Sentences with phrase «combining figurative elements»

Although abstract painting defined the international style of postwar art, Clemente was drawn to the rich visual culture that surrounded him, and he began intuitively combining figurative elements with abstract forms and symbols in his work.

[30] Cecily Brown's paintings combine figurative elements and abstraction in a style reminiscent of de Kooning.

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By the 1960s, he had established himself as an original force in London's art scene, with a style that brilliantly combined figurative, symbolic and abstract elements.

His recent paintings and prints contain elements of a figurative, cartoon, Surrealist, and Pop heritage combined with an equal interest in painterly abstraction.

Such fragmented elements are combined to produce cryptic assemblages that are neither abstract nor figurative, but unrelentingly peculiar.

Kusaka works often combine elements of figurative representation with more abstract features, yet in her new solo show — her first in Italy — she opted to present ceramics which purely geometric, and thus abstract, patterns.

He combines marquetry with abstract objects and magnificently worked figurative elements like complex wooden floors, books and tables.

They share an interest in combining figurative and abstract elements in new and innovative ways.

Brian Truesdale's latest work combines densely painted surfaces with bold marks emphasizing the figurative elements of abstraction.

During the 1980s he began combining abstract and figurative elements of painting in his works, as part of a reaction to the prevailing Neo-Expressionist aesthetic of the time.

Imbued with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature figurative elements, such as bug - eyed humans and eclectic headgear with gestural, abstract blocks of color.

Zoi Gaitanidou has been using embroidery to create elaborate tapestries that combine abstract patterns with figurative elements resulting in an intensity that recalls tribal art.

Laurel Holloman decided to combine the large scale murals of The Fifth Element to create a visual journey that interplays the abstracts work with newer slightly figurative landscapes of animals and plants.

Laureano García (b. 1922, Sancti Spiritus): An architect by training, Garcia has designed parks and residential buildings, and his murals and paintings — García is particularly known for his still lifes — combine abstraction and geometry with figurative elements.

These latest works simultaneously feature figurative elements that are ostensibly recognizable — hands, heads, feet — combined with abstract passages that serve to restructure order and dimensionality within the painting.

The Woman paintings combined the gestures and stylistic elements of his previous work, but they added primal figurative representations of what De Kooning considered to be iconic female images.

In relation to her work, Stathacos has expained: «My work combines three - dimensional figurative painting with elements of gestural drawing, abstract painting, and round -LSB-...]

For the past decade and a half, the artist Wangechi Mutu has been combining both elements — unpopular content and desirable form — in a series of magnetic, salon - size figurative collages that are as politically nuanced as they are visually ravishing.

The mural combines his typographically inclined abstract stylings with figurative elements — somewhat of a first for him.

His paintings often combine abstract and figurative elements.

The multidimensional murals combine abstract and figurative elements.

He was known then for painting «abstracted architectural interiors where towers, gabled roofs, and arched doorways combine with geometric solids and intersecting planes to form a framework in which various figurative elements are situated.»

Combining patterns, shapes, and figurative elements, Pittman's paintings reflect on conceptions of time, mortality, beauty, and suffering.

By the 1980s, Graeber was making large scale paintings that combine figurative and abstract elements to create potential meanings through the juxtaposition and layering of disparate images.

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.