I use gesture, improvisation, and painterly notation to translate Old Master imagery into
a contemporary pictorial language.
Join 2018 PMA Biennial artist Elise Ansel to examine how she develops Old Master imagery and Renaissance painting techniques into
a contemporary pictorial language.
Not exact matches
His lyrical and ebullient
pictorial language drew from archaic sources, as well as the drawings of children and
contemporary art movements such as Cubism and Tachisme.
In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a
pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American
contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.
According to the gallery - «For this curated exhibition, the artists navigate the possibilities of mining the
pictorial language of 1960s Modernism, through personal and
contemporary lenses.
He turned the structure of
pictorial space on its ear and expanded the
language of gesture by trading in the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism for decorative switchbacks drawn from the needle of an industrial sewing machine... The Shields avatar continues to influence the work of
contemporary artists ranging from Jessica Stockholder to Jim Lambie to Lauren Luloff, and his aesthetic reach is one that crosses platforms, mediums and milieus.»
Seamlessly blending
contemporary cultural imagery and classical
pictorial language, Yuskavage marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.
Laura Owens undoubtedly takes a special position in the field of young
contemporary painting, as her seemingly romantic and naïve
pictorial language goes beyond the separation between abstract and figurative art.