We use a mix of the serious (putting words in families, making personal connections to words,
drawing figurative representations) and the silly (acting out words with wild exaggeration, doing competitive games).
Not exact matches
Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s
draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's
figurative paintings question
representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).
Displayed on heavy steel tables, they
draw not only on the tradition of twentieth - century
figurative sculpture — marks of artists as diverse as Aristide Maillol to Henry Moore are alive in these robust works — but also on the history of female
representation in general.
It was something Ad could have said because he was so adamant in his rejection of any kind of
representation — he was the only New York School artist who never painted
figurative works — although unlike most of the others he actually could
draw and studied at the National Academy of Design.
The works featured in the exhibition will span
representations of landscape as well as
figurative studies based on
drawing practice.