The Nature of Memory is poorly served by resorting to a vocabulary used to
describe figurative imagery like «figure / ground.»
Not exact matches
Tal R has often used the word «kolbojnik», meaning leftovers in Hebrew, to
describe his practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of
imagery,
figurative and abstract, from high and low culture.
Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud
describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create
figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the
imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.
The museum
described what to expect, symbolically: «Combining
figurative imagery for the first time with his hallmark collage technique, Bradford creates a compelling juxtaposition that offers viewers the opportunity to consider critical moments when our nation was divided and will be particularly timely given the artwork's placement on the National Mall.»
He
described his process of painting as a dialogue with his works, the meaning of which he was only able to access with some difficulty during this period: «For reasons I don't understand, in the late 1940s and early 1950s I focused on abstract art, despite the fact that I always felt that it had to do with
figurative imagery, even though I didn't fully understand this
imagery.