Sentences with phrase «complex figurative paintings»

After that he focused on figurative art but it was not until 1956 that he attempted complex figurative paintings.

His return had a slow pace as it was not until 1966 that he started to do more complex figurative paintings and exhibit them in gallery circles.

Not exact matches

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

Regarding «Shadow Brigade», Sarah has noted that people were discussing it, looking at it, talking about moving around the complex transitions of pictorial spaces of the painting in a manner quite comparable to that of looking at and moving around in a complex spatial figurative painting — BUT, it is now clear that this is not a quality restricted to figurative painting, and this particular quality of how the eye takes in and moves around imaginatively in the work is just a natural condition of all painting once it starts to develop and mature and take on synthesised complexity to any degree.

This was the context in which Kitaj developed as an artist, and although his art may be associated with the trends in figurative painting and British pop art, the most important influence on his art was a sense of not belonging, Diaspora, spawning an oeuvre in which symbols and references of visual, literary, historic and personal origin are brought together into colourful, narrative and complex compositions.

Born in 1962, Andersson paints from her subconscious, creating complex compositions that bring together a variety of sources including Nordic figurative painting, folk art, film imagery and her personal history.

The first major United States showing of this contemporary Belgian painter, known for his complex, theatrical but often figurative works, includes 50 paintings, 40 drawings and five films.

Freestyle presents landscapes, figurative and abstract paintings from James» entire career that reveals a complex picturesque language.

In a press release announcing the news, Gagosian Gallery said, «While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context, his formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

This abstract figurative painting is at once dark, complex and rich, as is characteristic of the non-traditional style of Miami artist Don Shearer.

In the late 1960s Guston returned to figurative painting, developing a complex and highly personal iconography.

Among the other winners: Alex Bradley Cohen's charming figurative paintings at Nicelle Beauchene (1.00), Marley Freeman's luminous small abstractions at Parker (2.02), Farah Al Qasimi's complex and beguiling photographs of life in the United Arab Emirates at Helena Anrather (4.02), Jenna Westra's cerebrally suggestive black and white photographs at Hassla (4.16), and Graham Anderson's sepia - toned retro - futurist figurative painting at Klaus von Nichtssagend (2.05).

Displaying an intricate balance of abstract and figurative elements, Ofili's new suite of paintings is dominated by complex arrangements of repeated triangular motifs.

The validity of the question of how one would translate a figurative masterpiece, let's say Mantegna's «The Agony in the Garden», into an abstract work, and what the result would be is actually quite a useful one if we are abstract painters trying to create a visually complex abstract painting (no problem if we are not).

The complex, internecine role of community in defining artistic practice speaks to larger issues around the critical viability of figurative painting today.

«While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context», the gallery said in a statement, the «formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative» in the work of the Beijing - based artist «reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»

Abney, born in 1982, is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting, and as a skillful storyteller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life.