Sentences with phrase «contained figurative elements»

In the same way that Willem deKooning's abstractions contained figurative elements (sometimes with bizarre results), until almost the end of his life, there has been a transitional period with Aho's abstractions in which vignettes of landscape elements could still be discerned among the dabs and slashes and undefined forms.

Not exact matches

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

The works in exhibition seek to exist between genres of figurative or abstract, highbrow or lowbrow, sentimental and academic, and all the other limiting binaries of interpretation to be both volatile and conservative, soulful and austere, containing elements that appeal to both sides in these paintings, or as the artist puts it, «ambassadors between the two mindsets.»

It's been ten years since the Bristol - based multimedia artist's first solo show, which was also in Los Angeles, now Francis returns with his information - rich canvases, which often depict violent, urban scenes and contain both figurative and abstract elements — rendered in acrylic and oil, charcoal, and ink.

Arnold Topp was a German painter known for his colorful, cubist paintings, which often contain figurative, scenic and architectural elements.

Anna Halldin Maule: For her solo exhibition, «Persona,» Swedish painter Halldin Maule creates stunningly realistic, figurative portraits of women that contain surrealist elements, butterflies and hints of bondage.

A painting that does spring to mind when thinking of that sort of downward space is Patrick Jones» «Flat Screen» from three years ago, a painting that appears to contain some rather figurative structural elements.