Sentences with phrase «doing figurative work»

When I stopped, I had been doing figurative work for less than two years, during the previous ten years I had been painting abstractly.

Do you feel interested in doing figurative work at some point?

Rail: When you were first in New York, you were still doing figurative work.

That's why I stopped doing figurative work.

Although he does some figurative work, he's primarily an abstract / non-objective painter.

So I then mainly did figurative work based on Egyptian symbols and stuff.

«In a way this was all very odd for me — I never did figurative work before.

I quit smoking and couldn't bear to do figurative work anymore — I didn't know what do so I just lay on the couch and read.

Have you ever done any figurative work?

Not exact matches

There seems to be some kind of disconnect between knowing and doing in the teenage brain — and new work in neuroscience suggests this disconnect is literal as well as figurative.

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

The show includes early works in oil, watercolor, gouache and ink; Abstract Expressionist paintings done in California; and «Untitled (Horse and Rider)» (1954), considered one of his first mature figurative paintings.

These lectures enthusiastically commend less visually appealing works almost as if they will be good for us, cod - liver oil for the eyes — but twentieth - century figurative painters Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Philip Pearlstein simply do not paint as beautifully as Courbet or Renoir.

Kramer didn't seem interested that Guston had painted figurative murals for a couple of decades before working in abstraction, and he made no connections between the new work and the old.

How does his work compare with more recent figurative painters dealing with psycho - sexual content?

Early figurative drawings and woodcuts, some done when the artist served in the Peace Corps, in Africa, bore witness to the acute sense of observation and refinement of means that still characterize his art, while pointing to the resonant economy of his mature works.

It travels through the marketplace a lot more smoothly than figurative work does.

The artist does paint portraits, but the figurative work shown here celebrates gesture, line and surface more than the likeness of the sitter.»

I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several other generations of contemporary figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital work and are changing with the times.

1989 Figurative Work of the 50s and 60s, Vanderwoude - Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY Don't You Know By Now, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY Ruth S. Schaffner Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

The work is an example of the Neo-Expressionist trend known as Transavanguardia, which focuses on expressive figurative work done on a large scale.

When did the figurative narratives enter your work?

In an unexpectedly combative interview in advance of the show's installation, he spoke to Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg about what critics do or don't see in his work, whether figurative painting is having a resurgence, and why the word «political» carries so much baggage.

Though Greene does do landscapes, aerial landscapes, and other figurative work, it will be his abstract paintings on display in Clifton Springs.

«Philip drew continuously almost from the moment he saw the Herriman strips as a child but he was pretty cut off in the late Sixties when Crumb's work appeared,» insists his dealer and long - time friend David McKee, «By then, Guston was locked away in his breeze block studio in Woodstock doing these minimal drawings of the things around him - clocks, shoes, books - that were both figurative and abstract.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which he does with immense if wry conviction.

After painting this work, Kadish did some figurative paintings of swimmers.

Ikemura shows recent landscapes done in bold tempera colors on burlap as wide as nine feet alongside figurative ceramic sculptures and over 30 other works in conjunction with an exhibition, «CERAMIX, de Rodin à Schütte,» across two prominent museums (Paris's La Maison Rouge and Sèvres - Cité de la céramique).

From there, his almost flat, almost abstract works, with their contrasting planes of colour and reminiscences of doorways and cheerful bunting, provided Brazilian artists with a bridge between the bright, figurative paintings of Brazilian modernists such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s Neo-Concrete movement and Grupo Ruptura.

Wall followed the work of other emerging artists as well, and, even though the fact they were returning to figurative work was reassuring to him, his head didn't turn.

In the thousands of years of figurative work done by male artists we've seen painting after painting of rosy - breasted dewey - eyed languid, flushed women from Titian to Currin.

When you work on your figurative works, do you have concrete ideas in your mind about the subjects they're supposedly based on?

«This is a man who for years and years worked for the state, doing figurative large sculpture to survive,» said Ms. Lévy, who also represents the Korean painter Chung Sang - Hwa.

I enjoy doing portraits or figurative work.

After doing those abstract works the first figurative painting I did was called A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.

At this point, you've got both things going on in your work, if you call the monsters figurative, which they are and aren't, but they do clearly have legs and arms and a head.

I've not done a lot of figurative work because I lack subjects.

Sometimes visitors will come upon a juxtaposition of two very closely related works — a woman in a chair and a woman in a chair — but they'll also find many instances of a figurative Matisse with an abstract Diebenkorn, and be called upon to do a little visual detective work to discover the «why» of it.

LaToya Ruby Frazier's straight documentary photography has reignited this sleeping form and made it into a raging beast; Louis Fratino's personal, painterly depictions of everyday gay life raise the bar of figurative - visionary painting, as do the stitched, painted, and sewn works of Tschabalala Self; ditto Katherine Bernhardt.

The work I'm doing now is me backing out of pure abstraction and color field painting into something more figurative.

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.

«Hyman Bloom was really the missing link between more figurative, symbolist work that was done in the 1930s and 1940s and Abstract Expressionism,» said Katherine French, director of the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Massachusetts, who has organized two previous Bloom surveys.

Presenting strong symbols of civilizations through visual and written material, the works in the exhibition investigate the rituals of our daily life through the figurative meaning of an artefact and question, in the current climate of constant change, what should be conserved from the past for future archaeologists and how does this influence our historiography.

What followed were figurative works which introduced an erotic, psychological element to the Social Realism of the day, and murals for public buildings that didn't always please the public.

His daughter Gabrielle says in a 2014 interview that while he «came out to Berkeley just as Pop and Conceptual Art were ascending on the East Coast,» Selz turned away from these popular movements and instead «identified with the irreverence of styles like Funk art,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.»

In fact, the abstract and the figurative have lived alongside each other throughout Richter's oeuvre, and have done so since his first photo - realist works of the early 1960s.

★ Philip Guston: «A Centennial Exhibition» (through April 27) On the 100th anniversary of this Abstract Expressionism best - known apostate, this large exhibition includes one of his last abstractions but concentrates on the indelible figurative work of his last decade — the 1970s — which did so much to inspire the painters of the 1980s.

Where her previous figurative quilt series «The Things Kids Do» represent children in a variety of situations, the figures in «Please, Mr. President» are portraits of the actual children she worked with during the residency, capturing both their inner dreams as well as their exterior personalities.

Unlike Mr. Schütte's work, which is figurative, Mr. do Espirito Santo's is architectural.

I'd argue that it's less interesting to see a Gerhard Richter painting paired with another Richter painting (abstract or figurative), or hung with a work from the same period made by an artist on the other side of the Atlantic (which is what lots of curators and collectors do now).