuration.

Turning away from the approaches of artists like Pollok and Kline during the 1960s, Guston's paintings came to include his own cartoon - style realism, combining elements of gestural abstraction with a return to figuration.

The artist skillfully combines abstraction and figuration in order to create distinctly contemporary art.

Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his everyday life.

Combining classical influences with Neo-Expressionist features and processing themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, death and belief, Schnabel plays with both abstraction and figuration with the use of found materials, fragments of language, paint, and digital reproduction.

The works often combine spontaneous and deliberated gestures and procedures, fusing organic and geometric as well as abstraction and figuration.

In light of the Civil Rights Movement of its time, Garden in Bessemer combines abstraction with figuration and landscape, with ghosted images of a contested landscape occupied by ghosts and voices from the past.

The parting of the Red Sea, the Crucifixion, the hanging of the American abolitionist John Brown, and the American Civil War, for example, are depicted by Furnas in dramatic scenes that combine figuration with abstraction.

In this sense his works combine European and American painting in equal parts and are anchored in the still heatedly disputed dichotomy between figuration and abstraction.

South Korea native Jiha Moon fuses her Eastern origins and Western life in art works that combine figuration with abstraction.

Geometrical forms and simplicity combined with neon light gave him the possibility to analyze shapes and textures, together with flatness and dimensionality, figuration and abstraction.

Voulkos combined wheel throwing with slab building, traditional glazes with epoxy paint, figuration with abstraction, and made huge ceramic structures with complex internal engineering.

He combined wheel throwing with slab building, traditional glazes with epoxy paint, figuration with abstraction, and made huge ceramic structures with complex internal engineering.

Combining emulsion with spray painting and blending paint with chance, the piece oscillates between abstraction and figuration, its fluid form conveying feelings and traces.

Her most recent paintings combine abstraction and figuration to lyrical effect, and many of her titles suggest an allegorical dimension.

For his collages, he uses found images from cartoons, coloring books, and fairy tales, combining fragments of Disney - like characters with violent and sexual imagery to make work that borders between figuration and abstraction and subverts the innocence of cartoon referents with a darker psychology.

Equal parts darkly humorous and uncanny, Schutz's paintings combine abstraction and figuration with expressive imagination, truncated and re-constructed bodies, banal objects, and everyday scenes to create compelling and intriguing pictures.

These explore the boundaries between abstraction and figuration and combine an interest in the iconography of the everyday and of the romantic with a concern for the material surface of paint and the passing of time.

Combining traditions of natural illustration with figuration, psychedelia, and abstraction, she entices viewers to contemplate both the thrill of exploration and the limits of existence.

The artist has constructed his own style by combining figuration and eschewing abstraction with peculiar composing which somehow contributed to the overall surreal and dreamy atmosphere.

Each painting is an intricate composition of canvas panels, linen panels, both oil and acrylic paints and inset canvases expertly organized with an attention to surface which combines an interest in both figuration and abstraction.